Category: Movies

Netflix for iPad

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So last night I reactivated my Netflix account and downloaded the Netflix app on the iPad. It’s a pretty good app. I can watch movies instantly. However, you have to have a wifi connection. It won’t work using the 3G. No big deal. I make my iMac a wifi hot spot and the iPad connects to it. The movies load really fast. If you have Netflix and an iPad, consider getting this app. It’s free!

Last night I watched Sunshine Cleaning. It was okay. I like Amy Adams and her part was pretty good but the movie overall wan’t that great. This one only gets two out of five A’s.

Tonight I watched Breakfast With Scot. I have the book but never got around to reading it. The movie was about a gay couple who take care of boy temporarily. The boy is gay and one of his “fathers” (Tom Cavanah) has a hard time dealing with the boy being gay. The movie basically continues with this storyline. It’s a cute story. I enjoyed it. The only thing I didn’t like was some of the scenes filmed included the microphone. I would think the film editor would see this and cut that out. Check out the picture below. Anyway, it was a decent movie. I’d give it three out of five A’s.

Here’s how creative I am. I don’t have a stand for my iPad to hold it horizontally. So I took a kleenex box and cut a slit in it just enough to hold the iPad horizontally. It worked pretty well.

Watchmen

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I don’t read comic books or graphic novels so I’m not at all familiar with Watchmen. Last night I was flipping through the channels and found Watchmen playing on HBO. I’d only missed the first few minutes….credits mostly…of the movie so I decided we should watch this one. Most of my readers are probably familiar with the movie since it was a big hit last year.

I won’t say that I particularly liked the movie, I just found myself sticking with it to see what happened next. Also, once we saw the big blue penis, we had to stay to see what other things we might see. After a few more scenes, the boyfriend decided the movie was grossly violent and depressing. I wouldn’t go that far. Yes, it was very violent with lots of blood and death but I don’t think it was depressing exactly. What the boyfriend didn’t know was that it was supposed to be an alternate history where superheros help the government win wars and control crime.

I think what kept me watching, besides the blue penis, were all the references to history. Several scenes had the twin towers in the background. There was a Macintosh SE30 painted black on a desk in one scene. There was lots of music from the 60’s and lots of period clothing from different decades. I just kept watching without necessarily following the story. I did enjoy the imagery…the doom and gloom of the Nixon years, the wars, etc. I found it funny they let Nixon win a third term in the alternate history.

Mark over at Running With Blue Sponge has begun rating the movies he sees with sponges ranging from 1 to 5….5 being the best. I’m going to steal his idea and begin to rate the movies I see with A’s. I use the same scale he does. So knowing that, I’ve decided to rate this one three A’s.

Day 219 of 365

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It’s a shame that only 9 republicans voted in favor of Sonia Sotomayor today. I hope it comes back to bite them in the next election cycle.

So sad that John Hughes died today. I loved his movies from the 80s and 90s. I think many people my age remember those movies…Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, etc.

In the process of moving the blog to a new web hosting service, I lost the picture that goes with this post.