I haven’t watched it yet, but I’ve downloaded the movie The Fountain to my Tivo from Amazon. This is one of those movies that I’ve been very curious about for a while, and at one point was very keen to see, and yet somehow I never managed to get to the theater to see it. Maybe the reviews undermined my desire, which is a shame. The director is the same guy who made Pi and Requiem for a Dream, both of which I greatly enjoyed. These are movies that really stick in your mind, and get under your skin. I wonder if this one will do the same?

The other interesting thing about this, as I noted, is that this is a rental download. It’s the first time I’ve tried something like this. I had heard about it, but I honestly hadn’t paid that much attention to this new service, but for some reason it clicked that the movies could download directly to the tivo. I checked the prices and they were comparable, or even a little less, to renting from the video store, and it didn’t cost anything else Ñ no membership fees or anything of that sort, so I thought, what the hell. Let’s give it a test. Now the one thing I didn’t do is monitor the download process to see how long that took. I started the process right before going to bed and then just checked the next morning and there was the movie. As far as I know it took eight hours and finished just before I got up. The other thing I’m curious to see is what the aspect ratio of the movie is. The Amazon website seems to be contradictory in how they have this detail labeled. It states 1.33:1, which is regular tv shape. However, it also states “Letterbox”. So which is it? I’ll let you know after I watch the movie.