Our first DVD from Netflix is here. We were very pleasantly surprised at the speed with which it arrived. We signed up on Sunday, and we received our first movie yesterday. And it fit in our mailbox, so if it we can't pick up our mail when the package window is open, we can still receive a movie.
Ever since we got here, it has been a struggle to entertain our movie-loving teens. The acceptable choices in the theater on base were few and far between. The choices in the rental shop were rarely to our taste.
We had been putting off joining Netflix, hesitating about relying on the military mail system for movie delivery. Then we returned from the States and found the movie rental situation just as awful as it has always been and looking more awful because we had just seen the vast selection of family and classic movies available in retail stores and rental shops back home.
What finally pushed me to join was Patrick's social situation. A group of kids were going out to the movies last weekend, and every choice available, while rated PG-13, was also A-III. He's limited to A-II and lower movies, so he couldn't go. And there wasn't anything in the video store that he thought would appeal to the group and be acceptable to us. So we were stuck. I wanted him to be able to see his friends, but they wanted to see a movie.
Enter Netflix. Now, Patrick can order an acceptable and entertaining movie, invite his friends here, serve food and drink and generally have a good time. That's the plan anyway. Our house was a teen gathering house in Yakima, so I hope it can be here, too. Patrick will have to work at inviting people, but once the pattern is established, it can work really well. He still can't go out to many movies, but at least he won't be left out of teen social life completely.
So that's why I'm happy with Netflix this week. Oh, and I get to watch Fiddler on the Roof tonight. John and Patrick let me choose the first movie. They're nice like that.
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