This Week in Netflix: Volume 20

Scanning my list of recent rentals, I'm noticing some common themes . . .


Movies Based on Books by People who Live in Florida

• Big Trouble (Dave Barry)
• Hoot (Carl Hiaasen)

I loved the books. The movies are okay, I guess.



Movies Set in Boston

• The Departed
• Gone Baby Gone

I really enjoyed both of these. I saw The Departed in the theater, and I've had it in my queue for quite a while. I bumped it up a few weeks ago after I saw The Simpsons episode that spoofs the plot. The bonus features are pretty good, too.


Movies Starring Casey Affleck

• Gone Baby Gone
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

I think Casey might be my new favorite Affleck. Although I did enjoy Ben's commentary on, and brief cameo in, Gone Baby Gone.




Movies I'm Not Sure I Get

• Alpha Dog
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• You Kill Me
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

I used the subtitle feature and watched the last two in fast-forward, though.




Movies that Let Me Squee over Luke Wilson

• The Third Wheel
• Hoot

And really, that's about all I ask for: some eye candy. Hence, my burning desire to see Leatherheads.






* Usually, if there's a commentary track, I listen to it, even if I'm seeing the movie for the first time on DVD.



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Now playing on iTunes: Delbert McClinton - Honky Tonkin' (I Guess I Done Me Some)
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