Hero

I’ve started chatting with this very cool dude who works at a store in the Vietnamese neighborhood (conveniently located on my way to work.) The other day he got in a few copies of the Hero dvd, the hugely-popular-in-Asia Jet Li movie that was supposed to come out here, but thanks to Miramax editing it and continually pushing back the release, hasn’t done so. I was going to buy it, but noticed that the box said it was Region 3, which I thought meant it wouldn’t work on American players. So this dude offers to loan me the dvd so I can test it out, and then if it works and I like the movie, I can buy it, and if it doesn’t work, I can bring it back.. Naturally, I accepted, the dvd works, the movie rules, and now I own it.

And Miramax still sucks.

March 26, 2003. General.