December 9th is going to be a HUGE day in the video stores and in the various electronics stores and sections thereof, folks, because that’s the day that two major titles come out on DVD.

Namely, Wall-E and The Dark Knight.

This is, of course, big news to a flagging economy because these were two substantial blockbusters that pretty much everybody loved to some degree.  Me, I preferred The Dark Knight vastly to the preachy eco-granola lovefest that was Wall-E, but that’s not to say that I didn’t ENJOY Wall-E.  Yes, despite the headache I had when I left the theatre after being repeatedly beaten over the head with the movie’s message (Message: HEY FATASS! GET OUT OF THAT CHAIR AND PLANT A TREE ALREADY! YOU FAT BASTARD!) I still had at least a little fun with Wall-E.

Nowhere NEAR as much fun as I had with The Pencil Trick, which actually made my jaw drop for a bit.  But anyway.

These are the worst, in case you haven’t watched any CNN lately, economic times since the Great Depression.  People watch every nickel like a hawk and squeeze every penny until the image of old Honest Abe is permanently embedded in their fingerprint.  But even back then, we knew that the key to a quick burst of happiness was only a movie away–that’s why they released all those godawful Shirley Temple movies, because people were desperate for a smile and apparently watching some six year old girl prance around singing badly about animal crackers in her soup managed to do the job.

That and bribing the neighborhood children with candy to do the same back then probably would’ve got you lynched, so you went to Shirley Temple movies.

Anyway…I look for brisk sales of each, though I look for Wall-E to outperform The Dark Knight if not by much mostly because of the kid factor.  Grownups will likely rent The Dark Knight in droves, but buy Wall-E to keep the kids quiet for ninety minutes.

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