After the success of watching Home Alone with the children over Christmas and more recently Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (the original) I started to think of other films I loved as a child that I could share with them.
Without thinking it through, a few weeks ago, I purchased Uncle Buck on Ebay for just a few golden coins. Friday night is movie night in this house, I put it on and went about my business. It was only ten minutes later that The Husband pointed out that so far he had counted three ‘shits’, two ‘son of a bitch’s and one ‘asshole’.
Regardless the 5 year old loved it and (fingers crossed) has not yet uttered the word ‘shit’ loudly in school. Needless to say, I will not be letting them watch it again until they are older … and I will be taking notice of age certificates when I make future Gung Ho film purchases.
This brings me to my next childhood film obsession … the Star Wars trilogy. According to my sister I watched the first Star Wars film every day for a year when I was five. If you think that’s sad she could speak Ewok.
Eager for the children to watch it … and maybe more eager to watch it myself (my first love was Hans Solo) I started scouring Ebay and excitedly found a beautiful boxed trilogy DVD set.
Some of you may have shared my excitement on Twitter as I became a woman possessed counting down the minutes till the auction ended and I would be reunited once more with Chewbacca’s dulcet grunts.
I proudly told The Husband what I’d bought and like most husband’s he wanted to know how much it cost (£14.75).
I had the following sarcastic response …
Dave W bought the DVD box set from Morrisons for £5.00 brand new. Nice work, Ebay queen.
I tried telling him this was a special edition in a beautiful box only to be told …
I’m sure it will be worth every penny. Maybe it has gold leaf in the box 1? Or maybe George Clooney has farted inside box 3. Box 2 will probably be empty. Or a US region disc. Or Debbie does Dallas.
That’s when I realised how lucky I was, what a bargain I have indeed got. I bet Dave W’s £5 box set from Morrisons doesn’t have the sweet smell of George Clooney’s undercarriage permeating box 3.
12 Comments on "It’s going to be worth every penny …"
Reading the blogs today I realise I really am a cheapskate. I just get old films for daughter to watch from lovefilm and then send them back. We’re onto Indiana Jones at the moment.
Buck Melanoma
And no, this comment is not too short.
Absolute classic. You see, this is why I was so desperate to get back. I missed The Madness of Laura x
I thought you were going to tell The Husband:
“Here’s a quarter. Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.”
sorry but lol at your hubby
George Clooney’s butt odour? wow, what a steal!
Men just don’t understand, do they!
I LOVE Star Wars & paid around £50 for the special edition trilogy, holohgraphic box set when it came out a few years ago. Whatever it costs it’s worth it. I can’t wait for Sam to be old to enough to get into it.
Of course my husband (who hates it) says I’m a loser…but he’s the one who’s really lost out.
I’m not sure I’ve seen our tv pre-bedtime since TB first saw star wars
We have the Star Wars thing going on, but I’m opting out. I’m leaving it all to daddy.
Did he say well that’ll learn you -I get that.funny post.
This ill be the start of a never ending star wars obsession. We got the vid’s out of the loft and the old player and they wore them out, I ended up buying it all on DVD.
It has made us all love Star Wars again