Traditional. Right now, the glasses make the screen too dark, and it's so easy to have the images blur around the edges that it's not worth the trouble. Plus, I wear glasses already, so it's just a little bit more awkward for me (though not impossible or crazy annoying) than the average 20/20-sighted movie-goer.

I've only seen one movie where I thought the 3D was genuinely worth it -- Kung Fu Panda 2. The 3D really highlighted the animation, and in particular, a shadow-puppet sequence.

Ok, two -- Werner Hertzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams is basically meant to be seen in 3D as well.

I think it's a format worth keeping, because it CAN be used thoughtfully, and I imagine the tech will always only improve, as long as someone's paying for it. The problem is studios now just use it as a gimmick.

The theater list on the website shows the following for 12/23/2011 opening:

Lincoln Square 15 + IMAX
700 Bellevue Way
Bellevue, WA 98004

AMC
Pacific Place 11
600 Pine Street Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98101

Reference:
http://www.focusfeatures.com/tinker_tailor_soldier_spy/theatres

If you're handy with software, I'd just find out what his favorite movies are, rip them, then use any decent DVD or nonlinear video software to set them on a loop.

You should be able to do that with Nero or Sony Vegas. I recall being able to do that with either.

Sounds silly to say, but I kind of like them all, for different reasons. I'm a fan of the full-length Kenneth Branagh film, because it is well-done and nicely cinematic, and because it is remarkable that he/they had the cojones to present the WHOLE Hamlet, uncut, which almost never happens, even on stage. The Tennant/Stewart one is terrific, I agree, and works especially well on the small screen. The Olivier is okay, sure, and his acting is gorgeous, though for older versions I'd probably give the nod to Derek Jacobi's take in those old Jonathan Miller Shakespeare plays: he's very good. This also features Patrick Stewart as Claudius, by the way, even though it was shot over 30 years ago, and it is interesting to compare his performances.

One that I have heard but not seen, but I understand is now available on DVD and I badly want to see, is the Richard Burton Hamlet. His energy and vitriol fit very well with the part, and the audio version I heard was fantastic: thanks for the prompt - I'm adding it to our Netflix queue. We've been on a Liz & Dick jag lately, so it'll be a nice capper. (No, Liz isn't in it - have to get Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for her Hamlet.)

Two of my favorite Shakespeare films of all time aren't even productions of his plays, but documentaries.

I've only used Netflix and Comcast's OnDemand for movies and I can say that Comcast is way worse, in my opinion. Maybe I'm spoiled with my lovely Tivo's fast controls, but Comcast lags quite terribly. Trying to pause or stop or fast forward are all awful. It'll eventually get done, but what a waste. Having used a friend's DVR through Comcast I found similar complaints. I feel like they've intentionally made their DVRs difficult/slow-to-respond so that you end up watching some commercials. But that's my conspiracy theory. My only real complaint with netflix streaming is that you can't put up subtitles/close captioning. But I think this is true of all the streaming companies.

Actually, I've rented a few movies through Amazon two years ago (I had some coupon codes) but these I've watched through my Tivo, so they worked fine (although the 24 hr expiration date is a bit lame. Once you hit play, it'll disappear within 24 hours so make sure you have time to finish the film).

Good luck!

Our Daily Bread is by far the most amazing thing I have seen related to food.

No intro, no story, no dialog, no voiceover, no music -- just a stationary camera capturing the sights and sounds of everyday food production.

Some absolutely amazing shots. For some reason the sequence with the gigantic field sprinkler system that unfolds itself like some sort of extra-terrestrial being always makes me giddy.

Or the lady whose job it is to cut the feet off of dead pigs. She sits on a stool with some powered shears and just lops pigfeet off all day.

If that makes you squeamish, skip the last set of scenes where they follow a cow from the field to the meatpacking line.

Which reminds me of another great food related doc: Temple Grandin -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/

The tickets availability will be announced in The Stranger and on SLOG. I highly recommend being near a computer within the hour they become available if you want to get a popular showing and buy all your tickets on one card or risk being separated from friends. You will most likely not succed on your first attempt to solicit tickets from the site but be persistent and they will be yours. This is coming from someone who has been the last three years.

The main girl turning into his son's girlfriend, to me, seems to be a reflection of the main character's subconcious guilt and unease with dating a younger woman... but I could just be over-analyzing.

The man in the bag is the manager of the Stone Fish bar the girl used to work at (which now is empty). If I remember correctly, there was a love triangle between the bar manager, the main girl character and another woman who worked at the bar. The end result was that the main girl character killed the other woman and mutilated the bar manager. His tongue and fingers were left in the bar and the girl dried and mounted his severed feet to boards --which she then gave to her crippled stepfather.

A lot of the main female character's background story is implied or told through tidbits of heresay, which can get awfully confusing.

I saw it back in the 70s, Kristen. It's a very strange movie. It was my first experience with Shelley Duvall as a lead. She'd been in Thieves Like Us - also an Altman movie, also strange - but didn't figure quite so prominently in that one.

