Not much of a story, really. I saw "Ed Wood" when I was barely a teen, and rented it hundreds of times (before I eventually bought it). I bought and read the book about him ("Nightmare of Ecstasy" by Rudolph Grey), and went on my search for "Plan 9 from Outer Space", which was, at the time, very hard to find (nowadays, it's
everywhere!).
After calling every video store in the phone book (I said "No, not '
Planet 9', '
PLAN 9'!" more times than I can remember), I finally found a store that had a copy of it (it was in a "Walmart/Blockbuster" about 25 miles from town, and I wasn't old enough to drive). I pleaded that my mom take me there, and we did, picked up my reserved copy, shopped for groceries, and drove home.
By the time we finally got home and I sat my parents down to watch it with me, I was so filled with excitement I was primed to explode. After our screening, I watched it by myself again and again until the wee hours. It was a movie beyond belief and logic, and I felt lucky to had found it. Years later, it remains a personal film for me, and I'm the only person I know that loves it passionately.
Okay, I suppose it
was much of a story
Matthew
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