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I am really annoyed

posted 16 years ago by scott_59-1
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This film is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the thing that's really buggin' me is that it's only availabe on region 1
WHAT A JIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[–] gay_geisha 16 years ago

Tell me about it! It is completely ridiculous that Maggie Smith's stella performance can't be got on dvd in the uk. You may be over to switch your dvd player to multi region, and then you'll be able to watch a region one edition. But then of course you have to get one from the US and the p&p alone will be at a stupidly high rate.

If you have the urge to watch it now, it can be found on youtube. But you didn't hear that from me.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=17kmF9OBy8A

'The truth is rarely pure, and never simple' Oscar Wilde

[–] robotrix 15 years ago

Maybe they're under the mistaken impression that - like Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins - you're all offended by the movie and how it portrays the Scots?

Have you tried writing to MGM and letting them know you want it released there?

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[–] ceebeegee 15 years ago

Look, no Americans have a problem with the way Hayley Mills mangled the American accent in The Parent Trap so y'all are just going to have to get over DVD's bad Cockney accent in Mary Poppins ;) Sometimes we have to overlook things in otherwise excellent movies.

And Muriel Spark was Scottish so how could anyone have a problem with the way the Scots are presented? It's all pretty much right out of the novel.

[–] rogerneon 11 years ago

Usually, you can play ANY DVD on your computer, regardless of region. The screen is admittedly small, but it's certainly better than nothing.