Personal Netflix annual report.
This is probably of interest to nobody but me. But it's my web journal, and I'll do what I want!In 2005, I signed up for Netflix immediately after returning from my Christmas vacation. In that year, I rented 114 DVDs, or an average of 9.5 a month; this means that each video cost me $1.90 to watch. Four DVDs were damaged when they arrived; three DVDs took a long time in arriving for apparently no reason; two DVDs arrived with ripped packaging and a postal service rubber-stamp "Damaged during shipping" message; four DVDs took a long time before they arrived back at Netflix. In the end, no DVDs were lost.
I watched three seasons of the Sopranos; the first season of Farscape; great movies like Tokyo Story, Crash, and The 400 Blows; not-so-good movies like Biker Boyz, Jersey Girl, and King Arthur; half of Ichi the Killer, which was the only movie I couldn't finish; and a helluva lot of documentaries. Thanks, Netflix!
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posted by IvyMike @ 1/13/2006 12:29:00 AM
3 Comments:
i don't like to tip my hand, but i spend too much time looking at my netflix friends' ratings and queues and such. you're very fond of the 5-star rating, which is interesting in contrast to people who use it sparingly. maybe it has to do with the movies you choose to review.
One reason for the seemingly large collection of "five stars" ratings is that when you add a rating collection, all disks in that collection get the same rating. So when I rated season 1 of the Sopranos with five stars, I immediately had four disks with five star ratings.
I may have overdone it; I see that I rated seaons 1-3 of The Sopranos as five stars, and I really do think it is superb television; still, there were some clunkers of episodes in season 3, so maybe I should re-rate it as four stars.
I am watching quite a few movies off of Ebert's "Great Movies" list, so I'm looking for the gems, and I don't mind giving them high ratings. (Note: Biker Boyz was not on Ebert's list of "Great Movies")
The last reason for all the high ratings has to do with my blood type. I'm B POSITIVE!
biker boyz is good movie though.
does a rating system lose its worth if everybody inflates their scores? simple 5-star ratings over the all the movies you watch might not be accurate, though it'll feel better than a bunch of 3-stars.
it's like the people who'd rather give a movie a 1-star rating because it's more extreme.
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