"My political beliefs aren't simple enough to fit on shirts or bumper stickers"
I have the tv volume off since I'm listening to Yes, so my tv instantly goes to Closed Captions if the channel supports it. Some shit movie is on USA, and it starts out with a scene about dancing, and "The Macarena" is playing. How does CC deal with this?
["The Macarena"]
As if that's really a good reference point for the hearing impaired.
I've recently seen 2 pretty good horror films, 12 Angry Men compared to some of the shit I've seen since my new obsession with the genre.
1.- Who Can Kill a Child?: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but re-imagined on a deserted Spanish island where the children have either become collectively demented or possessed (doesn't really say or hint at specifics) and have decided to go and kill all adults on their island. An engaged English couple, the wife pregnant, visits the island and slowly becomes aware of this in the normal arriving in a deserted town setup. No one can fight these demons though, because, as the title and a disturbing line in the film ask, Who Can Kill a Child? The eventual "fortress" ending is made that much more suspenseful, despite the fact that the main characters now have a rifle, because the main character female goes into labor while the children are attempting a siege. As far as depressing endings go, this one is classic and fits very well with the rest of the film.
Damn good, barely any subtitles for a Spanish film, pretty creepy plot, and some dead nun is topless for a couple seconds.
2.- Dead and Buried: Creepy small town in the middle of nowhere, people who unwittingly visit start turning up dead, small town sheriff tries to solve the case while dealing with his slowly devolving city. Follows that line, except we start out knowing who is killing the people, and they don't hide at all, even going so far as filming their crimes. This provides a semi-constant suspense for you're constantly wondering when they will grow tired of the snooping sheriff and murder him. Even though everyone with a cable box and a pulse has already seen the ending to this film elsewhere, its a far greater twist in this film since it seems to better go against everything you've been thinking would happen. Also, it's my first "video nasty", and everyone loves their first, or so I've heard. From the shit I've read on the available movies at Wikipedia, its one of the few I'd actually want to see too. The rest seems to be nothing but non-linear goresploitation that would have drowned without the government attention.
Pretty good, great ending, creepy small town atmosphere, and a blonde providing distraction tits after less than 5 minutes of movie time.
Ratings are for people who enjoy numbers.
In other news, "I've Seen All Good People" is fucking epic. Not really news I guess, but still. Especially the first part, the chess metaphor. In real news, China has MySpace. But unlike normal MySpace, you can't talk about certain things, like Falun Gong or Taiwanese independence, and if you see someone who does, you can "report the "misconduct" of other users for offenses including"endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting the government, undermining national unity, and spreading rumors or disturbing the social order."" Just like MySpace is here, but there's a new button where you can send others to prison. I assume it's under Block User and Rank User.
Lastly, in personal crap news, um, I'm taking Calculus 1 during summer school since I didn't end up getting a job; I'm not going to take any Comp Sci classes this Fall since they aren't offering C# or Intermediate Game Programming and I've exhausted C++ (among all sad realizations in my life, the realization that I'll actually miss taking a Comp Sci class for one semester is among the saddest); I still haven't done any writing on this PC, which is awful after 5 months; not much else. Still single, as probably evidenced by devoting majority text to horror reviews and the Chinese Internet (even though I do love me my Chinese Internet), the dog is shedding more since its summer, and no real interesting films are rolling down the pipe anytime soon.
Bien doritos boys 'n' girls.
["The Macarena"]
As if that's really a good reference point for the hearing impaired.
I've recently seen 2 pretty good horror films, 12 Angry Men compared to some of the shit I've seen since my new obsession with the genre.
1.- Who Can Kill a Child?: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but re-imagined on a deserted Spanish island where the children have either become collectively demented or possessed (doesn't really say or hint at specifics) and have decided to go and kill all adults on their island. An engaged English couple, the wife pregnant, visits the island and slowly becomes aware of this in the normal arriving in a deserted town setup. No one can fight these demons though, because, as the title and a disturbing line in the film ask, Who Can Kill a Child? The eventual "fortress" ending is made that much more suspenseful, despite the fact that the main characters now have a rifle, because the main character female goes into labor while the children are attempting a siege. As far as depressing endings go, this one is classic and fits very well with the rest of the film.
Damn good, barely any subtitles for a Spanish film, pretty creepy plot, and some dead nun is topless for a couple seconds.
2.- Dead and Buried: Creepy small town in the middle of nowhere, people who unwittingly visit start turning up dead, small town sheriff tries to solve the case while dealing with his slowly devolving city. Follows that line, except we start out knowing who is killing the people, and they don't hide at all, even going so far as filming their crimes. This provides a semi-constant suspense for you're constantly wondering when they will grow tired of the snooping sheriff and murder him. Even though everyone with a cable box and a pulse has already seen the ending to this film elsewhere, its a far greater twist in this film since it seems to better go against everything you've been thinking would happen. Also, it's my first "video nasty", and everyone loves their first, or so I've heard. From the shit I've read on the available movies at Wikipedia, its one of the few I'd actually want to see too. The rest seems to be nothing but non-linear goresploitation that would have drowned without the government attention.
Pretty good, great ending, creepy small town atmosphere, and a blonde providing distraction tits after less than 5 minutes of movie time.
Ratings are for people who enjoy numbers.
In other news, "I've Seen All Good People" is fucking epic. Not really news I guess, but still. Especially the first part, the chess metaphor. In real news, China has MySpace. But unlike normal MySpace, you can't talk about certain things, like Falun Gong or Taiwanese independence, and if you see someone who does, you can "report the "misconduct" of other users for offenses including"endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting the government, undermining national unity, and spreading rumors or disturbing the social order."" Just like MySpace is here, but there's a new button where you can send others to prison. I assume it's under Block User and Rank User.
Lastly, in personal crap news, um, I'm taking Calculus 1 during summer school since I didn't end up getting a job; I'm not going to take any Comp Sci classes this Fall since they aren't offering C# or Intermediate Game Programming and I've exhausted C++ (among all sad realizations in my life, the realization that I'll actually miss taking a Comp Sci class for one semester is among the saddest); I still haven't done any writing on this PC, which is awful after 5 months; not much else. Still single, as probably evidenced by devoting majority text to horror reviews and the Chinese Internet (even though I do love me my Chinese Internet), the dog is shedding more since its summer, and no real interesting films are rolling down the pipe anytime soon.
Bien doritos boys 'n' girls.