With The Hustler and The Last Hurrah being evenly split between first and last place, they leave way for the other two films, both of which are ranked equally in their respective lists. That gives one film the victory: The Best Man. The Best Man has been added to my queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend (or watched this weekend if I have time) and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on November 8.
Here’s the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I’ll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you’ll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.
To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I’ve seen (or at least that I have personally logged).
Full List of Films I’ve Seen (some titles missing)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):
Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
Next, please rate each of the following entries in order of preference. Item 1 will be most preferred, 2 next most preferred and so forth.
The DVD of The Best Man is out as an Amazon exclusive, It’s also available in a Region 2. I suspect Netflix is streaming it from either of those, probably the Amazon. I’m not sure how the licensing works but downloading seems to be the way of the future.
Netflix streaming isn’t the same as downloading. I don’t download the film to my computer and then watch it and/or keep it, I just watch it online like I were watching it on cable or television.
Amazon may do downloads since they sell digital copies and I know that iTunes does as well, but not their rental business, which has a code that once you start watching it, you have X days before it becomes entirely unwatchable, but you still download those movies.
As with the downloading of music, the reason it’s gaining traction is that it means you don’t have to clutter your house with physical cases and have the potential of losing or breaking discs. It’s somewhat convenient. I haven’t bought a CD in over a year because it’s more convenient to purchase online and have there.
The one drawback a lot of people don’t understand is that a lot of these services will not give you a second copy free of charge. So, let’s say your computer crashes and you have to wipe but all of your movies or music are there. iTunes will charge you to restore it all if they even have a full record of all you had, which isn’t always the case. Especially with older purchases.
The film is listed as “Save” which means the DVD isn’t out yet, but you can still save it to your own queue. This puts it in my queue so I can watch it streaming later.
However, there are two queues available on Netflix. There’s the “send by mail” queue and there’s the “watch instantly” queue, so if all else fails, it can be added to either.
I’m not familiar with how Netflix works, but I thought streaming didn’t need to be queued. When I checked, The Best Man was only available on Netflix through streaming.
New Suggestions:
Coming Home (1978)
Midnight Express (1978)
Preference order:
Paths of Glory
A Face in the Crowd
The Great Escape
With The Hustler and The Last Hurrah being evenly split between first and last place, they leave way for the other two films, both of which are ranked equally in their respective lists. That gives one film the victory: The Best Man. The Best Man has been added to my queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend (or watched this weekend if I have time) and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on November 8.
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