This is absurd, is it not? Two posts saying I am happy. The biggest problem is the lack of quotes for the subject. In each subject so far (few as they may be) I used a quote from somewhere, mainly games, most from Loom (great game). But when I need a quote to express happiness, I can think of none. That probably means all games I play are gloomy – or I cannot remember any happy things (which reminds me, I need to play Day ot the Tentacle again sometime). Or that means I do not play many games – which is far, far more probable.
On the actual subject. A few days ago, I was talking to a friend – whose name is not important right now – and he told me he had just watched “Gangs of New York” (and a funny cultural shock followed when he said it was the first time he went to the movies alone – which I most often do ["Why do you people never invite me anyway!?"]). He commented it was not the best movie by Scorsese, to which I replied I had not seen any Scorsese movies (which I later corrected – I had seen two). The reaction: “Not even Goodfellas!?” No, not even. So I was kindly suggested to watch it (“You absolutely HAVE to watch it!”).
FF to last week, and consider I do not have a car right now (someone hit me, did I not post about it? I may, eventually). Another friend wants to go watch Lord of the Rings 2, but he forgot all about the 1st movie. Plus his VCR is out of order (since 1999) and as you guessed he has no DVD player. So he invited me to go to the movies with him, but he asked if he could come over and watch The Fellowship of the Ring here. Okay by me, I can watch that as many times as it takes. But one day he could not, then the next he forgot, then he had no money to rent it… So I decided to rent it myself, since that is the only way I have of seeing The Two Towers anytime soon. But, naturally, all copies were taken – even the dubbed ones! Argh! Who would ever want to see it dubbed!? Oh, curses.
Under those circumstances, and since we had gone all the way to that bloody stupid disgraced hellhole called Blockbuster (all the 80 meters away from home), we decided to rent something else. And, you guessed, I got Goodfellas – and other two movies.
Plus, on the way to the counter, we walked by the shelf with DVD for sale. One last copy of LotR remained – and that was my early birthday gift. Fun, no? If you cannot rent it, just go ahead and buy it. Ah, no. I had wanted to buy it since it came out. And, the cherry on top, it is in widescreen format! I so hate fullscreen, I cannot possibly understand how people may like it – it is the same people who prefer dubbed movies, I am sure. And, as said someone in the Anime-br list, “the same people who buy DVD players and complain they have no RCA output”. Oh, wake up, people. And rebel against the stupid 60% tax on imports. Maybe someday you will learn.
Very well. Point is: I now watched Goodfellas, and indeed, it is a good movie, with a great soundtrack (but I still like Age of Innocence a lot more, of course, naturally, obviously – Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder in Victorian costumes – what else does mankind need?). And now I have The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD. But of course nothing is perfect: it has lots of goodies and “featurettes” (gods, I so hate this word), but it does not have any single lonely missing scene. “The scene, the scene, my lower incisors for the scene!”
In spite of that, all is great. And tomorrow I finally get to see Vertigo, and the day after probably The Two Towers. Then the world will be a better place – even if Blockbuster charges my immortal soul for it.
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