DVD rambling

[trinityvixen]

I was a good Browncoat yesterday and finally bought myself a copy of Serenity. I also picked up Stargate because it was criminally cheap ($6!) and I have still more monies on my gift cards. I'm going to return a copy of 28 Days Later because it turns out I do have the same copy (I thought maybe my mom had gotten me the super-duper version and I had the old one, but turns out this is not the case).

At least I have a receipt for this one. I can't return House of 1000 Corpses because it is apparently not sold by Best Buy any more on its own, and without a receipt, they won't touch it. I tried to then pawn it off at GameStop, and they were prepared to give me a whopping $1.50 for it. I may not want the movie, but I'll be damned if I sell it for less than the cost of a subway ride when Lord knows how much my mom paid for it. Maybe she'll find the receipt...

If not, anyone want to bribe me for it? I'm very susceptible to bribery.

It seems to me that it takes a particular lack of interest in a film to package a whole set of DVDs with the covers askew, as I found them at Best Buy yesterday. Stargate might not have been a hit film by any measure, but it's a respectable one, and it did spawn some wildly popular TV shows (or maybe they're just popular with ivy03). Anyway, I like it.

There was a girl buying Serenity at Best Buy last night who was very picky about the copy she took. I smiled at her, she didn't see it, but I smiled. And what kind of video store carries neither Airplane! The 'Don't Call Me Shirley' Edition nor Kentucky Fried Movie when I want to buy them? Damn it, I should have bought UHF while I was there, too. Oh well, if book group gets out early tonight, I will run down to 86th with the DVD to return and use up the last $20 in credit I have.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to see House of 1000 Corpses, but not enough to want to own it outright. I hear the sequel is really good, so I want to see the first one just to get to the second. You could try selling it on eBay or Half.com (same thing) or maybe Kim's...especially since it's shrinkwrapped. Or try returning it to another store like Circuit City that might still have it in stock.

I like Stargate! I've been meaning to get a copy for a while, but a trip to Best Buy now isn't the best idea for me.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I would especially avoid the place on this day of the week--it's new release day.

I avoided buying myself The Island. Unlike, say, Serenity, that one isn't worth paying $20 when I can probably get it cheaper online. Really, the only reason I go to Best Buy for anything is because I have these coupons and gift receipts. Otherwise, fye on its selection! Fye on its prices! Fye! I tell you fye!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

FYE???!!?!? Are you insane? They're the most overpriced chain I've ever walked into. In my experience, Best Buy has much better prices on DVDs.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean...fuck, I forgot that there was stupid chain called FYE. That's not what I meant. I was shouting a "RUINATION ONTO THE HOUSES OF YOUR ELDERS AND YOUR FUTURE OFFSPRING" at Best Buy, that sort of "fye."

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I think the word you're looking for is "fie." As in "Fie on Goodness!" my favorite chorus from Camelot, which I think shows what kind of kid I was. Not because it was about being sinful, no, because it was a chorus of a lot of men singing in a manly way.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, I was being all olde tymey with the y. Yeah, that's my story.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Now I keep looking at it and mentally pronouncing it "fwee."

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

And the y feminises it, anyway.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I win in perpetuity. :-D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You and Jen both, sheesh :P

Fye! A plague on both your houses, that sort of fye! It hasn't gone out of vogue yet!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

package a whole set of DVDs with the covers askew

See my previous rant about DVD packaging. Stargate the movie is a solid sf film, but it's no better than a dozen other generic sf films from Pitch Black to Fifth Element. If it weren't for the show, I probably wouldn't have given it a second look. Well, OK, maybe a second look, but only for geeky!James Spader.

I also picked up my copy for like $6. My favorite part of the extras is where they describe making the ka-woosh effect of the stargate. It's apparently an air cannon shot into a tank of water. The first time they tried it, they shot the air cannon at its maximum setting, which lifted the entire contents of the tank into the air, over four feet, and onto the director of photography.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what the makers of Thunderball learned about messing with rocket fuel. Really, I'm all for the "What the F, let's do it!" mentality of experimentation, but sheesh!

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Man...Serenity, 28 Days Later, Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, UHF...what good choices.

I wasn't a fan of House of 1,000 Corpses (Devil's Rejects was alright) but after all of those cult movies I think I'll have to let it slide.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Who even considers Airplane! cult anymore? It's a classic, is what it is. KFM, UHF, they're a bit more obscure, fine, but Airplane!? I made friends like my first week of college because we all loved that movie.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the terminology of "cult" movie varies. I suppose going by the standard that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is NOT cult, then yes, but then again if it has an espeically devoted audience there's that too.

=-O

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

You actually bought House of a Thousand Corpses??? How drunk were you at the time? Now it is a rare thing when I can't say anything good about a movie, and House of a Thousand Corpses is one of those movies. There was a reason why every store selling the dvds never had stocking issues with that one movie (except maybe overstocking).

Re: =-O

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

If you re-read more carefully, you'll see that my mother bought it for me. She went and picked up Land of the Dead for me for Christmas because I forced my family to watch Return of the Living Dead Part 5: Rave to the Grave over Thanksgiving. She knows I like-a the zombie movies, even bad ones. She was then ambushed by some overly zealous Best Buy guys who suggested a thousand other movies to her. They were 50-50 on good taste. I got 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead (2004) versus House of 1000 Corpses and Day of the Dead 2. Of all the ones I got, only Shaun of the Dead was one I wanted other than the one she got me in the first place.

She has really good taste. Unlike somebody I could mention who bought the DVD of The Crow: Wicked Prayer...

If you're going to split hairs.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

What?!?!?!? It wasn't like it was in theaters for me to watch or was coming on cable any time soon. I do pick up some lemons from time to time. But to be fair, House of a Thousand Corpses is far far worse than The Crow: Wicked Prayer. I can at least point to somewhat accurate living conditions of native american on reservations in The Crow: Wicked Prayer. House of a Thousand Corpses doesn't even have that =-þ

Re: If you're going to split hairs.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It does have the words "A Rob Zombie film" on it, and was apparently successful enough to merit a sequel of its own without already being part of a franchise.

I'm not defending it really--the stupid Best Buy guys probably really did just want to have one over on my poor mother and move unmovable inventory at the same time, but it wasn't her fault. She knows I like the Zombie's music, I like zombie movies, it was an honest, earnest mistake.

Buy a movie where the means of resurrecting Satan is to have Angel screw Tara Reid after killing John Connor...there's questionable sanity... :P

Hmmmm...

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Buy a movie where the means of resurrecting Satan is to have Angel screw Tara Reid after killing John Connor...

You know I thought that part of the movie was kind of screwed up. But when you put it that way, there is a strange sense of logic to it. A sort of opening the gateways to hell kind of ritual. John Connor, being the key to unleashing a machine hell on earth; Angel and the moment of passion issue to unleash the demon Angelus upon the earth; Sex with Tara Reid, lord knows what's been between those legs. You have to admit there is a strange and twisted sort of logic to all that ^_^