Movie Relief

I have been so sad about Blockbuster lately. I just didn't understand how I was supposed to see newer movies without going to the theater or paying iTunes. I have Netflix through the Wii, but they never have anything. I was getting so sad, and my movie folder was crammed with pages ripped from Entertainment Weekly about all these potentially great movies that I would never get to see. Why can't I watch them, Netflix? I whined. But Netflix answered back: You can. But how, Netflix? Remember, we ATE Blockbuster. Ah, yes. Now I remember. I turned off their mailed DVDs because I had Blockbuster. Now I need to rejoin their mailout plan! I immediately went to their website and added the plan, then started searching for the ten most wanted:

Enough Said
The Crash Reel
20 Feet from Stardom
Rififi
Blue Jasmine
The Wire
Don Jon ("...a bellowing Tony Danza," said the review. How can I miss that?!)
Tim's Vermeer
The Spectacular Now
Pulling John

I now have all those in my queue except for Tim's Vermeer, which I could only save, since it's not out yet. Here's the review that caught me:

http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/lifestyles/at_the_movies/203610/ew-movie-review---tim-s-vermeer-

I started keeping the reviews so I can read them again after I've watched the movie. It was driving me crazy- watching some terrible movie and having no idea why I wanted to watch it. I'm doing this with books too. I just read my first Elmore Leonard, and I'm leaving the review in the book in case someone needs the same encouragement I did. I don't think that will be my last Elmore Leonard.

Anyway, I'm all excited because I just looked up a lot of movies, and was able to add approximately 95% of them. I'm much happier with that than the 5% I was finding on the streaming plan. I'm so relieved that there is still an affordable way for the technologically impaired and the financially challenged to keep up on recent movies!


So it's coming up on 10 and I'm yawning my head off for some reason. Perhaps I should listen and go to bed before the high winds knock the power out, as the National Weather Service expects.