Video of the Week: Thundercats Live Action Movie

I know I haven't spent a lot of time on here lately, but I thought this was so neat that I had to blog about it. Now, before you get too excited, this is not a real trailer for a real movie. It is a fan made trailer that was cut together from movies starring Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel, Hugh Jackman, and others, and has some added CGI. Anyone who remembers Thundercats will think this is a pretty cool, not just for its nostalgia, but for its fidelity to the original cartoon. Here it is:



What did you think? Leave a comment.

It has Arrived!

A little while back I announced that Netflix had finally come to its senses and would be offering the Watch Instantly feature to its Mac-using members. That day has finally come. I streamed my first movie the other night: THX 1138. The quality was pretty good. It wasn't 100% DVD quality, but it was darn close. Even in full screen mode the picture was suprisingly good—much like the Fox or ABC's online episode player. (It is sad that most of the shows I watch online are on NBC, whose video player is lower quality. In full-screen mode the picture is severely blurry.) To watch the movies on my computer, I had to download a bit of software first (Microsoft's Siverlight), but it didn't take much time and it was easy to install.

I did have a bit of a problem though because unlike some other online players, the full-screen mode did not disable my screen saver. As a result, I had to remember to touch the mouse pad every once-in-awhile. If the screen saver kicked on, I would be returned to the smaller web viewer. Also, if I exited full screen mode, when I tried to go back the picture would freeze. But going back and forth a couple of times, usually fixed the problem.

All-in-all it seems like there may be a few bugs that need to be worked out, but overall it was great. I really feel like I'm getting the most out of my Netflix membership now. In fact, I now have more movies in my Watch Instantly queue than in my DVD rental queue. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," here I come.

Are you a Mac user and a Netflix member? Tell me how your experience has been.