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Rosebud.
Dear Blockbuster, this is why you’re going bankrupt
21 year ago
in Movies, Open Letter
EDIT: As pointed out by a commenter below, Tron was in fact out of print and in Disney’s vault at the time I wrote this. That and my response below in the comments.
Last weekend, I went to one of your bigger stores in the area to rent Tron. You didn’t have Tron, not on Blu-Ray or DVD. One of your helpful employees checked, and none of your stores in the area had it, either. A cult hit with a major sequel coming out in just a few months.
I couldn’t find anything else on Blu-Ray that I wanted to watch (how is it that Netflix’s barely stocked Watch Instantly selection is better than your More >
Unforgiven sucks. There, I said it.
152 years ago
in Movies
Once upon a time, I held fast to the notion that I didn’t like movie westerns. I don’t know why, I just assumed I didn’t. I’d seen Tombstone, which sort of counts, but I didn’t love it as much as my friends. I mean, it has Val Kilmer dying of tuberculosis and Kurt Russel sporting a killer mustache, and that’s about all it has going for it. I didn’t hate the movie, but the fact that I had to google it to remember that Kurt Russel was the star in the first place should tell you the impression it made on me. And that was the only western I’d ever managed to watch, unless you count that one More >
The movies-by-mail dilemma
12 years ago
in Movies
I sincerely need help with this problem, and I hope reaching out to the depths of the internets can help me. We’re talking a Sophie’s Choice-caliber problem here, people: I am currently signed up for both major movies-by-mail programs, and I need to cancel one.
I’ve been a Blockbuster Total Access subscriber for a couple of years now, and for the most part, the mail service works great. Movies arrive within a day (or they did, before I moved and mail service got infinitely shittier at my new zip), and I generally get what’s at the top of my queue, except for the occasional rare item. But, More >
I, Robot, Tecate, and the art of product placement
0Let’s get this out of the way: the film version of I, Robot with Will Smith is a terrible, terrible movie. It actually serves as an example of everything that can be wrong with a movie: straying too far from the original source material, lazy and cliched writing, terrible acting, poor special effects, and inappropriate product placement. It’s this last bit that’s probably the movie’s most egregious sin, since the opening scene has Will Smith unboxing a pair of “vintage 2004″ fucking Converse high tops.
This picture would be a lot funnier if I hadn't downloaded it from fucking Converse's own More >
Guess I’m going to have to buy Aliens again…
1Black Friday last week was kind to me, as I was able to acquire a Sony BDP-S350 Blu-Ray player greatly discounted. I was quite unimpressed with my first shopping experience at Conn’s, however, which is like an electronics store staffed entirely with the pathetic salesmen from Glengarry Glenn Ross. A trip to Fry’s netted me a high-quality OEM HDMI cable for $7 and a 45 minute wait in line, and Best Buy’s sales graced me with BD’s of Pixar’s Cars and 300 - about opposite ends of the spectrum as far as family friendliness is concerned, but both great movies and excellent showcase discs.
My More >
An unnecessary distinction (also, porno)
4I heard a political ad on the radio this morning that was touting the efforts of a particular state senator’s efforts to protect the people from “child sex predators.” I was unaware that there were different categories of child predator, necessitating the distinction. Perhaps part of our financial crisis is due to child lending predators, running amok giving small children irresponsible loans? Or maybe they just didn’t want us to confuse them with literal child predators, like lions or an out-of-control hippo. And frankly, that’s a shame, because I don’t want a state legislator that More >
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