Friday, July 30, 2004

Friday movie update

I went over to the dark side last night. I went to the Hollywood Video store. I had coupons: .99 each for five-day rentals and I could rent three movies per coupon. They expire tomorrow. I had to use one! I rented Hellboy, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, and Bubba Ho-Tep. Hellboy was the only one not on my Netflix queue. I wanted to get Before Sunrise, so I could see Before Sunset this weekend, but I was distracted by the "New Releases" before I got that far. I'll be returning Hellboy and Aileen tonight.

Aileen was very disturbing. I pitied her far more than I would have pitied a male serial killer. The movie portrayed her as a product of her upbringing, rather than a monster. She even says in the movie that she was not "special enough" to qualify as a true serial killer.

Hellboy is a demon, raised by humans, who goes straight. He becomes a superhero, working for the FBI. That unconventional premise, and a quirkie sense of humor, keep it from being an ordinary superhero movie.

That's funny. I just noticed the coincidence that I viewed two movies about demons in the same evening.

4 comments:

  1. I adore Hollywood Video's 99¢ coupons. The last batch I received came in April. I had used them all by mid-May, a few weeks before they expired, when I saw another set of coupons poking out of an abandoned mailbox. I overdosed on movies in those two weeks, I can tell you.

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  2. Cool blog you have here, I'll have to return. I've been a netflix customer for about six months and I love them. No more standing in a dreaded long line at Blockbuster on Friday nights. I can't believe I didn't become a customer sooner.

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  3. No, life is too short.

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  4. I'm a huge Netflix fan, but the kids sometimes want to stop and rent a video... boy do I not miss the rental store! The selection was terrible and of course we forgot to take it back on time, so it ended up costing even more than I didn't want to spend!!

    Yay Netflix!

    dd
    http://www.jadbury.com/

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