[lit-ideas] Re: Movies
- From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:56:33 -0500
Julie:
<I'm a Netflix addict>
So am I. The better movies are forty miles or so from here. Sometimes I
make it and sometimes I don't. But some things are not available.
Veronica
> [Original Message]
> From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/24/2005 11:34:06 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Movies
>
> 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
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> > 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
>
>
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