Ye olde movie rental list

[zeade]

Sometimes working at SemiMegaCorp has it's perks. Fer instance, they've started this service with DVD Station where an employee can rent DVDs for $3 for 5 days. You select what DVDs you want via wall-mounted touchscreens that display, obviously along with the movie title name, the box art, trailers, synopsis, cast, reviews, etc. You can search on movie titles, actors, genre, and so on. Swipe a credit card, enter a password, then pick up the movie at the employee mini-mart counter (which is 2 feet away). The touchscreens are located in the central building on campus, next to the cafetorium, so I can drop off and pick up new movies as I come into work any day. And the selection is quite decent with a definite skew towards artsy/loved-by-nerds titles (hello all episodes of "Buffy" EVAR). It blows the normal movie rental model straight out of the water. While NetFlix has been tempting, I never was sure if I'd really take that much advantage of it, and I didn't like not being able to choose what I wanted when I wanted it. This rental service is just perfect for me.

I've begun consuming DVDs at a voracious rate. Four movies in the last two weeks! Someone stop the mania. I have so many backlogged movies I've wanted to see (mostly those I missed in theaters) I've made a list. I'm posting it here, and will be updating as I can.

Coming soon to my DVD player:

• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  
• Intolerable Cruelty
  
• Brotherhood of the Wolf
  
• Orange County
  
• Old School
  
• Bad Santa
  
• Matchstick Men
  
• Cowboy Bebop
  
• Swimming Pool
  
• Love Actually
  
• Requiem for a Dream
  
• Spellbound
  
• Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
  
• The Professional
  
• Grave of Fireflies
  
• Band of Brothers
  
• Winged Migration
  
• The Triplets of Bellville
  
• The Godfather
  
  
• Beavis & Butthead: Do America
  
• Pitch Black
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• Unbreakable
  
• Jackass
  
• 25th Hour

Last updated: Mar 5, 2004