Results of recent media exposure

“Now You Know“: slow but usually amusing build to a disappointing conclusion; the journey is more amusing than the destination. Good to watch for fans of View Askew, but feel free to bail before the “big reveal”.

“Blood Diamond“: OK this was over-long, and at times followed the annoying racial-buddy-movie cliche of, “white guy holds forth on how he’s not a racist then 5 minutes later calls a black guy the n-word”. It was very well shot, though, and irritated the shit out of the diamond industry, which is a plus. It actually mentions the other shame of the diamond industry, that of false scarcity, which is pretty cool. Also it lacks notable Jennifer Connelly boobage.

“Flightplan“: OMG SUCK.

“Slither“: Pretty damn good schlock horror flick.

I jumped ship from Netflix to Blockbuster, for 2 reasons. 1, Netflix has been fucking me raw with return times. In Fairfax, I’d return a movie Monday and have another by Wednesday; in Ashburn, I’d return a movie Monday and maybe - maybe - have another by Thursday (but more likely, Friday). This is unacceptable. 2, my gym is a few doors down from a Blockbuster retail store, so it is easier to take advantage of the return-online-movies-to-the-store thing since I’m right there.

The downside of Blockbuster Online is their web interface is a little less clean than Netflix, which makes it a little painful on my shit connection; and their search engine blows goats. A search on “House” returns no popular movies in the first page: not “House of 1,000 Corpses”, nor “House, MD” or any other ostensibly popular (read: recent) results.