Cissy idolizes Shelly and becomes Shelley while the administration of the questionable nursing home where they work bicker about things like 5 minutes worth of pay which I thought was hilarious at the time ("Do not punch in until you are dressed for work!"). Tuna melts. Shelley thinking she's some hot shit when its obvious to everyone (except Cissy) that she is not. Janice Rule painting an empty swimming pool with Aztec-looking demons with penises. It's Altman at his strangest.

You know Shelley won best actress at Cannes and won the LA Film Critics award that year (1977), right?

I wonder if I'd understand it more now than I did then. I was 25 and lived in West Hollywood when it came out and it was on the Z Channel twice a day, all week shortly after it has its brief cinema run. I got plenty of opportunity to watch it over and over with different people. Everyone was pretty perplexed it. Some were bummed. Some laughed throughout most of the film.

It is creepy if it's creepy to you.

I think it would be fine. There's nothing really sexual or otherwise profane in it. The violence is pretty cartoonish, befitting a movie based on a comic book. I'd take a 9-year-old to it, but I'm pretty liberal about what I'd let kids watch.

Go see Black Swan. I wouldn't say its all that scary but it certainly gets under your skin and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

The Life Before This

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178704/

Yes, Vicky, he does turn out to be the real Uncle Fester. He had been washed out to sea or something, and the mean psychologist lady found him and came up with the pretend-to-be-Fester plot to scam the Addamses.

We just watched both of these movies over Christmas with my nephews and they were really hilarious.

Being an expert on your childhood, I can definitely attest to the fact that it was Silkwood.

It's fucking awesome.

And, perhaps even more awesome, it reminds me of The Pixies.

I watch a lot of documentaries. I liked Exit Through the Gift Shop too, but I'm only about 88% sure it isn't a hoax.

This should get you started:

Alone in the Wilderness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437806/ 8.8/10

A guy lives by himself in Alaska and documents decades of his life out there, from building the cabin. There is a second part where he is much older and still living at the same place too. A must if you enjoy the outdoors.

Errol Morris - Everything.
http://www.errolmorris.com/

I am pretty much a whore for everything Errol Morris has ever done. From his recent IBM documentary on YouTube to his handful of NYT features, his entire First Person TV series (the one about Denny Fitch is simply amazing), and every one of his movies (Standard Operating Procedure being my fav); shit, I even like his commercials.

NOVA - Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives and Lord of the Ants
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

NOVA is an old favorite still airing on PBS and these are 2 good recent-ish episodes. The first is about the frontman of The Eels and his famous physicist father, the second is about a guy who knows "more about ants than anyone in the world" and they ain't kidding. All NOVAs are totally watchable. Same with NOVAScienceNow and Nature -- both on PBS.

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296362/ 8.5/10

If you're going to learn about Greek Mythology and the influence it has had and continues to have on contemporary culture, you should learn from the master. It's pretty much 6-8 hours of him lecturing; a tiny bit boring, but extremely interesting if you're at all into classics.

The Donner Party by Ric Burns
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104124/ 8.6/10

This documentary gets seriously fucked up. It's extremely well done. The best part about it is how much material they had to work with. Dozens of original letters are read by good voice actors along with a lot of visual material and it really draws you into a very dramatic story.

Bellevue Inside Out
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194691/ 7.5/10

This is about the psych ward at the Bellevue hospital in NYC. It follows a handful of very mentally ill patients and the doctors that treat them. The Bellevue Hospital is pretty famous and you'll hear it casually referenced in a lot of lyrics/writing from NYC.

Dark Days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/ 7.8/10

This is about people living under the streets of NYC in partially abandoned subway areas and various tunnels. It has a really good soundtrack done by DJ Shadow.

Our Daily Bread
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765849/ 7.5/10

This documentary has no interviews, no voiceovers, no questions, no answers; it is just a camera, lighting, and sound equipment put next to interesting steps in "where food comes from". It's not particularly gross or anything, it's actually quite serene most of the time.

Man on Wire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/ 8.0/10

I think this won an Oscar a couple years ago. It is about a very interesting French person who decided, in 1974, to tight rope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center. As you can guess from the poster, he was successful, and the story is pretty interesting; but mostly it's about the characters.

It was made for the movie but mirrored after a real film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/faq#.2.1.12

"Don't cross the streams"

as in:

Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

Like?
If you mean movies that explore unconventional relationships and have happy endings; Harold & Maude or Lars and the Real Girl
If you mean movies that explore relationships with fawked up people acting out via a relationship - Benny & Joon perhaps?
If you mean movies exploring BDSM & BDSM love, however dark it may get - Quills, Story of O& Blue Velvet
If you mean a story where sexy lovers try/work very hard to destroy one or one another, 9 1/2 weeks, Leaving Las Vegas or certain parts of Fight Club could qualify.
If you mean an office story with sex, Personal Services might turn you on.
Enjoy!

the Rankin/Bass Island Of Misfit Toys !
&
Gremlins
&
A Christmas Story (You'll shoot your eye out!)
...in that order.

also-
The Santa Clause, if you are high, is a pretty decent no-brainer treat.

seconded:
A Christmas Carol. The good costume-drama ones, not the assholic Jim Carrey or CGI/animated BS.

I can only take so much It's a Wonderful Life - so I try not to see it too often, but Capra/Stewart is a total FTW combo.

then of course, there's a damp dark spot in my heart for this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hankey,_the_Christmas_Poo