365 Days of Netflix Instant list

Here's the full list of movies, as of right now. I've left room to add as new movies become available.

1.                   The Answer Man

2.                   Moonlight Serenade

3.                   Remember the Daze

5.                   Conversations with Other Women

6.                   Good Dick

7.                   Moving McAllister

8.                   The Men Who Stare at Goats

9.                   Peggy Sue Got Married

10.               Triple Dog 11.               Southern Belles

12.               Star Trek

13.               Paranormal Activity

14.               Blown Away

15.               Gamer

16.               Holy Rollers

17.               American Psycho 2

18.               Shutter Island

19.               The Last Song

20.               Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

21.               Daybreakers

22.               Southland Tales

23.               Twisted

24.               Edmond

25.               Last Action Hero

26.               Maze

27.               Ten Inch Hero

28.               Speed

29.               The Evil Dead

30.               The Fly

31.               It's a Boy Girl Thing

32.               Killers

33.               Happy Thank You More Please

34.               I'm Reed Fish

35.               Ned Kelly

36.               Serenity

37.               Striking Distance

38.               The Boondock Saints

39.               TiMER

40.               S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale

41.              Loser

42.              Prom

43.              The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

44.              These Girls

45.              Interview with the Vampire

46.              New York, I Love You

47.              Camp

48.              Sliding Doors

49.              Little Monsters

50.              Babel

51.              Sex and Breakfast

52.              Home Room

53.              Taking Chances

54.              The Crazies

55.              Tart

56.              Dream a Little Dream

57.              Brooklyn's Finest

58.              The Human Centipede: First Sequence

59.              Operation: Endgame

60.              Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire

61.              Legendary

62.              Knucklehead

63.              Brothers

64.              Chaos Theory

65.              Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

66.              Trick 'r Treat

67.              Snake Eyes

68.              Brick

69.              From Paris with Love

70.              The Machinist

71.              Chain Reaction

72.              Die Hard: With a Vengeance

73.              The Nines

74.              The Narrows

75.              Unhitched

76.              Wristcutters: A Love Story

77.              Open Window

78.              Syriana

79.              Best Laid Plans

80.              One Week

81.              Black Snake Moan

82.              The Secret

83.              Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus

84.              Stripes

85.              Killer Klowns from Outer Space

86.              Punch-Drunk Love

87.              Memento

88.              Incendiary

89.              The Air I Breathe

90.              Keith

91.              The Vicious Kind

92.              Love and Other Disasters

93.              Good Will Hunting

94.              On the Waterfront

95.              About Last Night...

96.              St. Elmo's Fire

97.              Carolina

98.              Airheads

99.              Swingers

100.                      Virgin Territory

101.                      Brokedown Palace

102.                      The Big Lebowski

103.                      Session 9

104.                      Peter and Vandy

105.                      Wild Target

106.                      Big Trouble in Little China

107.                      From Dusk Till Dawn

108.                      Hobo with a Shotgun

109.                      Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

110.                      Super Troopers

111.                      Step Up 3

112.                      Winter's Bone

113.                      The Good Guy

114.                      Buried

115.                      The Good Son

116.                      All Good Things

117.                      How About You

118.                      Twelve

119.                      The Stone Angel

120.                      Midnight Cowboy

121.                      All Dogs Go to Heaven

122.                      Cherry

123.                      You Again

124.                      The Fighter

125.                      Mansfield Park

126.                      Highlander

127.                      They Live

128.                      Archangel

129.                      Little Black Book

130.                      Reality Bites

131.                      The Expendables

132.                      Iron Man 2

133.                      Scorched

134.                      Howard the Duck

135.                      Red State

136.                      Escape from New York

137.                      Love, Wedding, Marriage

138.                      Breakfast at Tiffany's

139.                      Batman Forever

140.                      Mallrats

141.                      Aeon Flux

142.                      Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

143.                      Smile

144.                      Hart's War

145.                      Stateside

146.                      Short Circuit

147.                      The Next Three Days

148.                      Deep Blue Sea

149.                      Die Hard

150.                      Die Hard 2: Die Harder

151.                      Dirty Harry

152.                      Mrs. Miracle

153.                      Girl, Interrupted

154.                      Panic Room

155.                      The Peacemaker

156.                      Big

157.                      The Trouble with Angels

158.                      A Little Help

159.                      Welcome to the Rileys

160.                      Take Me Home Tonight

161.                      Downfall

162.                      Waiting for Forever

163.                      Trust

164.                      Morning Glory

165.                      Final Destination 2

166.                      The Lazarus Project

168.                      Flatliners

169.                      The Yellow Handkerchief

170.                      Limitless

171.                      Heathers

172.                      Snowglobe

173.                      The Bells of St. Mary's

174.                      Christmas Cupid

175.                      Kill Katie Malone

176.                      Boys and Girls

