Another boring Monday
January 19th, 2009 • chatter
I understand that today is a national holiday for most people, I know I loved it back in grade school. But honestly, today is just boring. We’re working and my girlfriend is swamped while I’m hardly doing anything at all. I’m reading RSS feeds for the most part, along with having a mild allergy attack. It just started to sprinkle and I’m just utterly bored today. Since I do not have class tonight, due to the holiday, I am set up to deal with this drear all day.
We saw My Bloody Valentine 3D last night and it was a real hoot. Granted, it wasn’t the best but it was exactly what it thought it was: cheesy. The over-the-top acting and deliberate accentuated action (done for 3D) was first class cheese. This movie didn’t take itself seriously at all, unlike Slaughter. I think more big budget flicks like this should be produced, not contrite garbage thinking it’s more than it really is. Take for instance Stay Alive from 2006. The premise was simple: somehow, a survival horror video game becomes real life and its players start to die. Overall, sounds pretty cheesy but it’s not. That movie was terrible and the acting was incredibly poorly done. It’s another case of a movie taking itself too seriously to function. But My Bloody Valentine 3D did not do this at all and that made it enjoyable. Sure, the plot was paper thin and you knew what was going to happen, it did so in a fun way. What American horror fans want is more stuff like this and movies that can really scare you. What we don’t want are very serious but bad movies and more badly done Asian remakes (The Ring 1 and 2, The Grudge 1 and 2, The Uninvited, Dark Water, Pulse, etc). I don’t have a problem with remakes usually but most of them completely miss the message of the original film and instead, shoot for the “jump” factor for scares.
I think since there’s no work to be done today, I’ll just continue watching Soul Eater or find something else to take my mind off things. I could go watch Anthony Bourdain in Egypt, I can only imagine the weird stuff he’d eat in their street markets.