Longest Time You've Kept a Netflix Movie?

Julie has had Finding Neverland since May 12th.

What's the longest amount of time you've kept a Netflix movie?

Comments

[manuel]

If you find yourself keeping rentals for an ungodly amount of time you might want to re-evaluate your movie preferences.

"you’re likely to be happier if you keep the movies coming along in a steady stream, even if you don’t watch them (the latter may be useful information about your actual preferences, as opposed to the preferences that you would like to have)"

http://crookedtimber.org/2004/07/23/economic-fallacies-and-netflix

In Julie's case, purchasing "Finding Neverland" would be more economical than renting it indefinitely.

[Brian]

A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 05/14/04 06/02/05

What do i win? :-)

Oddly enough, I've had Finding Neverland out since March 30th. I got it to watch with a friend and we just haven't been able to get to it.

180 days, I Am Sam, 10/30/2002 to 4/28/2003.

Hey, what can I say. I just never felt like watching it.

[Justin]

I thought I lost one, so I told them, and they debited my account for the cost. Then keeping up with cosmic irony, I found it a week later.

I'll have this Netflix movie forever.

"Spirited Away." 23 days.

[Jim]

If I find I have a dvd out for longer than 2 weeks, I generally copy it and watch it later. I figure I've already rented it, the money's been spent, the royalties have been dealt to all parties. What's the harm?

[Aaron]

Passion of the Christ - 4 weeks

I'm a believer and the movie had a lot of signfigance to me personnaly. I had to screw up my courage to watch it. I stopped procrastinating when a friend of ours that goes to our church wisecracked that I was being a "Christian weenie" for putting it off. :)

[Morgan]

~3 days.

[John Stafford]

18 months. Gulp.

[Steve A]

Over a month ... definitely. You know, you usually read about how people try to watch as much as they can in order to get their money's worth.

Not me.

I enjoy watching what I want when I want. Paying for the convenience is good enough for me.

[Manda]

"The League of Gentlemen" series 1: 20 days

I was renting series 2 & 3 from Nicheflix at the time, so series 1 was kept on hand in case I wanted to go back and check something. Of course, within a matter of months I'd bought all three which is what I should have done in the first place.

I've also had "A Very Long Engagement" from Blockbuster.com since July 14, making today day 20. My subscription cancellation e-mail said that outstanding DVDs had to be returned by September 20 (!), so I'm taking my time getting around to it.

[Bill K]

I have "The Man Who Would Be King" at home now. Shipped 9/27/00, Estimated Arrival 9/29/00. I'm glad it was on time. :)

[Ethan]

Two mailing days at most.

[maddymonkey]

I've had a rental for 249 days...and counting! I don't know why exactly. I think I got started watching a bunch of TV series rentals back-to-back and it just sort of languished atop my DVD player. On the plus side, I think it's keeping my average up so that I don't get throttled on my super-fast TV DVD returns.

Myself, the longest I've kept one has been a little bit over two weeks. The biggest problem is when a friend wants to watch something with me and then isn't around for a while.

[Mark Morrow]

Ray. I've had it since July 5th. Not sure why its taking me so long to sit down and watch it. Maybe I'm waiting for the right frame of mind........all I know is this one of the reasons I love Netflix :)

[Joe]

My average is about 2 months per video. I have the 2 out at a time plan with a max of 4.... I've never hit my max yet.

Netflix LOVES ME, and I love Netflix...

Just keep billing my credit card because when I do want to see a DVD I know I have one.

[Jennifer]

Two months for several episodes of Farscape. Mainly because my apartment flooded and I had to move in with my friend. For one thing, my mail was screwed up (about half of it got redelivered to her house, the other half was held for months), and for another, my friend had a 6-year-old and I couldn't watch them with him in the house. So I couldn't watch them OR send them back until I got back into my apartment.

[Phill]

My roommate has had "F for Fake: Bonus Material" out since 05/24/05. I've already watched it, but he's always busy. We have 6 at-a-time broken into three profiles (me, my wife, our roommate) and he is just really slow at watching movies.

[Bubba]

Overnight at the most.

[leunam si a gaf]

I kept "Ghost in the Shell 2" for a month or so. I sent it in for a recall to get the bad "closed caption" subtitles fixed. DreamWorks sent a free mailer to return it to and I got it back in around 3 weeks. The original subs are really crappy. I'm sure the next renter who gets it will appreciate having it fixed. That's one of the great things about online rentals. DreamWorks really screwed up "Ghost in the Shell 2." They've made no real effort to correct all the discs sold. They just do it on an individual basis for people who are not satisfied. The new subs are much better. They are about 1/3 to 1/2 smaller, better translations, and no captioning of sounds.

[baraka]

is that wrong?

[Dave]

Road to Perdition (2002) 10/01/03 02/09/04 That's 131 days. That's about how long it felt watching it, too. Right behind it was So I Married an Axe Murder at 83 days, but I know I watched it more than a few times during those, eek, months.

If you're looking for an easy way to figure out your stats, check out my work-in-progress history/stat checker. http://www-dave.cs.uiuc.edu/cgi-dave/nfstats.cgi Money-wise, it assumes a 3-out plan, but the rental histories/days/averages should be right. You copy/paste your history in ... I didn't like those other stat programs that take your password or RSS code. if you like it, and have feedback on new stats I can generate from the report, please let me know.

I don't feel bad about the long Netflix movies. I still have stuff from the first month I got my TiVo on the TiVo, and that was 2002!

[hsidlihc yrev]

"The original subs are really crappy"

After a few minutes I tuned out the closed captioning. Hoaglund & Aley did a good job subtitling Ghost in the Shell 2. Even if I purchased the movie I wouldn't have bothered replacing it just for the subtitles.