'Life of the Party'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
It's been years since I've seen Branagh's Henry V so I don't recall him very well, but this photo of the presumably young Robert Stephens doesn't resemble Toby that much other than the same impression of lanky physicality.
Great Shakespearian actors and the affinity to bottle seem to go hand-in-hand.
I saw Capote over the weekend. I really liked it, which surprised me since I really don't like Philip Seymour Hoffman. He was great in this, which was no small feat considering the schtick he had to employ. Great job. Catherine Keener (the reason I went to the movie) was wonderful as usual.
Did you guys get the Netflix email about the class action suit settlement?
Apparently you get your account upgraded for free for one month?
Did you guys get the Netflix email about the class action suit settlement?
Apparently you get your account upgraded for free for one month?
I got that e-mail, haven't decided what to do yet.
I got it too, and I won't actually watch one more movie a month, and I don't want Netflix to spend more money on me, so I won't bother.
Make sure you downgrade before the end of the month or they'll start charging you for the upgrade.
I went ahead and did it. Partly for the upgrade, but also because recently I've had problems with dvds supposedly sent out on the same day getting to me 5 days apart. Or dvds that don't seem to get to Netflix on time. They ask that you wait x number of days after sending dvds back before you list them as missing, and twice recently I've waited that time period and was getting ready to list them as missing when I got an email from Netflix saying they'd recieved the dvds.
I'm not going to be cancelling my subscription anytime soon, but they haven't been living up to their advertising.
I think I'll stay with the bargain basement plan, what with having kept Reason to Believe for a solid month before viewing it. I signed up for the wider-than-Blockbuster selection and the fact that the monthly cost is less than I pay in late fees when using local video stores.
askye - that was totally my worry. That you would get the free upgrade and then next thing you know -- be paying for it.
Also, I really haven't been going through my list. Well, perhaps after November sweeps.
Interview with Harold Ramis, where he talks about the unmade Ghostbusters 3, which sounds really, really cool.
Ghostbusters 2 was such a disappointment, I find myself not even wanting to give #3 a chance... even though I adore the first movie and overall, Ramis has a good track record.
