Saturday Night at the Movies … and a map!
A few years back, I gave my wife a Netflix subscription for Christmas, and all my holiday gifts should be so popular. We use it pretty regularly.
So I got a kick out of playing with this little interactive feature courtesy of the NY Times. They break down Netflix orders by zip code for 10 major metro areas, including Atlanta. You can see the most popular Netflix orders in your zip code for 2009 and compare it to those in other zip codes here in Atlanta or in nine other metro areas.
One of the most surprising things was that “Benjamin Button” was the most popular Netflix movie nationwide. Some of the differences were pretty stark. “Mall Cop,” for example, was pretty big OTP, but died ITP. “Frost/Nixon” did big numbers in the Sandy Springs/Vinings corridor, while “Milk,” not surprisingly, was almost exclusively an ITP order.
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josef nix
January 9th, 2010
6:55 pm
HEY, JAY–Thanks for having the movies tonight…
rcs
January 9th, 2010
7:07 pm
i’ll have to pass on the movies in favor of the dallas/philly game.
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:07 pm
Absolutely loved Benjamin Button.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
January 9th, 2010
7:11 pm
Waiting for the Hurt Locker to come out, other that that, nothing on Amazon.
@@
January 9th, 2010
7:12 pm
That’s alright, I’m waiting to catch Saw——–yer
O-:MG!!!!!!!
I don’t normally find blonde men attractive. But…but…
it’s gotta be the dimples and great personality. Brad Pitt?
thppbbtttt
Three Marketeers
January 9th, 2010
7:19 pm
So, @@, what kept you and your neighbors from renting Milk? We need to know. It’s for a client.
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:20 pm
A River Runs Through It
Interview With The Vampire
Legends Of The Fall
Seven
Babel
Tree Of Life
All phenomenal as well. Love Pitt!
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
7:23 pm
I went to the little interactive feature but I guess up here where I live we don’t interest Netflix or the New York Times. Just as well, I’ve never rented a movie anyway.
The other night I was flippin’ around the TV and stumbled across an abomination of a movie called “Southern Comfort”. I only watched a few minutes of it because it was making me nauseous and I can only imagine what a Cajun would have felt seeing such drivel.
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:23 pm
I was thrilled when Sean Penn won the Oscar for “Milk”.
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:24 pm
what timing!!
I got a NetFlix trial offer in the mail today
Gold Miner
January 9th, 2010
7:25 pm
Wow! This stuff is like data. Who needs to do censuses with stuff like this available.
josef nix
January 9th, 2010
7:26 pm
Interesting…I’m a lot more in touch with my neighborhood than I would have thought. Some surprises, thouh, I’d have not thought “Pineapple Express” would have been so popular–hmm, kinda makes me wonder if that really IS what I thought I smelled…the Bond flick didn’t surprise me much, but I kinda expected “Star Trek” to have played better…”Religulous” did about what I expected…the “race” divide is pretty clear, but it does appear that southside viewers are more willing to watch northside movies than vice-versa…But what I really want to know is about those folks in 30336–them’s some movie watching fools and they see ‘em all just about it…
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:27 pm
Dang!!
that Cincinatti kicker will be the lonliest guy in town…..
LA
January 9th, 2010
7:27 pm
Benjamin Button was a boring version of Forrest Gump. Same writer wrote the two movies. Yawn.
Saw Public Enemies last night. Yawn………..
Hurt Locker is fantastic.
@@
January 9th, 2010
7:28 pm
Three Marketeers:
I have no idea what my neighbors are renting. As for Milk, I BUY it at the grocery store. Why the heck would I wanna rent it. Is there a return deposit on the gallon jugs?
jay:
Did you get lost downstairs?
It’s O.K., it happens to the best of us.
(ISH)
LA
January 9th, 2010
7:28 pm
District 9, Inglorious Bastards, Hurt Locker, Paranormal Activity, Star Trek and Up! were my favorite movies of 09.
UP! should win best picture.
