Found Treasure, times 2

While out for my walk early this afternoon, I happened to look down, under a bush, and saw what I thought was a CD. I picked it up, and it's a DVD copy of the movie Fallen.

Now, it's pretty scratched up, and there's even an 1/8" chunk missing off one of the edges. So it's not viewable, or even all that attractive to have and use as a coaster. But I stuck it in my jacket pocket.

I pondered. What I didn't get is why I found a copy of the DVD (no case) under a bush along a pretty busy road. I mean, even if you didn't like the movie (and if memory serves, I wasn't that crazy about it either), why would you choose the moment you're running down a four lane road to toss it out? Wouldn't your own trash can be a more appropriate place to put it, if you didn't care for it? Or perhaps the dumpster behind your favorite convenience store? Or in the automatic compactors that they have at my local Taco Bell? I'd like to hear what a bunch of DVD's in a trash compactor sounds like.

Maybe the person who lost it really didn't care for it, to the point that throwing what they thought of as a horrible movie onto somebody else's lawn was an equivalent of having their dog poop there.

Or maybe they put it under the bush to use as fertilizer. And now somebody's pissed off at me for having stolen fertilizer from them.

I guess we'll never know for sure.

But still, it's better than what you normally find along the streets of my town (beer cans, coke bottles, losing scratchoff lottery tickets and shoes....lots and lots of shoes).

I saved that DVD. It's unplayable, but I figured the roommate would want it. So I duct-taped it to his door, where he's sure to find it.

Lastly, I was returning my rented movies to the movie store, and I have one more that I want to recommend. Cabin Fever.

Now, I warn you. It's going to be found in the horror section, and it's got it's scary and pretty gorey parts. In fact, it's about a flesh-eating virus, and when I watched it, I wasn't actually in the mood for a really nasty, sticky, bloody movie (Why'd I rent a movie I wasn't in the mood for? Cuz I'm Stupid). So I decided that if the plot wasn't worth following, and it got a little too nasty, I'd just say screw it and go read a book.

It never happened.

I like Cabin Fever. Yeah, it's a horror movie. And yeah, it's pretty gross.

But I don't recommend watching it like a horror movie.

Watch it like the black and absurd comedy that it is.

First, its main character is played by Rider Strong, who played the best friend on that Boy Meets World show, and whose name sounds like he should be in porn. And time will tell. Name is destiny, my friend.

There's a woman who beats up a dead pig.

And there are hillbillies. And Cabins! A bit like the Evil Dead Cabin, but with no demons...only flesh eating viruses.

And then there's the little kid who starts ranting about pancakes and doing kung-fu at one of the characters for NO REASON!

And the biggest physical villain is a really ferocious dog....and as a bit of trivia, the first dog they hired to play the ferocious dog yielded about two minutes of usable footage, owing to it's being both fat and amiable. They hired a police dog, which ended up being so ferocious that they couldn't actually film it with any of the actors.....

Joe Bob Briggs would have liked this one.

I say again. Watch Cabin Fever, but watch it as a comedy. An especially gorey comedy. And actually, that's kind of what I think the makers of the film went for, and the movie got a bit mis-handled in its marketing.

(Watching the movie half-lit couldn't hurt, either).