After the Mountain Goats extravaganza on Friday, Marisa and I spent Saturday in Philadelphia with Bayard and Alex. We hit the Philadelphia Book Festival, which as a science-fiction-friendly and science-fact-averse English major I'm surprised to report was sort of upstaged by the Philadelphia Science Festival. Maybe some people dropped out due to
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Yeah, there was a definite running-through-a-checklist-vibe to some of the references this time around ("here's what's wrong with torture horror and J-horror...there, we mentioned them"), and I'd be genuinely curious to find out whether this was Williamson's original ending. I too liked the ending, in part because it violently and explicitly made it clear that they were ultimately more interested in making a slasher movie about middle-aged (or almost middle-aged?) people than they were in the younger characters, but it did leave me kind of baffled regarding the "second trilogy" talk. (Also, I thought it was weirdly not suspenseful, since at that point I figured if they hadn't killed Sidney in the kitchen, they weren't going to do it in the hospital.) It's interesting that if the hospital sequence was a late addition, I think it radically changes the film from being almost a Star Trek-style reboot where we'd follow the murderous-Emma-Roberts/new-evil-Sidney-substitute in ( ... )
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