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So, What’s In Your Queue?

An Afternoon Comment Diversion / Daniel Carlson

Comment Diversions | April 23, 2007 | Comments (239)


Netflix isn’t just a revolutionary way for movie lovers and shut-ins (and the sizable demographic overlap) to get their entertainment delivered straight to their door. No, a person’s individual Netflix queue, where the gods of the interwebs store the discs you’re about to receive, is one of the most accurate ways to get a read on someone. What you wear or drive doesn’t say nearly as much about you as if you’re eagerly waiting for, say, Mean Girls to arrive in that little red envelope. You know how Rachel told everyone her favorite movie was Dangerous Liaisons when it was really Weekend at Bernie’s? This is like that, only much more so, because your queue is available online for perusal and subsequent judgment from friends, family, and strangers.

Which is why I’ve decided to open up the floor and let all you Pajibians share the top 5 items in your queue. A couple of rules: Feel free to count a season of TV, which can span up six discs, as one entry. It’d also be nice if no one cheated, okay? The whole fun here is to just list the next five movies or TV shows coming your way, whether it’s The Seventh Seal or First Daughter (and really, no one’s gonna believe you about The Seventh Seal, anyway).

Also, obviously, if you use Blockbuster’s Total Access, or some kind of black market disc-shipping program, you’re still welcome to play along. And if you don’t subscribe to any DVD-by-mail program, then consider this a great way to start up your own queue. Now, let’s get to it:

1. The Bourne Supremacy
2. “Carnivale” — Season 1
3. Spartan
4. George Washington
5. The Staircase

So that’s mine. Now it’s your turn. Have at it, folks.


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Comments

1st
1. The Departed
2. Idiocracy
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. District 13
5. Rescue Me Season 2

Posted by: kal at April 23, 2007 7:43 AM

1. the queen
2. half nelson (finally, no wait!)
3. the last king of scotland
4. trainspotting (somehow, i have never seen this)
5. the constant gardener

Posted by: j.r. at April 23, 2007 2:06 PM

The Shield: Season 5:
The Last King of Scotland
Smokin' Aces
The Queen
The Painted Veil

Posted by: Brian at April 23, 2007 2:07 PM

OK, my top 5 (of 198):

Little Miss Sunshine
Carnivale Season 2
Peeping Tom
Get Carter
The Sweet Hereafter

I think an important distinction to make though is between those who really order their queue and those who do not. I seldom order mine...more often I just leave everything in the order it was added...so sometimes I'm pretty surprised by what I get and I might not even remember why i added it in the first place.

Posted by: Dev at April 23, 2007 2:07 PM

1. Undeclared -- The Complete Series (reliving the glory).
2. The Shield (Season 1)
3. Sherrybaby
4. Mysterious Skin
5. Dead Girl

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at April 23, 2007 2:09 PM

1. Best of the Larry Sanders Show
2. An Inconvenient Truth
3. MST3K: Prince of Space
4. Two for the Road
5. South Park: Season 8

...and the "most random" award goes to....

Posted by: litelysalted at April 23, 2007 2:12 PM

1. Little Children
2. Ordinary People
3. Love Me If You Dare
4. The Grifters
5. The Deer Hunter

Posted by: lmc at April 23, 2007 2:12 PM

firefly, disc 2-3
lady in the water
snl: the best of will ferrell
the night of the hunter
lady snowblood

I wonder what that tells you about me?

Posted by: melia at April 23, 2007 2:15 PM

1. Bowling for Columbine
2. Six Feet Under (Season 2)
3. The Aristocrats
4. 12 Monkeys
5. Bottle Rocket

Posted by: antoinette jeanine at April 23, 2007 2:15 PM

1. X-Men 3
2. Iris
3. Wordplay
4. The Lion in Winter
5. Garden State

I am with Dev-I leave then the way I add them

Posted by: motherjigger at April 23, 2007 2:15 PM

1. Come Early Morning

2. Stranger Than Fiction

3. Millions (thanks, Dustin)

4. The Good Sheperd

5. An Inconvenient Truth

Posted by: mikki at April 23, 2007 2:17 PM

My waiting list at the library...
1. Borat
2. The Office [British version]
3. Smokin' Aces
4. Children of Men
5. Babel

Posted by: anikitty at April 23, 2007 2:19 PM

sheperd

er... shepherd - even while flipping back and forth to my queue I couldn't spell it correctly.

Posted by: mikki at April 23, 2007 2:19 PM

Finally, one I can play!

1. Don't Tempt Me
2. The Sheltering Sky
3. Black Hawk Down
4. The Story of Adele H.
5. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

Posted by: ecp at April 23, 2007 2:20 PM

Dog Day Afternoon

Napoleon (PBS Documentary type thing)

Die Hard

All Quiet on the Western Front

Rashomon

Posted by: fatblakdog at April 23, 2007 2:20 PM

1. Fight Club

2. Hum Tum (Bollywood film)

3. Dazed and Confused

4. Kung Fu Hustle

5. Welcome to the Dollhouse

Wow, kind of a geeky combination...

Posted by: Kathy at April 23, 2007 2:22 PM

1. Big Love (season 1)
2. Arrested Development (Season 2 disk 2)
3. Gremlins
4. Brick
5. Shawn of the Dead

Posted by: Jules at April 23, 2007 2:24 PM

1. Rome Season 1
2. Boyz N the Hood
3. Kung-Fu Hustle
4. Idiocracy
5. Guitar Theory Basics

Posted by: Bullfrog at April 23, 2007 2:25 PM

1. The Good Shepard
2. Al Franken: God Spoke
3. The Bourne Supremacy
4. Color Me Kubrick
5. "Kidnapped: The Complete Series"

Posted by: Seth at April 23, 2007 2:27 PM

1. Sports Night, disc five. (I'm in denial that the end is near)
2. MST3K: The Giant Spider Invasion (heeee)
3. A Prarie Home Companion
4. The Believer (Ryan Gosling is a god)
5. Children of Men

Posted by: Julie at April 23, 2007 2:27 PM

1) The Conversation
2) Casino Royale
3) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
4) The Philadelphia Story
5) The Last King of Scotland

Posted by: slutbunwalla at April 23, 2007 2:29 PM

Prairie...lord, I can't spell today.

Litelysalted: I'm glad I'm not alone in the MST3K renting, I've been nostalgic for it the past few months.

Posted by: Julie at April 23, 2007 2:31 PM

1. La Haine
2. Children of Men
3. Smokin' Aces
4. The Science of Sleep
5. Art School Confidential

Posted by: Matty at April 23, 2007 2:31 PM

These are the first 5 that appear on our list, but we just randomly added movies that we wanted to see and didn't change the order. Also we have 2 little girls so we add stuff for them(example #3).

1. Transamerica
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. 2001: a Space Odyssey
5. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

Posted by: Chris and Heather at April 23, 2007 2:31 PM

1. Bobby
2. Borat: Bonus Features
3. The Last King of Scotland
4. Little Children
5. The History Boys

Posted by: Monkeyboy at April 23, 2007 2:31 PM

1. Freaks and Geeks, disc 3
2. Thirteen
3. The Magdalene Sisters
4. Donnie Darko
5. The Aristocrats

I also leave as is until I'm returning a movie.

Posted by: JKo at April 23, 2007 2:32 PM

Miller's Crossing
Star Trek: Voyager (Season 3)
Sands of Iwo Jima
Ghosts of Mars
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (1970s moviemaking documentary)

Posted by: Smello at April 23, 2007 2:32 PM

1. Waiting...
2. Miami Vice Season 1
3. Crank
4. Psycho (1960)
5. Greenfingers

Posted by: fey at April 23, 2007 2:32 PM

I must say that your seemingly esoteric reference (a la dangerous liasons vs weekend at bernies) to the infamous friends trivia game is endlessly funny to me. especially since i think you've made the reference before.
well done, transponster.

Posted by: Christy at April 23, 2007 2:35 PM

1. Funny Games
2. The Prestige
3. The Illusionist
4. Idiocracy
5. Half Nelson

I missed some stuff from last year at the theater.

