Hello...?
So, it would appear that I do, in fact, have a blog from a couple of years ago. I'm not sure if it speaks negatively of my sanity, or sheer lack of focus that I had completely forgotten about this. Reading back on my musings, I found some of them rather humorous, and it has inspired me to make a passing attempt at keeping up a Blog on whatever may strike me.
Why isn't anyone listening to me?
MySpace is horribly boring and riddled with the latest generation of Pedophiles and Spambots masquerading as fairly normal people. At first it was easy to identify the porno-spam, as it was always some plastic diva raising her shirt for a photo that clearly had too much time and money spent on it to warrant usage in such a public clusterfuck of mind-numbing personae. Now, however, it's like the next generation of fucking Terminators when I get a Friend Request; able to fit in under general scrutiny, but once the skeptical eye falls upon them, they break out the assault rifles and rape your hard drive looking for Sarah Connor...and passwords.Okay, so maybe they're not quite that skillfully chameleonesque, but their profiles will now often require actually visiting them and reading a bit to find out whether or not this is your old friend Steve from '98, or a link to the latest "What Won't These Chicks Do With A Chicken, A Wheat Thresher and 3 Gallons of Ipecac?" website.
Their meticulously crafted facade falls quickly asunder in the About Me section about 98.99% of the time, though, so perhaps my apocalyptic rendering isn't 100% accurate. It's as if they tried to make you believe, "Hey, you! This is a real person and we just want to be friends and share your interests with you! We noticed you liked the movie 'Blade Runner,' and that is totally awesome because we did too..." and then follow it up with, "...and nothing makes me think of a Replicant-filled future where C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate like 76 METRIC KILOTONS OF SPAM IN YOUR FUCKING INBOX!" and then, Boom!, all your files are lost in time...like tears in rain.
Ahem...
(I'm not sure if there is a proposed etiquette for "...but I digress," but if there is, I am unaware of it. So, without further ado.)
...but I digress...
What the fuck is wrong with me...?
Tonight is the vaunted "Bad Movie Night" amongst my brethren and I. We have 3 "classics" lined up as per the usual. They are, in random order:
"Day of the Dead": This appears to be a remake for all those fans of the original George A. Romero film who thought, "Well, it was good, but I didn't laugh nearly as much as I thought I would. Let's do this again, only this time I want comedy, and each scene must be punctuated with Awesome in order to get my seal of approval." That's right, horror purists, I didn't like the original "Day of the Dead." While it wasn't as preachy as its predecessor (which was a good 45-minute movie...that lasted 14 hours), the original "Day..." was the beginning of Romero gleefully exposing every crack in his shining facade as a one-note filmmaker ("Land..." expounded on this and it looks as if "Diary..." is going to be the film equivalent of seppuku). This remake looks, for lack of a better description, fun.
"Alien Agent": I actually don't know anything about this movie, but that's not going to stop me from writing something about it. From what I hear (through an e-mail sent by my cohort August), it stars Mark Dacascos, and from what I can gather from the title, he may either be an Alien Agent sent to destroy Earth from the inside-out, or possibly a down-and-out cop on the edge of suspension who is mankind's only hope to stop Alien Agent. It also stars Billy Zane, who will likely play one of the two roles I mentioned...but I'm going to go ahead and assume it will be whichever role Dacascos is not hamming up.
"P2": This was an actual theatre-release from awhile back. It's directed by Alexandre Aja, who directed the French thriller "Haute Tension;" one of my favourites. It did piss-poorly in the theatre, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad...yet. Funny Fact: When I first saw the title on a website a year or so ago, I thought it was a spoof of the second Terminator film with Pigs or Pixies or something. I'll let you know if my original thought was the better idea...
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