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February 21, 2005
IMDB and Netflix are trying to ruin my life
Yep, it's official, Netflix and IMDB are conspiring together with my cable company to take over my life. My laptop is helping them.
Netflix rocks for starters, it's much better than wandering around the video store looking for something that you feel like renting and then hoping that it's available. The problem is that my netflix's queue is well over 100 titles now. I've been trying to limit my additions to the queue to only one per day, and that's where IMDB and the cable company are coming in.
So here I am, kicked back watching some ensemble piece on HBO or whoever and I notice an actor or actress that is doing a particularly good job and I pop them into IMDB. BANG! There's a list of other films by said performer. Scan through the reviews and bam, it's over to Netflix and there goes another addition to the list.
Then there's the cross referencing issue that been popping up and making my life hell with IMDB. Whole new observations and discoveries are popping up as I jump back and forth between the two. For instance, I'm flipping channels and catch Keira Knightley in Love Actually, I think "Hmmm, that's the girl from Bend it like Beckham, isn't it." Quick pop over to IMDB and BANG! There in Miss Knightley's Filmography is a credit for STAR WARS EP 1.
Wha Wha WHAT!!!! Keira Knightly isn't in Phantom Menace!! Well it turns out she is. She's Sabe, one of the decoys/hand-maidens for Padme/Natalie Portman (who I never realized was in Heat. Dammit. There's more of my life wasted as I start crossreferencing other actors for their early work, extra appearances, etc. Fifteen minutes later, I've followed links to Ivana Milicevic, Kris Marshall, and a bunch of other actors to other movies and now my Netflix Queue is over 200.
I swear, the couch potato revolution has just barely begun.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at February 21, 2005 12:58 AM
