Netflix: I like the service, but....
Thursday, June 25, 2009

I have my Netflix account on suspend, but I think I may have to cancel. I could always resume it at any time. I've done it before. I just feel I have to put my entertainment watching into high hiatus.

The last film I went out to watch was Terminator, and part of me regrets the decision. That was 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. There are so many other things I could have done, and have to do. Lesson learned.

Films don't give me the buzz they used to. Frankly, Hollywood ain't churning out the goodies like they used to.

That gambit by upping the number of Best Film contenders to 10 for an Oscar is a heaping, steaming, pile of bull dung, joke. I don't know, does that help the obscure foreign-themed films or the big budget, over-the-top, most popular, blockbusters?

I don't care, since I have not watched the Oscars since I was a child. That was a really long time ago. The excitement isn't there. I dislike most of today's "stars", unless it is a hot new actor from Australia / New Zealand / Europe. I will like an actor (any guy, none in particular) just as he is starting to become famous, but before he becomes bloated with self-importance, obnoxious, crazy, and phones in a lame performance.

I was checking film previews to see if Hollywood has any movies with black women co-stars coming up. There were none that I could see, so the Media Industrial Complex isn't getting any money from me.

Only two things get me into the theaters: hot guys and normal, respectable acting sistas. I don't like ghetto flicks, misery movies (abuse stories), gangster films, or anything else I may consider too stupid to watch.

These movies I will cite as examples: Dance Flick and the upcoming Push. I don't care how many awards the latter has won and will win. That's not me, I don't identify with stories like that; I never did. I've never read The Bluest Eye or Beloved.

Not my thing.

Since there are no films in the theaters I want to see, then that means there won't be any I will see on Netflix.

Yeah, I think I will cancel it.

posted by GoldenAh

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