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....

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[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!