177.                      Dazed and Confused

178.                      A Knight's Tale

179.                      Chasing Amy

180.                      Let Me In

181.                      Reservoir Dogs

182.                      Clerks

183.                      Dirty Dancing

184.                      Grumpy Old Men

185.                      Flowers in the Attic

186.                      The Virgin Suicides

187.                      That's What I Am

188.                      Romeo + Juliet

189.                      Kick-Ass

190.                      Drive Me Crazy

191.                      Philadelphia

192.                      BloodRayne

193.                      No Strings Attached

194.                      The Hunt for Red October

195.                      Ghostbusters 2

196.                      The Education of Charlie Banks

197.                      Dare

198.                      Hook

199.                      Hellboy

200.                      Lethal Weapon

201.                      Outbreak 202.                      One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 203.                      Jingle All the Way 204.                      That Thing You Do 205.                      Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 206.                      It Could Happen to You 207.                      Nine Months 208.                      Lone Wolf McQuade 209.                      Antitrust 210.                      School Ties 211.                      Winning Season 212.                      True Grit 213.                      Primal Fear 214.                      A Man Apart  Thanks to Walk Away from MovieFanCentral.com for these suggestion. 215.           Trapped 216.           Itty Bitty Titty Committee 217.           Practical Magic 218.           Young Frankenstein 219.           I Capture the Castle 220.           Labyrinth 221.           Hatchet

365 Days of Netflix Instant

I apologize for my sparse blogging, but the holidays and work have kept me from writing as much as I would like.

Well, I'm back to introduce a new on-going series for the new year. I will be watching a new movie everyday from my borderline insane Netflix Instant queue until January 10th, 2013, if the world hasn't ended yet. My review will consist of my thoughts on the film (writing/directing/acting/WTF-ness), and explain to you why exactly this movie was in my queue. These reasons usually include but are not limited to: my attraction toward any of the actresses involved, love of the actors despite attractiveness, or a potential clusterfuck of a plot (looking at you horror movies).

Each review will be posted the next day, along with any related materials (photos/YouTube videos). And if I happen to get someone to actual watch one of these "masterpieces" with me, I will try to include a short audio commentary from said guest.

I will delete the movies that I have watched off the list to the right. This list contains the next ten movies to be watched. I will go straight from 1 to 365 on my queue, unless a seasonal movie is more appropriate (i.e. Halloween, Christmas, 4th of July, etc). The full list will be in the next post after this one, so you can see that I'm not adding movies as I go, unless Netflix drops the movie from the Instant section. In which case, I will update you on its replacement.

I hope that everyone enjoys the eccentric nature of my queue, or at the very least, laughs at my movie choosing process.

Person of Interest Review

Network/Writer(s): CBS/Johnathan Nolan

Actors: Jim Caviezel, Micheal Emerson, Taraji P. Henson

Summary: An ex-CIA hitman and a scientist who team up to prevent crimes before they happen.

***

[NOTE: This review may contain spoilers, so please watch the show before reading, or don't.]

Not really a fan of procedurals, except when they have a different or interesting ideas. Person of Interest satisfies this need for me. It basically centers on an ex-CIA Hitman who is recruited by a mysterious man of science with a limp, and is set in New York City, which gives them the chance to have multiple seasons without draining the well (Hell, Law and Order lasted 20 years!).

The ex-assassin, John Reese, played by Jim Caviezel Jesus, who we find out loses someone he loves on 9/11. Before I go on, let me digress here, does every show that is centered in New York have to have some connection to 9/11? It's a tragedy, I know, but the city is transient enough that not everyone needs to be associated with that disaster. Not every show that's based in Hawaii has a connect to Pearl Harbor (correct me if I'm wrong).

Back to Jesus and his missions, he is recruited by a former government scientist named "Finch." Finch created a way for the government to take all of the spying they are doing on Americans and separate them in to basically important and non-important list (holy 1984, Batman). But the twist is that Finch only gets social security numbers. I like this idea because it give the computer a cold approach, while leaving enough mystery that you can have a normal procedural show.

The first case that Reese takes on is that of an ADA who, like most characters the episodes revolves around, may be the criminal, or they maybe the victim. The show moves along at a snails pace with some slick transition shots as Reese follows the ADA gathering information. Then, when he sees the slightest hint of suspicion from one of the possible "suspects" he moves in. This is where the show picks up, as the first twist in the series is a good one, when we find out the ADA is not as squeaky clean as she seems, and is part of a dirty cop/prosecutor gambit.

When the action picks up, Jesus shines. Between bad ass moments, such as, taunting one of the dirty cops who has been tabbed with killing him, and the setting off a flash grenade to flip the car over and escape, he begins to really sell the character. If the rest of the season is like the last half of the show rather than the first half, in terms of dialog and pacing, I think it will succeed on a network like CBS.

Caviezel and Emerson give top notch performances, which should propel the series through season one, just like Mark Harmon did for NCIS. It'll be interesting to see how they use the talent of Henson. If she can become a part of the team in an indirect way by mid-season, I think this show has a solid chance to not hit the first season wall that most procedurals hit. This usually happens when they don't know how to freshen up the show so that it doesn't become predictable; a hurdle which is great when a show clears it.

Rating: 7/10. Slow start hampers overall experience, but great plot twist and interesting exposition, make it worth the time.

Interest: Moderately High. Premise and actor will keep me watching, but if it gets too complicated, I'll bail.