Adventures in retail

[dvandom]

Two amusing things from today's shopping.

1) I was "carded" at Wal-Mart when I bought the King Kong Extended Edition. It's "Not Rated," which as far as Wal-Mart is concerned apparently means "hard R" regardless of what's on the disc.

2) Yes, there are morons camping out at Target waiting for the PS3. I say this as a hardcore geek...dudes, get a grip.

Comments

[veloxiraptor.livejournal.com]

My friend mentioned that the Extended Edition featured two new dinosaurs. Does it say that on the DVD case? I think that'd be a great bullet-point.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It's not a bullet point, but it does mention the Ceratops in the paragraph at the top.

[recharge138.livejournal.com]

Your post is right above Pic's talking about said camping for the Wii.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

There were actually people camped out inside the Livingston, TX Wal-Mart waiting for tomorrow's PS3 release- about a dozen of 'em.

(Livingston, TX had a population of 5,013 as of the 2000 census and is guesstimated to be about 6,500 as of 2006; it's the county seat of a county with about 45,000 people, the county being roughly the size of Rhode Island.)

[dedwardsauve.livejournal.com]

The business at the Canadian Icon I work at has doubled over night, because we're close to the local future shop and best buy and mall. It's actually about half resellers.

[lameazoid.livejournal.com]

It's so lame how movie companies kjeep pushing the "Unrated" versions of movies anymore. They used to call them Directors Cuts, or just Special Edition or "Extended version". Now the buzzword is "Unrated".

The hilarious part is that people probably buy these thinking "It's unrated, it must mean it's higher than R! BOOBIES!". The only reason it's "unrated" is that it's not the version that went before the ratings board really. Hell they could have CUT an hour of footage and slapped the label unrated on it.

You could make "unrated" Lion King and it wouldn't mean you're going tobe seeing some hot animated Lion on Lion action. Well, other than the parts already in that movie (http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lionking.htm).

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, Deluxe King Kong isn't actually pushed as unrated, it just has an NR rating because they didn't want to pay to get the extended cut re-rated. But yeah, most of the ones that put "UNRATED!" on the cover are trying to make you think there'll be tits. And Wal-Mart in general is scared to death that some 13 year old is gonna get his hands on a movie with titties and the parents will sue 'em.