Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by David Aiken (A) on March 23, 2007 at 14:17:50

In Reply to: Re: I disagree… posted by Victor Khomenko on March 22, 2007 at 20:17:48:

I didn't buy a ticket.

I waited till it turned up in the local video rental outlet and rented it out on a Tuesday when they have a regualar $1 overnight rental special for new releases. That's $1 Australian, roughly 78 US cents at the time. I figured that was as cheap as it was going to get to see it.

As for the why, I guess partly unresolved curiosity. Me experience with the book left me wondering what others saw in it and the movie let me see something of what someone else saw in it.

But probably the main reason was a sudden attack of stupidity and masochism. We all have them, you know, even though we don't like to admit it . Sometimes we just have to go and do something that we know—or should know—is not a good idea, like baking a New York style cheesecake to see if the recipe was any good (not a bad idea) but then eating almost all of the cake on my own. I'm getting too old to handle the effects of a whole cheesecake, even spread out over a week or so but memory makes idiots of us all at times. I have fond memories of the days when I could eat half a cheesecake at a single sitting. What I need to remember is the nowhere near as enjoyable fact that I'm older than that now and I should only bake cheesecakes for events where they will be shared and all I get is one slice.

Joking aside, however, I sometimes choose to watch a film or read a book just so I can say that I have seen or read it. Usually when I do so, I don't expect great things and I rarely find them but there are times when I am pleasantly surprised. It is good to experiment a little because we do find the occasional thing we like that we wouldn't find any other way and the occasional pleasant surprise is a great conditioning mechanism for keeping that willingness to explore alive.

David Aiken