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Changeling Review

We watched Changeling tonight. It was a pretty good film. I give it 4 out of 5 stars. Angelina Jolie was pretty convincing in the role of the mother who lost her son. Great acting. Also a nice supporting role out of Amy Ryan. I didn't really like her too much in Gone Baby Gone (that was probably the point), but ever since she has been in The Office, I changed my tune.

I guess the one part of the evening that took me by surprise was Blockbuster. We had not rented at Blockbuster in a while. The whole new choose to rent by-the-day ($2/movie, $1 for additional days) or rent by-the-week ($5) was a little strange to digest. I guess that is Blockbusters way of getting more customers away from Netflix. So we got the Changeling for $2. We usually watch movies within the first day so I can't see us ever renting by-the-week. So I guess the questions are "Will people really rent movies by-the-week?" and "How come movie rentals have been $4+ for 2 day rentals for the last couple of years?"