I was at this grim Helsinki airport hotel two days ago and decided to watch an old horror flick on my laptop since Finnish television stations were running wolverine documentaries and cooking shows. I ended up renting Don’t Look Now for $2.99 on Amazon to figure out whether it really was an overrated piece of pseudo-art or a horror masterpiece. I’m still not sure either way, but the movie was interesting enough.
The hotel Wi-Fi was a bit dodgy, as usual — the movie stuttered three or four times during 90 minutes, though that hardly had an impact on the viewing experience. Yet two days later, Amazon sent me an email notifying me that they had reimbursed me the $2.99 rental cost because I “recently experienced poor video playback on Amazon Instant Video.”