Good deal.

So since we've had kids, we average one trip to the movie theater a year. This year we saw Harry Potter. Last year we saw something called the Secret Life of Bees, and before that it was the one about the Rat in Paris. It's tough going to the movies so infrequently. Suddenly we've got so much vested. If it's a bad movie, we really really feel like we've wasted time. And knowing how most movies are, it makes us not even want to try.

And again given the kids, we would never make it to the video store. To have to pick something up and drop something off a couple days later. It just wouldn't happen. Ditto for the libraries. So really, Netflix is our only connection to the movie world. We managed about 5-10 movies a month. Sometimes it takes us three nights to watch a two hour movie.

I hear just the US puts out over 365 movies a year. Most of them probably aren't worth watching. But without Netflix we wouldn't watch anything. I was just thinking about what a deal it was for us.