Netflix

This summer my parents decided that we needed Netflix. I had no opinion on the company until I started using it. It opened up a whole new world for me - a world of laziness. Instead of taking the time, energy, and money to go out and rent a movie, I could now instantly watch movies with the click of a mouse. I realize I probably sound just like the TV adds right now. One of the few downsides of Netflix is that not every movie can be watched instantly, meaning that you have to wait a couple of weeks for it to be sent by mail, which can be a real pain when your dad adds the whole series of Twin Peaks to the list. I finally got Red Eye today, meaning the Cat Returns is next! Yipee! Quick side note, I don't remember if I already explained the plot of that movie and why it sounds so awesome, but I might as well say it again. The movie is about a little girl, voiced by Anne Hathaway, who rescues a cat, that turns out to be the King of Cats, who steals to girl away to take her as his wife. So she has to have her other cat friends rescue her. It may sound ridiculous to you, but it sounds amazing to me. Did I mention that it is by the same director as the Japanese film Spirited Away? Anyway back to the topic of Netflix. Though there are a lot of movies on Netflix Instant, a lot of them are less than good. The titles and ratings can be deceiving, I suggest you don't add anything below three stars. Somehow I added what looked like a good old-fashioned werewolf movie but what I got instead was nudity, hallucinogens, and confusion. Point being, it was awkward and insane. My other point being, you won't always get what you expect on Netflix Instant. Unless you are very curious I would stick to the movies suggested to you or with well known titles. Or you could always add Pee Wee's Big Adventure. That's always a good option. I can't rightly criticize all Instant movies though, I have seen some pretty good ones. Take for example: You, Me, and Everyone We Know; Pandorum; Let The Right One In; and Labryinth. Another redeeming quality of Instant is that they switch up the movies every month or so, which was actually quite unfortunate in my case, I got all excited about to watch Lost: Season 3 when to my dismay, it was only on Instant Queue until October 1st. Long story short my mom ended up going out and renting it at the closest movie rental establishment. I was that important for us to watch it right then and there. Though I love Netflix and all of their odd and rare foreign movies, I still am grateful to movie rental stores. They provide a quick solution to a movie not being in the Instant Queue, though they don't always have what I want and there is a limit to how long you can rent a movie. I'm still a bit disappointed that they didn't have the Cat Returns or Breakfast on Pluto, but those are strange movies so I'll let it slide. Now that my dad's movies have finally stopped coming in and mine have started, I can be a better judge of the quality of Netflix's sent movies. I'm sure I will be pleased as always.