The international pirated DVD network is not what it is cracked up to be. Five days after opeing in America I can't find The Dark Knight anywhere in Addis Ababa on DVD. C'mon!
I have been jonesin to see this movie ever since my brother saw a premier a few weeks ago and "Wow!" was his main repsonse. I didn't feel like waiting for it to hit the screens here (hopefully soon) so I checked out all the known haunts for DVD bootleggers. Two main disapointements ensued:
1) The Dark Knight is just not available. No one has it.
2) The bootleggers didn't even know what I was talking about. "New Batman." "Dark Knight." Nothing. No recognition. I had Iron Man and Hancock pushed on me quite a bit though, so they relaized it was a superhero movie. Way to have your finger on the pulse of current hot movies, DVD bootleggers. TDK is a huge movie and you don't even know what it is? Not knowing how this global illicit DVD ring runs I am unsure to blame the guys on the street or whoever is behind the scenes in getting movies out there.
A third and a slightly less disapointment was how once they relaized they didn't have what I was looking for they all resorted to "Have sex movie. Good sex. Good girls." in order to possibly salvage a sell.
Well, actually, I would probably be more disapointed if they didn't offer me porn as I was walking away.
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