It turns out my local video store didn't actually have the movie; they used to, but it's now marked as \"NIS\" in their lookup system. \"What's NIS?\" I asked Annoying Video Guy. \"Not In Stock,\" he said. \"Does that mean someone's rented it, or the store doesn't own it?\" I said. \"It means Not In Stock,\" he said.<\/p>\n
I don't make New Year's resolutions, but I made a tentative one tonight: spend less time in situations that are likely to result in annoyance and irritation for me. I think I'm going to stop going to my local video store, even though it's an independent and within walking distance, because this one clerk is so damn annoying.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I got the movie at Blockbuster, which also lets me rent movies for nine days (rather than a maximum of five), is open 'til midnight or 1 a.m. every night, and is only a five-minute drive from my place. I hate to support big chains over small independent stores, but one of the advantages independents are supposed to provide is better and friendlier and more knowledgeable service; that's not the case with the store I can walk to.<\/p>\n
So. Rocketeer<\/cite> is still fun, and it still has probably the worst bluescreening I've ever seen in a movie. Timothy Dalton chews the scenery appropriately as Bill Campbell, btw, was apparently the second choice to play Riker. Think how much better (or at least better-looking) ST:TNG<\/cite> would've been with him instead of Jonathan Frakes!<\/p>\n I always forget that Campbell also played Jon Fielding in various Tales of the City<\/cite> miniseries.<\/p>\n He was 30 or so when they made Rocketeer,<\/cite> but looks about 20 to me.<\/p>\n Anyway. The real point is that I now remember how the climactic action sequence goes, so anything I steal from it will be intentional rather than accidental.<\/p>\n What am I doing awake? I really must go to bed. G'night!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It turns out my local video store didn’t actually have the movie; they used to, but it’s now marked as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Errol Flynn<\/strike> oh, sorry, I mean \"a swashbuckling charming big-name actor with a thin mustache who of course is in no way meant to represent Errol Flynn\" (a web page suggests that he's also modeled partly on Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., which I guess is plausible, but he has more in common with Flynn); there's plenty of retro-pulp nostalgia moments; Bill Campbell in the lead role is gorgeous, and a pretty good match for how the character looked in the original comic book; Jennifer Connelly isn't at the top of her form (or of her looks; a bit too much makeup), and she doesn't look like Betty Page (who the original comic character of Betty was modeled after), but she isn't bad by any means.<\/p>\n