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I promised myself I wouldn't post until I was feeling better because I reached the point where I was actually even more tired of whining about being sick than I was of actually *being* sick and I figured that if I was that bored of myself there was no reason to subject other people to it. However! I am feeling remarkably better. I'm starting to become reconciled to the fact that the cough is never going to go away, but other than that no fever, minimal congestion, mostly no body aches and enough energy to leave the house. Exciting times! I know that doesn't sound like a full recovery, but being bored of *myself* and also too sick (again) to leave the apartment for a week except to go to work was NOT exciting times, let me tell you, so I am pretty glad to be feeling well enough to, like, go to dinner without wanting to die. Small victories.
My brother came to visit this weekend (and probably contracted death flu from hell as his reward, but he was warned) and because it was cold outside, I had the remnants of death flu from hell, and he forgot to bring Halo 2, it turned into a weekend of cult movies. I appreciate that his geekiness is so similar to mine.
Movies consumed this weekend:
The Room
We went to the midnight screening of The Room Friday night. I drank too much that night, which probably delayed my recovery, but I needed it to get through The Room. I do not LIKE The Room, but my brother had only seen it on DVD with friends who were also not familiar with it, and that is not how you watch that movie. It requires the shared experience and audience participation to really have the full experience. I hadn't been in over a year, though, and it was interesting to see the development of the audience participation and the calls in that time. The "because you're a woman" is still there whenever Lisa does anything (or can't do anything), but that's more of a commentary on the text, and the "whore" and "she's really a man" stuff all seemed to be gone. When I asked my friend who goes more regularly, she said it just evolved that way, and the more sexist stuff seemed to have almost fallen out of favor, at least in that theater among that audience. That was my main issue the first time around (similar to why Rocky Horror can be difficult for me at times) and so it was interesting to hear that, and I wonder how/why. It was nice, though, because that's the kind of movie I only want to watch in that context, and if I can do it without constant gender-based insults then that's preferable.
Troll 2
And also the documentary about Troll 2, Best Worst Movie, which quirkytaverna sent me after I mentioned the *last* time I watched Troll 2. I have now watched Troll 2 twice in a month, I don't actually know how that happened and I'm not sure it's the *best* worst movie, but I definitely see how it became a cult phenomenon. Maybe it's just that it's not *my* worst movie. But maybe that's just because it's one that *I* have only watched on DVD in my living room. Midnight screenings change things.
Repo! The Genetic Opera.
I loved this movie. I loved this movie. I shouldn't have. It has a premise that squicks the fuck out of me on a fundamental level and it shouldn't have been tolerable. I mean, a rock opera about organ harvesting? That's pretty much my bullet proof squick meeting my bullet proof genre. I don't even know what to *do* with that. In this case, the genre won out for some reason. I'm not really sure why - it's very stylized; it looks like a comic book and there's nothing realistic about it, granted, but the conceptual I should have been so squicked that it was unwatchable, but I really, really wasn't. I couldn't look away. Also, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton and the girl from Spy Kids. How does that casting even happen? AMAZING. Also points to Paris Hilton. It took me forever to figure out she was Amber Sweet. My brother kept going, "who's playing Amber? Can you tell?" And I kept *looking* and having *no idea* and being like, "is it someone I should recognize?" And then finally she appears without all the gothness and ohhhhhhhhhh. Good for her, though.
I'm still trying to figure out why I was so taken with it despite the organ harvesting. It was just so dystopian and dark and stylized and gorgeous and *weird.* Idk, idk, it worked for me even though it shouldn't have. Possibly I am actually JUST THAT EASY for rock operas. I don't think I'd have liked it if they hadn't been *singing* about organ harvesting.
I also had never even heard of this movie and I'm trying to figure out how that happened. However, I've been informed by a couple of people that they told me about it before, so I think probably I just wasn't paying attention, likely because I heard the premise and was horrified and just shut down after that.
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My brother came to visit this weekend (and probably contracted death flu from hell as his reward, but he was warned) and because it was cold outside, I had the remnants of death flu from hell, and he forgot to bring Halo 2, it turned into a weekend of cult movies. I appreciate that his geekiness is so similar to mine.
Movies consumed this weekend:
The Room
We went to the midnight screening of The Room Friday night. I drank too much that night, which probably delayed my recovery, but I needed it to get through The Room. I do not LIKE The Room, but my brother had only seen it on DVD with friends who were also not familiar with it, and that is not how you watch that movie. It requires the shared experience and audience participation to really have the full experience. I hadn't been in over a year, though, and it was interesting to see the development of the audience participation and the calls in that time. The "because you're a woman" is still there whenever Lisa does anything (or can't do anything), but that's more of a commentary on the text, and the "whore" and "she's really a man" stuff all seemed to be gone. When I asked my friend who goes more regularly, she said it just evolved that way, and the more sexist stuff seemed to have almost fallen out of favor, at least in that theater among that audience. That was my main issue the first time around (similar to why Rocky Horror can be difficult for me at times) and so it was interesting to hear that, and I wonder how/why. It was nice, though, because that's the kind of movie I only want to watch in that context, and if I can do it without constant gender-based insults then that's preferable.
Troll 2
And also the documentary about Troll 2, Best Worst Movie, which quirkytaverna sent me after I mentioned the *last* time I watched Troll 2. I have now watched Troll 2 twice in a month, I don't actually know how that happened and I'm not sure it's the *best* worst movie, but I definitely see how it became a cult phenomenon. Maybe it's just that it's not *my* worst movie. But maybe that's just because it's one that *I* have only watched on DVD in my living room. Midnight screenings change things.
Repo! The Genetic Opera.
I loved this movie. I loved this movie. I shouldn't have. It has a premise that squicks the fuck out of me on a fundamental level and it shouldn't have been tolerable. I mean, a rock opera about organ harvesting? That's pretty much my bullet proof squick meeting my bullet proof genre. I don't even know what to *do* with that. In this case, the genre won out for some reason. I'm not really sure why - it's very stylized; it looks like a comic book and there's nothing realistic about it, granted, but the conceptual I should have been so squicked that it was unwatchable, but I really, really wasn't. I couldn't look away. Also, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton and the girl from Spy Kids. How does that casting even happen? AMAZING. Also points to Paris Hilton. It took me forever to figure out she was Amber Sweet. My brother kept going, "who's playing Amber? Can you tell?" And I kept *looking* and having *no idea* and being like, "is it someone I should recognize?" And then finally she appears without all the gothness and ohhhhhhhhhh. Good for her, though.
I'm still trying to figure out why I was so taken with it despite the organ harvesting. It was just so dystopian and dark and stylized and gorgeous and *weird.* Idk, idk, it worked for me even though it shouldn't have. Possibly I am actually JUST THAT EASY for rock operas. I don't think I'd have liked it if they hadn't been *singing* about organ harvesting.
I also had never even heard of this movie and I'm trying to figure out how that happened. However, I've been informed by a couple of people that they told me about it before, so I think probably I just wasn't paying attention, likely because I heard the premise and was horrified and just shut down after that.
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