Watcher of all Movies

You can ask anyone who knows me. I am a movie fan. In December of 2007 we were able to go to Hollywood and see the amazing sights that have been around since the "Golden Hollywood era" and are still there today.

The problem is we are not able to go to the movie theatres too often. Like many today being able to go the movies, roughly spending $9.00 on a ticket per person and then adding a snack and drink on top of that is an expense we are not able to account for in our budget. It has to be a special occassion or a special movie. There used to be a $1.50 movie theatre in our town, but sadly, that closed a while back. Then we had to go to renting movies. Which was not bad for a long time since new releases are out on dvd so quickly after just being in the theatres. (Thanks to whoever is in charge of that.) Recently though our local video store had to close it's doors due to the economy and other factors such as movie mailings and vending machines. I was not sure about either of those options. I liked my local video store. I could get 5 movies for 5 nights for only $5.00. Yeah you had to wait a little while until most of the community had seen those type of movies but in reality not too long. After they had to close I was at a lost as to what we were going to do. We tried the library and although they are free rentals, rarely do they have a good selection when you are there but also for some reason I would forget to return them. Now when I rented that never seemed to be an issue. I guess it is the way my mind is set up. So this weekend we went venturing into the world of the movie mailing companies. (You know of whom I speak.) I have found a new addiction. They have tons of movies on there you can brouse for hours on end, find movies that you did not expect to find, some you can even load to your computer and then play on your tv. We are on a 2 week trial period but I like it and it is not much more than I was paying before. I really feel this is going to be a good option for me. I am sorry for the local video companies that have to close their stores due to these type of companies but when there was no other options for me except for paying a lot to see very little I am grateful that there are companies such as "Netflix".