Posted by: Jessica at April 23, 2007 2:37 PM

1. Brick
2. I Capture the Castle
3. His Girl Friday
4. Woman of the Year
5. The Music Man

Posted by: Mae at April 23, 2007 2:41 PM

ah, my first Pajiba comment ever!

Quills
Ed Wood
My Own Private Idaho
The Door In the Floor
Talk To Her (Hable Con Ella)

Posted by: CurlieQt at April 23, 2007 2:41 PM

1. Kyle XY: Season One
2. The Wire: Season Two
3. An Inconvenient Truth
4. The Descent
5. Hollywoodland

Surprisingly not embarrassing, unless liking an ABC Family show about a maybe-alien dude with no belly button is embarrassing. Wait...

Posted by: Carrie at April 23, 2007 2:42 PM

1. RomeS Season 1
2. The Bourne Identity
3. The Bourne Supremacy
4. The Weather Underground
5. Scrubs: Season 4

Posted by: Chris W at April 23, 2007 2:42 PM

1. Dirty Harry
2. The Thing
3. Bone
4. Vanishing Point
5. Silent Running

Posted by: sm at April 23, 2007 2:45 PM

Dustin (and others)- I saw Millions for first time this weekend. Loved it. Pajiba's the only place I trust for movie reviews. Keep up the great work!

Posted by: Be Adequite! at April 23, 2007 2:46 PM

Julie: Heh... In the however many years I've had netflix, I get a hankering for some bot-love every few months or so. FYI: The Giant Spider Invasion? Is awesommmmme!

Four words: Alan mothereffing Hale Jr.

Posted by: litelysalted at April 23, 2007 2:46 PM

1. Big Love
2. Children of Men
3. Stranger than Fiction
4. McLeod's Daughters, Season 1
5. The Battle of Algiers

Posted by: Cait at April 23, 2007 2:48 PM

1. BSG Season 1
2. The Wire Season 3
3. The Gingerbread Man
4. Over the Hedge
5. Big Fish (because I'm having a kid and Dustin recommended it)

Posted by: TF at April 23, 2007 2:49 PM

Ha! Now I'm giddy. I rented Manos: Hands of Fate last month and sweet Jesus was that funny. If it's wrong to have a crush on Tom Servo then I don't want to be right.

Posted by: Julie at April 23, 2007 2:50 PM

1. Arrested Development, Season 2
2. The Wire, Season 3
3. Deadwood, Season 2
4. Rome, Season 1
5. Entourage, Season 3

Can you tell I don't have HBO?

Posted by: crafty at April 23, 2007 2:52 PM

1) Life is Beautiful
2) The World at War
3) Blue Planet: Seas of Life
4) Triumph of the Will
5) Battlestar Galactica: Original Series

Posted by: jon29 at April 23, 2007 2:53 PM

1. Devil's Playground
2. Strangers with Candy
3. For Your Consideration
4. Grizzly Man
5. Fast Food Nation

Posted by: Amy at April 23, 2007 2:55 PM

1. Masters of horror: Takahashi Miike
2. Superman Returns
3. Videodrome
4. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
5. Gangs of New York

Posted by: Steamboat Enthusiast at April 23, 2007 2:55 PM

1. 9 1/2 Weeks

2. The Fountain

3. The Libertine

4. The Da Vinci Code

5. Who's Your Daddy

Posted by: Master Vaden at April 23, 2007 2:56 PM

1. The Cincinnati Kid
2. Lost in America
3. The Craft
4. Rear Window
5. The Way of the Gun

Posted by: bartap at April 23, 2007 3:03 PM

Top 5 (of 306)
1. Amores Perros

2. The Seventh Seal

3. Defending Your Life

4. All the King's Men

5 Dangerous Liaisons (Long French) Part 1 (ha, seriously)

Posted by: Stacey at April 23, 2007 3:03 PM

1. All the Real Girls
2. Howl's Moving Castle
3. The Motel
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. North by Northwest

And FYI to other MST3K fans- the "Prince of Space" is not worth the 93 minutes! Hold out for "Cave Dwellers," "Eegah!" "The Girl in Gold Boots" or "Angel's Revenge." The last includes special appearances by not only Alan Hale Jr, but the unflappable Jim Backus (in thigh-high boots, no less!)

Posted by: vuhdanessa at April 23, 2007 3:06 PM

1.Smoking Aces
2.Sin City
3.Henry Rollins:Up For It
4.Elizabeth
5.Mrs. Brown

Posted by: bookwhore at April 23, 2007 3:07 PM

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm season 5

2. The Wire Season 3

3. Copying Beethoven

4. Smokin' Aces

5. Freedom Writers

Posted by: michael at April 23, 2007 3:10 PM

1. The Spirit of the Beehive
2. Stranger than Fiction
3. The Last Waltz
4. The World
5. Shortbus

Posted by: JMW at April 23, 2007 3:11 PM

1. Breakfast on Pluto
2. Weeds Season 1
3. Salaam Namaste
4. House Season 2
5. Species (Don't ask...lost a bet.)

Posted by: aratweth at April 23, 2007 3:11 PM

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Science Of Sleep
The Lonliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Hidden Fortress
Godzilla: Final Wars

Posted by: Mohaski at April 23, 2007 3:12 PM

1. We Don't Live Here Anymore
2. 13 Conversations About One Thing
3. The Night Of The Shooting Stars
4. Junebug
5. Everything Is Illuminated

Not really much diversity there. I've been letting my Netflix membership go to waste lately.

Posted by: Rob at April 23, 2007 3:15 PM

Smokin' Aces
Cry, The Beloved Country
G.I. Joe: Season One
Transformers: Season One
The Believer

What can I say? I'm waxing nostalgic on the cartoons of my youth.

Posted by: Daphne at April 23, 2007 3:16 PM

Planet Earth
For Your Consideration
Veronica Mars: Season 2
Sherrybaby
Fight Club

Posted by: Tereasa at April 23, 2007 3:18 PM



1 The Queen

2 Night at the Museum

3 Smokin' Aces

4 Deliver Us from Evil

5 This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 3:19 PM

Stander

The Notorious Bettie Page

The Dying Gaul

Rebus: Disc One

The Believer

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 23, 2007 3:19 PM

1. Looney Tunes Vol. 1 Disc 4

2. Shrek 2

3. Talladega Nights

4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

5. Capote

Posted by: Sonia at April 23, 2007 3:20 PM

I have to say that these may not come for the next two to three weeks going by the way I rent.

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 3:22 PM

1. This Film is Not Yet Rated
2. Nip/Tuck Season 3
3. Blue
4. The Office Series One (British version!)
5. Office Space

I really need to catch up on my Veronica Mars.

Posted by: Ben at April 23, 2007 3:24 PM

1. Killzone (Donny Yen vs. Samho Hung)!
2. When the Levees Broke Vol 1.
3. Some Like it Hot
4. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
5. The Notorious Bettie Page

Posted by: Manny at April 23, 2007 3:28 PM

Who else got freaked out and called Netflix when your Borat DVD came? I know quite a few people did because the CSR told me they were constantly getting those calls when it debuted.

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 3:29 PM

I thought I'd check out Netflix (mostly cuz I want to get in on these diversions) and after much searching on the whole site found a small phrase buried in the affiliates terms of use at Netflix which verified my suspicion:"Only US residents may be Netflix subscribers"
So barring listing off the next 5 movies I want to rent from my local and totally lameassed Blockbuster, I guess I'll have to sit this one out.*dang, guess that's means I have to do some work this afternoon*

Posted by: brite at April 23, 2007 3:33 PM

Slavery & the Making of America (4 disc mini)

The Pianist (never got around to seeing this one)

5 Sides of a Coin

Bamboozled

Nina's Tragedies

Posted by: amanda at April 23, 2007 3:33 PM

1. 8 Women
2. ShortBus
3. The House of Sand
4. Space 1999 (Tv series i remember from my youth)
5. The OH in Ohio

(BTW Daniel...kudos on the series Carnivale. I just finished season 2..its fabulous!)

Posted by: Jen at April 23, 2007 3:34 PM

1) Volver
2) Stranger Than Fiction
3) For Your Consideration
4) Entourage Season 1
5) Jesus Camp

Posted by: Erin at April 23, 2007 3:41 PM

Oooh... Thanks for the tip, vuhdanessa... I saw Girl in the Gold Boots recently, (fantastic!) but none of the others.

