Shannon vs. Tron

[kungfuwaynewho]

Thursday - that's four days ago now - nhpw told me that Tron (1982) was up on YouTube.  Now, I have not seen Tron since I was a tiny little kid.  I don't actually remember anything about it.  I have been trying to watch Tron since June - right around the time I got obsessed really into Babylon 5 and wanted to see more of Bruce Boxleitner.  So, as you can imagine, I was pretty excited.

I was even more excited when I clicked the link and saw that it was a really, really high quality upload.  I decided to download the movie from YouTube.  First of all, I was afraid it would get yanked, and I didn't want to risk missing it now that it was so close.  Second, I didn't want to watch it on my crappy old computer monitor.  No, I would convert the mp4s to AVIs, merge them into one file, and watch the movie on my nice big actual TV.

Thursday I downloaded.  Friday I converted.  Friday night!  Tron night!  A night for which to watch Tron!  Except...I couldn't get the mp4s to convert.  And when I finally did, I couldn't get the files to merge.  It's now Saturday.  I'm still working on it.  Reading FAQs.  Downloading new programs.  Finally my sister asks why I don't just download the movie from megaupload or something.  That is a great idea!  Why I have never thought of this!

So I did.  A great big AVI file.  It was shiny.  Happy, beaming, maybe crying a little, I burned it onto a DVD and pranced to the TV.  I loaded the DVD.  It...did not play.  

Hmm.  So I downloaded another one.  This time I just put it on a flash drive - make sure it works first.  I was troubled when a prompt came up telling me that some file properties couldn't be transferred, but I was still hopeful at this point.  But no.  It didn't play, either.

Sunday morning...

If the charm is dubbed in Spanish! 

At this point I just threw up my hands and laughed helplessly.  I tried one last time, Sunday afternoon wearing away into evening, time running out.  Failure. 

Shannon 0, Tron 1.  Which is appropriate, I guess.

So now I've resigned myself to just watching it on my computer, like I could have done days ago, but now probably won't be able to do until this Friday.  It's okay, though!  I'm trying to look at it as though I've got that many more days to anticipate and get excited about it, and maybe I'll buy some Ben and Jerry's, or some hard cider, or both.

Comments

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I couldn't post about it until I was ready to laugh about it. Sunday I was nearly apoplectic. At that point it wasn't even about watching the movie but about beating my computer and all those stupid files - which is why I finally decided to give up, so that I would actually enjoy the movie when I watched it.

You could always threaten hubby to keep his mouth shut. Although I don't think it's a big deal if your crush comes out; lots of people have crushes. You haven't bought like things he's touched on eBay or mailed him your own bra or anything, so you're okay and not crazy.*

*If you have done any of these things, please don't tell me.

[nhpw.livejournal.com]

It probably wouldn't be the worst thing. As it is I'll probably be grinning like a damn fool through the whole thing. (Movie theaters are dark, though. The question is whether I'll still be grinning like a fool when we come out at the end.)

I'm glad you decided just to give up and enjoy it! Watching on the crappy computer monitor is better than not watching at all, right?

You haven't bought like things he's touched on eBay or mailed him your own bra or anything, so you're okay and not crazy.

...People actually do these things?

*headscratch*

...

Seriously?

I... think I'm a little creeped out by that.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Oh, the crazy things I've read on Fandom Wank. People giving an actor a box of sex toys. Giving them manipulations of two of them engaged in sexytimes. Groping them in line at cons.

The best are the Snapewives, though, who seem to actually, legitimately believe they are married to Snape. I don't even know.

[nhpw.livejournal.com]

This is disturbing on a level I didn't think possible.

Wow.

Just. Wow.