DVD Deja Vu

Mystical Roo and I like to watch a lot of films.  On a rainy day we've been known to watch four or five in one sitting.  I love a good film session, especially if film snackage is involved.  Carrot and cucumber with hummus.  Sweet chilli flavoured kettle chips (crisps), malteasers, cheese and crackers, sweets of varying varieties and fruit, preferably grapes and strawberries.  You see I've got a good selection going on.  Sweet and savoury.  Healthy and not.  It might sound excessive but it makes for a fabulous afternoon of indulgence.  Add a glass of wine and the whole thing is heavenly.  Mystical Roo and I will snuggle under the snuggie, put our feet up and put on a film.  We seem to regularly exhaust our choice in the latest releases and so go back through older films to watch classics and other tales that have come highly recommended.  We watch all sorts of films from the latest Harry Potter release to obscure foreign horrors.  From gangster flicks to ridiculous fantasy films with dancing ogres.  Ok, that's actually just me but there we go.  The trouble is that sometimes we watch so many films that we forget what we've already watched.  I'll sometimes grab a film and offer it as a suggestion to Mystical Roo who will then inform me that we've already seen it.  And vice versa.  The one film that thwarted us - on more than one occasion - is "Rise of the Foot Soldier."  This is a British film about gangsters and football hooliganism and although good, did not necessarily warrant a second viewing.  But we picked this film up a second time without either one of us realising it.  And we started watching it thinking, gosh this is all rather familiar.  Then it dawned on us that yes we'd already watched it.  Flag darn it.  The thing is we came very close to doing it again.  Ooh this looks like a good one.  No Stalky!  No!  Step away from the DVD.  For the love of God step away from the DVD!  I enjoyed the film but it wasn't like it was ground breaking or anything.  All I can say is that it must have a bloody fantastic blurb to make us keep grabbing for it.  Or a very jazzy front cover.  Or it has somehow employed a form of mind control that has us forgetting we've watched the film only to force us to rent a DVD that we have already seen.  Sinister.  But this is now a running joke for me and Mystical Roo when we hit the DVD store.  Ooh look there's "Rise of the Foot Soldier", shall we watch that one.  Cue much giggling.  We're so witty.  Ha ha.  So today is a bank holiday Monday and as with all bank holiday Mondays, it is pouring with rain.  So Mystical Roo picked up three DVDS for our viewing pleasure.  It's taken us until about 19.00 to get started but we'll probably get through two at least.  And I can confirm that all of the DVDs are as yet unseen and do not include "Rise of the Foot Soldier".  Now all I need to do is sort out the snackage and we're set for the night.  Nice!