Posted by: litelysalted at April 23, 2007 3:51 PM

1. Kicking and Screaming (Thanks, Pajiba!)
2. Woman of the Year
3. Jarhead (meh?)
4. Princess Mononoke
5. Castle in the Sky

Posted by: scourgie at April 23, 2007 3:56 PM

1. Suicide Club
2. Volver
3. Gummo
4. Notes on a Scandal
5. The Iron Giant (taking Dustin's advice)

Posted by: Kiki24 at April 23, 2007 4:02 PM

Borat
Smokin' Aces
Volver
Bottle Rocket
The Queen

Posted by: Laura at April 23, 2007 4:10 PM

1. Bones: Season 1
2. Real Women Have Curves
3. A Scanner Darkly
4. Extras: Season 1
5. Ladies in Lavender

Really looking forward to these, actually!

Posted by: Claire at April 23, 2007 4:14 PM

The Groomsmen (got a soft spot for Ed Burns)
Take Me (BBC series)
Capote (still haven't seen it!)
The shield (season 5)
The beat that skipped my heart

Posted by: Teresa at April 23, 2007 4:18 PM

  1. An Inconvenient Truth
  2. Unknown White Male
  3. Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist, Season 1
  4. Undeclared, Season 1
  5. Wordplay

Posted by: Michelle at April 23, 2007 4:19 PM

1. Last King of Scotland
2. Little Children
3. Blood Diamond
4. You Can Count on Me
5. Conversations with Other Women

(My queue currently has 116 movies/TV shows)

Posted by: Lauren H. at April 23, 2007 4:20 PM

1. Winter Passing
2. Stranger Than Fiction
3. The Illusionist
4. Better Off Dead
5. Deadwood Season 1

Posted by: Melissa at April 23, 2007 4:26 PM

- Ultra-man, 1st series

- Half Nelson

- This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated

- Ultra-man, 2nd series

- Wicker Man

- Dark Water

Posted by: rose at April 23, 2007 4:26 PM

Soap

The Pianist (been meaning to see for a while)

Bad Education

Box of Moonlight

Being Julia

i always get lost in netflix world, but i like it that way!

Posted by: nicole at April 23, 2007 4:29 PM

Children of Men
Friday Night Lights (because i worship the tv show and have yet to see the movie)
Any Given Sunday
The Pursuit of Happiness
F*@K

Oh my god, my queue makes me look like a man!

Posted by: jackie at April 23, 2007 4:36 PM

Candy,

I would have gotten freaked by it but I read about it before hand. http://www.hackingnetflix.com/ is a great source for this kind of info.

Not spam (I think a previous linking of mine was called that before) - site is actually one of the ones feeding my MyYahoo page (along with Pajiba of course).

Posted by: Brian at April 23, 2007 4:37 PM

1) Freeway (Kiefer and Reese rock this one!!!)
2) American Hardcore (looking forward to this one)
3) Alice in Wonderland (the one with Ringo)
4) Family Affair--Seasons 1 & 2 (Buffy and Jody!!)
5) Shopgirl (nursing a fierce Jason Schwartzman crush at the moment!!--you gotta check out his new album, "Nighttiming"--absolutely lovely!)

this is out of 144...
and i organize 'em...

Posted by: maxpurr9 at April 23, 2007 4:37 PM

Out of 384 (yeah, I get bored at work):

1. The Critic
2. Must Love Dogs
3. Sweet Home Alabama
4. Alien: Resurrection
5. Chasing Amy

I like cheesy movies. >.>

Posted by: xeny at April 23, 2007 4:38 PM

1. The Squid and the Whale
2. Freaks & Geeks, Disc 2
3. Bad Education
4. Being There
5. This Film is Not Yet Rated

Posted by: redhead at April 23, 2007 4:39 PM

Oz (Season 6)
Bullitt
Poirot: Cards on the Table
Trainspotting
Entourage (Season 1)

Posted by: appwitch at April 23, 2007 4:40 PM

1. Notes on a Scandal
2. A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
3. Early Summer
4. The Silence
5. The Queen

Posted by: entities at April 23, 2007 4:44 PM

1. Amores Perros
2. Dazed and Confused
3. Six Feet Under (season 3)
4. Children of Men
5. Bob Roberts

Posted by: Elissa at April 23, 2007 4:54 PM

1. Oldboy

2. Badlands

3. Night Porter

4. Adaptation

5. The Deer Hunter

Yeah, no idea what that says about me.

Posted by: Babypants at April 23, 2007 4:55 PM

1. To Catch a Thief
2. Memento
3. Seven Samurai
4. Seven
5. Once Upon a Time in the West

Basically my whole movie life is catching up on allt he really good movies I never got to see. :P

Posted by: MaliceAlice at April 23, 2007 4:59 PM

1. Charlotte's Web
2. Volver
3. Quinceanera
4. The Queen
5. The Illusionist

I noticed alot of people who have posted have Stranger Than Fiction in the queue. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by that movie. I am not the biggest fan of Will Ferrell (with the exception of Melinda & Melinda) but STF was very good!!

Posted by: thaddeusmaximus at April 23, 2007 5:08 PM

I worried momentarily whether this would make me look bad, but thankfully I just returned Stomp the Yard and Big Mamma 2 *whew*
1)The Constant Gardener
2)Beautiful Creatures
3)Howl's Moving Castle
4)Why We Fight
5)Series 7:The Contenders
I love Netflix, but does anyone have the problem of filling up the queue in one day, then when you receive your movie, you can't for the life of you remember why you wanted it? I hate that.

Posted by: jenintx at April 23, 2007 5:09 PM

1. Henry Fool
2. The Queen
3. Smokin' Aces
4. The Thing Below
5. Volver

Posted by: Rob at April 23, 2007 5:10 PM

half nelson
children of men
the history boys
a woman is woman
wild zero

Posted by: leah at April 23, 2007 5:10 PM

1. Hustle and Flow
2. An Inconvenient Truth
3. Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series
4. Munich
5. Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season

Posted by: Pam at April 23, 2007 5:11 PM

1. The Secret Life of Words
2. Jem Season 3
3. A Double Life
4. Dance 'Til Dawn
5. Battlestar Galactica Season 1

Posted by: Susie Moss at April 23, 2007 5:18 PM

1. Grizzly Man (counting it as in queue because I haven't receieved it yet)
2. Saved by the Bell Season 5
3. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
4. Angel Season 1
5. Rope

Talk about random . . .

Posted by: Kris at April 23, 2007 5:19 PM

Thanx Brian, I've been to that site before. I actually went there looking for the elusive Netflix phone number that's not listed on the Netflix site anywhere. I eventually found two of them which I promptly stored in my cell phone.

I opened my Borat DVD after a long day and I flipped the fuck out. I wasn't even thinking about going online. I was thinking ' There's no way in hell I'm paying for this shit, somebody done fucked up' and then I picked up the phone and waited for about 10 minuted for someone to answer . I think the CSR was laughing at me when I hung up.

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 5:20 PM

I'm sort of sad because I don't have an ipod or a Netflix queue or Season Pass because I have no Tivo. Being unemployed stinks. My Netflix is the local library (8th best nationwide!).

Posted by: Cait at April 23, 2007 5:20 PM

1. Blood Diamond
2. Children of Men
3. Weeds S1
and, it's catch-up time:
4. The Wire S1
5. The Wire S2
(season 3 follows next, but this is just a top-5)

Posted by: Riles at April 23, 2007 5:23 PM

1. Close My Eyes
2. Hammett
3. Klute
4. Breakfast on Pluto
5. Mysterious Skin

Posted by: Sharon at April 23, 2007 5:34 PM

1. Paradise Now--Hany Abu-Assad's disturbing yet moving tale finds two men at a critical juncture in their lives. They've been drafted as suicide bombers in an upcoming assignment in Tel Aviv. Granted a night to spend with their families, they go home but are unable to say goodbye for fear of tipping their hand. But perhaps it isn't time for farewells yet as the two become separated during the mission and must decide on their own whether to continue or bail out.

