Ish already has a method to automagically create Amazon links, but I figured that when it comes to movies, the most likely thing you'd want to do after reading about it is to put it in your Netflix queue. So, a new shortcut premieres today:
<netflix>00354611:Casablanca</netflix> will now code to Casablanca. The first part should be the Netflix's movie ID number, which is the number right after "movieid=" in the URL. Note that the ID number for older movies is 6 digits rather than 8 (I guess they realized that they might have more than 999,999 titles some day), so you'll have to add "00" to the beginning if you want it to work.
Boring "here's how it's done" stuff below the fold.
Quite simple, it's just a hack of the Amazon link I did earlier:
<MTAddRegex name="netflix">s|<netflix>(\w{8}):(.*)</netflix>|<a href="http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=$1" title="Rent $2 on Netflix">$2</a>|gi</MTAddRegex>
Basically this looks for the netflix tag, then a 8-character string (which becomes $1), then a colon, then whatever's left ($2).
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