Wednesday, April 6, 2016

This is something I started doing some number of years ago: reviewing whatever random movies that Wal*Mart was selling on DVD for a dollar.  I started reviewing them quite some time ago but trailed off.  I have quite a backlog to get through and I've thought about starting it up again.  Here's something I wrote about this when I started back in 2005 on a much different blogging site:

You know those bins at Wal*Mart that have the cheaply packaged DVDs selling for a buck? You've probably passed them by dozens of times, perhaps once just picking up a random title and then putting it back down in horror, wondering who on Earth would bother wasting their time with the dregs of the film industry.

Well, I am that fool! If you've ever seen some wierdo standing in that bin, wading up to his hips in utterly bizarre movies, then chances are you've seen me in my element. Yes, I'm the only person on the planet who not only can be caught browsing through those select titles, but actually makes it a point to buy half a dozen or so each time he's in Wal*Mart.

So I'll be posting my reviews of these things here from now on. (I've got quite a backlog, because I've already been posting them on Amazon.com. But don't worry; I'll stagger them so I don't flood your friends list.) Surprisingly, not all of the films have been awful. In fact I've seen some decent movies and even some solidly good movies who's only sin was falling out of copyright (usually due to the film company going bust or the laws governing foreign films being odd).

Anyway, I watch cheap DVDs so you don't have to.


One correction I should make is that not all of the movies were bad.  On the contrary, some of them were quite decent, but had the misfortune of falling out of copyright due to either age or bankruptcy of the copyright holder.

No comments:

Post a Comment