Wow! I waited less than a month this time!!! Just wanted to post a quick pet peeve...
Now, in my approaching old age, I suppose I've come to accept the fact that many people - okay, most people - tend to have opinions that differ from my own. Keep in mind, I said accept, NOT understand. While I might find this entire concept both offensive and confusing, it is apparently the way of this cruel, cold little world.
Recently, my mother, god bless her, bought her first DVD player. To go along with this purchase, she picked up several movies, none of which she'd ever seen. Of course, I love my mother, but why the heck would you buy DVDs of movies you've never seen??? Why not buy something you know you love, such as, in my mom's case, Titanic or, I don't know, Steel Magnolias (the quintissential "mom movie") or something?
"Because I hate watching things more than once."
Jeez! Why buy DVDs at all then? Why not just use this DVD player you got for rentals??? Alas, I learned many moons ago that logic does not apply to arguments with my mother, and that I will always lose said argument, no matter what. So I let it drop.
However, one of the movies she got was Sideways, something from last year I'd heard wonderful things about but'd never gotten around to seeing myself. So, noticing that after a good two months it still had the plastic wrapper on it, I took it home and watched it last night.
What a wonderful, beautifully-told story! Great writing, directing and acting all around. Accept. Well, it was in FREAKING FULL-SCREEN!!!
Yup, that entire lead-in was just for me to bitch about stupid full-screen DVD's.
Why do they still produce these atrocities? Why? Obviously, their sales justify their production. So, who, aside from my mother, god bless her, buys them? Apparently, the majority. So, the majority of you purchase DVDs in which 1/3 of the total screen image is cut out. Just because you don't like the "ugly bars" on your screen.
Well, if there's any justice in the world, at the very least you're all buying Kangaroo Jack in full screen. Because you all deserve to watch it over and over again as punishment for your lack of taste.
Now, in my approaching old age, I suppose I've come to accept the fact that many people - okay, most people - tend to have opinions that differ from my own. Keep in mind, I said accept, NOT understand. While I might find this entire concept both offensive and confusing, it is apparently the way of this cruel, cold little world.
Recently, my mother, god bless her, bought her first DVD player. To go along with this purchase, she picked up several movies, none of which she'd ever seen. Of course, I love my mother, but why the heck would you buy DVDs of movies you've never seen??? Why not buy something you know you love, such as, in my mom's case, Titanic or, I don't know, Steel Magnolias (the quintissential "mom movie") or something?
"Because I hate watching things more than once."
Jeez! Why buy DVDs at all then? Why not just use this DVD player you got for rentals??? Alas, I learned many moons ago that logic does not apply to arguments with my mother, and that I will always lose said argument, no matter what. So I let it drop.
However, one of the movies she got was Sideways, something from last year I'd heard wonderful things about but'd never gotten around to seeing myself. So, noticing that after a good two months it still had the plastic wrapper on it, I took it home and watched it last night.
What a wonderful, beautifully-told story! Great writing, directing and acting all around. Accept. Well, it was in FREAKING FULL-SCREEN!!!
Yup, that entire lead-in was just for me to bitch about stupid full-screen DVD's.
Why do they still produce these atrocities? Why? Obviously, their sales justify their production. So, who, aside from my mother, god bless her, buys them? Apparently, the majority. So, the majority of you purchase DVDs in which 1/3 of the total screen image is cut out. Just because you don't like the "ugly bars" on your screen.
Well, if there's any justice in the world, at the very least you're all buying Kangaroo Jack in full screen. Because you all deserve to watch it over and over again as punishment for your lack of taste.
posted by Neil_spurn at 11:45 AM
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