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Last night, there wasn't much to do, so Jenny came over and we watched movies. Horror movies, with one exception - THE BRIDGE TO TARABITHIA.
Jenny chose it. I didn't mind - I liked it, in fact - and I don't want to spoil it for anyone who might not have seen it already, but Something Very Bad happens in the middle of the movie.
Jenny started wiping her eyes. Then, she was sniffling. Finally, she's crying - large tears just streaming down her face, sobbing, blowing snot...she was the unhappiest thing I've ever seen, so I said, "Let me find something else..." thinking it would help.
"No! Don't change it! I LOVE this movie!" she sobbed and mopped at her eyes with a wad of soggy Kleenex. "This is a GREAT movie!"
Uh...okay, then...
So, I learned that some people like to have their hearts broken when it's safe, and no one REALLY gets hurt.
The other flicks we watched were the two Grindhouse movies - DEATH PROOF and PLANET TERROR. Watching these, I learned two things - never hang any of your limbs outside the window of a moving vehicle, and don't ever think an amputee is more helpless than you are.
Oh, we, also, watched DEAD SILENT... It was sooo bad - a poorly-acted, poorly-directed, derivative-of-all-the-derivative 'boogeyman' (or, as in this case, boogeywomen) movies. The only creepy things were the ventriloquist dummies. I lump those dummies right in there with clowns for giving the average person the heebie-jeebies, and little kids outright night terrors. {I've always hated those little bastards. One of the worst Christmas gifts I ever got was a ventriloquist dummy when I was nine. My Uncle Wheeler gave it to me, and it sat in a chair by my bed and scared the snot out of me on a regular basis.} Of the three movies, DEATH PROOF was the one I liked the best. Kurt Russell was great as a serial killer who was just sleazy enough, didn't play it to the hilt; and I like the idea of women doing more than just screaming for help when things get rough. I think we've all had enough of the helpless blonde squealing like a shoat before someone in some kind of a mask cuts her head off and slaps it on a fencepost.
Yeah, not a meaningful way to spend an evening, but I had a good time, ate a ton of popcorn and Doritos, and did it all laying on the couch like the happy lump of shit I felt like... |
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Posted by Indigo_Drift on 2008-01-06 16:18:00 | Rating: | Views: 128
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Hey! Thanks for leaving that comment in my blog. Those are kool movies you listed. It doesn't matter what you do as long as you have a good time! Take care!
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Posted by CavedogRob
on 2008-01-06 21:22:27
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Dead Silent .. one of the many reasons I am not longer with my Ex. :)
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Posted by idreamt_iwas
on 2008-01-07 13:57:21
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I was kidding, Id never dump someone over a movie.. Unless it was really really bad.
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Posted by idreamt_iwas
on 2008-01-07 13:57:42
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Okay... Dead Silent was poorly done. But I must admit the little rhyme was almost as catchy as the one from Nightmare on Elm Street. Beware of the stare of Mary Shaw...
And I am a person who cries from watching movies.. and I really think its because sometimes, when you don't have to give a reason.. you can cry for all the stuff that is harder to admit to...
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Posted by BitterSweetNy
on 2008-01-07 19:52:48
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