I went to see this movie about a week ago "Surrogate" with Bruce Willis.  I thought Bruce Willis, it must be good.  The least I can say is the movie was interesting.  Not real sure I understood the focus of the movie.

The movie appeared to be about a society of clone robots that looked like you.  During the day you stayed in bed hooked up to some kind of machine that activated the cloned robot that went out into the world in place of you.  Bruce Willis is a cop in this movie and when the robot is on duty, Bruce doesn't get hurt and banged up.   

Never the less it is action packed with a longing to go back to the old days when humans were humans and not robots.  Don't get the wrong impression, the robots looked and acted human too.  It seemed the robots took something away from the human side of emotions, feelings and pain.  If a person did not want to cope with a situation, they just plugged in and let the robot do it.

In the movie of course there are bad robots too, so don't be fooled.  I guess if the robot is bad, then the human version would also be bad.  You can't try to compare "Surrogate" with "I Robot" they are completely different. This is one I would wait to come out on dvd and save the money you would spend at the movies.

Movies are being released on DVD faster than ever these days.  Once a movie came out, it would sometimes be a year or longer before they were available on DVD.  Now it seems once the movie has been at the theater, within 2 or 3 months they are released for purchase or rent.

Movies that have been released in the last couple of months include Blood and Bone, Unleashed. Easy Virtue, Grace and Worlds Apart just to name a few.  Newly released also includes older movies that have been reformatted and placed on DVD.

If you missed a movie you wanted to see and it is no longer playing, you might want to try Blockbuster, Netflix, or the Redbox.   Blockbuster also has rental exclusive movies; you will not be able to find anywhere else.

March of the Penguins a 2005 documentary on the emperor penguins of Antarctica is out on DVD.  People love penguins I think due to the fact they look like they are dressed in a tuxedo. If you would like to know more about penguins this documentary is excellent.  It tells of their walk from the ocean to their yearly breeding grounds inland, a 62-mile trek.

The emperor penguins have a specific location that is protected from the elements of the strong winds and the ice is solid year round and can support the colony.  It is here that the mating begins between the male and female penguin.  A single egg is laid and it takes the cooperation of both parents to survive.   The male penguin is a hands on dad, when the egg is laid, the female transfers it to the feet of the male to protect for the next couple of months.  The female returns to the ocean to acquire food for herself and the chick upon her return.

The males huddle together once the egg has been passed onto them for warmth and survival of the harsh cold.  If the egg touches the ice, it freezes almost instantly.  When the female returns, the chicks have been born and the female stays to bond while the male leaves to acquire food for the chick.

If a female's chick dies, sometimes she tries to steal another chick.   One parent sometimes abandons chicks and all they can do is wait for the other one to return.  On the long treks back and forth from the breeding ground to the ocean, penguins struggle to survive and some do die from predators or exhaustion.

When the VCR I had, kept eating the VHS tapes, I decided it was time for a change and switched to DVD.  On my part it was a good decision thus I started my DVD collection.  I started out buying a couple of really cheap DVD's you can sometimes find for a dollar or two.  These were usually of some old movie that had been changed to DVD.  They worked pretty good for a dollar or two.

Next I would go see a movie and then when it came out on DVD, I would rent through Blockbuster Online.  If it was really a great movie I would look around for it and purchase.  Sometimes I can watch the same movie several times if it is a great movie.  Movies like TROY, GLADIATOR, AVIATOR, SUM of ALL FEARS, PHANTOM of the OPERA, these are all great movies.  I like being able to see how the movie was made like TROY, plus being able to see deleted scenes that didn't make it to the big screen. 

Being able to watch a movie for the second time, you can usually pick up on something you missed when you saw it at the movies.  Purchasing the DVD is one way to make sure you can watch it anytime you want and learn of the making of the movie.  DVD's that are based on a true story usually tell some of the history on the characters and their story.  So why not start collecting today.

I haven't been to the movies in about 4 or 5 months and decided to go see "KNOWING" with Nicholas Cage.  It was in some ways different from other movies that are about disasters that happen, yet some features were the same.  The ending is what keeps me thinking about it today. 

It starts with a time capsule being buried by elementary students.  The teacher prompts them all to draw pictures to put in the capsule.  One little girl scribbles a bunch of numbers, but the teacher includes it in the capsule anyway.  After fifty years have passed, another set of elementary students has the honor of opening the capsule.  The pictures are passed out to the students, including the one with nothing but numbers.  This is the point in the movie where things get interesting.

Nicholas Cage plays a college professor and is intrigued by the paper his son brings home from school.  He figures out the sequence of the numbers and eventually determines what they all mean except for the last three that have not happened.  The first event that has not happened, he is on the freeway racing somewhere when a plane crashes.  At this point he becomes a sort of hero on the news and turns to another colleague for help.  Cage tells his friend he feels it is a race against time that is running out. I don’t want to ruin it for you, so check it out at the theater or on dvd when it’s available.