May 24, 2006

Movie Time

I had time to watch a couple of movies over the weekend. My brother-in-law came over and we watched Following, Christopher (Memento) Nolan's first movie, and Die Hard (my favorite brainless action movie) to show off my sound system. I enjoyed Following, which was a very short, black and white film about double and triple crosses. The twists felt a tad forced, but it was still fun following (nyuk nyuk) the plot. It had a problem a lot of these crime capers have, in that the whole plan seems far too convoluted for what turns out to be a simple mob killing. But it definitely played lots of games with time, and foreshadows his brilliant work in Memento.

Following was a Netflix rental. I've been using Netflix since 2002, although I did stop for about six months when the mailing turn around time became unacceptable. But then they opened a new distribution center in Worcester and now the times are pretty impressive. For instance, I dropped Following in the mail about 1pm Monday, just before collection time, and I got an email yesterday (Tuesday) saying they received it, and now my return film, The Seventh Seal is already winging its way to me. Now that's impressive!

If you are a Netflix member, drop me an email so we can be Friends. With Netflix Friends, you can get recommendations from what others are watching, and see how they are rating films. I've rated 468 films, but a lot of my recent viewing hasn't been rated yet. I've let my movie reviewing blog, The Incredible Brightness of Seeing lag behind lately. I try not to rate them at Netflix until I've written a review for Brightness, and so it lags even further behind.

I have the "Three DVDs Out" Netflix plan, and the DVDs I have out, including the aforementioned The Seventh Seal also include the double feature Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, both the original James Whale productions and Ju-on: The Grudge. I've watched, and thoroughly enjoyed, Frankenstein, and started to watch Bride but ran out of time and haven't been back. Not sure why I have Ju-on, as I'm not much of a horror fan. But I think I got on to it via the Scariest Movies of All Time list I posted a while back, where it came in second to The Thing. Maybe I'll reserve this movie slot for working my way backwards through the list. I can add 28 Days Later... as a movie I've since watched on that list. I do love "apocalyptic" movies, that's for sure.

The top ten in my queue are:

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