I Thought It Was a Movie...
I've just recently rearranaged my room at my mom's place, and now am in the process of sorting through all the stuff that I had stored away in different nooks and crannies. One of these such things is my collection of DVDs. Ever since I moved out of my last apartment they have been living in old paper boxes. I'm not sure if I have the room to properly lay them out here (or the energy to go through that, but I do at least plan on sorting through all of them and revisiting them. I have also decided that as I revisit them I want to make a new list. A while back I made a list of my top some-odd-prime number DVDs. Now I want to make a list of not necessarily the best films in the collection, but the ones that I would highly reccommend seeing at least once, just so you can experience them and say that you have seen them. So look for that along with my first attempts at posted creative writing.
Also, I know that DVDs are great and it was highly fashionable (and in some cases still seems to be fashionable) to have dazzling menus, with video and music/sound playing. That's all well and good, but it's also gets very annoying very quickly. If you are watching a DVD with a friend/date/etc. and you are talking after the movie or something, with the remote not within a close reach, it gets very very grating to hear the looped music over and over and over. It's especially bad when you do what I like to do and fall asleep to a film. You almost have to choose the film to sleep to based on what the title screen is like. God knows how many times I've had messed up dreams because of the title menu. Or worse yet, when I'm awoken by the menu. I'm not a happy camper when that happens. As anyone who has shared a bed with me can attest to, I'm not the most happy person when I get woken up. In fact I'm usually not coherent enough to be chipper, or pleasant at all, until I've been up for at least 30-45 mins. So when an annoying title screen wakes me up, or even when I just wake up to an annoying looping title screen, I start to develope a deep hatred for not only the title screen, but even the movie as a whole. The same basic concept works with my alarms. After having Zero by the Smashing Pumpkins as my wake up song for a good 4 years, I grew so irritated by that song that I still cannot hear more than 15 seconds of the song without clenching my jaw and grinding my teeth in hatred. So to future DVD assemblers, leave out the fancy title menus. If you're DVD really needs that to sell the film, then it just isn't a very good film to begin with.
PS - There is a rather humourous story behind the title of this post, which I will share with those of you who are unfamiliar with it later.