So….went to Blockbuster at lunch today to “switch” my rental. I asked the manager if I could, and he asked what was wrong with it. I told him, that this wasn’t the movie that I thought that I was getting. He gave me the blankest stare you could imagine.
I launched into this story of not realizing it was R and not unrated, and that was what I wanted, but he didn’t have it, blah blah blah…he gave in, and told me that they really don’t do that, but he could do this just this one time for me. Thanks man…but come on…don’t make me feel like an ass for being duped and wanting something that they apparently weren’t even planning on putting on the shelf. I tried to engage him in conversation about movies, etc., ratings, but he wasn’t having it. I think that there should actually be some sort of qualification that, to WORK at a movie rental store…you should actually GIVE A CRAP about movies. Or at the very least pretend that you do. Anyway, I swapped it for Juno and left.
Now, I was on a quest…I thought…I’ll just go to Target and buy it…they didn’t have it…drove past Family Video…sure enough, they didn’t have it…drove over to Best Buy…looked all through their horror section…couldn’t find it. I saw all sorts of Dimension extreme releases…Storm Warning…13:Game of Death…unrated….what the hell Blockbuster??? The version I rented from you was R!!!!!! DONE with you dudes…well, never say never I suppose…
–Anyway, I did see Blue Underground’s new Suspiria release, and I only have a crappy dubbed VHS copy of this, one of my favorites…so I got that…and decided to look through the new releases…and sigh…there it was. Boy, this was a lot of build up, and I was hoping that I wasn’t going to get too worked up and ruin the movie because of heightened expectations…
I am on my way out with the bloody unrated Inside box, and Suspiria, featuring a woman’s body dancing in blood….when who do I see looking through the CD section? One of my pastors!!!! I was like…”oh crap” I can’t let him see me with these…how awkward would that be?!?!! So I ducked and commando shimmied over to the check out counter…expecting him to line up behind me and ask what I was getting….”oh, yeah, some gory horror movie about a pregnant woman being attacked in her home….no….it could be a modern classic….but…..come back……..!!!!!”
No dice…I escaped. So now I own the movie that Blockbuster/Dimension apparently didn’t want me to see…I am pretty pissed about that whole thing, and their weird “BLOCKBUSTER EXCLUSIVE” trying to force me to rent what they think I need to rent……now, if there were only a way to have bought this without money going to Dimension for their rotten tricks….oh well….I will be watching my movie soon, so in the end…that is what matters, right? But what a waste of time.
Of course, if I am scarred for life from what I see…I might have to blame Dimension and Blockbuster for not protecting my impressionable mind well enough…
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