2. The Syrian Bride--Eran Riklis's film digs into the Middle East conflict with the tale of a Druze woman who lives with her family in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Her family makes plans for her to marry a Syrian television star from Damascus, but the wedding must take place at the border, and once she marries and crosses into Syria, she'll never be able to return home. Hiyam Abbass and Makram J. Khoury and Clara Khoury star.

3. Iraq for Sale-The War Profiteers--Private contractors are getting rich while everybody else is suffering: This is the point director Robert Greenwald makes -- passionately -- in this 2006 documentary. Using whistleblower testimony, firsthand accounts, financial records and classified documents, Greenwald levels charges of greed, corruption and incompetence against private contractors and shows the subsequent devastating effect on Americans and Iraqis.

4. Good Bye, Lenin!--In East Germany in 1989, Alex Kerner's (Daniel Bruhl) mother Christiane (Katrin Sass) falls into a coma just as the Berlin Wall is about to come down. Eight months later, she wakes up, but her heart is too weak to withstand any great shock. So Alex goes to great (and often hysterical) lengths to keep the truth about her country's reform a secret. This widely praised, Golden Globe-nominated comedy played in festivals around the world.

5. Something the Lord Made--This HBO film follows two men who go against all odds to save babies suffering from a heart defect that causes them to suffocate. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman), a white surgeon from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), a black carpenter with big dreams, are a great team, but their dissimilar societal statuses cause problems. As they save lives using innovative methods, the reality of their social differences looms overhead.

Posted by: Jen at April 23, 2007 5:34 PM

1. The Last King of Scotland
2. The History Boys
3. Off The Black
4. The Queen
5. Little Children

Posted by: Sara in Chicago at April 23, 2007 5:36 PM

What happened with the Borat dvds?

Here's mine, even though I've barely been using it lately. School and work ruin my life.

1. All the President's Men
2. Touching the Void
3. Strictly Ballroom
4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
5. Stand by Me

Posted by: Brianne at April 23, 2007 5:41 PM

1. Osama
2. Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
3. Napoleon Dynamite
4. Funny Face
5. Lawrence of Arabia

(with Bluff Master in transit)

I'm so glad I'm not the only Pajibite Bollywood watcher...

Posted by: Heqit at April 23, 2007 5:42 PM

1. Little Miss Sunshine (heard too many good things)

2. Slither (Yay, Mal!)

3. The Proposition (I like westerns, even in Australia)

4. Strangers on a Train: Special Edition (wife's never seen it)

5. The Third Man (see no. 4, plus Joseph Cotton is the bomb shazam and it has one of the greatest lines in film history).

We just finished off Battlestar Galactic 2.5. Between work and the NHL playoffs (GO WINGS!), I don't reckon we're going to get very far with this que in the next month or so...

Posted by: Ajax19 at April 23, 2007 5:42 PM

- The Color of Money
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated
- Enigma
- District B13
- She's Having a Baby

Posted by: Jason at April 23, 2007 5:43 PM

1. Girl 6
2. Life Is Beautiful
3. The Prestige
4. Il Postino
5. Gormenghast

My roommate and I share our Queue, though, and we rarely reorder it -- guarantees a surprise!

Posted by: k at April 23, 2007 5:47 PM

1) Monty Python's Flying Circus

2) Jurassic Park III

3) Deep Sea: IMAX

4) Millions

5) Shakespeare In Love

Posted by: Jerry Lee Lewis at April 23, 2007 5:48 PM

The Borat dvds look like 'authentic' bootlegged copies. The CRS even had a script for this call because they had gotten a large amount of calls due to the look of the dvd. I used to work at a call center as one of my first jobs abd I can tell when a script is being read.

When I called I was trying to relax after a long day so I think I sounded a bit more distressed than I intended. I had to make sure it was clear that I wasn't gonna pay for a bootlegged dvd being sent to my house instead of an authentic one.

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 5:51 PM

litelysalted:

I thought I was the only one!

Alan Hale is a genius!

Posted by: Smokin at April 23, 2007 6:00 PM

OK, dammit, you wore me down:

- Hamish Macbeth Series 2 Disc 1

- Hair (Mr. Ranylt needs to see it)

- Black Sunday

- Versus

- The Pyjama Girl Case

Like some other posters have mentioned above, there are over 100 titles in my Ziplist (non-US version of Netflix) but the Top 5 are amazingly representative!

Posted by: Ranylt at April 23, 2007 6:07 PM

It's funny because I upgraded to the 4 movies at a time plan and I still dont watch my movies in a timely fashion. Sometimes I do but then I keep it inthe player to watch the special features which takes me another week or so. I clearly have a problem.

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 6:12 PM

1. A Bit of Fry and Laurie (Season 1)

2. Johnny Mneumonic

3. Being John Malkovich

4. Lucky Number Slevin

5. Battlestar Galactica (Season 2)

Posted by: Kate K. at April 23, 2007 6:15 PM

Top 5 of 495 (no, I'm not addicted...)

1.) "Carnivale" season 1

2.) "Carnivale" season 2

3.) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

4.) I Was A Male War Bride

5.) Suddenly, Last Summer

I also rarely ever re-order my queue. For example, I don't remember what 3 and 5 are about, let alone why I added them. Just thought I'd add that I also, have a MST3K in nmy queue, in position 7--Hercules Against the Moon Men.

Posted by: maddragonqueen at April 23, 2007 6:18 PM

1. Zero Effect (I think I added this one a while back after reading Pajiba's "Best Movies You've Never Seen" list)
2. Jesus Camp
3. Kicking & Screaming (ditto about the Pajiba list)
4. The Believer
5. Wordplay

Posted by: Jenna at April 23, 2007 6:26 PM

1. Supernatural: Season 1
2. Flushed Away
3. Entourage: Season 3
4. Al Franken: God Spoke
5. The Ben Stiller Show

Posted by: me at April 23, 2007 6:31 PM

To everyone who is anticipating Wordplay, you are in for a treat. I loved that little movie, and not just because I'm the biggest crossword puzzle nerd I know. It's a real nail biter, no kidding.

Posted by: Brianne at April 23, 2007 6:46 PM

1. This Film is Not Yet Rated
2. Days of Being Wild
3. Zach Galifianikas: Live
4. Ratcatcher
5. Superman Returns

Posted by: dirty at April 23, 2007 6:46 PM

Currently at home: Capote
Next 5 in Queue:

1. Idiocracy
2. Blade Runner: The Director's Cut
3. Spellbound
4. Syriana
5. Munich

Posted by: Bistro at April 23, 2007 6:50 PM

Alright let me explain myself, I'm currently doing a bit of a "Vincent D'nofrio-a-thon" so you'll have to bear with my choices. So far I'm totally enjoying his crazy body of work.

1 - Twin Peaks: The First Season (Disc 1) (I feel like it will never come, stupid Very Long Wait)

2 - Velocity of Gary

3 - Homicide Life on the Street: The First Season (Disc 1)

4 - Claire Dolan

5 - Notes on a Scandal

Posted by: twilly at April 23, 2007 6:51 PM

1 The Fountain
2 The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie
3 Deliverance
4 Curse of the Golden Flower
5 Stander

Posted by: ph at April 23, 2007 7:04 PM

1. The Departed
2. Zero Effect
3. As Good As It Gets
4. Guys and Dolls
5. Eragon (although I'm moving that down the queue til I finish reading the books)

Posted by: Michele at April 23, 2007 7:06 PM

I just put Wordplay at the top of my queue. I went a re-read the review afetr realizing a lot of people had it on their list like I do.

Posted by: Candy at April 23, 2007 7:13 PM

I have full satellite TV, so there's no need for Netflix yet in my life, but I wanted to post regardless because I'm pleased to see other regular Pajiba readers love MST3K as much as I do! I knew we had a good sense of humor; otherwise we wouldn't be here.

