I’m bad at watching movies. Not “bad” in the way that Auburn is bad at football, of course, any moron can sit down in front of a TV and look at it, but rather I just don’t watch very many movies. This has become painfully apparent in my move to Atlanta.
Apparently, and I did not know this, people talk about movies that they’ve seen both as a form of small talk and as a “getting to know you” exercise. I can probably count on one hand the number of movies I’ve seen in the past two or three years.
So I’ve re-activated my netflix account. I’m on the super-cheap one now — one movie at a time, two per month max — until I figure out if I actually watch the movies when they’re sent. The problem is that while I had built up a rather impressive queue when I joined in law school, it disappeared when I deactivated my account, so I have to start from scratch.
So this is the part where you pretend like I’ve seen virtually nothing that’s come out over the past four or five years and you recommend movies that might not suck. Okay? Ready…
…go.
Movies I’ve seen since 1L year that did not suck:
Breach
Knocked Up
Talladega Nights
The Simpsons
Juno
Superbad
No Country for Old Men
Michael Clayton
I have a similar problem and do not watch movies at home because of my abnormally low attention span. So…what I do with Netflix is get DVDs of TV shows and watch those instead. 20-40 minute bites are prefect for me. I suggest doing that.
Dude… bittorrent. Srsly.
What Kevin said. Just find movie DL while at work, come home and watch. Done
You people (Splenda excluded) are terrible at answering the question asked.
I’m not going to bittorrent the movies when there’s a cheap alternative to copyright infringement. Also: thanks to Comcast’s new bandwidth cap, I’d rather not use it all up on stuff I’m going to watch once and then delete.
Get Smart was better than expected.
And don’t forget to hit up Zack and Miri in theatres. Kevin Smith FTW.
I’ve mostly been seeing movies during free-preview screenings, some of which are great and others… meh. Still these are some of the good ones
(I’m so going to agree with Ken re: Zack and Miri)
So many movies… so little time:
Across the Universe
The Dark Knight
Blindness
40-Year-old Virgin
X-men (and sequels)
Hmmm… then my mind blanks. I’m sure there’s other good ones but that’s what I’m able to think of at this juncture.
You watch all of these and I’ll give you more:
Batman Begins
American Beauty
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Catch Me if You Can
Chasing Amy
Clue
The Departed
Donnie Darko
The Graduate
No County for Old Men
Fargo
Glangarry Glen Ross
Mystic River
The Pianist
All Tarantino
Schindler’s List
Spanglish
Road to Perdition
Sin City
Tombstone
Perfect Storm
A Beautiful Mind
21 Grams
O, Brother Where Art Thou?
You could also watch Thank You for Smoking and send it back.
High School Musical 1, 2 and 3. You know you want to!
I’m going to second J’fer’s list. She has some great stuff on it.
Pan’s Labyrinth
Highly recommend…
Stranger than Fiction
Spanglish
See you next month.
Recent:
Dan in Real Life
Untraceable
Knocked Up (I saw someone else say this, but I *have* to second it)
Old School:
The General’s Daughter
8MM
Devil’s Rejects (watching House of 1000 Corpses first helps, but is not required)
The Italian Job
Troy
The Family Stone