not a review, just an EW!!!!

[orangerful]

So, blu_harvest had some free movie tickets so he invited us to go see "My Bloody Valentine 3D" with him last Sunday.

Now, I am not really a big slasher movie fan. I've seen 'Halloween' and 'Scream', but the list sort of ends there. But, I hadn't really watched a slasher movie since I was in high school, plus the idea of 3-D intrigued me, so we said what the heck. I mean, it would be free.

I spent most of the movie with my eyes closed and a few times with my fingers in my ears. I missed a lot of the 3-D stuff because they usually happened right before someone got a pick-axe in their head. What 3-D stuff I did see (gun pointed at the screen, tree branch, the Coraline trailer) I thought was pretty darn cool. But, yeah, this movie was wasted on me. I am not a fan of this genre at all. I'm not the target demographic. I know it's a "B-movie" and not meant to be taken for more than that. But, yeah, not really into it.

I've decided there must be something comforting about these movies to the people that watch them. I mean, the b-movie slasher genre films all tend to go the same way - young adults cause something to go wrong, crazy person/thing is angered, no one believes crazy person/thing is a threat, someone has sex (and we will see boob), crazy person/thing slaughters several people very violently on screen, starting with the ones that had sex, until the young adults are down to a group of 2-3 (one girl, one guy, and a girl/guy - one will end up fatally injured before the end), remaining young adults vanquish crazy person/thing (or at least they think they do) and the movie ends.

If you're into these movies, you're not watching them for the plot, or the acting,...is it the fact that you know what will happen? I mean, once you've seen a enough of them, are they even scary? Or are they just, like, a McDonald's hamburger - so not good for you in any way but sometimes you just crave them? But why? Why would you want to see someone brutally murdered? And realistically too? I can handle the Kill Bill style violence, that's very over-the-top, anime with blood squirting out in ridiculous ways. But seeing someone's jaw ripped off with a pick-axe...when does that get fun? I admit that I will never understand it. But to each his own. Plus, someone has to employ those CW actors when they are not shooting their tv shows.

It's funny though, because today at work I got into this weird mode on Wikipedia, reading all the slasher movie overviews. It started with me seeking out more information on this movie, since some of the Rotten Tomatoes reviews mentioned it was based on a movie in the 1980s (apparently a Canadian film with a very different ending). Then while I was reading that, someone came to the desk to see if we had Saw V on DVD, and then I ended up on the Saw wikipedia page, reading the entire backstory for the series. Then I remembered blu_harvest talking about the new Friday the 13th movie and went to read that series' backstory...

The point is, I found the stories interesting, but I had absolutely no interest in seeing the movies because I don't want to SEE these horrible things happen to people, even if the people being abused were not the best people ever. But I wanted to know WHY these characters did what they did...I guess what is what I want out of a movie, more character development and growth, not so much with the removal of hearts. I like to read the ghost stories but not watch them....

Comments

[ekaterin24.livejournal.com]

"Ew!" is right! I'm glad blu_harvest invites me only to nice movies like Were The World Mine where there's far more sparkles than blood (and no vampires, only fairies...) I guess that's an advantage of being his "sweet gentle older friend" and not his "cool hip young friend." You see, you need to ditch your Buffy paraphernalia and Rock Band and read lovey-dovey yaoi manga instead.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I was lured in by the 3Dness. It's sorta like roller coasters for me, every now and then I have to watch a little bit of a horror/slasher movie to remind myself why I don't enjoy them. hehe.

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Yeah I am not so much a horror movie girl. I like Scream, but they were so campy! They were almost a parody of themselves. I skipped school on the release day of the 3rd and went with a friend to see it. People in costumes running in the aisles. XD (But I refused to go to the potty...I saw what happened to that guy...I'm not stupid.) lol.

I have such a vivid imagination, I might as well just put myself in all of the movies. I am looking under things and around things and jumping at little noises for days after.

In college, my little sister in the sorority was watching the Ring by herself. I get a call at like...sometime after midnight. She's hiding in her parents van that she'd borrowed for that week, because at the end of the movie it went to static and her room phone rang a couple minutes after. It was clear at that moment that we were meant to be 'family'. hahaha.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

HA! Yeah, after I saw...oh what was that one with Sarah Michelle Gellar? ACK! I've blocked it out because it was so bad. but that one had a scary phone thing too, and my friend called me as I was walking back to my car IN THE DARK and made the horrible noise into the phone. Oh I was so angry...and freaked out! I drove home really fast. I'm way too easily spooked.

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

the Grudge!
Yeah I can do that noise (and only use it on my mother and aunt when they want to watch something I absolutely do not). haha. My aunt chose that to watch right after it was on DVD, but they BOTH abandoned me! ALONE! Let me tell you there was heck to pay that night. HECK I TELL YOU!

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the night I decided to rent "The Ring". I was like "it's only PG-13 how scary can it be" and I turned out all the lights and told AD to come and watch it with me...and in about 15 minutes all of the lights were back on in the house and the tv was muted. Clearly not our genre LOL!

[admackbar.livejournal.com]

If you seen my latest entry. You have seen me go on how much I loved the money. I can really see this being a really bad for you.. You don't like the horror and on top of that seeing it in 3D.. I been a horror fan pretty much my entire life. I watched some bad bad gory horror. Even seen movies when I wasn't suppose to. But as I told people violent video games and violent horror games don't make people do bad things. I am proof of that. I watched some sick and twisted stuff over the years and never harmed a fly... Sorry about your horrific experience.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just never got into gory stuff...heck, I don't even like to watch people get injections in movies! I'm pretty much a total wuss. haha.

And I can't stand when people claim that movies/videogames make people do bad things. It's so ridiculous. Usually the people that do bad things are going to do them, no matter what entertainment they prefer. I read a book called 'Grand Theft Childhood' and it was all about how almost all of the research done on video game violence is totally bunk.