After much hoping and schedule shifting and good old fashioned intuition, at the moment it appears that I'm headed to the Lower East Side on Saturday night to see Poultrygeist a second time.  Why you might ask?  Well, A)  It's that damn good, and B) I've managed to corral a friend or two this time.

Anyone who saw Grindhouse in theater (as I did) knows how important seeing a movie in a theater can sometimes be.  As an example, I'm not tremendously interested in The Strangers.  Something is bothering me about the trailers, specifically my faith in the two leads and their acting ability.  But that's neither here nor there.  What is important is I feel that I could watch The Strangers on my tv and get the same experience I'd get in the theaters.  I can't have that with Grindhouse and Poultrygeist.  Poultrygeist is fantastic on its own.  But it's even better in a decently packed theater of Troma faithful itching to see the blood and gore paint the walls.  In Poultrygeist's case, I now have a memory of being in a place where a theater collectively cheered as one when a person was killed in a meat grinder.  You can't get that stuff in the home theater usually.  Similarly, I have a memory of being in a far less packed theater (which was a crime.....) when those in attendance collectively cringed....when the tongue lesion popped in Planet Terror.  That's why I refuse at least at the moment to buy the two disc Grindhouse releases.  I have a sneaking suspicion that something will come out this Halloween that will reward my waiting, but I have no reason to think that other than that there have to be more people than me in this world who want to recreate their own experience of seeing the original with EVERYTHING intact.  (I could of course just import the 6-disc Japanese special with both american releases, the theatrical cut, and a bonus disc, but I don't wanna deal with the shipping fees or figuring out that dollars to yen thing.  Plus I doubt my dvd player can play it.)

Anyone out there choose to get the two-discs?  If you did, what are you gonna do with them if they release a special edition?  Incidentally rumor has it that Poultrygeist will, ironically, be similar.  A single disc in october, and a double disc with documentaries and stuff in 09.  Guess which one i'm waiting on.

Speaking of Poultrygeist, I'm going to soon link troma's Poultrygeist page to our Poultrygeist review here to both increase best-horror-movies traffic possibly...and to get myself out there more...heh.

Also, am I the only one who's started to become really careful getting dvds?  When Sweeney Todd and The Mist came out, I got them both in the two-disc version because I was 90% sure they couldnt upgrade those much.  We live in a time of too much double-dipping to not do that. 

I'm proud...ish...to say that I've only double dipped to completely upgrade a dvd I'd already bought a few times:  I had Nightmare on Elm Streets 1-3 when i dumped them to get the box set, Night of the Living Dead (no not the new release, I got shafted into getting that recut one in a sale and thus switched to a different one.  And when I get it signed in June, I won't upgrade it again), and Saw simply because the special features on the uncut version intrigued me too much.  I mean, as an example, I have the original pressing version of my favorite movie A Clockwork Orange, and I refuse to upgrade it....partially cuz I waited so long to get it, and partially cuz it's autographed by Malcolm McDowell.  :-D  Ditto for a copy of Cujo I have that I'm not upgrading.  That's just my opinion on the subject though.

Anyone else generally as a rule opposed to double dipping?

And finally, I'm gonna ask again. Is there some restriction on the lyrical content of the music we post on our profiles?  Yes or no?  Anyone?