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July 12, 2006 - “City of God,” the award-winning 2002 Miramax film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, is the most expensive film I’ve never watched. By my calculation, it cost me $66. I hear it’s great. Film sits on TV for a year, taking up valuable space on Netflix queue and inflicting pangs of guilt and regret. I had “City of God” in my possession for 11 months, during which I paid $18 a month for a three-DVD-at-a-time Netflix subscription. Finally, I returned the movie in defeat while delusionally re-adding it to the end of my queue. By that time, my wife and I were talking about a dangerous new force in our lives: Netflix guilt.
This excerpt comes from this amusing article... Netflix Guilt
I know I have fallen into this trap. Too many excuses not to watch a film I have in my possesion, but too many excuses not to pop it back in the mail or return it to the video store.
My personal record (not one that I want to break) was holding onto a Netflix copy of Donnie Darko for 4 months at the end of 2004. Never got around to watching it. Worse yet, I had it in my possession for a month when a friend of mine gave me the DVD as a birthday gift... and I still held onto the Netflix copy for an additional 3 months.
By the way, I still haven't watched the copy I received as a gift....
I'm sure I'll get around to it...
yep...
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