My Netflix Queue 9-22

Im not sure how many of you subscribe to Netflix. If you are still renting movies from a store, you need to stop. Really. Its such a rip off compared to Netflix. Plus the watch it now option is so cool. Im not one to pimp some product, so you know its great.

So, every once in awhile, I will share with you whats been showing up in my red envelopes.

The first movie Id like to review is apropriately named, American Movie. Its a documentary that follows the making of a low, low , low budget horror film. The man making the movie and his friend are unexpectedly charismatic. I mean, this is what they look like.

You are immediately sucked into their struggles to finish the short film Coven(pronounced with a long o). Its a really funny and entertaining doc, with tons of heart. Who cant identify with the underdog? I recomend it.

I am a big Star Trek fan. Im not ashamed to admit it. What I am ashamed to admit is that I watched the William Shatner series Invasion Iowa.

Its a "reality" show where William Shatner and a host of characters show up in a small town in Iowa and film a fake movie. The premise is pretty mean. They cast a bunch of the unsuspecting towns people in the shitty shitty movie written and directed by Shatner. It was really funny for brief moments, just because of the crazy situations the crew manipulates into occuring. Plus the actors he cast for his crew were pretty great. That said, overall it was terrible. But so is Star Trek and I love that. I do not recomend this one.

The last one is a classic I just recieved today. Ive seen this one before, but its worth many viewings. Its the movie adaptation of the play Glenngary Glennross. First of all the cast is makes the Oceans movies look like American Movie. You got, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, and the Alec Baldwins best performance of all time. Set in a cold call sales office, it follows the cut throat world of sales. Jack Lemmon is awesome as a desperate and pathetic salesman just trying to get by. When Alec Baldwin, the boss, shows up an proposes a sales contest, the shit hits the fan. Tremendous, I highly recomend this one.