It only took about two years, but a Netflix subscriber finally got to that film he’d put in his instant queue oh so long ago. For movie buff Donald Pepperdine, Staying Alive was truly a sight to behold. “I’d only heard great things about this one,” said Pepperdine. “And after having just seen Expendables 2, being directed by Stallone is a bonus…..and man….Tony Manero dancing his ass off on Broadway…..just wow! I can’t believe it took me so long to finally get to it! I’m on a Travolta kick now so I’ll have to throw the Look Who’s Talking trilogy in my queue and never watch it!” Like many users of the service, Pepperdine often stacks his queue up with titles he has every intention of watching but rarely does.
Staying Alive finally enjoyed by Pepperdine after 2 years in Netflix instant queue purgatory
But how long will Look Who’s talking remain neglected?
Pepperdine’s case is pretty extreme, but still far short of the record held by a subscriber who had the straight to video turd-fest Night Fangs in their queue for 829 days. “I thought Night Fangs would be a great beer drinking film at some point,” said the user. “When my buddies and I actually sat down to watch it, we couldn’t get drunk enough quick enough to wash it from our memories.”
Night Fangs currently holds the record for most days spent in queue unwatched
Queue hoarding has become a very serious problem since the instant service started, and it’s also something Netflix has become acutely aware of. “We work our asses off to get all that direct to video crap and these users just sit on it,” an anonymous Netflix executive proclaimed. “Don’t think we won’t add a hoarding charge to the service for all the layabouts out there!” Stern words of warning for those who might be considering going for a new queue purgatory record. What’s languishing in your Netflix queue folks?
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I share in this very serious disease…
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 10, 2012 6:44 pm
as do I Nick…….as do I. The reason I wrote this silly piece was indeed because I recently watched something that had been in my queue for a LONG LONG time!
I’ve got stuff that’s been in my queue since I joined in 2006.
You know how you can cut a tree open and see what happened to it in certain years based on the rings? My Netflix queue is a lot like that. “Oh, that must have been when I was on a blaxploitation kick. I added that when I was trying to watch Chan Wook-Park films”, etc…
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 11, 2012 7:47 am
wow….the tree is a perfect example of queue neglect! I remember putting a TV show in mine when I opened the account. years later still there and it always reminds me of when I started using Netflix
Twitter: waywardjam
September 12, 2012 1:07 pm
I am so there with you! I’ve been a member since 2002 and I knew I had neglected my queue when I hit the limit. I had to sift through and remove those ten year old movies that I would obviously never watch.
At this point, I’d need a year of daily movie watching just to clear the current contents. But even if I had a year, I’d wind up refilling the queue with just as many as I’d watched.
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 13, 2012 10:49 am
I could probably clear mine out in a few weeks time, but only if I quit adding more!
Twitter: waywardjam
September 15, 2012 2:14 pm
Only a few weeks. I wouldn’t even know how that’d feel to have a NFQ I could burn through that quickly.
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 17, 2012 7:48 am
but I never really stop dumping crap into it, so that’s probably not even an accurate guess. Maybe a couple months at best at this point.
Twitter: ThatbadassJC
September 11, 2012 12:14 pm
Technically i am using my dads instant que, but the effect is still the same. Every s often we watch something from it, but there is still a bunch on there unwatched.
Thankfully i plan to watch a bunch of horror flicks from it for October, so there’s that…
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 11, 2012 12:57 pm
It’s sounding more and more like a lot of people neglect their Netflix queue. Maybe they should put deadlines in as I tend to work better when dealing with one. That way I know for sure that “Staying Alive” will get its timely viewing.
Twitter: ThatbadassJC
September 11, 2012 3:04 pm
I would say i see at least one movie from the que a week.
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 13, 2012 10:51 am
I got through 2 just last weekend, and I’m pretty proud of that!
Twitter: ThatbadassJC
September 13, 2012 11:03 pm
You should be. Also, i am going to jet through the horror on the que for October, so that should help in that regard
I recently discovered that I had put Chaplin’s entire filmography into my DVD queue at one swoop. I have now worked through a good half of it. My past self is very pleased with my present self.
Twitter: MarkusWelby1
September 13, 2012 10:50 am
at least you are making progress!