Posted by: Rebecca at April 23, 2007 7:19 PM

1. Click
2. Supersize Me
3. Walk the Line
4. Babel
5. Half Nelson

Posted by: Ariel at April 23, 2007 7:22 PM

Yay--I get to play this one!
1.Transamerica
2.The Prestige
3.Half Nelson
4.Princess Diaries 2 (eh--it's for a friend?)
5.Midnight Cowboy

Posted by: kimmyhula at April 23, 2007 7:22 PM

1. Pan's Labyrinth

2. The Good Shepherd

3. Casino Royale

4. The Devil's Backbone

5. Dog Soldiers

Posted by: doe at April 23, 2007 7:22 PM

Angel: Season 4: Disc 4
Angel: Season 4: Disc 5
Angel: Season 4: Disc 6
Angel: Season 5: Disc 1

HA!
It's not that I don't watch movies, I just love Angel!

Here are some others I'm excited about:

- The Talent Given Us

- Murder on a Sunday Morning

- Suddenly, Last Summer

- My Life Without Me ( Apparently, Sarah Polley has recently directed a film that's supposed to be extra very amazing and stuff. I've loved her since she was the Story Girl so I'm interested to see if her acting chops influence her directing chops.)

Posted by: loveyouintheface at April 23, 2007 7:23 PM

I work for tlavideo.com so no netflix for me, but these are the DVDs lined up for my personal enjoyment:

1) Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (because Big John Studd is in it)

2) Casino Royale

3) The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai

4) S*P*Y*S

5) Prairie Home Companion

Posted by: Godard at April 23, 2007 7:35 PM

1. This is Spinal Tap
2. Monty Python's Flying Circus
3. The Kids In The Hall: Season 1
4. Raiders of The Lost Ark
5. Kiss of the Dragon

Posted by: Level5Dworc at April 23, 2007 7:41 PM


1. The Sopranos: Season 2: Disc 3
2. Fast Food Nation
3. Entourage: Season 3: Part 1: Disc 1
4.Babel
5.Shortbus

Posted by: jammie at April 23, 2007 7:43 PM

1. I'm Alan Partridge
2. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral
3. Aeon Flux: Animated Collection
4. Rome
5. Blue Velvet

Posted by: Saundra at April 23, 2007 7:46 PM

1. Children of Men
2. Primer
3. Trust the Man
4. Tying the Knot
5. Wordplay

Apparently I love me some documentaries. And I have no idea why 2 and 3 are on there, added them months ago.

Posted by: Graham at April 23, 2007 7:46 PM

1. Slings & Arrows, Season 2
2. Wicker Man (original version)
3. Therese Raquin
4. Sword of Doom
5. Basic Instinct 2

I use Blockbuster.com (if I immediately want to see something else, I can exchange my mailed movies for something in the store). I often rearrange my queue depending on my movie mood. I am obsessive about my queue as I am about my Tivo to do list.

Posted by: Marianne at April 23, 2007 7:47 PM

Maddragonqueen, I love you for having more movies in your queue than I do...I'm at 407! Like a few other people mentioned above, I get a little bored at work and then get lost in Netflix-land...I'll probably never see them all, but I'm working on it.

Loveyouintheface, if you haven't seen it, My Life Without Me is a WONDERFUL movie. Sarah Polley is amazing in it, and the whole thing is just really well done -- sad, yes, but without being schlocky, and powerful without being manipulative. (IMHO, anyway.)

Posted by: Heqit at April 23, 2007 7:51 PM

1. for your consideration
2. clockwatchers
3. happy endings
4. the science of sleep
5. stranger than fiction

Posted by: thatgirlshines at April 23, 2007 7:54 PM

Out of about 110. I don't order persay but every so often I'll take something from the end and move it up top (like Last King of Scotland) cuz I REALLY want to see it. I also wasn't getting thru the list so I had one of my friends make a top 20 I had to see out of my list and I've made it thru 10 cuz I keep moving stuff to the top.

The Last King of Scotland
Monster House
Memories of Murder
The Squid and the Whale
Waiting for Guffman

Posted by: petalfrog at April 23, 2007 7:57 PM

Monk
Wonderfalls
Apartment Zero
Winter Passing
SpaceCamp

Posted by: Sharon at April 23, 2007 8:04 PM

already commented but still two more hours left at work:

from the bottom up, sharon, Monk is soooooooo good - i just discovered it also.

and thatgirlshines - loving the parker posey list - Clockwatchers is one of my true favorites. you'll love it.

Posted by: nicole at April 23, 2007 8:15 PM

Half Nelson
Good Shepherd
The Lives of Others
Babel
Rome

Posted by: Gabs at April 23, 2007 8:22 PM

1. Harold and Maude
2. The Painted Veil
3. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
4. Wife versus Secretary (Clark Gable, c'mon!)
5. Swing Time


Litelysalted: I'm so glad you have Two for the Road on your list. It's quickly becoming an all-time favorite for me.

Posted by: Chesnut at April 23, 2007 8:22 PM

1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. Brick
3. Happy Endings
4. The Opposite of Sex
5. Go

Posted by: Sarah at April 23, 2007 8:25 PM

1. Match Point
2. Dinner at Eight
3. Crank (I thought I would lie about this but, there it is)
4. Seamless
5. Separate Tables

Posted by: jro at April 23, 2007 8:28 PM

Gentleman's Agreement
Rushmore
The Saint
Sports Night (disc 5 of 6)
Blade Runner

My queue is always at 500. I can't watch them fast enough to make room for what I want to add. So I'm loving the new Watch It Now feature.

Posted by: KRK at April 23, 2007 8:32 PM

I don't have a que. I don't have a netflix account. So I don't have a cue. But there's a good reason for this. I live in NYC, down the block from a great video store. I refuse to sign up for Netflix, or Blockbuster, or any online store that would take business away from the film geeks that populate Alvin's Alley in Chelsea. We need Film geeks. Now more than ever. We need the culture of the video store. Fuck the Blockbuster. Fuck the Netflix. Go to your local video hut. And if there isn't one in your neighborhood, open one, and tell everyone how great that obscure Peckinpah movie is.

Posted by: Withnail at April 23, 2007 8:37 PM

Top five:
1) Stranger than Fiction
2) Little Children
3) Diggers (made my list based on the cast alone)
4) United 93
5) Jesus Camp
..............................................
At home:
An Inconvenient Truth and Little Manhattan (which is a really great movie that no one has seen!) If you like nostalgic stuff about childhood, like Wonder Years, Sandlot, or Freaks and Geeks, then check this out. It missed the Family Friendly List just posted and I can't even find a review on this site. Where was the review on this one Pajiba?

Posted by: Mike B at April 23, 2007 8:47 PM

The Good Shepherd
Children of Men
Casino Royale
Fist of the North Star
Why We Fight

The first two have a long wait though, so we'll see. I am adding MST3K to my list after reading this stuff. Yeah!

Posted by: lilianna28 at April 23, 2007 9:02 PM

Ok, I know I'm late, but I'M still at work:

1. Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0
2. BSG: Season 2.5 (shouldn't these count as one?)
3. Brazil (very long wait, though)
4. Brotherhood of the Wolf (sheepish grin)
5. Talk to Her

Posted by: Jessi at April 23, 2007 9:14 PM

1.Story of a Prostitute
2.Tokyo Drifter
3.United 93
4.The Spirit of the Beehive
5.Pan's Labyrinth

Posted by: mrlittlejeans at April 23, 2007 9:17 PM

My husband and I share an account, so some of these are his picks. We don't necessarily order ours unless there's something we are REALLY anxious to see. He does, however, tend to bump the HD and Blu-Ray to the top.


That being said...


1. Stranger than Fiction
2. A Scanner Darkly
3. Hollywoodland
4. Happy Feet
5. Serenity (just finished watching Firefly on HDNet and want to rewatch the movie)

Posted by: superedna at April 23, 2007 9:40 PM

1. Ilsa She Wolf of the SS
(followed by the other two Ilsa movies)
4. Fire & Ice
(the '83 Bakshi/Frazetta fantasy)
5. Hiruko the Goblin
(Shinya Tsukamoto is probably my favourite Japanese director)
6. Heathers
(one of the many films that have slipped under my radar)
7. Spiders
(one can never go wrong with Fritz Lang)

Withnail: Blow it out your ass. If these film geeks are nice to their customers, they'll continue to do fairly well. If, on the other hand, they're a couple of assholes with outrageous rental fees, they should go under as soon as possible. I'm not passing any judgment on them as I've never been to the store, but too often the owners/maintainers of independent film, music, and book stores are raging assholes who overcharge for everything. That sort deserves to be driven out of business as quickly as possible.

