Have you tried Netflix yet? If not, I recommend that you do. I have spent far too much time watching shows and films that I likely wouldn’t otherwise have seen and it has been thoroughly enjoyable. Some of my favourites so far have been the BBC series ‘Jekyll’ and ‘MI-5′ (known in Britain as ‘Spooks’), and a little known crime movie ‘Dead Man Running’. At this very moment I am watching ‘The X-Files: I Want To Believe’, and I’m not sure where I stand on it. That’s the great thing about Netflix though, is you find absolute gems as well as the mediocre.
Additional Note: I have a little later on started watching ‘Doomsday’ and even just ten minutes in it is amazingly bloody and graphic. I haven’t decided if it’s excessive yet, only time will tell.
This past weekend my sister came up for the weekend and her, Mhar and I had a bit of a Harry Potter marathon, watching all of the six previous films in three days. We filled gaps in between movies by playing with the Xbox Kinect we purchased recently. We just have a few games for it at this point, “Kinect Adventures”, “Kinect Sports” and “Your Shape” and they are all good fun. We finished up the weekend by watching the new ‘Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt. 1′ before dropping our visitor back home. The most recent addition to the franchise was very well done and you hardly realize that it was two-and-a-half hours long. It certainly leaves you wanting more, annoyingly ending the movie at a critical juncture like we all knew it was going to. If you liked the others, and particularly the more recent darker tone to them, then you will certainly enjoy this one.
#1 by Rae on November 25, 2010 - 1:35 AM
What a lovely weekend. The only thing missing was me! I have such fond memories of sitting on your sister’s bed each summer night reading the next recent release of HP, all 6 of them. I just unpacked them and put them on the book shelve this last weekend. Sigh…
Still hoping to see the new non-final book at the theatre this weekend.