When one represents that shrinking number of people who actually still rent actual DVD’s to watch (my Netflix queue is up to around 490), some things end up being a mild irritant that others would not even notice.
It is normal that when a DVD starts there are a series of previews of films that had just come out, or at least just came out in let us say 2006 when the DVD was made, plus coming attractions for films that will be coming out in the future, late-2006.
After pressing the menu key on my DVD clicker usually I am allowed to skip to the movie, every now and then it will not. This is only a mild problem EXCEPT when the power surges and the DVD player in the basement locks up until I turn it off and then back on. This forces me to go through the previews and coming attractions again.
This morning I returned to my watching the documentary Buck, more about that later, which is a Sundance Select film. It turns out that Sundance Select DVD’s or at least THIS Sundance Select DVD forces you to wade through all this preliminary stuff.
My immediate reaction was that perhaps here was a political metaphor, those on the Hollywood liberal left (but I repeat myself) forcing viewers to be under their control. However, Ellen tells me I over-generalize about such things so I shall not think that, at least when she is looking. But just between you and me …