Karen and I love movies. We see lots of them. We still watch the occasional movie on television but the density of commercials in the last half-hour of any show is so maddening that we try to avoid those movies if we possibly can. There is still one on occasionally, especially on Turner Classic Movies, and we will watch them from time to time.<\/p>\n
We used to go to the video store, but we did it so seldom that when we got there we always argued about which movie to get. Karen liked to watch ones with intense interpersonal drama, while I, like most men, preferred action movies. It was just hard to pick one or two movies without one of them seeming like a mistake.<\/p>\n
So we decided to try Netflix. We bought the basic plan, $10 a month for unlimited movies, one at a time. If we watch what were doing we can get up to about eight movies a month that way. Since we started watching the movies in May we have seen 56. <\/p>\n
Netflix has a system for letting you rate the movies that you order. It’s a standard five star system with one star meaning bad and five stars meaning great. Since we wouldn’t order movies if we didn’t think we would like them, we like just about everything that we’ve ordered. As such we give those movies three stars. Only just a few movies got anything but three stars.<\/p>\n
We also still see movies in the theater. I didn’t keep track of these so I can’t list them for you, but over the year to come, I will be keeping track of those as well. <\/p>\n
I hope to have a movie review entry in this blog about once a month. Maybe that will help you to see some shows that you otherwise wouldn’t.<\/p>\n
Here is a list of the movies we got in 2006:<\/p>\n
Madagascar
\n Zathura
\n Walk the Line
\n Mrs. Henderson Presents
\n Hotel Rwanda
\n Breakfast on Pluto
\n Songcatcher
\n Beyond the Sea
\n Ladies in Lavender
\n Revelation
\n The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
\n Capote
\n Alexander: Director’s Cut
\n Broken Flowers
\n Corpse Bride
\n A Mighty Wind
\n The Brothers Grimm
\n Flightplan
\n Jarhead
\n The Island
\n Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
\n Kingdom of Heaven
\n National Treasure
\n Red Eye
\n Chicken Little
\n Serenity
\n Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia
\n Amelie
\n The Passion of the Christ
\n Born Into Brothels
\n The Tunnel
\n Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut
\n Poirot: Death in the Clouds
\n Girl with a Pearl Earring
\n The Purple Rose of Cairo
\n Zelig
\n Farewell My Concubine
\n Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
\n Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
\n Blow Up
\n The Dinner Game
\n The Who: The Kids Are Alright
\n Candleshoe
\n 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
\n Quest for Fire
\n Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
\n Tom Jones
\n Gods and Generals
\n MirrorMask
\n Open Range
\n The Order
\n Underworld
\n Uncovered
\n Paycheck
\n Spartan
\n Enigma <\/p>\n
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