Bootlegs
Dubai is floating in bootleg movies. Guys come door-to-door peddling them. My favorite thing about bootleg movies is that the FBI warning against bootlegging is still prominently included, as if to say, "Screw you FBI."
The better ones are just copies of existing DVDs, so the quality is good – "Mean Girls" fell into this category. The bad ones are movies that are playing in theaters right now in the U.S., like "Coach Carter," which I watched recently. These are obviously created with video cameras in movie theaters. In the climactic basketball scene in "Coach Carter," I could never see the game's score, because the idiot bootlegger didn't center the screen right.
By the way, I want to apologize to Tina Fey, whom I love love love, for watching a bootleg copy of her movie. I didn't mean to take money out of your pocket Tina! I just had to get to sleep somehow after Pet Sematary! I still love you!!
The better ones are just copies of existing DVDs, so the quality is good – "Mean Girls" fell into this category. The bad ones are movies that are playing in theaters right now in the U.S., like "Coach Carter," which I watched recently. These are obviously created with video cameras in movie theaters. In the climactic basketball scene in "Coach Carter," I could never see the game's score, because the idiot bootlegger didn't center the screen right.
By the way, I want to apologize to Tina Fey, whom I love love love, for watching a bootleg copy of her movie. I didn't mean to take money out of your pocket Tina! I just had to get to sleep somehow after Pet Sematary! I still love you!!
posted by Eric at 5:16 AM
6 Comments:
I have figured out your new career when you come back to the states. Take over Tina Fey's job and write for SNL. People think I am nuts at work because I just crack up at your blogspots. They are hilarious!!
Thank you for that!
Hugs from DC,
Cuz and cuz-in-law
Don't drag Tina into this! Tina, if you're reading this, my cousin was just kidding.
The only thing wrong with Mean Girls is that the meanest girl is named Regina. What did you think about that? Aunt Betty
I thought it was absolutley outrageous.
These bootlegged video's/DVD's, do you know whether Jerry Seinfeld and that friend of Kramer's produced them? Apparently, they did good work, according to one of the episodes.
I don't know. Excellent question though. My favorite movie-related Seinfeld moment is Kramer spilling the latte down his pants.
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