LA
January 9th, 2010
7:30 pm
@@, Milk was nothing more than a ploy to help the struggling gay movement.
Bottom line: It didn’t work. California voted it down. Those damn Mormons, as Tom Hanks point out!
josef nix
January 9th, 2010
7:30 pm
Hillbilly–
“Southern Comfort!” What an abomination! In my top 25 for the worst movies of all time….
“Milk?”
Didn’t go when it came out and I wasn’t wrong. A movie for guilt-ridden straight folks…give Penn E for effort, but right up there with “Brokeback Mountain”…
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:30 pm
LA,
You must be the most positive person in the universe….
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:31 pm
Josef and Hillbilly —
I happen to like Southern Comfort (the movie, that is)….
LA
January 9th, 2010
7:33 pm
Midori, no, I just have very high standards for movies.
Senseless in Seattle
January 9th, 2010
7:33 pm
Hey, how come there is a whole demographic, running all the way from North to South, that don’t watch any movies at all?
LA
January 9th, 2010
7:34 pm
For some reason my favorite movies of 09 is “awaiting moderation.”
Maybe it’s because I put the film, Inglorious &^*&**&*& in the mix.
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:34 pm
LA,
It appears those standards dominate in just about every facet of your life.
josef nix
January 9th, 2010
7:38 pm
midori–
Now, the Southern Comfort here? That one I like a lot! Incidentally, Netflix is great! I’m one of those folks whose taste in movies is not mainstream and netflix has a HUGE selection to fit every taste…you can also get those tv shows you missed or would like to see again. We just recently went back and saw all of “Babylon 5″ from start to finish…Unmentionable is the movie nut in this household, he’ll watch anything from the latest Kung Fu kicker to the silent classics with equal fervor and he thinks Netflix is the greatest thing since sliced bread…
We’ll have to disagree on that one!
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:39 pm
Hello Midori!
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
7:39 pm
This movie would make a marble statue squall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSO9agYC9w4
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:42 pm
I’m watching “Sicko” again now. Great documentary.
josef nix
January 9th, 2010
7:45 pm
Hillbilly
“This movie would make a marble statue squall.”
The mere mention of it will make me squall and squawk…it’s part of the curriculum…I dread the day!
Did you get my contribution for the evening from downstairs?
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:46 pm
My thoughts of and prayers for the families of the two Gwinnett teens. So tragic.
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:50 pm
Hi Jenifer!!
LA
January 9th, 2010
7:51 pm
“It appears those standards dominate in just about every facet of your life.”
Do you know me? Nope.
Jenifer
January 9th, 2010
7:51 pm
Midori,
Did you enjoy “Avatar”?
@@
January 9th, 2010
7:52 pm
Hillbilly:
This movie would make a marble statue squall.
AMEN!
My brother is a good bit older than I. I idolized him. His favorite pastime? Making me watch “Old Yeller” and “Where the Red Fern Grows” whenever it came on teewee. I’d blubber all over the place…he’d then ask “What are you crying about?”
Brothers!
thppbbbtt, but still…
He lost a golden retriever not long ago. I think he cried.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
7:53 pm
Josef
Yes I saw your Little Foxes clip, though I’ve never seen the whole movie. Like I’ve said before, I’m not a big movie buff, although I do like to see a good one on occasion. I just have trouble finding movies that I like. I like comedies that are funny, but most aren’t funny to me; I like a good character study and they don’t make many of those now, and I like a historical movie if it’s accurate which they seldom are. I think that’s how notions of history get mixed up a lot. People watch a “based on fact” movie but they don’t know what is fact and what’s dramatic license and most will never look into it to find out.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
7:56 pm
@@
Old Yeller was sad but to me Where The Red Fern Grows is even more so. I’ve buried many a dog but it’s always a little tougher with a hound.
Midori
January 9th, 2010
7:59 pm
Jenifer,
yes, we really enjoyed it. Loved the 3D!!! made everything seem so lifelike!!!
LA,
You really do project a lot of yourself, you know.
