So yeah, let's start from the beginning. When I was little, there were these places called "video rental stores" that sold these things called "VHS"s and, later on, DVDs. Almost Famous came out in 2000, and the most I knew about it was that I couldn't tell the cover apart from..err...whatever in the world this is:
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Not that I even cared. Every time I visited one of these video stores as a kid my biggest concern was renting Pokemon The Movie 3: The-, Like the One with Entei and the Kid and Ash's Mom, Like Y'know, the Good One and trying to not look directly at the cover of Child's Play 3 because I didn't like getting nightmares.
So, yeah, fast-forward to 2014 and I've only heard peripheral stuff about Almost Famous. It's about a guy who meets the girl with the sunglasses that say "Almost Famous" on them and goes off and follows this band around or something and gets on the wild side of life and all that stuff, I think. Some people on the internet refer to this girl as a "pixie girl" which apparently is supposed to be bad but I heard it's a good movie anyway.
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Actual, unaltered screenshot from the film.
So yeah, also I follow Andrew Stanton on Twitter (like not in the traditional way, but I have some people's Twitters in my bookmarks despite not having a Twitter myself). I fucking love Andrew Stanton; he's my favorite screenwriter working today (yeah, I forgive him for John Carter) and I hang on every recommendation he has to offer. So yeah, one day he tweets about how much he likes Almost Famous (the theatrical cut) as he's revisiting it.
So yeah, I was curious. Since the only Blu-ray release was of the Extended Cut and the DVD was like $4 on Amazon I just ordered that. It was delivered, I put it in and after a few scenes I just...zoned out. I put it on mute (or maybe just really low volume idk) and did some computer stuff and when I turned around, it was like in the middle of the movie or something so I ejected the DVD and put it away for another time. To this day I've never felt in the mood to resume it even though I've heard it's on Netflix streaming now (though I think that was the extended version too, booooooo...).
haey oS, there you have it. I made a blog. Now that dude with Snoopy with the MLG shit in his avatar can make another blog entry without two of his entries next to each other. I expect you to donate 10,000 chewbucks to me for this. Pay up, sus.
-Tug
Not that I even cared. Every time I visited one of these video stores as a kid my biggest concern was renting Pokemon The Movie 3: The-, Like the One with Entei and the Kid and Ash's Mom, Like Y'know, the Good One and trying to not look directly at the cover of Child's Play 3 because I didn't like getting nightmares.
So, yeah, fast-forward to 2014 and I've only heard peripheral stuff about Almost Famous. It's about a guy who meets the girl with the sunglasses that say "Almost Famous" on them and goes off and follows this band around or something and gets on the wild side of life and all that stuff, I think. Some people on the internet refer to this girl as a "pixie girl" which apparently is supposed to be bad but I heard it's a good movie anyway.
Actual, unaltered screenshot from the film.
So yeah, also I follow Andrew Stanton on Twitter (like not in the traditional way, but I have some people's Twitters in my bookmarks despite not having a Twitter myself). I fucking love Andrew Stanton; he's my favorite screenwriter working today (yeah, I forgive him for John Carter) and I hang on every recommendation he has to offer. So yeah, one day he tweets about how much he likes Almost Famous (the theatrical cut) as he's revisiting it.
So yeah, I was curious. Since the only Blu-ray release was of the Extended Cut and the DVD was like $4 on Amazon I just ordered that. It was delivered, I put it in and after a few scenes I just...zoned out. I put it on mute (or maybe just really low volume idk) and did some computer stuff and when I turned around, it was like in the middle of the movie or something so I ejected the DVD and put it away for another time. To this day I've never felt in the mood to resume it even though I've heard it's on Netflix streaming now (though I think that was the extended version too, booooooo...).
haey oS, there you have it. I made a blog. Now that dude with Snoopy with the MLG shit in his avatar can make another blog entry without two of his entries next to each other. I expect you to donate 10,000 chewbucks to me for this. Pay up, sus.
-Tug