January 29th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Finally took advantage of the Netflix trial this week. Watched Fast and Furious (the 2009 version), Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Netflix has really got the DVD mail rental business down to a science i.e. with the strategically placed bar codes, the original DVD envelopes that double up as return envelopes and was pleasantly surprised at how fast they process returns and sent a new movie DVD back to you (two days). I wonder what happens if one gets lost in the mail or stolen, how will the company know whether the customer isn’t trying to pull a fast one.
I really enjoyed Paul Blart and Cloudy, both were hilarious and Cloudy was so very cute (may be one of the better ones this past couple of years besides Avatar of course). F&F was really bad and it seemed like they were just living on the franchise name, trying to get the movie finished and released fast and didn’t really put the script together well (I couldn’t wait for it to finish).
I’ve got a two week trial and I’m trying to see how many movies I can watch in that time period. Received another three today – District 9, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Ghost of Girlfriends Past. Should be pretty decent movies. The rate I’m going, I’ll probably watch 12 movies by the end of the trial and shatter my previous record of three movies in a month.
