Netflicks
Monday I joined Netflicks for the 1 title at a time / unlimited per month ($8.99/month). In part because when I go to Blockbuster the selections are mostly new releases that are mostly dreck not worth paying to rent.

The first movie was The Spiderwick Chronicles! This is getting a recommendation. It is a pleasant kids-fare fantasy. By involving classic fairy creatures Brownies / goblins / hobgoblins / ogre instead of making up their own gave the story a degree of verisimilitude. They had their own delightful and quirky personalities (the rhyming Brownie or bird eating hobgoblin).

And at the end, the main character (Jared) won because of a sudden opportunity / inspiration instead of a thoroughly plotted plan. Kind of like the way that life actually works.

The Spiderwick Chronicles are, evidently, a series of books and it shows just a bit. There’s at least one scene that, seemed both necessary and extraneous to the story.

Next up…The Gay Decievers (1969), for someone else. We saw this once before, it’s a Vietnam era movie about a couple of draft dodgers pretending to be gay. I’m not so sure it would work today and it’s not really worth seeing again.