The DVD tale reminds me of this video clip. Donno how I missed it, but you mention "The Beast" in that rant. I saw The Beast on a shitty overused VHS on a boat in an ice flow in Alaska back when I was digging out from the hole my life had descended into. I know no other person in real life that has seen this movie; for a while (and without internet you used to have conversations like this) I wondered if the movie was real or not. I remember the movie as it was the palette cleanser after the shitty piece of crap that was Titanic. And if you want a surreal movie experience, imagine watching Titanic on VHS after a 20 hour shift knocking ice off the rigging of a boat at 64°N in an ice storm where you cannot sleep due to chunks of ice hitting the side of the ship.