Mr. M and I have discovered the pleasures of the Red Box. You know, the big box by the door of the grocery store that dispenses DVDs. (This is just a brief stop on our way to streaming movies directly from the Internet to the TV. We are gathering the requisite dorknology. Mwah ha ha.)
Saturday night, we rented this for a dollah:
Caper films are a great ride. In general, we love them. Even though we usually have to stop the DVD at least once and figure things out mid-stream. Thank goodness our brains work in complementary ways; one of us has generally tracked what the other one missed.
The part I love is at the end, when all the pieces suddenly come together–like the last 30 seconds of The Usual Suspects, which are doubly fabulous because they contain Kevin Spacey.
Duplicity has the potential for fabulosity, what with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Also Paul Giamatti, of the Perpetually on the Verge of a Stroke School of Acting. It almost gets there, with locations I’d like to visit if I weren’t so enamored of my living room. The premise is clever, and some parts are pretty funny. The music is great.
Sadly, there is, in the end, a meh factor. But, all in all, it’s a fine excuse for cuddling up together on the couch–and it was worth the dollah.
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Does that mean you’ve given up on Netflix?
Au contraire. It means we’ll be streaming Netflix to TV.