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After the weird start to the week I had, with the downswing and then upswing and then evening out, it was really pleasant to just have a rest today; it was nice and rainy and me and the bro put on a couple of horror movies. Thankfully, Netflix was obliging and two arrived in my mailbox. I'd wanted to grab Day of the Dead for a while and it was Jade's recommendation that finally spurred me to move it up on my queue. Some good B-movie stuff; I liked the weird way the zombies moved, especially the ceiling action. It was more like Resident Evil that the Resident Evil movies were! Plus, I have a huge girl-crush on Mena Suvari.
The second movie was, hmmm, not so hot. How you could go wrong with a cast like Joe Anderson, Jena Malone and Jonathan Tucker (my Will PB, mmmmmmm, ass shots and all, though I felt cheated that his dressing scene was shot from the hip up when I had to see the chick from The Covenant's tits)? Oh, I know the answer to this: make the movie really, really boring, and the characters shallow enough that you don't care who dies. Actually the Maya work so hard to keep the "infection" or growth or what have you so contained, you're rooting for all of them to die because you know they all have it and if one escapes, they're endangering everyone. This doesn't occur to them, as shallow as they are. But am I sorry I watched it? Did I mention Jonathan Tucker ass? Hell no!
Third movie I got from Netflix was Eastern Promises, which I'm saving to watch with my sister and which I've already watched myself. Don't think my brother would like it, though he's surprised me with some of the other Oscar winners this past year--he really liked No Country for Old Men. He prefers the lighter fair, though, and the subtle artistic nuances of cinema are kinda lost on him.
Relaxing day all around :-D
The second movie was, hmmm, not so hot. How you could go wrong with a cast like Joe Anderson, Jena Malone and Jonathan Tucker (my Will PB, mmmmmmm, ass shots and all, though I felt cheated that his dressing scene was shot from the hip up when I had to see the chick from The Covenant's tits)? Oh, I know the answer to this: make the movie really, really boring, and the characters shallow enough that you don't care who dies. Actually the Maya work so hard to keep the "infection" or growth or what have you so contained, you're rooting for all of them to die because you know they all have it and if one escapes, they're endangering everyone. This doesn't occur to them, as shallow as they are. But am I sorry I watched it? Did I mention Jonathan Tucker ass? Hell no!
Third movie I got from Netflix was Eastern Promises, which I'm saving to watch with my sister and which I've already watched myself. Don't think my brother would like it, though he's surprised me with some of the other Oscar winners this past year--he really liked No Country for Old Men. He prefers the lighter fair, though, and the subtle artistic nuances of cinema are kinda lost on him.
Relaxing day all around :-D
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*raises hand* Me too! Especially in that movie. She kicked so much tail.
Actually the Maya work so hard to keep the "infection" or growth or what have you so contained, you're rooting for all of them to die because you know they all have it and if one escapes, they're endangering everyone.
I had heard that about that movie! That is where so many horror movies fail miserably. They don't get you invested in anyone. Because they all suck! Somehow, they always bring it on themselves. :/
I'm glad you got some rest, dear! Sounds like a good day to me, hehe! :D
I really wanted to like The Ruins so it was extra painful for me when it slowly crawled along and I realized we weren't even going to get a big, ancient evil storyline. I mean Joe Anderson, who I've only ever seen elsewhere in Across the Universe but Max is my favorite character and his eyes have completely captured my soul, and Jonathan Tucker, who's not in so much himself either, in the same movie?! Da-amn! But, alas! There was a small thrill seeing Mr. Tucker make out with Jena Malone decked out in geek glasses but I couldn't share the squee with my brother because he gets all uncomfortable when I get especially girlie like, say, pointing out that an actor I like it groping a girl onscreen who kinda looks like me XD
And this may sound ridiculous seeing as I watched a movie where a zombie gets back up, reaches onto his faces, pulls out his dangling eye and eats it just before it, and also considering the fact that I got the unrated version because a horror movie isn't worth watching, IMO, unless you get the uncut one, but The Ruins was unnecessarily graphic. Really, I actually got queasy, I the gore hound!
And Mena Suvari rocks the world in that movie! When she just matter of factly ran her mother down in that Humvee (the head bouncing nicely off the back, noticed the previously mentioned gore hound in me) got out and told her brother in such a no nonsense way (like, 'Get over it and come on!') that it wasn't their mom anymore, I wanted to cheer! She's what I want, like, every zombie movie heroine to be! And I found the whole thing with Bud kinda sweet, I admit.