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Flixster has a staggering amount of content. I played around with the site this morning and lost a good hour of productivity browsing through reviews and movie listings.
Imagine Netflix and IMDB mashed together and mixed with user generated pages and you'll have the basic idea. The most addictive thing on the site is the never-ending movie quiz, which is sure to suck you in after a few questions.
It may just be me, I'm a bit of movie freak, but I loved Flixster. With all the hallmarks of a successful social networking site, seamless integration with your existing MySpace page, YouTube hosted movie previews and skinnable user pages, Flixster has enormous potential.
I've always been disappointed in Netflix's offerings when it comes to reviewing and sharing movie reviews and now I find that I'm disappointed that Flixster doesn't rent movies. But it seems like a fairly obvious step for Flixter to eventually partner with movie studios for sales, rentals, downloads, promotions and of course advertisements.
[1]: http://www.flixster.com/ "Flixster.com"
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