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

[jerusha]

I HATE it when things like that happen. It may not be the end of the world, but it is so freaking frustrating.

[pwincess.livejournal.com]

Tron is crazy hard to find! But we tracked down a copy of the DVD at a locally-owned video store after a few phone calls and failures from Netflix and Blockbuster. Your comedy of errors is a lot more impressive. Dang that's a lot of bad luck!

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Hi, you don't know me, but we're mutual friends with enigmaticblues. Anyway, I was wondering if you could point me to where you located the Tron file on Megaupload. I'm completely lame at finding anything. Thanks!

[ufgator1977.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you could have just asked me for a copy?

I could have sworn I offered to send you one.

I understand though; I refuse to let something like that beat me as well.

ETA: I just looked at how much my 20th Anniversary Special Edition goes for. Damn!

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

Hee. I have the DVD courtesy Netflix sitting on the teevee and have had for a couple of months.

I AM one of those bitches! R and I started it once, but didn't get very far (interruptions? don't remember). I didn't like it first time around, and don't know if distance will lend it charm. I did dig the crazy eyewear though...

[nhpw.livejournal.com]

Just so we're clear: I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you. (Just maybe you're not joining in.)

Let me tell you where we're at. Now that we're caught up on the original, we're presented with:

Do we see Legacy as a date movie or with our geeky friends?

Do we spend the money to see it in IMAX 3D, or do we be responsible adults and save our money since, you know, hubby about to be out of work and all that?

If we DO go with geeky friends, can hubby keep his mouth shut about my BIGHUGEGIANT crush on Bruce Boxleitner? For that matter, can I?

It never ends, man.

[xphilehb.livejournal.com]

So it's still up on YouTube? This is promising. I hope to watch it this week.

[hollywobbles.livejournal.com]

:::pets you despite threats of hazing:::