It All Started With Lunch...

So every year my office hosts a Perfect Attendance luncheon for those of us who have failed to become sick enough during the year to justify staying home. This year, lunch was held at Black and Blue, a steak and seafood restaurant.

Due to my unfortunate left-handedness, I chose a seat at the far end of the table thinking if I was going to be hacking away at a steak, I'd rather not do it bumping elbows with the person sitting next to me.

I was surrounded by others from my department and one of our loss prevention consultants.

Somehow, talk turned to movies, then classic movies, then John Wayne movies. Ed and Jeff named movie after movie that I "MUST" see and they all sounded irresistible.

The next day, Jeff e-mailed the list to me and I was anxious to get started, but where would I find all these classics with just about every video store closed or closing? And suddenly it hit me-why, the same place those stupid, annoying red pop-ups come from-Netflix!

I've held off on Netflix because I generally prefer to own my movies rather than rent them. I'm a chronic re-watcher/re-reader. But if I tried to do this with this list it would cost me a fortune.

For those of you not familiar with Netflix, they have a variety of packages to meet everyone's needs. I chose to go with what is probably their most popular package. For $13.99 (plus any taxes...) a month I can get 2 movies at a time with unlimited viewings and unlimited online viewing. By unlimited viewings I mean I can get as many movies in a month as I can receive, watch and return. Some packages limit the number of movies you can get each month.

I joined on a Thursday night and found their website to be very user friendly. You can search by title, actor, etc. You can search by new releases, recommendations, etc. It took me little time at all to start amassing a queue, which after less than three weeks has grown to 126 discs. I say discs because I have several TV series on my list and they list each disc in the season separately. By Saturday I had my first two movies.

From here on out I'm going to tell you all about the movies I've received, watched and returned. I'm not going to hold back, so read at your own risk as there will be spoilers if you haven't seen them yet. But I can tell you this...Netflix is the best thing I've done in a long time (besides getting my beloved Kindle for my birthday two years ago) and I highly encourage everyone to give it a shot.