Random DVD stuff

[matrixrefugee]

Just in from Blockbuster, using the other of the free rental cards my mother ended up giving to me: I rented "Osama" yesterday -- have yet to watch it, though it's one I've been wanting to see -- and I got "Vanity Fair" today. They've been pulling some of their rarely-rented DVDs and putting them up for sale; lo and behold, but "Man of the Century" (aka. the movie that might as well be about Frank Sweitz the Jazz-Age Heroic Reporter) was one of them, so I snapped that up.

Thursday night (actually early Friday morning), I finally watched the deleted scenes on the "Constantine" DVD; pretty good stuff, though if you've read the movie novelization, it's pretty familiar ground (*very* familiar ground for me, actually, since I've kept the book within reach while I've been writing "The Smoke of Satan..." and "Changing of the Guard").


Of course himself was watching this with me: He happened to be passing through when I was slipping the disk into the drive on the computer, so he stuck around for the ...hell of it.

Re: the two different versions of the same scene with him and Ellie, his demoness sex-buddy.

C: "Well, she was prettier than that, but I suppose it's tough to find a mere human who'd look as good."

Me: "Did she have a tail?"

C: "...Yeah. Used to get a kick out of sneaking up behind me at Midnite's and winding it around my arm to get my attention. Read: scare the shit out of me."

Re: the bit involving his troubled past when his parents had him brought to an exorcist

C: "They fucked that up. Didn't happen that way."

Me: "Oh?"

C: "Nope. Only time someone jitters against their restraints during an exorcism is if they actually *ARE* possessed. I wasn't. Just lay there like a damn log, so the exorcist stopped and said it was a waste of his, mine and my parents' time. So my father asked, 'Then why in God's name does he see demons?' The exorcist told him: 'Your boy is a sensitive.' Of course my mother thought that meant I'd make a good exorcist, and I mean the kind with the collar and the commission. Of course the seminary wouldn't take me since they considered me too mentally unstable. Not that I would've lasted there a minute, anyway." ::Lighting up::

Me: ::Jotting all this down as notes::

And only ten days more till "Sahara" comes out on DVD. Let's hope "Deleted Scenes" translates to "more Lambert".

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[(Anonymous)]

Tel: Ouch. I feel for you mate. I've never had that sort of trouble myself since my dad's got the same thing (even though he won't admit it) but my great-grandad had a close call. Thankfully his parents (adoptive) couldn't decide between a priest or a shrink so Nan had time to do some damage control and persuded him that the stuff he could see was best kept to himself. In the end they put it down to an overactive imaination.

Me: You're being unusually vocal tonight.

Tel: I had something to say.

:wonders what the rabble would look like to John:
~Weaver