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trollprincess, and I fangirl the apocalypse. But you knew that already. What you didn't know was that when I was browsing through the DVD racks at FYE today, I found a copy of The Day After and squealed out loud.
This, mind you, while an employee was standing right next to me. It's easy to explain a squeal when looking at Pirates of the Caribbean or A Knight's Tale or any Lord of the Rings movie, but it's kinda difficult to explain mindless glee over finding a DVD of a twenty-year-old TV movie featuring nuclear war and Steve Guttenberg.
I simply had to have it. I've never actually seen it (dude, I was six when they showed it on TV) but for fifteen bucks, I won't even care if it sucks. You know, just as long as there's lots of dead people when it's over.
Also picked up a few extra clothing bits -- underwear, a pair of khakis, a couple of tops -- and a pair of sneakers and a pair of fuzzy-soft tangerine flip flops (because the shoes were "buy one, get one free" and those tangerine flip flops love me). Then I stopped at the Hoffman AMC and picked up my Spider-Man 2 ticket for tomorrow. Since I got the last of the first showings, I won't even have to wait in line outside. (Although I will have to wait in the theater if I want a good seat, but as long as I bring my Alpha Smart and my minidisc player, I can kill all sorts of time.)
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to curl my hair and watch the planet get nuked.
trollprincess, and I fangirl the apocalypse. But you knew that already. What you didn't know was that when I was browsing through the DVD racks at FYE today, I found a copy of The Day After and squealed out loud.This, mind you, while an employee was standing right next to me. It's easy to explain a squeal when looking at Pirates of the Caribbean or A Knight's Tale or any Lord of the Rings movie, but it's kinda difficult to explain mindless glee over finding a DVD of a twenty-year-old TV movie featuring nuclear war and Steve Guttenberg.
I simply had to have it. I've never actually seen it (dude, I was six when they showed it on TV) but for fifteen bucks, I won't even care if it sucks. You know, just as long as there's lots of dead people when it's over.
Also picked up a few extra clothing bits -- underwear, a pair of khakis, a couple of tops -- and a pair of sneakers and a pair of fuzzy-soft tangerine flip flops (because the shoes were "buy one, get one free" and those tangerine flip flops love me). Then I stopped at the Hoffman AMC and picked up my Spider-Man 2 ticket for tomorrow. Since I got the last of the first showings, I won't even have to wait in line outside. (Although I will have to wait in the theater if I want a good seat, but as long as I bring my Alpha Smart and my minidisc player, I can kill all sorts of time.)
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to curl my hair and watch the planet get nuked.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:44 pm (UTC)This, mind you, while an employee was standing right next to me. It's easy to explain a squeal when looking at Pirates of the Caribbean or A Knight's Tale or any Lord of the Rings movie, but it's kinda difficult to explain mindless glee over finding a DVD of a twenty-year-old TV movie featuring nuclear war and Steve Guttenberg.
I simply had to have it. I've never actually seen it (dude, I was six when they showed it on TV) but for fifteen bucks, I won't even care if it sucks. You know, just as long as there's lots of dead people when it's over.
I don't think you can understand the impact of that movie. I was in college when it aired, smack dab in the middle of the Reagan era, and literally afraid that any minute there would be war with Russia. Ugly, horrid, everyone-dies nuclear war.
I watched it in the common room of my (now-husband, then-boyfriend's) dorm. There was a lot of booze drank that year. Monday nights, the campus pub was packed to the walls, all of us drinking to pretend that we weren't terrified. We laughed. We told jokes for months after (Manly had a sign on his door that read "Mutants for Nukes"), but there was a taste of fear underneath it that I still rememmber when I think about the film.