I'm a Netflix addict. I'm too ashamed to tell how many movies are in my queue. Problem is, my kids want instant gratification. When they're bored on a rainy weekend day, or home sick, and want a cinematic diversion, adding the movie flavour of the month to the Netflix queue doesn't cut it. We do a lot of local rentals. But every once in a while there's a movie they've been dying to see, courtesy of tv commercials/trailers, so much that I permit them to see it when in the theater, before it's out on DVD. Two kids. $4 a ticket. Popcorn and soda each and it's a $20 event. Taking the family doubles that. Not a huge chunk of change, granted, but considering it also costs that to fill my gas tank (gas just hit $2.05 a gallon here, a first in my life).... and that you can rent um....5 movies for that $ amount.... But I can't imagine paying $11 per ticket! They DO make all their money on the snacks, it seems. I have a really large tote bag I use on occasion.... Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Movies Date: 3/24/05 10:12:48 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: > Is that 11.50 in Dollars?!?! I'd never darken a theatre door again.... After spending something like $35 for a movie (two tickets, popcorn, soft drinks, etc.), I also quit the movie theaters. It's too expensive. I had a digital projector (the kind that you use to display PowerPoint slides). I bought a DVD player (about $50 these days at any electronics store), a pulldown s creen ($120), and signed up for Netflix.com ($15/month, all the DVDs you can watch). The screen is about the size of a wall, 7x7 feet (a bit over 2m to you Euros). The image quality is very good. Friends come over and it's like the movies. There's nothing technical about all of this. Just connect the DVD player to your living room stereo for sound. Netflix has some 35,000 movies. It's pretty easy to look up movies by country or genre. I'm watching lots of German, Danish, Japanese, and Mexican movies. Tonight: Il Posto. yrs, andreas www.andreas.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html