@@
January 9th, 2010
8:03 pm
Strong Earthquake Shakes Northern California. 6.5
Yikes!
@@
January 9th, 2010
8:05 pm
A red-bone hound.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
8:09 pm
My Grandpa had a redbone that used to run rabbits all night. I used to love to lay in bed and listen to him run. His ribs were always showing cause he stayed so poor from running all the time.
josef nix
January 9th, 2010
8:13 pm
Hillbilly–
I’m a big fan of Lillian Hellman and of course Bette Davis! But Hellman was a person after my own heart. Her testimony before the House Unamerican Activities Committee is what I’d like to think I would have done in time and place. Her statement “I cannot cut my conscience to fit the fashion of the day” is one of my life’s credos.
@@
I love “Old Yeller” and, yep, do get misty eyed. Ditto “The Yearling” and “Good-bye, My Lady”
DoggoneGA
January 9th, 2010
8:16 pm
“A movie for guilt-ridden straight folks”
Does that mean I’m not guilt ridden? I have no desire to see it, and certainly no desire to spend money to see it.
Mel O. Drama
January 9th, 2010
8:18 pm
They’re watching and listening, you know. To beat them, you got to stay off the grid or else stay plastered all over the grid or else wear one of these tin hats. It’s hard. You can’t just sit back and enjoy a good movie or anything anymore without having someone watch you. There should be laws against that sort of stuff. Peeping tom-tom laws or something.
@@
January 9th, 2010
8:31 pm
Hillbilly:
What kind of hound is it that trees an animal? My Mom’s Dad was reported to have some of the best in Southern Alabama. Rabbits don’t climb trees.
He died way before I was born. I’m guessing once he was gone so were the dogs. Never met either.
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
8:33 pm
@@
Most any kind really, Blueticks, Black & Tans, Treeing Walkers, Redbones, , Feists, most any hound will tree.
RW-(the original)
January 9th, 2010
8:35 pm
What is it about Jay B always trying to pit zip codes against each other? It’s not like we have our own flags and militias or anything.
Anyway, my kids used to rent movies when they were little but I’ve never rented one since. Should I report that to my census taker so my zip code doesn’t lose a tank or something if that post office three streets over invades?
josef nix
January 9th, 2010
8:36 pm
Doggone–
I don’t think guilt-ridden is a category I’d ever put you in! Seriously, though, I felt obligated to give it a shot…blea-a-ah! I was one of the pioneer, front-liners in “the struggle for gay rights,” (he says so modestly) and I recall well Milk and the reaction to his assassination. I also recall Milk beforehand. His “struggle” and my “struggle” were not the same by a long shot and I didn’t then nor do I now think he “spoke well for our people.” He went out of his way to buy into the stereotype and Penn went out of his way to make sure we didn’t miss it…
Hillbilly Deluxe
January 9th, 2010
8:44 pm
It’s not like we have our own flags and militias or anything.
Now y’all do know that all Georgia counties are divided into Militia districts? And unless the law has been changed in recent years, if you’re a male between 18-45 I think is the ages, and you’re not active military or National Guard, as a Georgia resident you are a member subject to call up. I think the last call-up was 1864, but there were several before that. Maybe a lawyer out there can fill us in.
@@
January 9th, 2010
8:49 pm
But rabbits don’t run up trees. Now I’ve heard that people eat possums, and I’ve seen them in trees….squirrels? Do hunting dogs tree squirrels? I know some people eat squirrels too.
Raccoons? Do people eat raccoons? Please tell me they don’t eat raccoons.
DoggoneGA
January 9th, 2010
8:52 pm
“I don’t think guilt-ridden is a category I’d ever put you in!”
Thank you. I have my guilt problems, but they tend to be more personal. I don’t generally feel guilt for the actions of others, but I *do* try to learn from them and to do what I can to keep them from happening again.
One of those things I learned was how NOT to blame the victim of a crime. And it does rile me when others do, even if they don’t realize that is what they are doing.