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I’m like you. I got grandfathered into their old 2-disks-a-month plan that costs 5 dollars. I do enjoy putting movies on my queue and then getting pleasantly surprised a few months later when I receive them.

Too bad their fantastic DVD catalog dwindles every year. Soon it will be reduced to not much bigger than their streaming catalog.

I reupped for a while earlier in the pandemic. Their back catalog has withered though and whether it's COVID or just my tastes I dropped it when I wasn't finding a lot I wanted to watch.

It has withered. I think as old discs crack in the mail they are no longer replacing them.

I do like lists like this that remove the illusion of choice.

I feel like they represent a consensus of sorts as to the "great" or influential or somehow representative films.

I am looking forward to completing the list to restore choice (ha ha), but I can tell you there are "genres" (dislike that term) of films that I would not have otherwise even known to explore before.