Thursday, February 18, 2010
When Stupid People Rent Movies: The Sequel Guy
10:42 PM
The video store I work in seems to have some of the most clueless members to EVER hire movies. These are some of their stories.
This particular sad-sack, let's call him Steve. Steve... well he only rents sequels. He NEVER watches the first movie in a series, only the sequels. The gems he chose to rent today were:
Ripley's Game (sequel to The Talented Mr Ripley)
Skulls 2 (rich white boys who can't act take two)
Scream 2 (Neve Campbell.... enough said)
Butterfly Effect 2 (without Ashton... so might actually be better??)
and last but not least..... Basic Instinct 2 (ONE OF THE BIGGEST WASTES OF MONEY AND FILM TO DATE!!!!!!!)
I asked him why he only ever watched the sequels to movies and never the first movie itself......... and he looked me in the eye, and dead serious he said "I find sequels to be better films, they are made better then the originals so I just don't bother with them."
Just....................................... wow.
It would be one thing if he was hiring some of the few TRULY great sequels like Godfather 2, Aliens, Terminator 2, or Kill Bill 2..... which to be fair was just the second half of the Kill Bill movie really, so im not sure it counts.... but that's getting off topic.
It just stuns me on a daily basis how beyond moronic some of these people who rent movies are, and the fact that they have NO TASTE! Geeze....
This particular sad-sack, let's call him Steve. Steve... well he only rents sequels. He NEVER watches the first movie in a series, only the sequels. The gems he chose to rent today were:
Ripley's Game (sequel to The Talented Mr Ripley)
Skulls 2 (rich white boys who can't act take two)
Scream 2 (Neve Campbell.... enough said)
Butterfly Effect 2 (without Ashton... so might actually be better??)
and last but not least..... Basic Instinct 2 (ONE OF THE BIGGEST WASTES OF MONEY AND FILM TO DATE!!!!!!!)
I asked him why he only ever watched the sequels to movies and never the first movie itself......... and he looked me in the eye, and dead serious he said "I find sequels to be better films, they are made better then the originals so I just don't bother with them."
Just....................................... wow.
It would be one thing if he was hiring some of the few TRULY great sequels like Godfather 2, Aliens, Terminator 2, or Kill Bill 2..... which to be fair was just the second half of the Kill Bill movie really, so im not sure it counts.... but that's getting off topic.
It just stuns me on a daily basis how beyond moronic some of these people who rent movies are, and the fact that they have NO TASTE! Geeze....
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- Grace C
- I love movies, and for over 5 years I worked at a video store somewhere in the depths of Auckland so I could be close to my precious movies & rent those bitches for free! However, I have since moved on. But even after moving on from the store I still have a load of video store stories of crazy customers and random happenings to talk about!!