Be Excellent To Each Other

On the Friday 6th April, the Prince Charles Cinema (on Leicester Square, London) will be showing the four Alien films, back to back, in one night.

Doors at 18:20, ends at 03:15, £25.

Who's with me?

http://www.princecharlescinema.com/even ... chor=alien

Note that the sixth is Good Friday.

BOLLOCKS. I've got to drive up to Scotland the following day.

2-3 hrs down to London on the Friday afternoon. 2-3 hrs back on the (early Saturday morning) and then a 4-5hr drive to Scotland... silly idea?

Yes. What are you going to Scotland for?

Visiting my brother and his family in Clydebank.

Going to Scotland? No comment

yes

Shift it, or train it.

No go I have the kids.... arse!

Gazchap it'd be a good excuse to get the sleeper train from London to Glasgow see, which is great fun.
edit: oh, ends at 03:15 - never mind then.

Can't shift it unfortunately, the rest of the family are going up too.

Train would be prohibitively expensive

And I can't go direct from London to Clydebank as I'd have to pick up MrsChap on the way.

Ah well, never mind.

It should be noted that the 6th is Good Friday, so it's a bank holiday.

Sounds great, but I have been told I already have (secret) plans.

I fly to Bangkok that night, unfortunately.

Put plenty of goose fat on your arms.

What he does when he gets to Bangkok is his own business.

Cheaper more convenient option: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alien-Quadrilog ... 0000C24F3/

I'm going to be dressed as Adam Ant in a club in Blackpool that night, sorry.

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Which reminds me, I need to order a wig.

Bah, was going to invite you to Sam's gig that night.

I'd have liked to have gone.

I thought it was already established that we weren't willing to pay to watch films?

His first one's on 24th, but I know you're busy then too. By the time you get to see him play he'll be rich and famous.

Let me know as soon as the next one is booked, so I can ink it in.

Will do.

FUCK OFF QUADRILOGY CUNTS

I'm at an orbital gig the night before so will be deaf, hung over and asleep. I'm supposed to be going to north Wales to see family at some point over that weekend too.

Considering how mostly we are a bunch of sad internet losers, it's pretty ironic that the weekend this is on, everyone seems to be doing stuff that is vaguely interesting instead!

Do you object to the word 'Quadriology', or the films being on DVD?

It's all to do with a number.

I object to the films being on DVD. They should be on Blu-ray, like my copy.

I OBJECT TO THEM STILL BEING ON FUCKING SALE!

I have the Anthology, if that makes you feel any better?

Does it have a number on it? DOES IT?

CUNTS!

Does it have a number on it? DOES IT?

CUNTS!

I'm confused. What is the problem?

I think it was originally released as a limited edition, which Grim... bought. Only they're still selling it.

When the Quadrilogy first came out it did so in a numbered set (of 10,000 worldwide, I think). It wasn't exactly cheap if you were a fan and a collector - especially if you wanted one to leave sealed and one to watch, which I did.
When they turned out to be absurdly popular, it appears the people making them "forgot" that they were a limited run, and just kept making them.

NINE YEARS LATER and you can get them for a fiver.

I. AM. CROSS.

You're a sucker for believing a limited edition of something with mass appeal would be worth something in a few years time. Even if only 10,000 were made that's still a lot to command a collector's price, particularly when new collector editions are released all the time. An original big-box complete FFVII is quite rare but even so they're only worth between £40 and £50.

And no shock that a retailer would choose to profit on their own profit rather than let a consumer do it

I'll shop around then, bet I can get it for way less than £15. Ta!

In other news, the Akira Limited Edition VHS is still available.

Probably.

Got this from GazChap two years ago for Christmas, £8 it was at the time. What a generous soul

Um... Are you sure?

It's not even called Quadrilogy - I thought I'd be safe from your bilious rant.

I have the Blu Ray Anthology. It was really very cheap and really very easy to get hold of.

That's what I have, yes.

Yes. Modern 'limited editions' aren't really limited or exclusive. There are usually so many re-releases and versions of a thing now that any one particular instance isn't really more valuable than the next. It's a bit of a gimmick to depart you from your cash. How many limited edition boxsets of Star Wars have there been in various forms? Are they valuable? Not really, because they were all mass marketed to death.

The value tends to hold in things that were genuinely limited back when they were released. Something minimally rated at the time but becomes popular and sought after later.

Like those R2D2 underpants that I found in the bin behind Argos, right?

You did... what?

It's alright. I didn't wash them.