{"id":3445,"date":"2007-07-17T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2007-07-17T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T23:10:13","slug":"reflections-on-my-netflix-queue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/17\/reflections-on-my-netflix-queue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections On My Netflix Queue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: minor spoilers for all of the movies and shows mentioned, below; possibility of major spoilers in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n

X-Men 3: The Last Stand<\/a>: Based on some excoriating reviews I read of X3 around the time of its release, I was expecting this to be, like, Daredevil<\/em> bad. Well, it’s kind of a mess, and contains a big, Brian Singer-shaped hole at its center, but doesn’t do too bad of a job of wrapping up the trilogy (especially since it makes it clear that the trilogy is, in fact, at an end). Plus, there’s worse ways to waste two hours than lookin’ at Famke Janssen.<\/p>\n

The Station Agent<\/a>: I promised to review this film back in 2003, and never did. Now I’ve seen it again on DVD, and … well, I guess I’m still not. But see it! It’s great. And, if you’ve already seen it, hell, see it again–it’s only 89 minutes. Worth it for Bobby Cannavale alone, who gives a such-a-good-actor-it-doesn’t-even-seem-like-he’s-acting caliber performance. The fact that everything else about the film is top notch is just gravy.<\/p>\n

The Professional<\/a>: WTF, did everyone who recommended this film to me see it when they were 11 and sugar high? Admittedly, if I had seen it in 1994 when it was in the theaters, and never again, it would almost certainly be in my personal pantheon of OMG GREATEST FILMS EVER!! But these days it just seems like the whole Hooker<\/strike> Hitman With a Heart of Gold thing is played out. Maybe I’ve been reading too much Thuglit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lost: Season 2<\/a>: Yeah, I gotta admit–I thought this series had come off the rails, a few episodes into season 2. Bad enough that I found the hatch completely uncompelling, but it just seemed like they were going to keep launching new mysteries without ever resolving any of the old ones (kind of like (starting a bunch of parenthetical statements (without ever closing any (of the prior ones (this is driving you nuts, isn’t it? I vented some of my frustration with this<\/a>, about halfway through the season. But then things started looking up, when they started focusing more on the “people” mysteries (The Others) instead of the Thing mysteries (the hatch). By the finale, I was totally hooked again. ALRIGHT YOU STUPID EPIDODIC TELEVISION PROGRAM, I’LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE YEAR.<\/p>\n

After Innocence<\/a>: A documentary about people having their entire lives ruined when they are unfairly locked into a prision, and later freed after being exonerated by DNA evidence.<\/p>\n

Jesus Camp<\/a>: Actually, pretty much the same documentary as After Innocence<\/em>, with religious dogma taking the place of jail. And without the part about them ever getting free.<\/p>\n

The Descent<\/a>: Horror movie about a bunch of hott spelunkers who get trapped in a cave and then have to fight off fast-moving subterannian flesh-eating mutants. Ya gotta keep an vigilant eye on your Netflix queue, lest stuff like this percolate to the top. You know the obligatory Scary Movie scene where a girl is walking around the house in her underwear and the music is super tense and then, suddenly, her cat jumps out of nowhere, yowling? Imagine that scene looped for 90 minutes and you don’t have to see this. Basis for the hit TV sit-com: “The Smeagols.”<\/p>\n

P.S. )))))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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