Did it bug anyone else when they didnt say DVD Player? They kept calling it DVD. Thats the only thing that really drives me crazy about this movie. I mean the YMCA joke is a long one, but it works-
"If you will it, then it is no dream."
Like saying "TV" or "television" instead of "television RECEIVER"? Or watching cassette tapes on a "VCR (video cassette RECORDER)" instead of a "video cassette player"? Nope...didn't bother me a bit.
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No. More like saying "record" instead of "record player", or "cd" instead of "cd player". Have I got any cd's? Yes I do, in fact I've got stacks of them, and that doesn't mean I've got an audio store full of stereo systems.
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Noticed that too, but didn't bother me.
shareYeah I noticed but it didn't really bother me.
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Bothered the hell out of me. It just doesn't have the ring to it that VCR had. I bought my first dvd player in fall of '99 and It drove my parents drove me crazy just calling it a DVD. It took them a couple years before they started calling it a player.
shareWell then, you bought your DVD PLAYER about the same time this movie was made. It sat on the shelf for a year before being released in Spring 2001.
The two biggest clues? The Mark McGwire poster, and the Missouri license plates.
Mark had the "home run derby" with Sosa the year prior (1998), and the poster was meant to actually place the setting as St. Louis, for those who didn't know about Alton/Belleville being across the Mississippi River in Illinois. They were the only cities mentioned that I recall.
Also, the Missouri DMV was just switching from red plates with white letters/border to the "modern look" white plates that are blue-green on the bottom third, blue letters at the time of filming, and both can be seen on the cars (despite being entirely shot in an LA suburb?!).
Looks like I didn't make myself that clear. What I meant was I bought my first dvd player in '99 and my parents called it just a DVD - it bugged the hell out of me and I kept getting on their case until they started calling it a dvd PLAYER. I saw One Night at McCool's for the first time a few months back and it reminded me of when I first purchased my dvd player years back and my parents would call it a dvd.. thats all. I wasn't sure what you meant talking about 2001 so hope this cleared it.
shareYes. I agree with you. DVD is equal to VC. Not equal to VCR. The R is for Recorder. But the D in DVD is for disk. So we could have either a DVD player or a DVDR, where the R could stand for either Reader or Recorder. But of course when they first came out they didn't record. Plus DVDR is cumbersome and awkward.
shareBut the D in DVD is for disk.Actually, it is for disc. share
It buged me too! I think it was a idiotic thing to do
I mean the YMCA joke is a long one, but it works-
yeah me too, at first I thought (because I first skipped to a scene with it in before I watched the movie from the start) she literally meant a dvd and then I realised she meant DVD Player but why didn't she say the whole thing, I was shouting at her but she didn't hear me and yes that YMC joke was old but I liked this movie too much to let it get to me but PLAYER, would it have been too much to have said that as well, agh! Never mind! ;) The movie was still funny and everyone was amazing, so I'll just have to ignore it and imagine they say the whole thing.
shareI think the whole point of having the characters say DVD was to show their lack of sophistication. Jewell thought that having certain things would make her life complete, but she really knew nothing about the type of life that she aspired to. It was annoying, yes, but it wasn't by accident. It just made me laugh!
sharethis guy was exactly right:
"I think the whole point of having the characters say DVD was to show their lack of sophistication. It was annoying, yes, but it wasn't by accident. It just made me laugh!"
It was a brand new "fancy" technology when this was filmed (& taking place) and Liv's character (and Mike Douglas' too I think) were like "Golly gee, they gut the DVD!"
I thought it was funny too, probably the director or writer were also annoyed when people called it that, and added this in for a laugh.
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honestly, i think it was perfect how she called it that.
as so many others have already pointed out, dvd players were
a big thing back when the movie was made, and so as with anything
new, at least back when gadgets were at thier peak growth for that time,
we wanted to be "cool" and call it by a "cool soounding" name.
this movie was great in so many area's. The acting on all the major characters parts was well written, and acted.
The great stories that each man told, on how liv tyler had effected thier
lives, how each story exposed a little more of the puzzle on how things actually, or well how each persons experience occured.
It actually rather hurts my feelings that so many movies will not shoot in st. louis even when set in st. louis, does anyone know was there some reason other than the fact that st louis is just considered "unclean" to shoot in.
i've heard that other movies, in order to acieved a more "burned out look" have shot in st. louis, even when a movie was set in L.A.
yeah, John Goodman comes back home all the time, he part owns some bar in st. louis county. (or used to as of 3 years back)
He loves to go to the blues clubs around st. louis city and over on the east side (east st. louis il./east st. louis mo.
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Actually when Matt Dillon goes upstairs in the rich guys house to look for the DVD player, he (or the narrator) says "DVD player".
shareYes, it was stupid and annoying (I still love this film though).
Reminds me of my mom. She saw this film BEFORE I got a DVD player, and now that I have one, she cals it "DVD" ALL THE FRICKING TIME because of seeing this movie. Aaarrrgh...
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it could stand for digital video device, or digital video drive, and other things. all i know is on my dvd PLAYER, right, it only has DVD on it. but not dvd player.
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dvd also stands for some other things. i had looked it up before i wrote that.
Digital Versatile Disc. DVD refers to the disc in the same way that CD does. Oddly enough I didn't notice this when I watched it last nite, but being from the UK I guess I just assumed that it was how you guys just said it. Like your VCRs are our Video Recorders. Hmm. Now that you've pointed it out, it'll stick out.
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Fair enough. What I meant to emphasise more in the first place was that over here in blighty we call them DVD Players (and DVD Recorders), and DVD seems to always refer to the media. It therefore didn't stand out as being odd.
shareNo, it's an established fact that DVD originally stood for Digital Video Disc. (Then they changed it to Digital Versatile Disc, then they changed to officially nothing. http://s04.middlebury.edu/FMMC0246A/STUDENTS/carynaj/dvdacronym.htm)
CD players have been around for years now, and nobody calls a CD player a 'CD'. CDs are the discs. DVDs are the discs -- and will likely be so for a long time.
Actually, it is "Blu-ray", not "Blue-Ray". I think THAT is going to be the major misconception for the next few years...
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bugs the heck out of me too...just like in car commercials, i believe it was for the 05 durango, when they are like "navigation system, yaddy yaddy, hemi, yaddy, and a dvd"....im like oh yea, which one? i got this when i worked at best buy..."excuse me, do you guys sell dvds?", "umm, where are your dvds?"...."right over there"..."no, not movies,dvds"...."OH YOU STUPID MORON, YOU MEAN A DVD PLAYYYYYEEEERRRRRR....yea RIGHT THAT WAY!!!!" aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!!!!
shareI noticed it, but I thought it kind of sounded funny the way she kept saying "I want the DVD". Dunno why exactly, but it sounded funny when it was said that way.
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