I don’t know…this seems pretty iffy to me. I’ve never once used, or heard anyone else use, “Netflix” as a verb. I honestly don’t think it’s entered our lexicon to that extent. The argument, on the other hand, that “Google” has entered the lexicon in this way I find more convincing.
The link, that I found through Hacking Netflix.
Also found through HN, Sarah Polley’s fascinating look back at the childhood trauma of filming The Adventures of Baron Munchausen:
I do know in retrospect that many things that terrified me were not as terrifying as they seemed then…and I’m pretty sure I know which shots were the double (specifically an overhead shot where little Kiran [stunt double Kiran Shah] is running like the graceless 35-year-old midget he was. I was pretty bitter about this loping run being attributed to me in my girly teens). However — it does raise a question of what I remember vs. what happened. It’s like this with photographs. Whole memories get built around them, which is sometimes a reflection of a general sense of things as they felt at the time, as opposed to what actually occurred.
So I’m willing to accept that my impressions may have been unlike what an adult might have. I think that’s sort of the point. It wasn’t a good environment for a kid because there were things that could easily be interpreted as dangerous without actually being dangerous. I think it’s harder to make those distinctions as a child, and I didn’t have a lot of support in trying to make them. The really traumatic things that happened are distinct memories that gave me nightmares well before the film came out, so confusion between what the stunt double was doing as opposed to me didn’t really play into my bad memories, I don’t think.