Hugest rec ever!

[kate]

Pitch Perfect. Seriously.

I haven't seen Bridesmaids yet, but I've been recced it so highly; I keep meaning to check it out because it's been recced by people I trust. All the reasons that people are reccing that? They're the reasons I'm reccing this. (Great friendships between women, the romance is not sappy and not front and center, speaking of front and center, a collection of truly wonderful supporting lady characters, and then, THERE'S MUSIC. AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING MUSIC.)

I bought it in my hotel room last night (I get a free movie as a perk, no worries), and not only did I watch it all the way through gleefully, I immediately recced it to meghanc, rewound it to the beginning and watched it again with her.

So amazing. I was up until 5am last night (writing pinch hits, too, not just the movie, though that made it awesome) and I don't mind at all. SO. GOOD.

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[havocthecat]

My local library doesn't have Pitch Perfect for me to check out. I resent this quite a bit. I've also heard good things about Bachelorette, but the library doesn't have that either. ETA: I may be forced to see if Redbox has it, and I've never used them before.

Bridesmaids is absolutely amazing, and I was so leery of it at first. But it's absolutely hilarious. I want all the Annie/Helen. All of it.

[kate]

I use Redbox quite a bit, actually. Cheap and convenient - way better than the $15.99 (plus exorbitant fees and taxes) my hotel would've charged.

I was leery of Bridesmaids, too, but I have a feeling that I will like it. I'll find a way to rent it while I'm out of town. I have a feeling you'll really enjoy Pitch Perfect. :D

[havocthecat]

I have both a Hulu and a Netflix streaming account, and have access to my mom's Amazon Prime account, so I try to avoid renting physical media as much as possible. And when I have to, I try my library first. On the plus side, Redbox being cheap and convenient helps.

Now if only they'd have Pitch Perfect! Ugh, studios. I am not going to buy it if you hold off on releasing it to rental services before releasing it to the stores.

[kate]

Oh, me too. I just forget about the hulu part most of the time. Right now I'm watching (sort of) SPN on Netflix. Slowly. Our library actually charges more for rentals than Redbox and is way more inconvenient, so we don't usually go down that way. I agree, though, I'd rather do it all digitally if I can.

I don't understand release dates at all. Someday I might, but today is not that day.

[havocthecat]

Your library charges for rentals? How come? If I sound confused, it's because I've never had a library charge me to borrow a dvd, blu-ray, video game, or cd.

I don't mind buying discs, because there's no good, easy way of universally storing everything and backing it up. But if there were, I would ditch the hard copy media in a heartbeat. Until then, I make do with streaming Netflix and Hulu, which are essentially monthly unlimited use rentals. (As you already know, honestly.)

[kate]

Yeah, our library charges for some DVDs and all blu-rays. The CDs are free, not sure about the video games. This is one of the big, central branches. I don't honestly know where our nearest little library is, but we don't get there much - we tend to go to the central branch if we're looking for something because it's more likely to have it (we always check online first).