I believe I can smell bankruptcy and I hope the process servers use an ironically red envelope.

What the freaking hell happened to Netflix? I had to check the calendar to see if this was a prank.

They've decided to spin off the DVD service within the next month. AND the announcement says that there won't be any interchange for queue and ratings. It'd be like starting over with the new company. If I'm going to start over, why wouldn't I start over with someone else?

It makes me not want to have their streaming anymore either. Because, hello, quite bitchy to spring that kind of thing on customers.

I'm also appalled that they didn't have a mechanism to opt-out at the end of the billing cycle, but in advance. The explanation seems to say that if you don't cancel your DVD subscription, they're going to give your credit card information to a new company but without setting up your queue or ratings or anything else. I believe that's something that should be illegal.

Which is why I'm completely skeeved about keeping their streaming content.

Amazon does have some streaming content included in Prime, but not nearly enough.

Knight And Day

Watched Knight and Day. It has Tom Cruise (who obviously dyes his hair now) and Cameron Diaz (who, shockingly, looks less like Kermit the Frog than usual).

I enjoyed the movie a lot. The plot almost made sense, which for an action movie is unusual, and you could sort of see how they got to the point they were at.

But what made it the most enjoyable was that the dialogue was witty.

Some negatives. 1) lame premise... car parts in Kansas? Really? Cameron Diaz?
2) Cameron Diaz suddenly knows how to shoot accurately after flailing 2 scenes ago despite no reason for her to have improved and spending the previous half of the movie whining about people getting killed.
3) car obsession
4) the riding off into the sunset involving driving to Cape Horn (tip of South America)... um. It's almost impossible to drive a car into Mexico, they require a huge "insurance" payment... like $5K or something insane and you don't get it back, it's so if you're in an accident in Mexico and run back to the US, they can compensate your victims--- so it amounts to a registration fee. You'd have to pass through like a dozen countries to get to Cape Horn and they're driving a car that doesn't even have headrests, let alone seatbelts.
5) I get where the Knight comes from, but the Day? I hate it when the titles don't match.

this is probably my penultimate netflix dvd review.