Comments | aliothsan: "28 Weeks Later"

aliothsan

"28 Weeks Later"

Oct 26, 2007 21:18

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lightflake October 27 2007, 03:53:50 UTC

I think I'm missing that part of the brain that gets grossed out at anything that isn't likely to be contagious (and that only extends as far as wanting to get away from sick people).

Oddly enough, though, my Things Are Going to Get Me fears tend to be of things that can't possibly be any threat.

Speaking of ebola, some guy on a class mailing list has a screenname of ebola[random#s]. Wonder what that says about him.

aliothsan October 27 2007, 04:04:24 UTC

my Things Are Going to Get Me fears tend to be of things that can't possibly be any threat.

What type of things?

And lol @ Mr. Ebola-numbers.

lightflake October 27 2007, 04:08:40 UTC

Find me on IM sometime if you're curious.

anonymous October 27 2007, 22:51:07 UTC

Years ago when I was a teenager (that is ancient history of course) I saw a very scary Dracula movie, which has a scene where a woman was trapped in a basement, and looked up to see the Count descending the stairs. She was "converted". For years and years afterwards I could not walk up a darkened staircase, especially a basement staircase, without being scared. Unfortunately my parents' house had just such a staircase in their basement, which was, of course, dark. So... I had to screw up my courage everytime I had to walk up the darkened staircase to from the basemeent garage to the safety of the lit landing above. From then on I never went out of my way to see a scary film just for the "fun" of it. I also don't read Stephen King novels on the same principle. Why pay to get scared out of your wits, and then have to carry that fear with you in your life?! They don't pay me enough!

Cat I

It's not rude anonymous October 30 2007, 06:06:19 UTC

to bail on crap. Why waste two hours of your life you're never going to get back, PLUS having ugly images in your head for years afterward, when you could just turn to your date and say, "the coffee is great at the shop across the street; let's get out of here."
If it turns out later that you missed out on a film masterpiece, well, there's always Netflix. Popcorn, Netflix, couch, blanket, .....

Re: It's not rude aliothsan October 30 2007, 07:27:39 UTC

The point of staying wasn't to not be rude to the people around me. If the movie had been just plain stupid, I would have left. But I wanted to stay to make myself deal with it, and learn to deal with it. Being rendered unable to sleep by horror movies is a stupid weakness for a voting-age person to have.