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Movie wtf?
Just got done watching The Brothers Bloom again.
For people who are unaware (which is probably a lot of people, seeing as the movie wasn't really big), The Brothers Bloom is about two brothers who are con artists. It has a Blue Brothers meets Ocean's 11 feel, to me at least, maybe with some Heist (the Gene Hackman film) thrown in. When it was out a friend wanted to go see one of those big summer movies that had a ton of hype but no actual quality, and I saw the summary for this one as I was looking through trying to find something better to see. Sounded interesting, and I talked him into seeing this instead. Ended up being probably one of my favorite movies of the year.
So where does the "wtf?" from this journal title come in? It was released on DVD today, and I was, naturally, excited to go out and pick it up. Then I discovered something so ludicrous that at first I couldn't believe it. The movie was released on DVD for rental only, with no date yet known for when it will be released to buy. What is this, the 1980s? Are we supposed to be yelling, "Hammer time!" and wearing parachute pants or whatever the hell people did before the home video market actually became viable? It's stupid! So in order to watch the movie I had to go down to Blockbuster and rent it (paying fully 25% of what it cost me to buy another movie that was released today, Monsters vs Aliens, to be specific) for a day and a half (it says 2 days, but it really works out to more of a day and a half). I find that to be incredibly irritating. I'm not at all clear on what the reasoning behind something like that is.
Anyway, if you're a movie renter, I highly recommend you check it out (don't bother reading the summaries on IMDB or other places if you want to find out more, from what I can tell they were mostly written by people who have never actually seen the film and have only the vaguest idea of what the plot was). Me, I'm going to go and fume a bit. *grumble grumble, rabble rabble*
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