The Ulysses Of DVDs


......the horror.....

By Darryl Mason

Netflix (DVDs mailed to your home) is doing king hell business, mostly because so many Americans are realising they can no longer afford to go to the cinema. Some users, however, would be better of just buying discount DVDs in the first place.

But Netflix, like the bounty of very borrowable books to be found in libraries, also has its downside.

There are certain movies that become like certain books, you have a copy, it sits around in your eye line for months, but you can never muster the enthusiasm to get into it. And there it stays, taunting you, and you soon begin to hate it being there, anywhere in the house, reminding you of the fact that you once actually thought, 'Yeah, I would love to get into this, what a great way to spend a Saturday night at home'.

Disgust and then shame usually follows the initial hatred of that book or DVD you can never bring yourself to read, or watch.

The couple in the following story are in well in tune with those emotions :

“I had ‘English Patient’ for more than six months,” Mr. Marino confessed. “It was an insane amount of time.” He recalled starting the same discussion with his wife, night after night, as they flipped among the five DVDs from their Netflix subscription. “Do you want to watch this? Do you want to watch this? Do you want to watch ‘English Patient?’ ”

“No,” was the response he got.

Soon, Mr. Marino could not even get the full title out of his mouth before it was shot out of the sky like the English Patient himself.

“It was like, ‘Eng — —’ ”

“No.”

“It just sat. My wife thought it would be too depressing. I’m like, ‘When are you going to be in the mood to watch it?’ She’s like, ‘I don’t know.’ ”

Eventually, it was returned unwatched.

The English Patient is the Ulysses of DVDs.



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