Lucky bastards.  We mostly get the ones most people don't want.

Holy crap, what kind of library system is that? I don't want to sound like I'm crapping on it, but that kind of business plan seeeee-ucks.

You going to the Salvation Army Library?

Public Library.  This is a red state.  And one that doesn't really care about the libraries (they're not even open on Fridays).  And I'm not talking just about my local branch, it was mostly garbage at the big downtown library as well.

I miss Blockbuster.  Especially because I could get movies the weekend before they came out for nothin' so we were always slightly ahead of the curve (I worked there).

Holy cow, that's WAY more expensive than what my store charged (of course, being an employee I didn't have to pay crap.  I DID keep my grandfathered-in multipass, flat rate per month, I could have three out at a time with no late fees.  They were fools for letting that offer expire).  I think, were you guys part of the "no late fees" thing?  We didn't have that here (we were franchises but we spent YEARS explaining that to our customers), but what the stores that cut the fees did was transfer the late fee cost into other things ("restocking" fees and so on). 

I really need to find something really positive to watch now.

That's easy! I'd go with this.

Well, "Smashed" was quite good, although... I dunno, I'd been waiting to see it for a while so I thought there was going to be some more intensity crammed into it, you know?  Which, I know it's REALLY something to say that a movie where Mary Elizabeth Winstead pees on the floor didn't go far enough but I guess I was just anticipating much messier stuff, venom spitting back and forth and scorched earth sh*t.

But I still liked it.  I get why everyone else liked it.

Dunno if I'll watch it again though.

Followed that up with "Coyote Ugly" which is so strange insofar is it seems to glorify drinking.  I put plenty of my thoughts (though only a fraction of all the notes i took).  It was research otherwise I think I would have turned it off any number of times.

Watching Mallrats now, another flick I haven't seen in a number of years.  I remember having this movie an audio cassette when I was younger, works great with just the soundtrack.  And watching it, I realize since the mall is an 80s design and the simple style that Smith/Klein shot it in, it sort of has a little John Hughes look to it.  Nowhere near that quality, of course, but...

El Gringo

Yet another odd film. I just happened across this channel surfing looking for something I haven't seen. Kind of a mix of El Mariachi. Machete and some of the old spaghetti westerns. This had a definite feel to it. Good or bad... I dunno. They really played around with editing and camera shots.

The acting was horrendous, but I just took that as prime unintentional B-movie. The story is nothing new. The execution is. I halfway recommend this.