Movie Night in Iraq

What? You don't like watching Atomic Documentaries?

Published on March 29, 2005 By greywar In Entertainment

Privacy is a quaint notion here but for the most part we try and allow others as much of it as possible unless of course they have just gotten a package from Amazon! DVD’s are a big deal here in Iraq since our main opponent on our safe little base is crushing boredom. Folks here will crowd around and hop up and down like little kids waiting for you to open up your new trove of movies. This also leads to a great deal of DVD swapping and borrowing and yes on occasion, even theft.

Not a problem for me folks. Nobody wants to steal my movies… A partial list of my current movie library here in country:

The Day After Trinity

Crusade (entire season (I’m a sucker for Peter Woodward))

The Atomic Café

Choke (Rickson Gracie)

Bullshit! (seasons 1&2 (ok occasionally the enlightened few ask to borrow this))

Nuclear 911

The Atomic Bomb Movie

Cadfael (all 13 episodes (Calangelo and I are the only fans)

The Name of the Rose

Jeremiah (great but no one knows about it)

UFC 49 & 50

Hook and Shoot Revolution (Serious MMA Women’s Promotion)

Red Dwarf (Seasons 3 & 4 (updated thanks to Arquonzo))

Typically I just get odd looks and occasional murmumrs of “You’re weird dude…” when I open my Amazon boxes.

Comments (Page 2)

greywar

on Mar 31, 2005

Yes I will be bringing them ALL back and subjecting you to them at some point

Tossing your "Wiseguy" and "Shogun" sets

Those are classic television!

pseudosoldier

on Mar 31, 2005

Tossing your "Wiseguy" and "Shogun" sets have been pretty tempting

Yeah, I'd be careful with those. I was there when he bought Wiseguy... He might try and claim it's some sort of irreplacable German edition (available not in Deutsch, but only physically in Germany). I enjoyed it, he was just consuming the episodes at too fast a pace for me to keep up (similar to the way he downed the German beer), and once I was behind my interest dwindled. But he had to watch *something*, since he had finally finished his umpteenth viewing of Knight's Tale.

Estrogen Lass

on Mar 31, 2005

Well, he forced both of those on me and my response: sleep. As is the result with most of his other "forced" attempts to watch his stuff. Although, I do have to give him props for forcing me to watch the SG-1 series. As much as I tried to fight the urge to watch it, Jack O' Neill and his gang of stargate travellers won. Well, actually, it was mostly Jack. He's kinda hot for an older guy....

And no babe, they were not classic television. I would use those DVD "Classics" as you call them, coasters for my drinks. Hmm...good idea.

Tara

on Apr 01, 2005

I just watched The Atomic Cafe for my documentary graduate course at NYU. It was really interesting!

~Tara
www.tarametblog.com

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