Posted by: Samuel Erikson at April 23, 2007 9:45 PM

Don't worry Candy, you aren't alone. I almost always keep the movies that I rent way too long because I never seem to get around to watching them. Then, when I finally do watch them, it's always right before I have to take it back to avoid paying for it a third week, so I miss out on the extras as well.

Posted by: CarpePancakes! at April 23, 2007 10:19 PM

1. Elizabeth
2. Out of Sight
3. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
4. All About My Mother
5. Key Largo

Posted by: JP at April 23, 2007 10:22 PM

1) Children of Men
2) The Departed
3) Borat
4) Night at the Museum
5) Deadwood: Season 1

Posted by: Zan at April 23, 2007 10:24 PM

1. Barton Fink
2. Cosmos staring Carl Sagan
3. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
4. Deliverance
5. Delicatessen

Posted by: miranda at April 23, 2007 10:31 PM

1. The Avengers (TV series, 1967)
2. Videodrome
3. M
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. Nanny McPhee

Posted by: Jen at April 23, 2007 10:36 PM

1. Children of Men
2. History Boys
3. Bridge on the River Kwai
4. Almost Famous
5. Cradle Will Rock

Posted by: Jennifer at April 23, 2007 11:30 PM

1. Mr. Jealousy
2. The Baxter (shit, I have a thing for Justin Theroux)
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Blue Velvet
5. Eraserhead (Yeah yeah, I haven't seen any David Lynch apart from Mulholland Drive so I'm getting my fix now, thanks to Netflix.)

Posted by: Ana at April 23, 2007 11:39 PM

1. Volver
2. La Dolce Vita
3. The Seventh Seal (Not even joking)
4. Y Tu Mama Tambien
5. The Big Sleep

Ok so I am on a classic/foreign movie bender right now. I just returned Chinatown this afternoon. Plus I have been passed over for Volver for the last three cycles of mailing/returning...WTF?

Posted by: Nate at April 24, 2007 12:01 AM

Post script:
Was anyone else unbelievably disappointed with Babel? Oh and to the Eragon reader, don't bother with that movie, I had to take my little brother to it and it was the worst movie I have ever seen. He was a fan of the books (I havent read them) and he was really disappointed too.

Posted by: Nate at April 24, 2007 12:24 AM

1. The Searchers
2. The Third Man
3. Stagecoach
4. Blood Diamond
5. Vertigo

Posted by: am I K? at April 24, 2007 12:36 AM

1. Troop Beverly Hills

2. Little Children

3. Weeds, Season 1

4. Defending Your Life

5. Ghost World

Posted by: christina at April 24, 2007 12:53 AM

1. Straight to Hell
2. The Wire (Season 3)
3. Touch of Evil
4. Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Season 2)
5. Infernal Affairs

Posted by: frank at April 24, 2007 12:54 AM

1. The Wire (Season 3)
2. Twin Peaks (Season 2)
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 5)
4. The Last King of Scotland
5. Notes on a Scandal

Posted by: Nicole at April 24, 2007 1:23 AM

1. For Your Consideration
2. Six Feet Under - Season 2, Disc 1
3. The Queen
4. Bloody Sunday
5. Ed Wood

Posted by: stacy at April 24, 2007 1:29 AM

P.S. to christina...

Troop Beverly Hills!!! There's my childhood right there.

Posted by: stacy at April 24, 2007 1:31 AM

1. Mr. Show: Season 1

2. Bring It On (I've never actually seen it all the way through, but all of you quote it, so eff off!)

3. Strangers With Candy

4. Mrs. Henderson Presents

5. Gods and Monsters

So, it looks like I'm going to have a really happy week, followed by a really serious week. I'll adjust my playlists accordingly.

Posted by: Spazzy at April 24, 2007 1:34 AM

1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Wordplay
3. Cat People/ Curse of The Cat People
4. This is Spinal Tap
5. The Last Laugh

Posted by: Beth at April 24, 2007 1:36 AM

1) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2) Bottle Rocket (which I've never seen, and my film acting teacher is in, so I'm watching it out of loyalty.)
3) The Commitments
4) Boogie Nights
5) Eyes Wide Shut (to see what all the hype is about.)

And I just returned Heathers. But I swear, if it were my queue up to 20, it would include Arrested Development season 3, The Believer, The Jerk, Brick and Capote, so I shouldnt lose ALL my good-taste-in-movies cred.

Posted by: Rachel at April 24, 2007 1:39 AM

1. Before Sunrise
2. Shortbus
3. Before Sunset
4. Tupac: Resurrection (thanks, Pajiba!)
5. Me and You and Everyone We Know

Usually this would be full of the West Wing. I'm watching it through for the second time now and haven't reordered my queue yet.

Posted by: susie at April 24, 2007 2:01 AM

1. Half Nelson
2. Babylon 5: The Gathering
3. Beverly Hills 90210: Season One
4. Unbreakable
5. Psycho Beach Party

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at April 24, 2007 3:35 AM

disclaimer: we're going on a road trip with a 4 and a 2 year old, I needed some light stuff that will keep them entertained but that is not a feature film...


The Tick, season 1
Animaniacs, season 1 (last disc)
Star Trek: The Animated Series, disc 3 (for hubby, though I do like the disco-trek music they have in it)
Sesame Street:Old School, disc 1
and Poirot, vol 1, first disc (for me)

when we get back we'll be watching
Stranger than Fiction,
Xena:Death in Chains,
Follow the Fleet,
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
and Murder by Death

(excluding the kids movies from the list...)

Posted by: Jenny at April 24, 2007 3:42 AM

1. Nero Wolfe - Season 2
2. Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Silk Stocking
3. Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
4. Shallow Grave
5. Zero Effect

I've been in a mystery mood lately; this isn't really representative.

Posted by: Meg at April 24, 2007 7:08 AM

1.) Breakfast on Pluto

2.) Primer

3.) The Sentinel

4.) Friends with Money

5.) Click

I think the circumstances of your queue are important. I share mine with my spouse and I mostly leave it out of order until I know movies are coming and he fiddles with it randomly. So even though these are the top five there are important hidden facts. There is almost no chance that Breakfast on Pluto will stay on top long enough to be delivered. I hate Michael Douglass, but will probably allow The Sentinel to arrive, but there is no chance that I will allow Click to enter my home.

Posted by: Jaydubya at April 24, 2007 7:22 AM

1. Gilmore Girls, Season 4, Disc 6

2. Pandora's Box

3. Carefree

4. The Trial

5. The Happiness of the Katakuris

Posted by: Erin Elizabeth at April 24, 2007 8:10 AM

1. Killer's Kiss (1955)

2. The Snake Pit (1949)

3. Dodsworth (1936)

4. Non ho sonno (2001)

5. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

Posted by: JS at April 24, 2007 8:14 AM

1. Storytelling (because Solondz intrigues me)

2. The Lady Eve

3. Match Point

4. Out of Sight

5. Why We Fight



My parents and I share the netflix queue, and I get one out of the three spots, so I move mine up to the top when it's time for me to rent a new one. Honestly, I only really want to rent Storytelling from this list.

Posted by: Jeff at April 24, 2007 8:19 AM

1 Absolutely Fabulous - season two
2 Veronica Mars - season one
3 Stranger Than Fiction
4 Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter - yes, finally! I have been waiting for this movie forever. It is probably going to be terrible, but is the funniest title I have ever found on Netflix. (I share a que with my roommates, so I never know what movie is arriving)
5 Cars

Posted by: Mia at April 24, 2007 9:17 AM

1. Slings and Arrows season 1
2. Thank You for Smoking
3. Flags of our Fathers
4. Manhunter
5. An Inconvenient Truth

I fall into the camp of constant rearranging. There are movies in my queue that have been there since I joined netflix over a year ago. This is, however, the way it looked right when I opened my queue today to do this post; I will probably rearrange it before too long. I can't go more than a week with out fiddling with it!

