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Netflix Activity

I was just looking at my Netflix activity and realized I have only rented forty seven movies this year.  A very slow year by my standards.  So I decided to break down my activity based on what I've seen.  As always, I rate every movie I've seen using there five star system.

Eight movies received one star (hated it) with the three worst movies I saw this year being Hall Pass, Dinner with Schmucks and The Crazies.  The Crazies is probably the worst movie I've seen in a while.  I should also probably add that The Social Network was also in this 1-star list.

Seven movies received two stars (didn't like it).  With some being very popular films such as Taken, Catfish and Iron Man 2.  One movie I was shocked to find on this list was Stone with Edward Norton and Robert DeNiro. 

Nineteen movie received three stars (liked it), but I should point out that when I give three stars to a movie, it's pretty much a range of 2.5-3.5 and I'm a little picky about giving anything four or more stars.  Some are actually just a little better than I expected like Predators, Hobo with a Shotgun and Machete and some are movies that everyone loved that I felt fell a little short, like Inception and 127 hours.  Some are just good movies that entertained me and that's it, such as In Bruges, Resident Evil: Afterlife and 13 Assassins. 

Nine movies received four stars (really liked it).  I should say there have been times when I've rated something four stars and then gone back and lowered it to three.  I think two on this list might find the same fate, but as of now they are sitting with four.  The nine movies I rated four stars are Charlie Bartlett, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Kinsey, The Ballad of Jack And Rose, Blue Valentine, The Perfect Host, Animal Kingdom, Martyrs and Hanna. The best of this group would have to be The Perfect Host or Charlie Bartlett and the worst was probably Hanna, but not at all because it's bad, but because it's basically a fluffy action picture.  Blue Valentine and Martyrs are two movies that were very good, but I can guarantee I will not ever watch again, because of how they make you feel.

Finally we come to the five star movies.  The movies I loved of which there were only four.  One was a movie I had seen before and needed to see again. That was Oldboy.  Arguably the craziest movie I've ever seen.  Love it.  Korean masterpiece.  Another was Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct.  An amazing true story about a French gangster.  Unfortunately the sequel isn't as good, but this is a wonderfully riveting movie.  Vincent Cassel is absolutely mesmerizing in the title role.  Winter's Bone was probably the most underrated movie I saw.  Yes it was nominated, but I don't think people truly understood how good it was.  Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes give two of the best performances I've seen in years.  The final five star rated film was Let Me In.  The American version of the Swedish masterpiece Let The Right One In.  This was nearly a scene by scene recreation with the exclusion of one horrible scene in the original.  Chloe Moretz followed up her brilliant performance in Kick Ass as Abby.  The young girl who befriends a young boy who is being bullied.  A tremendous job done by both, which rivaled the original.  Definitely one of the greatest "horror" films ever.

Of the 47 films, sixteen were foreign.  Three were comedies, seven were horror movies and the majority were dramas or thrillers.  Next up is A Gun, A Woman and a Noodle Shop which is apparently a Japanese version of the Coen Brother's Blood Simple. Can't wait!

If anyone has any movie suggestions, please let me know.  Always looking for something different.

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