Neopi's Den

What a wonderful movie.  Netflix had been suggesting this movie to me for several months now but I kept passing it over.

• Sam - Sean Penn
• Lawyer - Michelle Pfeiffer
• Lucy - Dakota Fanning

This movie is about a man who has lost his daughter and tries to get her back from the system.  He, Sam, is developmentally challenged and Lucy's mother left them shortly after Lucy's birth.  The story is about their struggle and their love.  Five stars!  Thanks Netflix, kinda scary how well they know me.

Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/I_Am_Sam/60021799

Space travel has always interested me.  I guess growing up in my generation it was a fascination of a lot of people.  My dreams of walking in space will never be fulfilled so I've taken to watching anything I can on man's progress into space.  This show, NASA Unauthorized is just an amalgam of all of the other shows I've seen.  Same footage same words same tributes to the fallen few that have died while heading to or coming back from missions in orbit.  I'm not sure where the "Unauthorized" part of the title comes in to play.

Anyway, if you're a space cadet..I mean space head like me then it's worth the watch.  I gave it three out of five stars.

Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/NASA_Unauthorized/70037424

When I saw the title for this movie I was thinking of something quite different than it turned out to be.  It was pretty good for the most part.  The movie had been in my instant queue for months and finally today I decided to watch it.  Its basically about a group of guys that unsuspectingly create a time machine...then use it.

Here is what Netflix wrote about it:

Quite by accident, an engineer builds a machine that can transport the user back in time. But his discovery comes with an ominous caveat: At the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface. David Sullivan and Shane Carruth co-star in this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, a film whose inventive narrative blends a patchwork story line with overlapping streams of dialogue that help build tension and suspense.

Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Primer/60034782

 I gave it three stars.

Ok now that you've stopped laughing...  I've never actually sat down and watched this movie.  Yes, I realize it's been around a lot longer than I have and probably been on TV quite a few times too but I can't remember actually watching the movie.  I know I've seen bits and pieces but anyway...ok stop giggling, I know people who have never seen Star Wars.  Yah!

The movie was pretty good for a morality tale, it basically said ... With a little love and patience most anything is possible.

I looked the movie up in IMDB and was surprised to see that it was released in 1943. 

Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/My_Friend_Flicka/60026519

While playing a video game I had on in the background a discovery show called Prototype this.  More than once I found myself looking at the other monitor to watch the show rather than what I was doing in the game.  Yes, I died.  I found myself at the graveyard wondering what happened.

Anyway, in the shows I watched they built the "Get up and Go" a bed, shower and pda all built into one.  I don't think it will be very marketable but it's a neat idea.  Nice to see something from the Jetsons actually working in real life.  And yes it did seem to work.  They also built a truck that could park itself side ways, lift itself over other cars and park over another car.  They used some special lift wheels that could move in all directions.  Neat stuff.

Netflix - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Prototype_This_Season_1/70124133

This is a movie that Netflix said I'd love.  I'm not so sure that love is what I'd call it but it was cute.

The story they told about the girl who likes a guy and doesn't like him but they end up together anyway is getting old.  They told the story well but the end was expected.  Or was it, "You'll never know!"  Well unless you watch the movie.  = )

Netflix - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Ugly_Truth/70103759

Funny thing about this movie, I've seen it twice before but when adding it to my Netflix queue I didn't realize I had seen it before.  Oh well, it was a good re-watch.

Russell Crowe makes a really good bad guy.  Definitely worth giving it a watch if you haven't seen it yet...or in my case re-watching it.

It is about a rancher in the old west that is about to lose his farm when he crosses paths with a notorious bad guy.

Trailer - http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/310toyuma/

Netflix - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/3_10_to_Yuma/70065114

Last night I watched "The Blind Side."

I tell you wut, that movie had me crying at the end.  And then to find out that it was based on a true story.  Makes me think there are some good people in this world.  Too bad they are so few and far in between.

Anyway, if you don't know the movie is about a boy, a rather large boy, who is homeless and out on the streets.  A man, I think his father but I'm not sure, got him into a school private school through the school's coach.  The coach was hoping the boy would be playing some fooseball because he was so big.  The boy's name is Michael but people called him "Big Mike", he didn't like it though.

Anyway, one rainy day Michael was walking in the rain and a family on their way home saw him and offered to take him home with them. 

See it if you want to know the rest. 

Excellent story!  

Netflix - http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Blind_Side/70119811

Trailer - http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/theblindside/

Last year I canceled my cable.  It was getting way to expensive for the dreadful service I was receiving and here in this apartment building I have no choice in providers.  The apartment managers won't allow a satellite on the roof and only Charter Communications services the cable from the street (I guess) to the apartment building. 

They kind of got you by the short and curlies if you want to watch live TV.  Anyway, I was short on funds last year and decided that in an attempt at saving a few bucks I'd stop watching television.  I called them up and said "I don't need you anymore."  I still have my inter net through them, again only because I don't have a choice but I saved $118 that first month.  Now its less than that because they raised my inter net bill up to about what my cell bill is.  o.O

One of the main issues that pushed me into getting rid of the cable, other than the money I was spending, was I had three cable boxes die on me in less than a month.  One repair guy said they were all brand new.  The next guy said that they are all refurbished and the guy after that didn't seem to know or care.  They all seemed nice and the boxes worked before they left but not for long after they left.  I think the boxes are re issued without any kind of quality control.

I noticed that since I don't have television I've been watching a lot of movies.  Most of them through Netflix's instant queue.  Hulu is awesome for those shows I just couldn't give up.

I realized the other day that I've rated over 1200 movies and shows in the Netflix selection list and I don't rate anything that I haven't seen...that's a lot of time to spend in front of some screen!  Anyway, I'm going to start listing them here in the blog and give my thoughts on them.

~N