(And Roberta says, “Yes yes, we know.”)
I saw Before Sunrise on TV a few weeks ago, and I liked it enough to want to see the sequel. So I added Before Sunset to my Netflix queue.
Except I just got a notice from Netflix that Before Sunrise has shipped. Fuck. Now I know why they put numbers in the titles of sequels.
This is like the time I tried to rent Edward Scissorhands and came home with Ed Wood. Hey! Not my fault! Same director, same star, “Ed” in the title, next to each other on the alphabetical shelf. Anyone could have done it! (Although the current mix-up is worse, because I actually hadn’t seen Ed Wood, and I ended up enjoying it.) A week later, I actually came home with The Lady Eve as intended, even though All About Eve and The Three Faces of Eve were right there. It was pretty stressful, lemme tell ya.
Oy.
My problem is not reading the fine print … I’ll see the display box that says “Kingdom Hospital episodes 1-3” on the shelf, I’ll grab the box behind it and see “Kingdom Hospital” but neglect to read the fine print that says “episodes 8-12” because somebody moved the boxes around on the shelves……
Ken, your mistake there is renting Kingdom Hospital in the first place, instead of The Kingdom (Von Trier’s original).
I have seen part of The Kingdom…. it’s amazing how close the casting of the King version came in appearance to the original. But I have to say that having watched the King version first, when I watched a couple of hours of the original I didn’t see any reason to watch the rest of it… I liked the King version.
You’re dead to me, Ken.
😉
I blog dead people……
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