More Thoughts of Halloween...
In my own perfect little world, my favorite thing to do would be to go downstairs into the movie theater, (120 inch plasma screen, 5.1 Dolby Digital / 8-speaker Surround Sound, half a dozen big plush easy chairs, a full wet bar with a complete candy counter and popcorn machine, and those neat little twinkley lights on the ceiling that look like stars when the lights are down) sit back and pull out a stack of DVD titles and spend an afternoon or an evening or even an entire weekend overdosing on horror movies!
As this is not a perfect world, I am stuck in my living room, on the couch, in front of my 10 year old 48 inch projection TV (which still has a great picture. I still love you my big TV! I do! I do!)
If you were to ask me why I am so nuts about DVDs, I would have to say it's the whole entire experience. There's the wide open option of choice. There are shows of all types now available. I can choose to watch a new blockbuster movie or several episodes of a favorite TV show with no commercials. I can watch anything from some rare and obscure cult movie to a great classic film with a print better than was ever shown in any public theater. I can choose to watch any of the tons of extras that the studios are digging out of their vaults and offering to us on DVD. And I can do all of this without ever leaving my big plush easy chair (or in reality, my living room couch)
And the very best thing of all is that there is no more video tape for a machine to eat! I can't tell you how blindingly pissed off I have become when one of my VCRs ate a beloved movie or rare show I had on tape.
And yes, I love going out, mixing with other human beings and having a great theatrical experience in those stadium seats, but these days, it's the audience that is usually the problem. Are you going to get an actual great night out at the theater watching a movie, or are you going to get stuck in a crowd of rude, obnoxious people who are not at all interested in anything happening up on the screen?
Okay, I've gotten off track here.
More Halloween preparations later...after the hurricane (yes, ANOTHER ONE DAMMIT!)
As this is not a perfect world, I am stuck in my living room, on the couch, in front of my 10 year old 48 inch projection TV (which still has a great picture. I still love you my big TV! I do! I do!)
If you were to ask me why I am so nuts about DVDs, I would have to say it's the whole entire experience. There's the wide open option of choice. There are shows of all types now available. I can choose to watch a new blockbuster movie or several episodes of a favorite TV show with no commercials. I can watch anything from some rare and obscure cult movie to a great classic film with a print better than was ever shown in any public theater. I can choose to watch any of the tons of extras that the studios are digging out of their vaults and offering to us on DVD. And I can do all of this without ever leaving my big plush easy chair (or in reality, my living room couch)
And the very best thing of all is that there is no more video tape for a machine to eat! I can't tell you how blindingly pissed off I have become when one of my VCRs ate a beloved movie or rare show I had on tape.
And yes, I love going out, mixing with other human beings and having a great theatrical experience in those stadium seats, but these days, it's the audience that is usually the problem. Are you going to get an actual great night out at the theater watching a movie, or are you going to get stuck in a crowd of rude, obnoxious people who are not at all interested in anything happening up on the screen?
Okay, I've gotten off track here.
More Halloween preparations later...after the hurricane (yes, ANOTHER ONE DAMMIT!)
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