Posted by: Amelia at April 24, 2007 9:22 AM

1. Fast Food Nation
2. Casino Royale
3. Evil Dead (somehow have never seen it)
4. Notes on a Scandal
5. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Posted by: Sarah at April 24, 2007 9:38 AM

1. Terror Train
2. Lady Terminator
3. Sleepaway Camp
4. Killer Nun
5. Funhouse

I know. I know. How pretentious!

Posted by: Jason at April 24, 2007 9:46 AM

1. Mean Girls
2. Amadeus
3. Robots
4. A Bug's Life
5. Ray

Posted by: Otter at April 24, 2007 10:16 AM

1. Fast Food Nation

2. Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0: Disc 3
(yeah, a little behind the times...)

3. Strangers with Candy

4. Children of Men

5. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

Posted by: Kurt K at April 24, 2007 10:27 AM

1. The Last Supper (I have an unreasonable attraction to Ron Eldard)

2. Art School Confidential

3. Smokin' Aces

4. Suicide Club

5. Mysterious Skin

Posted by: Siege at April 24, 2007 10:32 AM

At home - Bobby and From Dusk Til Dawn

Next five in line -
An American Werewolf in London
Notes on a Scandal
MST 300: The Hellcats
Re-Animator
The Thing ('82)

Ummmm, until I typed that up I didn't realize I had issues. Thanks, Pajiba! (grin)

Posted by: Jessi at April 24, 2007 10:52 AM

I just returned Children of Men, so now I'm looking forward to...
1) The Illusionist
2) The Prestige
(you know, for back-to-back "Best Drama Starring Magic" Show-Down)
3) The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour
4) Fast Food Nation
5) The Film Is Not Yet Rated.

Posted by: Tira at April 24, 2007 11:11 AM

Freaks & Geeks: Disc 1
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1: Disc 4
It's a Gift
Jesus Camp
Borat

Posted by: Wednesday at April 24, 2007 11:19 AM

1. Badlands
2. R. Kelly: Trapped in the Closet (lolololololllll)
3. The Spirit of the Beehive
4. The Happiness of the Katakuris
5. Kiki's Delivery Service

Posted by: Asta at April 24, 2007 11:34 AM

1. Code 46
2. Silent Running
3. The Long Goodbye
4. The Sopranos: Season 4
5. A Boy and His Dog

Posted by: Nate at April 24, 2007 11:39 AM

1. Hard Boiled
2. Boyz N The Hood
3. The Last Temptation of Christ
4. Tomorrow Never Dies
5. The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Posted by: Jus at April 24, 2007 11:46 AM

Rachel, don't be embarrassed...I LOVE The Commitments. I grew up listening to that soundtrack on every long car trip. Nothing wrong with Boogie Nights either.

You're all reminding me of things I need to find the time to sit down and watch. To the person renting Eraserhead...I've got everything David Lynch has ever done on my queue, and after Lost Highway, I just can't bring myself to actually rent them. I loved Mulholland Drive, but the two of those movies gave me nightmares like you would not believe.

Posted by: Brianne at April 24, 2007 12:03 PM

1.) Mysterious Skin
2.) Hollywoodland
3.) The Prestige
4.) Half Nelson
5.) The Proposition

Hey Jeff,

Your parents have pretty good taste!

Posted by: JoAnn at April 24, 2007 12:50 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. Now Voyager
3. All About Eve
4. Sunset Boulevard
5. A Streetcar Named Desire

I think I was trying to get through the AFI's "100 Years, 100 Movies" list.

Posted by: Jelinas at April 24, 2007 1:00 PM

1. Children of Men
2. Cold Mountain
3. Mystic River
4. Zero Effeft (Thanks, Pajiba!)
5. House of Sand and Fog

Posted by: Matt at April 24, 2007 1:35 PM

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who goes through "funks" where you load up on one actor or director until you are sufficiently full.

Posted by: twilly at April 24, 2007 1:35 PM

Hmm...I don't have Netflix, but after being reminded of all these great movies, I may have to sign up.

Melia: You will not be disappointed by Lady Snowblood. I only wish there was director's commentary on how many gallons of blood they sprayed per person.

And to all you MST3K fans: I recommend "Viking Women vs. The Sea Serpent," if only for the hilarious 20 minute Home Ec short at the beginning.

Posted by: ohgrl at April 24, 2007 2:09 PM

1. Volver
2. School for Scoundrels
3. Sleeping Dogs Lie (Go Bobcat!)
4. The Fountain
5. Little Children

Posted by: Shawn at April 24, 2007 2:10 PM

1. Planet Earth: Complete Collection
2. Bottle Rocket
3. Double Indemnity
4. The Third Man
5. Modern Marvels: Disney World

It totally looks like I'm trying to suck up here, 2, 3 and 4 are straight from recommendations on this site

Posted by: Mya at April 24, 2007 2:39 PM

1. Brazil
2. Big Fish
3. Everything is Illuminated
4. Hotel Rwanda
5. Cinema Paradisio

Posted by: zoone at April 24, 2007 3:11 PM

1. Bottle Rocket
2. Belle Epoque
3. Sidewalks of New York
4. Dear Frankie
5. Blue (It's Good for Me!)

Posted by: lickoriche at April 24, 2007 3:24 PM

So when do you guys plan on doing An Afternoon Comment Diversion with books??

Posted by: zoone at April 24, 2007 3:29 PM

1. Half Nelson
2. Rome (Season 1)
3. Big Love (Season 1)
4. Deadwood (Season 1)
5. The Comeback (Season 1)

(since I love my video store - Alan's Alley - I mainly use Netflix for tv shows)

Posted by: ewg at April 24, 2007 3:30 PM

Waiting At Home:

Millions
Smokin' Aces
The Last King of Scotland

Top 5 in Queue:

Dazed and Confused
The Queen
Casino
Fast Food Nation
North by Northwest

Will definitely run through this list to find more movies to add to our list.

For all of you waiting on Children of Men: It really IS as excellent as you've heard.

Posted by: GinKirk at April 24, 2007 3:31 PM

DOE! WAIT! Although it may be too late, I would reverse the order of your Spanish masterpieces. I would recommend seeing Devil's Backbone before Pan's Labyrinth. Unfortunately, I can't really articulate why... I'm just really glad I saw them in the order they were made and I think they're better that way. Probably not worth shouting at a total stranger... sorry.

My queue:

Beowulf and Grendel
The HeeHaw Collection
Sting: Bring on the Night
Gandhi
Genghis Blues

Posted by: mezzomom at April 24, 2007 4:59 PM

waiting at home:
The Last King of Scotland & The Pursuit of Happyness

First 5 in queue of 142:
The Queen
Body Heat
Stranger Than Fiction
Dreamgirls
Babel

Posted by: SCG at April 24, 2007 5:10 PM

1. The Illusionist
2. Open Season (I have a toddler!)
3. For Your Consideration
4. Saw 3
5. Notorious Bettie Page
I just missed having to put Gridiron Gang (my husband's pick) and Crank (I like looking at Jason Statham!)

Posted by: J at April 24, 2007 5:28 PM

Yeah, fun!

1. Little Children
2. Stranger Than Fiction
3. Best of the Larry Sanders Show
4. Nanny McPhee
5. Valmont

(Kinda going through a Colin Firth lust phase).

Posted by: Stacy at April 24, 2007 5:53 PM

Can any red-blooded woman ever not be going through a Colin Firth lust phase??

Posted by: Jenny at April 24, 2007 6:23 PM

Samurai Assassin

My-Hime, Vol. 1

Sayuki Reload Gunlock, vol. 2

Grenedier, Vol. 1

Master of Mosquoton OVA Series

Posted by: zianeu at April 24, 2007 6:41 PM

Charlotte's Web
The Decemberists: A Practical Handbook
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Volver

Posted by: scullypdx at April 24, 2007 8:05 PM

1)Wonderfalls Season 1(the only season sadly)
2)Late Night Shopping
3)Entourage Season 3
4)Half Nelson
5)Bukowski:Born into this

Posted by: Carrie at April 24, 2007 8:07 PM

Man, I only have 72 movies in my queue. Some of them have been on there for years because I automatically put the saved new releases on top once they become available.

