I seem to be cursed.
When I first moved back to NZ about 4 years ago, I was just beginning to start buying DVDs. Of course, my first purchases were only necessary items, such as the complete original Transformers cartoon series, but I soon realised that in order make my life complete I needed to replace my Quentin Tarantino video collection with all the special edition DVD versions available from the US. My first purchases were (of course) Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. All fantastic 2 disc sets full of all sorts of goodies. After that, I placed an order for the 2 disc sets for From Dusk till Dawn (one of favourite Tarantino related movies and probably my favourite Robert Rodriguez film) and True Romance. These were very exciting for me, because not only is True Romance chock full of bonus features, but BOTH boasted commentary from QT himself - something that was quite unheard of at the time as he doesn't do that for any of his movies.
Alas, dues to some stupid snaffu with Amazon that I will never understand, I never received that last order. I was pretty bummed and it pretty much stopped me buying Tarantino movies, as well as from Amazon (though I later resumed because DVD Empire stopped giving me discounts. Cheap bastards).
Until a few weeks ago, I finally got my butt and ordered the 15th Anniversary Edition Reservoir Dogs. Now I know some people will be like "But LOGMAN, you are awesome and everything, but do you really need 2 different versions of the same movie?" to which I reply "Of course I do, you simple fools! The transfer is reportedly vastly improved from the 10th Anniversary Edition that I currently own. AND it comes in a gasoline can-style case - LOGMAN doesn't ignore cool packaging for one of his favourite movies. At least, not for too many years anyways. Now go polish my chucks!"
And so, to make ordering this DVD worthwhile with the shipping, I also finally got around to replacing True Romance (even though I should never have had to)
But then of course what should happen? Like the Spice World DVD before them, they were stolen from my letterbox. Alas, no super cool Reservoir Dogs of supremacy. And once again, no True Romance for me to listen to Quentin Tarantino talk about how brilliantly funny his script was.
sigh
Oh well, I guess 3rd times the charm. Time to get me that darn From Dusk Till Dawn set too.
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How do you know for sure it was stolen and not just "lost in the post"? Can't you just say it never turned up and get Amazon to resend it? AND THEN WE'LL HUNT DOWN THE THIEF AND KILL THEM.
well the fist time i sent it was a very long situation; inlvolved me ordering something, then making a 2nd order containg True Romance and From Dusk till Dawn. however, because the 1st order was my 1st order amazon, they required all sorts of info before they would verify my order. HOWEVER they charged me for the 2nd and never sent it. i emailed them heaps about it, but they never fixed teh problem and i just forgot. this was seriously 4 years ago now
but you see, i came home one day to find a package for me on the ground - minus the contents. and then it happened again. and since this one has taken so long, i would assume it has gone the same road
Well, at least they have good taste?? Even if they are horrible criminals trying to ruin your very existence through unspeakable thievery...
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