We went to see a few action movies lately...the second Pirates of the Carribean and Miami Vice. Both very very good. My girlfriend and I went out the other day and went to You, Me and Dupree. Not as good. Funny, silly and stupid but lighthearted and we enjoyed it. Today (Aug 6) was the first year wedding anniversary for my daughter and her husband. Since it is their 'paper' anniversary when we went to the movies I bought 2 extra tickets and presented them with those pieces of paper when they came into the theatre. We went to a 'chick flick', John Tucker Must Die. A silly, teenage girl movie. We thought it was definitely for teenage girls. But we (my DH and I and the anniversary couple) enjoyed it. Anyone else been to the movies lately? Brenda

Watched most of the ones stated earlier... LOVED Autumn Rush... watched it a couple of times. LOVED Amelia.... was really really good. Don't know how they painted on all her freckles! tee hee. LOVED Avitar. Want to see it again and then buy it when it comes out. He is just not that into you was kinda funny. Journey to the center of the earth was kinda good too. Will watch it again. Old ones.... Abyss. Very very good. Not scary at all. Kinda liked Twilight. Will watch it again to see if I can get it better. Multiplicity.... LOVE that.... And Big. Love just about anything with Tom Hanks in it. So many good movies.

Sat, we went to the Alamo Draft House and saw Oz, the Great and Powerful. If you've never been to an Alamo Draft House, you are missing a wonderful treat. Instead of all the ads most theaters show before the lights go down, they showed trailers and clips from many different Oz based movies, inclucing a wonderful old silent film. It really got us in the mood for the movie. While we were watching those, a waiter came and took our order. We got a huge metal bowl of popcorn, that had free refills, and two large sodas that were also neverending...AND we never had to leave our seats to get them! Oh, later, I also ordered three fresh baked cookies. You can order complete meals including adult beverages. As the name implies, yes, they have MANY beers available. The movie itself was very fun. Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie of all time, and OZ was very good. Did the same black and white in Kansas, color in Oz thing. I don't think there was a thing about it that disappointed me. The BEST part about our evening out was, it only cost us a little over $10 for the whole thing!! We had passes for the movie, and a $10 voucher for food and drinks!

We couldn't see what Netflix offered without joining. Once we could see the titles, we found very few titles of interest -- that we had not already seen! Our home library has more recent titles than Netflix. Amazon showed us what's on offer before we signed up. We found recent episodes of two TV programs we wanted to see: "The Americans" Season 3; "The Knick" Season 2. They have "Doc Martin" Season 7, but we can get that once we're home. We looked into streaming because we are on Maui and running out of titles of interest that we can rent for $1.50 from Redbox here. Movies we've enjoyed here from Redbox: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Black Mass Burnt The Runner Bridge of Spies Truth 99 Homes The Maui library had: Black Swan The Gift Love and Other Drugs There are more titles of interest to us on Amazon, but our home library also has them now. We currently have enough 'stock' via Amazon to keep us entertained until we go home end of March. We record PBS offerings, but current series are available via Amazon too.