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They appeared for me in Canada yesterday. This site[1] seems pretty reliable about finding new items as they're added to Netflix, and I find it easier than usi

They appeared for me in Canada yesterday. This site[1] seems pretty reliable about finding new items as they're added to Netflix, and I find it easier than using Netflix's own "new" page. If you're in the US (I know you aren't, TheCapn, but it's good info), you can replace "can" in the URL with "us". I don't think there's a UK version (yet?). [1] http://can.whatsnewonnetflix.com/ http://can.whatsnewonnetflix.com/

narcissus 15y ago
Thanks for the link xatax... that's definitely easier for sure. It's just a shame that the Dirty Deeds movie that the site is linking to on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes is another movie with the same name, that's apparently nowhere near as good as the actual one that is 'now available'. Well, I thought it was pretty good at least :)
- AgentConundrum 15y ago
  Interestingly enough, I noticed the same thing regarding a movie called "Project X" recently. The cover (and Netflix link) were to a Matthew Broderick movie from the 80s, but the rest of the information shown was for a movie from last year with a 25% RT rating. I sent an email to the guy behind the website telling him of the error and suggesting that maybe there need to be a few sanity checks (release year +/- 1, cast, etc.). He responded pretty quickly, and lamented that the problems are due to the limited information he gets from Netflix Canada: > When I get new releases from Netflix, I actually don't even get the release year, just the movie name, summary, and box art, and then I try to extrapolate as much as I can from that. I usually just keep a close eye on it and fix the errors as I see them. His email did state that he's found another way to get more information, but that he's had to rewrite a lot of the site because of it. He's beta testing now, and hopefully it will be live relatively soon. For now, I just try to be mindful of the limitations of the site, and if a movie looks vaguely interesting, I'll check it out on Netflix and/or directly on RT myself. You've actually just accidentally save me from falling victim to this trap again, since I saw Dirty Deeds on the feed today, but dismissed it based on the extremely low RT rating. I guess even knowing about the problem doesn't always save you from being influenced by it. Either that, or it had a lot to do with looking when I got up at 7am today, and was still too groggy to think.
  - narcissus 15y ago
    That's good to hear that he's working on a better solution. I had a really quick look and couldn't see a way to email him so I didn't bother. To be honest I wouldn't have noticed either except for the fact that I remember seeing Dirty Deeds as new last night on the actual Netflix app and exclaimed "Awesome! I have to watch that again!", then started to second guess myself when I saw the rating... Thanks again for the link, though: I'll use it more for the information than the ratings.
    - AgentConundrum 15y ago
      > I had a really quick look and couldn't see a way to email him so I didn't bother. It's at the very bottom of the page, under all the ratings: > Questions / comments can be directed to aaron@andcuriouser.com. It's sort of a footnote, so it's probably easy to miss. > I'll use it more for the information than the ratings. The ratings, from what I can tell, are correct more often than they're not. If the ratings look good, and you're interested in the movie, I'd say go for it. A coworker once told me he doesn't pay attention to bad ratings anyway. He said that if a movie gets a good review, then it's probably at least worth watching because people were finding good things to say about it. If it gets negative reviews, it could just be that it wasn't what the reviewer was expecting or wasn't up to their particular standards. Think of Watchmen: that movie was heavily advertised as an explosive action superhero movie, but those bits are a very brief tangent on an otherwise slow moving character study. It's a good movie, but a lot of people were probably pissed off when they saw it. Still more were probably pissed off because it didn't live up to the book in their minds. Either way, I've been using that site since before the RT integration, and it was always useful. I check it every couple of days and add interesting things to my list/instant queue. It's nicer, to me, to have a textual list of new movies in chronological order than it is to have graphical listings by genre where new things get drown out by less recent, but still "newish" listings in the genre.

narcissus 15y ago

Thanks for the link xatax... that's definitely easier for sure. It's just a shame that the Dirty Deeds movie that the site is linking to on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes is another movie with the same name, that's apparently nowhere near as good as the actual one that is 'now available'. Well, I thought it was pretty good at least :)

AgentConundrum 15y ago
Interestingly enough, I noticed the same thing regarding a movie called "Project X" recently. The cover (and Netflix link) were to a Matthew Broderick movie from the 80s, but the rest of the information shown was for a movie from last year with a 25% RT rating. I sent an email to the guy behind the website telling him of the error and suggesting that maybe there need to be a few sanity checks (release year +/- 1, cast, etc.). He responded pretty quickly, and lamented that the problems are due to the limited information he gets from Netflix Canada: > When I get new releases from Netflix, I actually don't even get the release year, just the movie name, summary, and box art, and then I try to extrapolate as much as I can from that. I usually just keep a close eye on it and fix the errors as I see them. His email did state that he's found another way to get more information, but that he's had to rewrite a lot of the site because of it. He's beta testing now, and hopefully it will be live relatively soon. For now, I just try to be mindful of the limitations of the site, and if a movie looks vaguely interesting, I'll check it out on Netflix and/or directly on RT myself. You've actually just accidentally save me from falling victim to this trap again, since I saw Dirty Deeds on the feed today, but dismissed it based on the extremely low RT rating. I guess even knowing about the problem doesn't always save you from being influenced by it. Either that, or it had a lot to do with looking when I got up at 7am today, and was still too groggy to think.
- narcissus 15y ago
  That's good to hear that he's working on a better solution. I had a really quick look and couldn't see a way to email him so I didn't bother. To be honest I wouldn't have noticed either except for the fact that I remember seeing Dirty Deeds as new last night on the actual Netflix app and exclaimed "Awesome! I have to watch that again!", then started to second guess myself when I saw the rating... Thanks again for the link, though: I'll use it more for the information than the ratings.
  - AgentConundrum 15y ago
    > I had a really quick look and couldn't see a way to email him so I didn't bother. It's at the very bottom of the page, under all the ratings: > Questions / comments can be directed to aaron@andcuriouser.com. It's sort of a footnote, so it's probably easy to miss. > I'll use it more for the information than the ratings. The ratings, from what I can tell, are correct more often than they're not. If the ratings look good, and you're interested in the movie, I'd say go for it. A coworker once told me he doesn't pay attention to bad ratings anyway. He said that if a movie gets a good review, then it's probably at least worth watching because people were finding good things to say about it. If it gets negative reviews, it could just be that it wasn't what the reviewer was expecting or wasn't up to their particular standards. Think of Watchmen: that movie was heavily advertised as an explosive action superhero movie, but those bits are a very brief tangent on an otherwise slow moving character study. It's a good movie, but a lot of people were probably pissed off when they saw it. Still more were probably pissed off because it didn't live up to the book in their minds. Either way, I've been using that site since before the RT integration, and it was always useful. I check it every couple of days and add interesting things to my list/instant queue. It's nicer, to me, to have a textual list of new movies in chronological order than it is to have graphical listings by genre where new things get drown out by less recent, but still "newish" listings in the genre.