For as long as I can remember my brother, Andy, and I have loved quizzing each other on movie quotes. See if you know any of these from the 80’s:
“You’re not dying. You just can’t think of anything good to do.”
“Dead or alive, you're coming with me.”
“You keep using that word, I do not think you know what it means.”
(Answers are at the bottom)
Andy and I liked the same movies growing up so this always helps when trying to figure out the movie. Back then it would have been nice to write down some things about each movie as we watched them so when I saw that one of my favorite notebook companies came out with a Netflix notebook, it was an instant buy for me!
Baronfig teamed up with Netflix to make a notebook and pen combo that surpirsed me for how much I liked it. The act of filling out the premade page layouts was helpful to think more about the movies I know and love.
The pages include the following:
Title:
Year:
Director
Actors/People
Synopsis
Acting
Dialogue
Editing
Originality
Plot
Theme
Cinematography
Directing
Effects
Pacing
Soundtrack
Entertainment
Rating
Overall
I was never in a film study course, but this feels like being back in school and learning about the movies in a deeper level.
I added the pen loop and always add them to notebooks. I get mine from Amazon
The Notebook
The notebook is the same design and quality as all the confidant styles and has 192 pages with the bookmark and elastic closure. Aside from the first guide page explaining the genre icons and the last few pages that are for ‘Top 10’ lists, the notebook is filled with the Stream Log pages that you can see in the image above.
While I do like these single-page layouts, there is a lot missing from them. Most notable is the theme of the movie. This is a huge omission in the notes section and while you can fill it in next to the smiley/sad face rating, I do think they should have areas to write in your own ideas. Other items I think they missed are; favorite part, favorite actor/actress, and songs or music.
I can’t figure out why they didn’t do a two-page spread to help fill in everything and give more room for notes and especially a Quotes page to help remember the good ones!
One other thing that caught my attention that I didn’t see before with Baronfig and their own pens, is the ghosting, or pen show-through, on the backs of the pages. The ink that Baronfig uses is a heavy line of gel ink from the Schmidt Easy Flow 9000 refills and while it is a smooth, and highly popular gel-ink, it is a very dark line on the back of the page.
Okay one more thing, why not send a red ink refill with the pen?!
The Pen
Like all Baron Fig Squires, this one does not disappoint. The bright ‘Netflix’ Red color is a nice addition to my collection and I like the playbar design they came up with along the side.
In the past Baronfig has had some trouble making the twist mechanism to extend the pen point perfectly line up with the body. On this pen there is barely a gap between the two parts and they have done an amazing job correcting this.
My only gripe with the pen is that it doesn’t quite match the darker red notebook and suspect this is just from the difference of materials. Not a big deal but one that I noticed.
In Summary
Overall I am happy with the notebook and I have enjoyed using this notebook to keep track of the movies I am watching, but I just think they made some compromises with this notebook and pen combo. Perhaps I am just being grumpy but I feel like there are a lot of things they could have done better with this collaboration.
If you are still interested in checking them out, they are still for sale on Baronfig’s site for:
I would not order these from Netflix as my order took months for them to do….nothing. They ignored my order and so I finally canceled it and went right to Baronfig.com
While I was writing this article I found this movie about how Netflix came to be called Netflix vs The World. It’s available on….Amazon?
Thanks for checking out my review and please let me know if I missed anything!
Mike :)
Quote Answers:
“You’re not dying. You just can’t think of anything good to do.” Answer - Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
“Dead or alive, you're coming with me.” Answer - Robocop 1987
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” Answer - The Princess Bride 1987
