I recently pre-ordered "There Will be Blood", and also pre-ordered Louis Malle's "The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet", which is about to be released by the Criterion Collection in May.
It's a great idea because you save cash on the transaction, but the waiting is brutal. Completely brutal. I finally received "There Will be Blood" but now I have to wait another month to get the Malle movie. I'm too impatient for this.
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if you aren't advance pre-ordering you are behind the eight-ball.JL21 wrote:I recently pre-ordered "There Will be Blood", and also pre-ordered Louis Malle's "The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet", which is about to be released by the Criterion Collection in May.
It's a great idea because you save cash on the transaction, but the waiting is brutal. Completely brutal. I finally received "There Will be Blood" but now I have to wait another month to get the Malle movie. I'm too impatient for this.
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But is there any way to make the wait more tolerable?StatmanCrothers wrote:if you aren't advance pre-ordering you are behind the eight-ball.JL21 wrote:I recently pre-ordered "There Will be Blood", and also pre-ordered Louis Malle's "The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet", which is about to be released by the Criterion Collection in May.
It's a great idea because you save cash on the transaction, but the waiting is brutal. Completely brutal. I finally received "There Will be Blood" but now I have to wait another month to get the Malle movie. I'm too impatient for this.
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smoking?JL21 wrote:But is there any way to make the wait more tolerable?StatmanCrothers wrote:if you aren't advance pre-ordering you are behind the eight-ball.JL21 wrote:I recently pre-ordered "There Will be Blood", and also pre-ordered Louis Malle's "The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet", which is about to be released by the Criterion Collection in May.
It's a great idea because you save cash on the transaction, but the waiting is brutal. Completely brutal. I finally received "There Will be Blood" but now I have to wait another month to get the Malle movie. I'm too impatient for this.
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you could upgrade to the premier limited advance pre-ordering, i think you get a big hourglass thingie with an LED "days remaining" display. and you usually get it a day or two sooner than the non-premier limited advance pre-ordering weenies.JL21 wrote:But is there any way to make the wait more tolerable?StatmanCrothers wrote:if you aren't advance pre-ordering you are behind the eight-ball.JL21 wrote:I recently pre-ordered "There Will be Blood", and also pre-ordered Louis Malle's "The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet", which is about to be released by the Criterion Collection in May.
It's a great idea because you save cash on the transaction, but the waiting is brutal. Completely brutal. I finally received "There Will be Blood" but now I have to wait another month to get the Malle movie. I'm too impatient for this.

