My favourite film is 'The Bridges of Madison County' I read the book, bought a cassette tape, read by the author, Robert James Waller and bought the DVD.
Recently I wanted to listen to the tape, but couldn't remember where my cassette player was. Dh had an idea it was still in a drawer from when we moved 4 years ago. So off he went to look and it was in a drawer with some electronic bits, and wow, he also had the tape in the same drawer! With a new battery it worked! I was so pleased and sat with my head phones listening yesterday afternoon with some knitting.. cosy!
Then he produced the DVD, but we remembered we'd got rid of the DVD player years ago, I was just a bit upset, but Dh looked up how much to rent it via Prime.. hardly any cost so we thought we could do that at the weekend.
I'd forgotten all about it... however then this morning (Friday) when I got up, Dh asked when I'd like to watch the DVD.. because when I'd gone to get ready for bed the night before, he'd looked at DVD player's on Amazon, and bought one, only £20, and it arrived at 8:00 am that morning!! He was so pleased he'd got it for me. So we've got out the other films we have and are going to watch some on those evenings, when the TV is rubbish!
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Long before iPlayer, ITV-X, Netflix etc, we would frequently buy the VHS tapes of programmes that we'd watched, then later moved onto DVDs. We still have the DVDs, the tapes went long ago, but now subscribe to BriBox and catch up with all our old favourites that way.
You've given me a reminder about the book and the movie. It's been years since I've read it or watched the movie. It was a good one. Glad you're getting to enjoy it now anytime you feel like it. We have a DVD player and I get movies from the library because TV has nothing to offer anymore.
I still have my DVD player, and a huge selection of DVDs picked up from charity shops, all my favourites. It's really handy to have for when the internet goes down and there's nothing on television. Enjoy your film watching this weekend. xx
A film night in! Perfect
Absolutely loved the book and other than personal bereavement have never cried so much in my life. However, I thought the film was badly miscast. Clint Eastwood hardly fitted the passionate and romantic persona of Robert Kincaid and I personally thought Meryl Streep made Francesca seem boring and unattractive despite the critical acclaim she received. Mrs P
Such a great film. They don’t make them like that any more!
How lovely of husband to think of you like that! I ended up buying a new DVD player, though I don't watch that many (I do still have a lot of them though!). I got one that plated both US and UK dvds so that I can watch them all on one player!
I've read the book quite a few years ago and liked it. Saw the movie too but like the book better. I seem to always like books better than movies!! :)
Enjoy watching the film :)
All the best Jan
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