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2003-11-19

Please forgive me, but this enty is about this blog.I hate these just as much as you do, but I just need to get my thoughts down. Read something else.

I’ve been pondering back and forth about what to do, if I’m going to continue this in English or in Swedish. There are pros and cons in both cases. I write much better in Swedish, I have a lot more words to choose from. But alas, if one thinks for a second about the readers — this has nothing to do with the content of the entries, they would remain the smae no matter what — it will be read by my friends, family and a lot of boring wankers. If I continue to write in English, the same readbase will be able to follow, but so will a lot more people. Some of them will be boring wankers but I know that some of them will be rather neat people.

I thought we wouldn’t have to put up with this anymore. Trailers before the feature I mean. But no, someone must be difficult. I was a bit naive when I sat down to watch my copy of X2 (imdb). I expected the menu to pop up almost immediately. Well, it didn’t.

First we had the speaker reading the text on the screen, stating that this disc is not for rental. No shit? I thought and pushed the skip button. Deactivated. The thirty seconds of screen time felt as a lifetime and afterwards I was greeted by a block off trailers. This isn’t a VHS. Thankfully, here one could press the menu button on the remote. Praise the lord. (The trailers were for Master and Commander (imdb) (Peter Weir adapt Patrick O’Brian, it looks good. Yay.) and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (imdb) — and they were not local.)

This is the second DVD I have that does this. The first, Animal House (imdb), doesn’t allow anything during the trailers save for the fast-forward. There, you have to watch them. It is idiotic and not just a little a bit insane to force people to watch trailers more than once.

This means war. They’ve declared it and I’ve picked up the steel glove they threw in my face. I’ll boycott something. Like apples. Yeah, no more apples for me. Anyone with me? Anyone? Hello?

(Boycott Fox and Universal?! What are you, stoned? They have good movies and tv-shows on DVD for fuck sake. No way I’m letting a few trailers get in the way for those...)

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