Netflack

As I type, Mean Streets is working its way through the USPS to my mailbox, which means that I've finally watched the twenty movies I listed in my last Netflix entry, and it's time for me to write another entry where I chirp on about how much I like Netflix, and list out the next twenty movies I'm getting.

I don't know how you feel, but I've been looking forward to this for months now.

Many months. It's been almost seven months since that last Netflix entry, so if you'll do the math, I haven't been watching movies at a rapid pace. Lawrence of Arabia (three-and-a-half-hour movie!) sat on the coffee table for almost three months before Liz and I worked up the time and gumption to watch it (not all at once, of course).

Also, a few months ago, I switched to Netflix's cheapest plan. I only have two movies out at a time, and I only get four rentals a month. For a while, I was barely able to watch those four movies, but lately (mysteriously coinciding with Penny starting to sleep through the night again, FINALLY), I've been able to fit more movies into my nighttime schedule. I've got one rental left for this "month" that ends on the 8th, and I'm probably going to find time to watch The Maltese Falcon this week. I'm considering stepping back up to the three out at a time, unlimited rentals, but if I do, I worry that I'll be jinxing the whole sleeping through the night thing. Getting at least six uninterrupted hours of sleep is heaven. I woke up on my own (no alarm clock, no baby) at 7:45AM last Saturday, and I felt incredible.

But anyway... the list of twenty.

The Night of the Hunter
12 Angry Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Man Who Would Be King
Rob Roy
The Count of Monte Cristo (2 discs)
Road to Perdition
Mallrats
Beauty and the Beast
Do the Right Thing
For All Mankind
Scotland, PA
The Crossing Guard
The Pledge
Drumline
The Cider House Rules
Zero Effect
The Boondock Saints
Equilibrium

Oh, yeah! This is the first batch of movies where, after One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, most of the movies were added one at a time, after I read something or someone recommended that movie to me, so it's a really varied, sort of weird set of movies.

The 2-disc Count of Monte Cristo is in French, stars Gerard Depardieu, and will probably either be great or stupendously awful.

Road to Perdition is the first movie I added to my queue that was still out in theaters. That was a long, long time ago.

I figure I've seen all the other Kevin Smith movies and liked them, I should at least give Mallrats a shot.

The Beauty and the Beast is the black and white live-action French version of the story, shot in 1946. I feel snooty just listing it here.

For All Mankind is footage shot on the Apollo missions, with narration by the Apollo astronauts. It's really short. I may watch it twice. Or three times.

Scotland, PA is the story of Macbeth, set in a diner in the 1970s. Yes, seriously.

The Crossing Guard and The Pledge are two movies I added at the same time, both are directed by Sean Penn and star Jack Nicholson. I'm curious to see them. And who'd have predicted Sean Penn's career path would have been anything like this, back in the '80s. Anyone?

Anyway... until next time!

Posted by Matt at April 20, 2004 09:31 PM