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Stumpage Reports
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 :::
The Best Freakin' Movie in the World
A couple of days ago I received a free DVD player. My parents got it from accumulating points on their credit card. I plugged it in, and the blue DVD screen came up, so I assumed it worked. I didn't have any DVDs except for a couple CDR bootleg off the internet ones. The player is supposed to play them, but I was afraid to try, because if it didn't work, I'd sit and worry if it was the player or the CD. I'm happy to say it works.
I held out for two whole days before I went and bought a DVD. I had just spent a bunch of money on this, so had to wrestle for a couple days about spending some more entertainment dollars. Then I got a check from some health insurance I cancelled a while back, and it was off to the store.
Anyone who knows me well, could probably guess the first DVD I bought was The Great Escape. It is my favorite movie in the world, and I think one of the best. I've been watching it tonight, and I'm constantly struck by how economical the film is with its storytelling. Although its long (almost three hours), everything in the movie belongs and serves a purpose. It either advances the story, explains how the POWs are doing all this crap, or helps delineate a character. Sometimes all three at once. I could give some examples but don't want to go on that long. Too many movies today have so much obligatory crap in them, and most of them could end about 20 minutes sooner.
The other movie I bought is another great guy movie: The Wild Bunch. Its been about two years since I've seen it. If I remember correctly, the structure of the movie is like this: 1. Get in a shootout. 2. Escape. 3. Have a drink with the boys and have some fun at someone's expense. 4. Repeat until everybody is dead.
I also considered buying The Searchers, but could not determine if it was the widescreen format edition or not so I passed. I also had in my handsGoodfellas and the Errol Flynn Adventures of Robin Hood, but the two I ended up getting were bargain priced. I'll get those last two with my brother's Borders' employee discount.
::: posted by tom at 12:41 PM
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