Matthew's Journal

A fiend gave atreic and I a two-month free trial with lovefilm. Today, I cancelled that free trial (like all such things, they start charging you at the end of the trial period), so thought I might make a brief note about what we watched in those two months:

Batman Begins (cheesy tat, but fun)
The Bourne Identity (I liked this - a tense, pacy thriller)
The Bourne Supremacy (Less good than the previous)
The Da Vinci Code (Less time wasted than reading the book would have been...)
Full Metal Jacket (A good, if bleak, film. I'm sure drill sargeants everywhere loathe it :)
Kill Bill - Vol. 1 (Very Tarantino - stylish, violent, blackly funny in places)
Kill Bill - Vol. 2 (Also good, actually)
Pan's Labyrinth (An odd little film, this. A classic fairy-tale of a film)
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!)
Platoon (Another cheery Vietnam film, with some now-classic images in)
The Wicker Man [original version] (This is now less scary than it was then, I think; perhaps because the inspectors Christian zeal is no longer so sympathetic?)

We also got a couple of PS2 games - Burnout 3: Takedown (which I loved, and so bought on ebay) and Resident Evil 4 (which was good, but Too Damned Hard).

The service was, on the whole, pretty good - there always seemed to be an extra working day in the round-trip if it was near a weekend, which was slightly irritating, but generally the turnaround was fast, and they were fine about the one disk they sent that was cracked. I'd happily recommend them to people; we just decided that we didn't want the outlay on an ongoing basis.

I was a bit annoyed that the cancellation process involved going through 4 web-pages, but I guess that's to be expected.