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synapticjava) wrote2007-10-02 08:28 pm
synapticjava) wrote2007-10-02 08:28 pm
I want the last two hours of my life back
along with the $.40 I spent on copying the DVD. I just watched The Grudge 2 - I've only had it in my DVD Ripper wallet for about 6 months now.
Man, that movie sucked. I know a lot of people hated the first one too, but jeeze...this was so much worse. It was like a parody of itself. I'm so... nah, I can't even pretend to be surprised.
At what point did directors/writers/actors decide to kill the Horror Genre? Was there some unspoken rule that was made up that from henceforth all "scary" movies must be...well, stupid? They're so caught up in impressing audiences with special effects and pulse-pounding surprises that there's no story any more, no real reason to be truly scared. Like everything else in this 21st century, audiences want to be instantly gratified. They want that 2 second thrill you get when you see a nail shoot through someone's finger. The lingering "what ifs" just aren't there anymore. Is it too much to ask to want to be too scared to sleep alone with the lights off again? Is it too much to give me one good scene that will replay itself over and over in my head causing me to cringe - not in disgust, but in terror? Even lame old Michael Myers had his own schtick - he just doesn't die. Like Jason, and Freddy, and all the old stand bys, we know their rules and the proper ways around them. Their rules are what make them scary, because we can understand it. There are no rules anymore. Today's "monsters" are asian chicks making bong noises, maniacle hitchhikers with no real reason to terrorize, and evil ventriloquists.
What happened to good old fasioned "sweet jesus, did he just suck that guy's face off through his fingers?" horror? Where is today's Needful Things? Where are today's Critters? Where's our IT?
You just know Hitchcock is rolling over in his grave with every new relased trailer.
/rant
Man, that movie sucked. I know a lot of people hated the first one too, but jeeze...this was so much worse. It was like a parody of itself. I'm so... nah, I can't even pretend to be surprised.
At what point did directors/writers/actors decide to kill the Horror Genre? Was there some unspoken rule that was made up that from henceforth all "scary" movies must be...well, stupid? They're so caught up in impressing audiences with special effects and pulse-pounding surprises that there's no story any more, no real reason to be truly scared. Like everything else in this 21st century, audiences want to be instantly gratified. They want that 2 second thrill you get when you see a nail shoot through someone's finger. The lingering "what ifs" just aren't there anymore. Is it too much to ask to want to be too scared to sleep alone with the lights off again? Is it too much to give me one good scene that will replay itself over and over in my head causing me to cringe - not in disgust, but in terror? Even lame old Michael Myers had his own schtick - he just doesn't die. Like Jason, and Freddy, and all the old stand bys, we know their rules and the proper ways around them. Their rules are what make them scary, because we can understand it. There are no rules anymore. Today's "monsters" are asian chicks making bong noises, maniacle hitchhikers with no real reason to terrorize, and evil ventriloquists.
What happened to good old fasioned "sweet jesus, did he just suck that guy's face off through his fingers?" horror? Where is today's Needful Things? Where are today's Critters? Where's our IT?
You just know Hitchcock is rolling over in his grave with every new relased trailer.
/rant