DVD Store Blues

"[The Time Warp]? I hate it! It's boil-in-the-bag perversion for sexually repressed accountants and first-year drama students with too many posters of Betty Blue, The Blues Brothers, Big Blue and Blue Velvet on their blue bloody walls." Tim Bisley, Spaced.

Those of you who have visited before (yes, I know you have both been here a lot, just work with me, oh, and ta) will know that probably my favourite show is Spaced. You will also know that nobody I know has seen it unless I have shown it to them, which makes my desires to either (a) quote it or (b) discuss it equally futile. Yet it does brinng to mind an issue that has been bothering me recently on a few occasions when at home, less than entirely well.

Why is there so much crap at the DVD store? Most times I go, there might be something I haven't seen yet that looks vaguely ok, but most of the time it is pure crapola with an extra serving of kaka. I end up gravitating to the Weeklies section with movies I have almost all seen before. Many of them are crap too, don't get me wrong, but at least I know there will be something there worth watching. That or I could watch Firefly or Spaced with the commentaries on. Again.

For the record, I only own one of the movies Tim referred to, although I may have 2 different versions of it and lobby cards for same movie. Maybe. And no, I don't have any Betty Blue posters. Unfortunately. That would so date me.