iTunes Movies
Watchmen
I watched Watchmen finally with iTunes. I like watching movies in HD but I don’t have a high definition television. I don’t watch TV much, rather I use the computer a lot and watch dvds, movies, tv shows all on the computer, like ABC’s LOST in HD. ABC has done an outstanding job with their HD program online. So I tried out iTunes with some hesitation as their HD movies are 720 instead of 1080 which is understandable for the file size. After downloading Watchmen, I was pleased with the quality at 720, it is not a huge noticeable difference.
V for Vendetta
Watchmen was an interesting movie. I enjoyed the dark and weird film. I had wanted to see the movie early this year when it was at IMAX but ended up missing it. It is not a movie for everyone, but I thought Jackie Haley who I never heard of before did an awesome job as Walter Kovacs aka Rorschach. Continuing the dark films I went ahead and also purchased V for Vendetta on iTunes and watched that as well and enjoyed it. This movie was even weirder than Watchmen. Natalie Portman played her part well. So it looks like iTunes will be my online movie rental / movie store for now anyway. It will be nice when movies are in full HD resolution which looks great on my 24″ monitor 
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I bought both of these movies rather than rent. Watchmen because it isn’t available to rent yet, and V for Vendetta’s rental price was $3 while to buy it was $10. Being so close in price I bought it, which is worth it in some cases. Watchmen was $15. At these prices it is the price of going to the movie theater to watch them but I can re-watch when and if I want to. iTunes is not a replacement for “going to the movies” but rather a movie viewing option.
