Now For Something Completely Different

Here are the last ten items in my rental queue.

1. The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season - Disc 2  (2008)
2. The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season - Disc 1  (2008)
3. Milk  (2008)
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still  (2008)
5. Volver [WS]  (2006)
6. Eagle Eye [WS]  (2008)
7. Choke [2008]  (2008)
8. The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season [4 Discs] - Disc 3  (2006)
9. The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season [4 Discs] - Disc 4  (2006)
10. Heroes: Season 1 - Disc 7

Out of the films above, I love Volver. This was my second viewing. Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar are a fantastic combination. Milk was moving. The remaining three ranged from mediocre to suckworthy. As for the series, The Wire is God. Heroes is pretty entertaining. My inner geek enjoys most things superhero/comic book-related. 

I never engage in internet memes, so now is a time to start.

Let's see what your rental history says about you. If you don't subscribe to a mail service such as Netflix or Blockbuster, then just list the last ten movies you rented and/or watched.

I hereby tag Adam, Eric, Randal, Dr. Monkey, Zen Yenta, my Agitprop-GFA51-Defeatist blogging comrades and anyone else who would like to participate.

If you are disgusted by indulgent capitulation to this interweb behavior then feel free to shame me.

Comments

[Montag]

my last 10 mail-order rentals aren't as embarassing as they could have been:

1. The Island
2. The Sacrifice / Andrei Tarkovsky
3. The Goonies
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. MST3K: Gunslinger
7. Miller's Crossing
8. Deep Impact
9. MST3K: Prince of Space
10. Blindness

1, 3, 6, 8 & 9 were for the kids benefit. 8 is the most embarassing, but i claim it was an object lesson in the tendency of movie studios to release similar movies in the same year (in this case we compared Armageddon and Deep Impact. DI is superior in my view, but still horrendous.)

slumdog millionaire was not my choice though i liked it better than i had anticipated. i was put off by all of the accolades and awards.

i rate 'sacrifice' a 4 out of 5, my spouse would rate it a negative infinity.

'kiss kiss' and 'millers xing' are both outstanding. the first an updated noir film, the second a cohen bros joint.

'the island' stars young obi wan and -- ahem -- scarlett johansson

'blindness': feh.

[zenyenta]

I have no problem with interweb behavior and I appreciate being thought of. My problem is that we rent so few. Mostly Mr. Yenta watches really horrible movies that I try to avoid. I'll have to try to figure it out with him when I get home from work. I'll never come up with 10 but it seems to me that we saw something recently....

[Randal Graves]

Give me a few moments to find some critically-acclaimed flicks to replace the Michael Bay oeuvre I usually rent. I am so s-m-r-t. I really need to see that Wire thing, everyone I know who has seen it raves about the thing.

[Billy O'Connor]

Red Dwarf
Battle in Seattle
The Magdelene Sisters
Timecrimes
Dante 01
The International
Firefly
The IT Crowd
The Lives of Others
MST3K -- This Island Earth

[LewScannon]

Boy, with my DVD player broken for so long, coupled with my boys reluctance to go to the video store due to my ever increasing frustration with their inabitlity to choose a goddamned movie, the last film I can absolutely recall renting was Fight Club.
However, we have been buying videos at thrift stores and garage sales (VHS, being a dead format, means that buying a tape is cheaper than renting) we have purchased the following:
The Young Ones Vol. I
Die Hard With A Vengeance
Blazing Saddles
This Is Spinal Tap
Yellow Submarine
The Lost Boys
Office Space
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[blogenfreude 666]

Without looking I can tell you that mine is mostly True Blood and House.

[Kvatch]

I can't even keep 'The Wire' in my queue. The Frogette gets so frustrated, she goes out and rents them from Blockbuster before the even arrive.