I did not like "I Am Legend". It was all wrong, especially the ending. For example, why were the darkies attacking humans? They couldn’t possibly need human flesh to survive or they’d all be dead. Fewer humans, less food, no darkies. So why were there so many of them? And then what Will Smith’s character […]
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I don’t usually recommend too many movies but I have to say I thought Home of the Brave was a good movie. It’s about some reservists who come home from Iraq and have a hard time fitting back into their old lives. Frank also thought it was good although he was quick to point out
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If you like stupid comedies and bad horror movies, Planet Terror might be the movie for you. I don’t like stupid comedies nor any kind of horror movie, so I agreed to watch it for Bruce Willis. If, like me, you watch it for Bruce Willis, here’s a tip: watch the movie until you see
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Yesterday I wrote that Blockbuster has lost to Netflix. Today I think the new battle to watch will be Amazon.com Unbox versus Netflix. They both have downloadable movies and tv shows that you can watch on your computer. Right now Amazon has the better solution because it has a much better selection of movies. Amazon
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<A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fstormysblog-20%2F8001%2F38900b97-72c7-4204-bdfd-1c853faa7738&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A> Once again Quentin Tarantino shows that he’s not your average director. His movies may be a tad bit too violent, but nobody will ever call them boring. This one also has some fun loving, tough women. Not deep but not boring. We never did find out why the bad guy wants to
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First off, there are three versions of the Secret by Rhonda Byrne: the book, The Secret. the audiobook, The Secret. This contains many different people’s voices, presumably from the movie version. the movie, The Secret DVD! Most of the reviews you’ve seen are about the movie. I listened to the audiobook version. I think how
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The Wall Street Journal has an article about an interesting phenomena that I’ve experienced – putting a movie on your Netflix queue and then keeping it for months because you never get around to watching it: For Some Netflix Users, Red Envelopes Gather Dust. While it didn’t really explain why people do that, it did
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It sounds like the NetFlix bar codes are for sorting the movies that are outbound from Netflix. From this NPR segment, NPR : Netflix Manuever Draws Legal Fight, I learned that: returned movies are opened by hand and an employee manually checks that the DVD matches the envelope and that there are no visible scratches,
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We put mailed back 3 Netflix movies at the post office Monday at 5pm. I got 3 emails Tuesday at 7:19am saying they had recieved our movies! Not even 24 hours after we mailed them! Amazingly quick. We got our new movies Wednesday – they were waiting for us in our mailbox when we got
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We watched "Inside Man" last Friday on opening day. The movie had a lot of big name actors like Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster combined with an unusual twist. (I would say unique but it’s not unique.) The movie was well done and a change from the usual shoot ’em up actions. I’d recommend it
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