Finding time to sit down and watch a movie seems to be harder now. Mostly we chase after our two year-old but even after she’s gone to sleep there are so many other things to occupy our time. Like, ahem, writing a weblog.
Given our time constraints, committing two whole hours is a little overwhelming. We salivate over the half-hour sitcoms, especially the ones that air on stations with commercials. We can whip through these on our TiVo in about twenty minutes.
It got so bad that we had to give up on our Netflix membership. Instead of paying Netflix $14.95/month to hold the same two DVDs for weeks on end, we figured we could point TiVo at HBO every once and a while to tape something interesting.
So we did…and the unwatched movies started collecting (current count: 9).
But we had a breakthrough. Instead of watching a movie in one sitting, we’ve started to watch them in one hour chunks. It breaks the flow a little, but it also gives you something to think about and something to look forward to. Like a good book that you don’t want to finish because you enjoy reading it so much.
We’ve been working our way through Peter Bogdanovich’s pictures. Tonight we finished Cat’s Meow, which was fabulous. The reviewer’s comments on IMDB say that Gosford Park is better. Hmm, better add that to the TiVo wishlist. It’s bound to air eventually, and we have plenty to catch up on in the meantime.
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