I just came off of an Alfred Hitchcock and Betty Davis bender. I'm thinking about going on a Roger Moore as James Bond one as I write this. I think I'll go do that right now.

Posted by: Candy at April 24, 2007 8:41 PM

After combing through all the comments, I added about 15 to my queue, bringing it to a grand total of... 271. I add movies faster than I watch them, and that's saying something...
I usually put the new releases at the top, but otherwise I leave the queue as-is. Usually that means a slew of, say, foreign films followed by a bunch of dramas...and trying to remember why the hell I wanted to watch this six months ago. I reserve the right to '86' something. Yeah that's right, I send the offending flick back to position 86. Thank you for letting me reveal my private netflix o/c tendencies in relative anonymity.

1. Jonestown: Life of...People's Temple "very long wait"
2. Le Petit Lieutenant "short wait"
3. Easy Rider
4. Zelig
5. Everything is Illuminated

Posted by: netflix whore at April 25, 2007 2:07 AM

(The first two just arrived today)
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. Carnivale Season 1
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Happenstance
5. Toys

Posted by: Stina at April 25, 2007 11:01 AM

1. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
2. DAWN OF THE DEAD
3. DAY OF THE DEAD
4. SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS
5. THE DEPARTED

Posted by: KATIE at April 25, 2007 11:28 AM

Batman Begins
La Femme Nikita: Season 4
All About Eve
The Last King of Scotland
The History Boys

Posted by: Rebecca at April 25, 2007 11:31 AM

1.) Marsh
2.) Stranger Than Fiction
3.) Little Miss Sunshine
4.)Grudge 2 (So what...don't judge!)
5.) Brick

Posted by: RaRa at April 25, 2007 1:30 PM

Yay, not the first one to post an anime heavy list!

1)Gun x Sword v.7 (Gunx x Sword-san is pretty much the funniest DVD extra I've seen since the Texhnolyze alternate dubs.)

2)Kyo Kara Maoh v.5-9

3)MST3K: Prince of Space (I know someone up there said it wasn't worth it, but it has chicken aliens!!! - and hopefully a reeeeally bad dub!)

4)Curse of the Golden Flower, since I blinked and missed the theatrical release.

5)Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

I pretty much use Netflix exclusively for anime or odd titles, since the video stores around town here don't seem to carry anything other than the last 5-10 years' blockbuster films.

Posted by: pinkcheese at April 25, 2007 2:33 PM



  1. Volver

  2. Salaam Bombay!

  3. Shaun of the Dead

  4. Entourage (Season 3)

  5. The Office (Series 1 - British Version)

Posted by: UT at April 25, 2007 5:00 PM

This has reminded me of a lot of movies to add to my queue. I use the Blockbuster service instead of Netflix (I like the option of going into the store if I want).

Out of 52 movies...

1. Black Dahlia
2. Illusionist
3. Children of Men
4. Factotum
5. Rome, Season 1

Posted by: Sara at April 25, 2007 8:30 PM

Apartment Zero
Danika
L.I.E.
Shortbus
Joan of Arcadia season 1

Posted by: Nicole at April 26, 2007 5:51 AM

1. Caché
2. Clerks II
3. The Departed
4. Red Road
5. The Wire Season 1

Posted by: Jual at April 26, 2007 1:18 PM

1 the good shepard
2 alfie
3 half nelson
4 marie antionette
5 fever pitch

i'm hoping marie antionette wont be as lame as i think its going to be. but, its worth a shot.

Posted by: christine at April 26, 2007 3:03 PM

424 movies in the queue

1. 42nd street forever, vol. 2 - the deuce
2. heart of glass
3. the draughtsman's contract
4. tenebre
5. opera

all 5 = very long wait.

Posted by: matt at April 27, 2007 1:28 AM

I started using Netflix because I have been routinely disgusted with my local video store(s)' selection(s).

My queue:

1) Battlestar Galactica season 1

2) The Office Christmas Special (British version)

3) Battlestar Galactica season 2.0

4) Battlestar Galactica season 2.5

5) Farscape season 2

Yes, I am trying to get caught up on my tv series. After the initial glut of tv series, there are a whole lot of movies. Then more tv series. I'm up to the max allowable movie limit. I think I'm currently at 487.

Posted by: Blogchik at April 27, 2007 2:25 AM

Can I have the last entry? Sweeeeet. I been MIA.

1. Bunny Lake is Missing

2. Adam's Rib

3. When the Levees Broke; Disc 2

4. When the Levees Broke; Disc 3

5. 'Round Midnight

Posted by: aperkins at April 27, 2007 9:50 AM

Late to the party but it caused me to look at my queue and wonder what the hell was going on there.

1. Veronika Voss

2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

3. Twilight Zone Vol 21

4. The Scarlet Pimpernel

5. Crime of Passion

Posted by: Nora at April 27, 2007 11:45 AM

I can't believe it myself, but...

1. Xanadu

2. Chocolat

3. Before Night Falls

4. The Prestige

5. 8 1/2

Posted by: Cici at April 27, 2007 11:26 PM

1. The Sopranos, Season 2
2. An Inconvenient Truth
3. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
4. Infernal Affairs
5. Brick

The two before that The Last King of Scotland and the Sopranos Season 2 Disc 1 are right on their way!

Posted by: yaya at April 28, 2007 1:13 PM

  1. Penn & Teller: Bullshit Season 2/3 (I'm mid-series and alternating slots with non-TV discs)
  2. What a Way to Go!
  3. Sin Destino
  4. Kinsey: American Experience
  5. Totally Fucked Up

Posted by: Jerry at April 29, 2007 1:58 AM

1. The Science of Sleep
2. Talledega Nights (I know)
3. Half Nelson
4. Doctor Zhivago
5. The Piano Teacher

Posted by: Jessica at April 29, 2007 2:15 PM

I'm too poor for Netflix and I'm also too much of a hermit already (amazon with their deliver of books nearly killed my social life) that I don't need another drug.

I just HAD to comment that I loved seeing people still renting MST3K. I have fallen asleep to Night of Blood Beast and Beast of Yucca Flats more times than I can count. Prince of Space is definatly worth renting.

Posted by: Maria at April 29, 2007 9:55 PM

1.The Muppet Show: Season 1, Disc 4
2. Monster in a Box
3. The Tick: Entire Series, Disc 1
4. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (?!)
5. The Pee-Wee Herman Show

Posted by: biscuits at April 30, 2007 1:31 AM

top 5 of 366 and counting:

1. The Dinner Game
2. Le Petit Soldat
3. Tideland
4. Hiroshima Mon Amour
5. A Scanner Darkly

Posted by: retrobaby at April 30, 2007 4:59 PM

1.Diggers

2.Purple Noon

3.Xanadu

4.Caligula

5.Don't Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl

Posted by: Nick at April 30, 2007 8:34 PM

1)Running With Scissors 2)Lilya 4-Eva (swedish film about a girl coerced into prostitution) 3)Farenheit 911 4)Me and You and Everyone We Know (I was disappointed that Pajiba didn't review this) 5)Enron the Smartest Guys in the Room

Posted by: Molly at May 2, 2007 4:43 AM

1)Running With Scissors
2)Lilya 4-Eva
(Swedish film about a girl coerced into prostitution)
3)Farenheit 9/11
4) Me and You and Everyone We Know
(I was dissapointed when Pajiba didn't review this)
5)Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Posted by: Molly at May 2, 2007 4:48 AM

1. Diggers
2. The Proposition
3. Angels in America
4.Mysterious Skin
5. Control Room

Posted by: Valeria at May 5, 2007 12:46 AM

1. The House of Mirth
2. Jungle Fever
3. Sid and Nancy
4. Blackadder Series 3
5. BBC Brideshead Revisited

Posted by: Rebecca H. at May 5, 2007 9:37 PM

I just read this column, so this a very late remark. I once wrote to NetFlix in response to a query "How can we improve our service" and suggested that they add a "notes" field to the queue where we could jot something like our reason for adding a film. They never responded, but it looks like a lot of users would appreciate it.

Posted by: HollyEva at July 9, 2007 3:38 PM