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February 08, 2006
The crying on the inside kind, I guess.
One of my favorite Bill Murray movies is coming to DVD. Finally. Maybe. It might already be on DVD. I have no idea.
So on Saturday I took a trip out to ye olde Berry Hill Book Shop with Kelly and Buena (mostly Kelly) since they were in town for the weekend. The store is incredible, so I knew Kelly would appreciate it. And there's a bunch of chickens running around the property, so I knew Buena would like it too. If you didn't click on the link above, you should, it's to a Google Local page of the store with the purty satellite imagery. The place is huge. They don't have a proper website though, probably because it's run by this elderly little republican couple who is supplementing their Social Security checks with this absolutely ridiculous bookstore that's in their backyard. My best guess is that they had a lot of books laying around and an empty barn so they decided to fill the barn with books and turn it into a bookstore. It's crazy. And they love Dubya. Anyway, back to Bill Murray.
So while Kelly was looking at poetry books from the 1800's, I was looking at movie posters from the early 1990's. And while there were many classics in there (I'm going back for "The Wizard" poster), the highlight was definitely the $3.00 poster for "Quick Change." Awesome.
For those of you who don't know (which is everyone) (despite the fact that anyone who reads this has no doubt heard me talk about Quick Change before), Quick Change is an overlooked Bill Murray classic. Yes, even moreso than "Scrooged." Probably less so than "The Man Who Knew Too Little," though. The movie is about Bill Murray's character, "Grimm" planning a bank robbery in New York that goes off without a hitch, but in the ensuing trip to the airport everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Geena Davis plays his girlfriend and Randy Quaid plays "Loomis" (such great character names), Grimm's childhood friend. It's genius I assure you, and it's one of the few remaining Bill Murray movies not on DVD. ("Garfield" and "Osmosis Jones" though, you can get those no problem.)
Point is, after I bought the poster, I decided to hit up Amazon and check to see if there was a revised release date for the DVD. The last time I checked on it was probably back in June when I was writing about making images of SCSI hard drives via my old PowerMac 7100. (The PowerMac's name? Grimm.) Anyway, when Amazon doesn't know the release date of something but still want your money, they'll come up with a phoney release date just to rope you in on a preorder. That release date is usually January 1, 2010. So when I hit up Amazon last night I was surprised to find that it got bumped up four years to February 14, 2006. Not bad. Knowing Amazon's deceptive ways though, I tried a couple other sources just to double check. Barnes & Noble backed Amazon up, good sign. Walmart.com had no record of it anywhere though, bad sign. Most curious of all though, is numerous eBay sellers had the release date listed as August 30, 2005. Huh?
So yeah, I don't really know when it's coming out. Maybe next week, maybe it came out back in August, or maybe it'll be out in 2010. I will say this though, if you don't hear from me next Tuesday, it's because I'm watching Bill Murray dressed up as a clown robbing a bank.
Posted by pat at February 8, 2006 04:25 PM