You people and your internets nuttiness!

[trinityvixen]

As was pointed out to me, I generally talk about media stuffs on LJ and not a whole hell of a lot else. Even in my last post, I managed to sneak in media stuff. Impulse control, what is that?

Anywhoodle, I read blogs like this some times, and they had a post about this article in Time. It's neither an original complaint about Netflix--"I have to wait for movies!"--nor an entirely honest one as Time, being part of Time-Warner, has an interest in denigrating their competitor for paid streaming video service.

You can take apart this guy's fuddy-duddy curmudgeonly gripes far too easily to be worth bothering with. What I find hilarious is people on Hacking Netflix leaving comments to the link to this article saying this:

Yeah, let's tar and feather Richard Corliss! How dare he exercise his right of free speech in Time magazine; and of all places, in the USA.

Is it too much to ask that we all express just the Netflix Kool-aid drinking opinion on this blog? ;-)

Personally, I enjoy browsing video and book stores.

Left by Edward R Murrow! Of all people!

I just...you know, anyone is allowed to be an idiot on the internet. That's what it's there for (besides the porn, I mean). But going to a website that is pretty much dedicated to updating Netflix devotees on company developments and saying, "Gosh, do you have to like this so much?" is tantamount to wearing a Dolphins jersey to the Meadowlands. You just don't do it unless you're colossally stupid. Not only are you probably going to be savagely attacked, but...just...did you not think!? This is a site for people who worship the god of little red envelopes. Of course they're going to defend Netflix against all heathens.

(Amusing side note: that Time article hilariously generated a pop-up ad for Netflix when I clicked on the link.)

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Fuck Kim's video.

There, I said it.

No, seriously, FUCK KIM'S. Overpriced hipster dump. Did they have some movies you couldn't get elsewhere? Sure. Didn't make it easier to find things organized by the whim of a store manager on a given day. Didn't make an effort to have more than one copy of those oh-so-esoteric movies they were so famous for. Fuck Kim's. I get those movies without the attitude from Netflix and we are all better off.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm....... I'm curious. Does NetFlix have The Longest Nite (HONG KONG, 1998)?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Better question: Do I care? :P


(Real answer: probably. And if not now, soon.)

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

They do in fact. But for foreign, artsy, and independent films, you're better off with greencine.com.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Thanks on both counts ^_^

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

I just have to address the overpriced comment with this: Think about their location and rental (real estate) prices for that area for that amount of space. For a private operator, that's not a cheap expense. I've been seeing a lot of nice places of years gone by get priced out of that area over the last decade.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I've been seeing a lot of nice places of years gone by get priced out of that area over the last decade.

That's only applicable if you consider Kim's a nice place. I consider it a hipster with an MBA's approximation of a video store.