Closer
I just watched Closer, a film by Mike Nichols starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, and Clive Owen, a very talented Englishman. A New York Times film critic poses this question: Why can't all movies be made like this?
The simple answer is this: If all films were like Closer, nobody would have eyeballs because we all would have scratched them out long ago in protest.
See it, but only so you can mock it.
We get our movies from NetFlix, an unassuming little enterprise which is slowly suffocating Blockbuster. Blockbuster has had a stranglehold on the video rental industry for so long they got complacent. Now their kingdom is falling. Falling, I say.
It occurs to me that NetFlix, or some similar service, probably does not exist elsewhere in the world. Let me explain.
NetFlix is an Internet service whereby one creates a movie queue online, from a database of tens of thousands of titles. The top three movies in the queue are then delivered posthaste to your residence.
Oddly, these movies seem to arrive from, and return to the NetFlix hive more expeditiously than regular mail. I'm suspicious that NetFlix has funded a very powerful lobby to assure that postal workers handle their packages twice as quickly as they do anything else.
You are provided with a return envelope, and may keep up to three movies for as long as you wish. When you've finished one, you simply drop it in the mailbox, and in about four days the next movie in your queue arrives. And all for $21 per month! But if you underutilize the service, you're just pissing away cash. So tread carefully.
New York was hot today. Very, very hot. Worst of all, it was humid. This is typical of the Northeast from June to August, and takes some getting used to. Still, I'd rather be hot than cold and sneazy.
Thankfully, the sky just opened and washed away the heat. And the party on the roof deck outside our window as well. The well-heeled attendees did not look as relieved as Foxy and I felt. Oh well.
The simple answer is this: If all films were like Closer, nobody would have eyeballs because we all would have scratched them out long ago in protest.
See it, but only so you can mock it.
We get our movies from NetFlix, an unassuming little enterprise which is slowly suffocating Blockbuster. Blockbuster has had a stranglehold on the video rental industry for so long they got complacent. Now their kingdom is falling. Falling, I say.
It occurs to me that NetFlix, or some similar service, probably does not exist elsewhere in the world. Let me explain.
NetFlix is an Internet service whereby one creates a movie queue online, from a database of tens of thousands of titles. The top three movies in the queue are then delivered posthaste to your residence.
Oddly, these movies seem to arrive from, and return to the NetFlix hive more expeditiously than regular mail. I'm suspicious that NetFlix has funded a very powerful lobby to assure that postal workers handle their packages twice as quickly as they do anything else.
You are provided with a return envelope, and may keep up to three movies for as long as you wish. When you've finished one, you simply drop it in the mailbox, and in about four days the next movie in your queue arrives. And all for $21 per month! But if you underutilize the service, you're just pissing away cash. So tread carefully.
New York was hot today. Very, very hot. Worst of all, it was humid. This is typical of the Northeast from June to August, and takes some getting used to. Still, I'd rather be hot than cold and sneazy.
Thankfully, the sky just opened and washed away the heat. And the party on the roof deck outside our window as well. The well-heeled attendees did not look as relieved as Foxy and I felt. Oh well.
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