Last Valentine's Day

I thought well ahead of time what I would watch for Valentine's Day. A year ago, I watched Titanic at home when it was in theaters, but of course I didn't go to cinema to get covid.

 

 

Even before moving, I wanted to watch the Buccaneers for a long time, but then it came down to the fact that I didn't have a working DVD drive on my computer. So it's been quite a few years since I watched it last.

The Buccaneers is a six-part BBC mini-series based on Edith Wharton's book, which still hasn't been translated into Finnish. The series follows four young American women who go to England to get aristocratic husbands.

I own both the Finnish version and the Dutch version of that series on DVD. The Finnish version is messed up, it doesn't have a normal division of episodes and in addition it seems to have some strange and vague extra scenes. I think I've only watched it once, and after that I've always settled for the Dutch version. But it only has subtitles in Dutch, so you have to keep the voices loud, and still miss 90% of the speech.

I've always liked episodes 4-5 (6) of that miniseries more than the beginning, and sometimes I memorized a lot of dialogue from those episodes. I guess it's because when that series was originally shown on television, I only saw it from the fourth episode. And because there are too many screaming and giggling girls in the first episodes...

I just noticed that there's a completely new Buccaneers-series for Apple TV+, which has started in November 2023. A second season is coming. At first I was interested in that remake, but then I read the episode descriptions and concluded that yes, no thanks. Again, exactly one word comes to mind for a change: sacrilege. After all, I've already said that in remakes you have to make changes just for the sake of changes. And when historical series are forced into modern fashion... I couldn't even watch Bridgerton, even though I tried many times.

 

 

I wanted to watch a romantic movie for Valentine's Day, and I don't think I have many of them on DVD. Romantic comedies are made on an assembly line, and 27 Dresses is one of them. For some reason I've always liked it. It's about a woman who desperately wants to get married, but has been a bridesmaid 27 times.

And then why the title "Last Valentine's Day"? This is the last Valentine's Day when I get to play my favorite game, Friday the 13th: The Game. Of course, I already held a pre party on Saturday.

And of course this could be the last Valentine's Day anyway. Anyone of us can be the next victim of sudden death caused by the long-term effects of covid. Examples of them are reported in the media every damn day. But still, covid for everyone, and many times a year!