So I have been a Netflix member since way, way back. I looked and I joined over 5 years ago now.

The best part of Netflix is that I hate going to rent movies, but love watching them. When you go to the movie rental place it takes forever to decide on what movie to watch, if everyone watching will like it, do they have a copy, etc. Netflix lets me just add moves and then they show up. I started out with the 3 moves at a time plan, but switched to 1 at a time a couple years ago. Now that I have kids it is totally awesome because we get the chance to go to the theater about once or twice a year.

The problem is how to find out about moves. At first I would take a pen and paper to the rental place when I would go with someone (thats when I had roommates). I would make notes and then go online and add the moves that looked good. Now what I find works well is once a month or so I will check out the Apple Trailers page. I watch the trailers and add the movies. The trailers are for movies that aren't even theaters yet, but I add them anyway and Netflix adds them to a “Save” section until they are close to coming out on DVD. So I end up getting the movie about a year after I add it. That is nice because I forget what the movie is about, but I like it because I did watch the trailer. Apple has all the Indie moves that you probably won't find in Blockbuster or Hollywood Video so I get cool Documentaries and Foreign Films too.

The one flaw with this is that Netflix doesn't always have movies in their lists when they are still being made so they need a notes option so I can add moves that they don't have yet.

Netflix is also lame for TV shows on DVD. They treat each Disc as one move so to watch most shows it takes 4 to get through a season. For TV shows we usually just get them from the Library.

So we were at Mt. Brighton over winter break and Bridgit mentioned this move to me because it starts at Mt. Brighton. I asked her how it was and she described it as “hot sex and hot skiing.” She also said that it would get me geared up for ski season so we put it in the Netflix queue.

So the skiing was pretty cool. Camera work has come a long way since 1993, but there were still some cool shots (I am assuming of stunt ski doubles). She had lied to me though: there was no sex scenes. There were a few “kiss then cut to the morning” bits though, pretty lame. I was also confused because it sure seemed like there was a dubbed swear word near the beginning. I played it over again and it sounds like the cheesy overdubbing they do for TV with a different actor.

I highly recommend this move if you are interested in early 1990's fashion, and ski fashion in particular.

Is it just me or does the Transformers movie thats coming out next month look awesome?

One of the girls in this video is my co-workers daughter so I figured I would try and boost their stats.

So we have a few Grey Owl canoe paddles. I knew that the name came from an adventurer, but knew nothing about him. I read an article in an old canoe magazine that mentioned this movie. The author had taught Pierce Brosnan some paddling technique for this movie and commented that it was pretty bad.

The move is decent. Not the greatest, but it was entertaining. There is an environmental theme that the movie tries to capture, but not very well. Grey Owl lectured across the UK against the cutting of forests, and for the preservation of the beaver. The irony was that he was actally an Englishman who had gone to Canada at 17 seeking wilderness. He lived with the Ojibwa and learned their ways and passed himself off as half Indian.