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I used to pay $30 a month for HBO. Premium cable wasn't cheap, but you had primo shows and there was a big movie release almost every Saturday night. Netflix is
by renegade-otter 7mo ago
I used to pay $30 a month for HBO. Premium cable wasn't cheap, but you had primo shows and there was a big movie release almost every Saturday night. Netflix is disposable background TV. This money will buy you two DVDs a month and 6-8 rentals. I just don't see the point unless you are wasting hours in front of the TV.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7mo agoCompared to going to see a movie in a theater, netflix and rest are extraordinarily good value most of them time. Given that I watch mostly with my wife, we only have watch several hours of something once a month to be ahead of the theater-going cost. And most streamers have something that we want to see once a month (not 100% of the time, but most of the time). The Netflix adaptation of "100 Years of Solitude" (part two due out this august) was one of the most astounding bits of visual story telling I've seen in a long time. Entirely the opposite of "disposable background TV".
- renegade-otter 6mo agoThere is a good movie here and there. Maybe one per year. I am paying $400 a year for that?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6mo agoThe adaptation of Solitude ran about 8 hours, so call that 4 movies. There have been some excellent documentaries, and certainly more than 1 film a year that I considered worth watching. $400 is about 10-11 movies for 2 people. So one a month is pretty much even-stevens with that. If you live (or watch) alone, the math changes a bit, perhaps.