Back to School

Ok so I have a legitimate excuse this time for not having a blog post since last week. Going back to school has taken up a lot of my time, packing and getting all settled in has taken a little while but now that I'm all setup and maybe I'll be able to get back to blogging more often(I keep saying that but I have lingering doubts). Anyway, I just recently bought netflix since I'm not getting cable this semester and I can now stream shows and movies right to my computer. Before I bought netflix I started watching Arrested Development on hulu because I was bored and heard from somewhere(everywhere) that it was a great series, and then I got netflix and it was on there too(YAY FOR NO COMMERCIALS). So far the show is really awesome, I'm like 13 episodes into the first season and don't really see why it was canceled yet, but soon I may find out.



It's been tough trying to actually come up with something to blog about. I feel like I've had a sort of writing block for a couple weeks, just barely being able to come up with the above paragraph. But now that I'm back on campus I also get access to free movies which will allow me to review more movies like I've been wanting to do. And starting tomorrow I plan on going to see Greenberg and reviewing it either tomorrow or on Wednesday(depending on when I have some free time. So look for another post in the next couple of days that actually has a center of focus to it. The movies are going to be a couple months past the initial release date, but what the hell, they're free.

Spoiler Alert(Bruce Willis is a ghost)

As I sit here writing this post, I'm also watching Shutter Island and I can't focus on writing at all. PREPARE FOR GROSS AMOUNTS OF MISSPELLINGS(I actually misspelled misspellings at first but didn't want to look like an idiot) AND GRAMMAR ERRORS. This movie is definitely worth checking out if you haven't already, even if someone ruined the plot for you(if so punch that person). I'm not a big fan of people spoiling movies, but there's a certain length of time that a person has to see the movie before everyone should know the plot. Like if someone hasn't seen The Sixth Sense and still doesn't know that BRUCE WILLIS WAS A GHOST THE WHOLE TIME that's their own damn fault for being so slow on the pickup.

The look on that one person's face as I just ruined The Sixth Sense

I completely understand not seeing a movie for like 2 years, maybe even 3 but come on, over a decade get with the program and update your netflix or blockbuster queue more often. But there are some movies, however, that are impossible to spoil no matter how hard you try. One of the more recent ones that comes to mind is Inception. That movie has so many twists and turns and such an indefinite ending that I could tell you the entire plot of the film and you would still be confused(but I'm not gonna do that though because 2 years hasn't passed, BUT WHEN IT DOES, prepare for some confusion).

As you've seen in the past couple of paragraphs I love The Internet Movie Database, and can wonder around that website for hours. But one think that's a little annoying is the message boards. Sometimes I might go there before I see a movie and look thru the message boards to see if it's any good but the chances of finding spoilers there is close to 100, even just in the titles of the messages. DON'T GO TO THE MESSAGE BOARDS OF A MOVIE YOU WANT TO SEE LOOKING FOR NO SPOILERS, because you'll find'em and then you'll be all disappointed about a movie being ruined. At least that's the way I would feel, since I try and see as many movies as possible.

Flibbenflarben

Finally got that song out of my head from the other day but today, GREATER PROBLEMS AROSE. I was trying to watch a movie that we had rented from blockbuster and about 15 minutes into the movie it just stopped. It was a point where something extremely important to the plot takes place, so it's not like I can just fast forward and forget about it. Someone managed to scratch the disc at just the right place where I have to actually replace the disc to continue watching.


That was pretty much my face when that happened. I had gotten just far enough in where I was kinda drawn in to the movie, but I had a feeling that the movie wasn't gonna be that good. So now I was in the situation where I could go replace the disc at blockbuster and finish the movie or just send it back in for another movie altogether. It was starting to become a lot of work for something that probably would not pay off in the end. I finally got it to play all the way through on my xbox somehow, but that still begs the question of, WHO THE HELL SCRATCHES DISCS THAT BAD?

For a dvd to stop playing like that there has to be some major scratches on it. It's like someone decide to take the dvd outside and rub it on the pavement before they sent it back in, or possibly use it as a frisbee. I'm sure everyone else has had the same experience with one movie that they've rented. The determination to get the dvd to actually start playing correctly all depends on how good the movie is, or is supposed to be. The movie by the way was, Brothers and the payoff was not worth the effort put in. It was still good, just not worth trying to find the exact time at which the movie stops skipping.