Post by london777 on Mar 25, 2021 3:33:49 GMT
I am on a desperately tight budget. Films, soccer and women were my only interests but, through finances and health, women are now off the schedule. I share my landlord's cable TV service for a pittance and that offers me as much soccer as I can cope with. So some of my meagre spare cash goes on buying used DVDs from Amazon. By checking fairly frequently, it is amazing what bargains can be had. I have acquired 30-odd Criterions for under $10.00+p&p. I cannot buy from eBay because my bank card is registered to my UK address so they will not ship here.
My lucky break came when I discovered that one of the shoeshine guys on the boardwalk who works for US$0.50 a time is an IT wiz and can track down many obscure movies for me through torrents for US$5.00 a time. He gives them to me on a memory stick. All I need now is a smart TV.
One thing I do not miss is watching movies the "proper" way, i.e. in a cinema. I had already given that up twenty years before leaving the UK. I could not stand the other cretinous spectators moving about and making a racket and I hated not being able to control the volume, which was usually too loud and blurred. I am not much into big-screen spectaculars so I rarely feel I have missed out.
My lucky break came when I discovered that one of the shoeshine guys on the boardwalk who works for US$0.50 a time is an IT wiz and can track down many obscure movies for me through torrents for US$5.00 a time. He gives them to me on a memory stick. All I need now is a smart TV.
One thing I do not miss is watching movies the "proper" way, i.e. in a cinema. I had already given that up twenty years before leaving the UK. I could not stand the other cretinous spectators moving about and making a racket and I hated not being able to control the volume, which was usually too loud and blurred. I am not much into big-screen spectaculars so I rarely feel I have missed out.