Thursday, May 3, 2007
Critics corner
My weekend was much like any other, I visited the Rogers video to rent a movie. The only difference was I was unable to find the movie that I was looking for. This was the fifth video store that had said; "sorry sir, we do not carry that title. This disappointment made me travel across town to the blockbuster video to inquire about the movie there. Same result different reason; "sorry sir, due to the subject matter of the movie we are unable to stock it in our stores." All I could do was sigh and leave, through the same door as all of the happy customers. Seven rental facilities and not one of them carried this movie. The movie in question is a documentary from the makes of The Aristocrats and Idiocracy(both are must see movies.) It was quite a disappointment not only to find that the movies were unavailable at that moment but that the stores had not even heard of the movie. With my new grime outlook on the movie industry all I can say is; "what is the deal?" They seem to have 100 copies of the new movie staring Joe Action in a crime drama. This movie of course features Joe's stunt double more often that Joe himself. This abundance of crappy movies and they can not have 1 copy of the movie that I would like to see, a movie that many people would see if it was available. The reason for this is that the movie cost less than a million dollars to shoot, small budget films are not allowed to make big money. It is only a matter of time before the executives of these large film companies realize that these box office blunders are horrible for a reason, they SUCK. I would much rather spend my ten dollars watching a movie that makes me think about more than if it is possible to really hit someones head off with a baseball bat.I guess we will just have to be patient and wait for the billionaires to realize that the same old story is not entertaining. Oh what a glorious day that would be.
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8 comments:
I know which movie you are talking about sir and i do believe that eventually it will come out on the movie channels to watch, just like the aristocrats did. Have you tried asking them to order it for you?
"All I could do was sigh and leave, through the same door as all of the happy customers."
that was delicious.
you speak words of wisdom, mr langley. perhaps we shall start our own video-store, and offer only the most obscure of movies and pornography.for all ages.
why didnt you say waht the movie was? why dont you lets us all know.
Very nice Adam. I will admit I am a sucker for big epic movies, but I also agree that most of them are the same and get the subject matter gets quite boring after a while.
Dear adam
i liked the piece
I hate it when stores don't have movies that I want to watch.
I also enjoy the odd documentary now and then, as long as it is interesting.
Toodles
My pet peeve is that the video stores don't carry VHS anymore... I know it's obsolete, but what if I want to watch the original Dirty Dancing and it doesn't exist on DVD??? It's slightly ridiculous, and I understand your frustration.
I'm not going to lie, I don't watch many that many "thinking movies", but I do watch the Discovery Channel so I think it balances out nicely enough.
I'm also not going to lie about the fact that I almost didn't read your blog due to the fact that it was one gargazoid of a paragraph and I almost malfunctioned and exploded.
That's odd; I've seen the Aristocrats at Roger's, so it's surprising that they wouldn't stock something else by the makers of that film.
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