Books and Movies, January 2011

[frostflake]

Movies
The Freshman
Fresh
Free Money
Foreign Correspondent
The Formula

Of these, Fresh and Foreign Correspondent are the best. In his commentary on Fresh, the director made the point that we often look forward to the violent scenes in movies the way we look forward to musical numbers. They're often the best edited and put-together bits and they'

Comments

[mellofellow13]

Is there some manner of list that you are using for your movie selections? Or was this month brought to you by the letter F?

[frostflake]

For a while, I made a running list of movies I wanted to see, in alphabetical order. When I started using Netflix, I added them in the same order. I've been trying to get the movies I added later into some kind of order, like alphabetizing every chunk of 100 movies, but it's not working so well.

[mellofellow13]

Hahaha - my movies are alphabetized on the shelf but my Instant Queue is a huge mess. How many movies are in there for you to be talking in terms of 100's anyway?

Also, feel free to watch any movie in this list if you haven't already (my collection, mostly all recommended viewing): http://www.blu-ray.com/community/collection.php?member=MelloFellow13

Or better yet, come down to Atlanta and join us for one of my movie nights!

[frostflake]

I'm at the 500 limit. I'm not sure how; there are some tv shows, but not all that many.

I definitely should come down to Atlanta. I'm glad you have Stranger than Fiction. It's one of my favorite unknown (little-known) movies.