This week I had the pleasure of watching The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on digital download. I have to be honest, I was really impressed. Not just with the movie, but the format of digital download is fantastic!
I guess I had it in my brain that digital downloads were a pain in the neck or not very functional, I was very wrong. I went to the Fox Digital HD site, I received a code and then went to Google Play, entered my code and that was it. I have a brand new HD movie that I can watch wherever I go. The other cool thing is that you can download these movies weeks and weeks before they come out on Blu-ray. I travel a lot! So being able to carry all my favorite movies on my tablet (My tablet goes everywhere with me) is going to be awesome. I’ve actually started a collection that is going to accompany me on four or five trips between now and this summer.
The actual movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, was really enjoyable. The film centers around 40-ish daydreamer, Walter Mitty, who has never really traveled anywhere or particularly done anything. He has elaborate scenes that play out in his mind, but that’s as close as he ever comes to overcoming his fears and really living life. With his job in jeopardy and the encouragement of a female coworker, Walter embarks on an adventure that most people only dream of and eventually finds the man he never knew he was. This movie has a great cast including Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam Scott and Shirley MacLaine. Ben Stiller also directed. This is a really heartfelt movie about finding yourself by overcoming your fears and living your life to the fullest.
When I first started traveling I had to get over my fear of open water. My wife loved to snorkel and it was something I said I’d never do. I hated being underwater and not having control of my surroundings. I didn’t know when a shark was gonna sneak up and bite my face off!!! Finally I manned up and tried it. It’s now one of our favorite family activities and it makes me laugh that I was once scared to try it. We should all take a page from Walter Mitty, it’s never too late to try something new!
A wise person once said, “It is better to have tried and failed, then to have never tried at all.”
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I received a digital download of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. All opinions are my own.