A Week in Film...
While I was computer-less last week, I spent quite a fair bit of time in Nick's room watching DVDs. This was mainly because he also had my TV (never let him tell you he doesn't get spoiled rotton by yours truly), but there was also a small amount of determination in me to educate Nick in my film tastes.
Nick thinks that all I watch is zombie films and bad B-movies. Not that there would be anything wrong with that, but this is coming from a man who likes (among other films) the Scream trilogy, The Breakfast Club and Rockula. So he has no room to talk.
The fact of the matter is, however, that I don't just watch zombie movies and bad B-movies. I also like dark/modern supernatural fantasy and I love Asian horror films, to name two other sub-genres. THe problem is, however, that whatever I like and/or recommend to Nick he ends up hating. Nightbreed, for example. I love it. His best friend Ross likes it. But when Nick saw it, he found it boring and didn't enjoy it. It was a similar story with Hellraiser. It almost seems like we're predestined to dislike whatever the other likes, with a few exceptions.
So last week, we watched films together that Nick would probably never have normally sat down to watch. The Eye. Oldboy. Children of the Corn and its originally titled sequel, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (the last two because Nick actually expressed an interest in seeing them). And surprise surprise... Nick actually enjoyed them.
The Eye Nick thought was a nice little supernatural film, like The Sixth Sense but not. Oldboy he liked for the mystery. And as much as he probably wouldn't want to admit it in public, he enjoyed the Children of the Corn movies as well (even if they were filmed in MoppetVision).
Perhaps there's hope for him yet?
Nick thinks that all I watch is zombie films and bad B-movies. Not that there would be anything wrong with that, but this is coming from a man who likes (among other films) the Scream trilogy, The Breakfast Club and Rockula. So he has no room to talk.
The fact of the matter is, however, that I don't just watch zombie movies and bad B-movies. I also like dark/modern supernatural fantasy and I love Asian horror films, to name two other sub-genres. THe problem is, however, that whatever I like and/or recommend to Nick he ends up hating. Nightbreed, for example. I love it. His best friend Ross likes it. But when Nick saw it, he found it boring and didn't enjoy it. It was a similar story with Hellraiser. It almost seems like we're predestined to dislike whatever the other likes, with a few exceptions.
So last week, we watched films together that Nick would probably never have normally sat down to watch. The Eye. Oldboy. Children of the Corn and its originally titled sequel, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (the last two because Nick actually expressed an interest in seeing them). And surprise surprise... Nick actually enjoyed them.
The Eye Nick thought was a nice little supernatural film, like The Sixth Sense but not. Oldboy he liked for the mystery. And as much as he probably wouldn't want to admit it in public, he enjoyed the Children of the Corn movies as well (even if they were filmed in MoppetVision).
Perhaps there's hope for him yet?