Wednesday Hates Me!
I think it's fair to say that me and today didn't get on at all well.For some unknowlable reason I woke up this morning and just couldn't get interested in anything. I knew I had things to do, I had a day planned, but it didn't matter. Try as I might I couldn't get going this morning. Or this afternoon, to be honest. Then, just when I was about to go outside, get some fresh air and a change of scenery, Jules calls cos her computer is broken.
So around I go, to see what I can do. Turns out its "broken" cos her boyfriend tried to fix it (ha! amateur hour), but there wasn't much to it and I'd got it sorted in a few minutes. He does however seem to be driving her crazy, but sadly he didn't leave us along long enough to talk about him, so I guess we'll have to do it another day!
By the time I got home again I was feeling a good deal chirpier, and I watched a good edition of Deal or No Deal (a bizarrely compelling bit of daytime gameshow-ness) and then watched The Descent!
Now, I've seen this movie before, round Jules' place, but as is typical of her, if it takes more than two seconds of attention (or is new, she hates change) then she's not gonna be interested, and sure enough she spent the WHOLE movie bitching about it. When I got to watch it again, by myself, this afternoon, I found a very cool movie. Sure it may not be the great white hope of the horror genre that its been hyped as (Neil Marshall, after two movies, could be up there with Eli Roth as a potential saviour of the genre), although it does have strong similarities with some classics from the 70s (particularly in the whole dehumanising effects of violence theme that you saw explored in early Wes Craven flicks, for instance), and it also owes a strong debt to Alien which is pretty much the ultimate haunted house movie. The cinematography is very strong, and it being set in a cave, the only light sources are the lights the women themselves bring with them, leading to a very claustrophobic atmosphere (not to mention some spectacularly beautiful moments of coloured lighting!). Another cool movie! Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age...
Spent the rest of the evening chattin with Ronnie online, which made me happy. Can't wait to see her on Friday though, she's staying for the WHOLE weekend this time, and I'm dead excited! We're going out to dinner Friday night, and then I've no doubt we'll be having a few drinks (we're goin' down the Dragoon, which (if memory serves) does excellent, individual food, unlike the normal mass produced crap that most pubs do, and I know Ronnie loves proper food cooked by a proper chef!), Saturday we're going to visit her sister (and presumably get drunk a bit more! Well, I will, she's driving!) and then I've no idea what we'll do on Sunday, but at a guess we'll chill and relax and see where the day takes us! I can't wait!
posted by BadMonkey @ 11:48 PM
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I'm not sure I'd say Wes Craven has got better with time, but he's certainly got slicker. His early movies, while clearly in the horror genre, used to at least be about something (that is, they had a subtext), but these days he just seems to be a director for hire producing slick work for studios. I mean, what the hell is Red Eye about eh? I'm not saying its unique to him, all artists lose their edge as they get older, richer and more comfortable with themselves, which I guess is why someone like Tony Scott impresses the hell outta me. He's heading for sixty years old, and yet he's got a pioneering cinematic cool that rightly belongs to somebody in their early twenties!
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