I’ve bought so far 18 DVDs, not that I can watch any of them now as my DVD player is dead, with A Good Year stuck inside. The most I have paid is 60 pesos $5, the least 15 pesos $1.25. The age of the movie doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the price, and I’ve found some old movies like “My Best Friends’s Wedding” still costing 100 pesos, while A Good Year cost me only 30. And the prices can vary from shop to shop so I search every shop for new acquisitions.
Most times you need to rummage a bit through the shelves to find something interesting, and that was how I found that famous movie with John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John called Grease. Unfortunately in Spanish that seems to translate to Vaselina, and while “Grease is the word” might have a certain ring to it, “Vaseline is the word” most certainly doesn’t.
The movie “Sideways” translated somehow to “Between glasses”, and I wish I hadn’t wasted 30 pesos on that, can’t understand how it won an oscar and 2 golden globes!
There is a new 2nd-hand shop here where you can sell items you no longer want, I’ve already bought a few things and I’m thinking I might take some of the less successful DVD experiments and try to recoup enough for a coffee and donut!
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