I quit my job not two days after I activated my Blockbuster Online account. Why not Netflix? Because for every mail disc I return to the store, I get a free rental off the shelf AND the next flick in my queue gets sent as soon as it's scanned (shaves a day off waiting for the thing to get to them in the mail), which keeps me close to force-fed in free DVDs. If you have a Cockbuster in walking distance, I highly recommend.
Boomerbible.com has had BB hints and aids for years. A relatively recent companion to the Books That Help page is Movies That Help*. More recently, I checked in on the page after ignoring it for a long while, and was surprised and pleased to find it not only still there, but about doubled-- Thomas Crown and Flesh used to be the last two movies there, and a few new entries have been slipped in earlier in the timeline.
Now that I've got all this free time, what else is a full-time writer to do but work his way through the list?
Of the 32 films, I'd only seen 3 (in full) on my own: Clockwork Orange, Thomas Crown, and Network. I was probably just too young to appreciate the chunk of 2001 I saw, and I'm gonna really have to disabuse myself of the notion that movies should always be entertaining if I wanna choke down any portion of The Greatest Story Ever Told again.
From these and from what I know already about TBB, I'm expecting two types of hints: insights into the Boomer worldview, like King of Kings, and more explicit morals, like Thomas Crown's explanation (if you can call it that: "...the system.") why he robs all those banks.
The first few movies in my queue have trickled in the last few days. First up-- as in next post-- The King of Marvin Gardens.
*there's rumors of a music list too, but it hasn't turned up.
