celluloid slut
The best part of 8,000 channels of cable is [adult swim]. Trying not to wake my roommate laughing at Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a difficult task. I don't believe in the theory that there are a million channels and still nothing to watch. I can always find something--be it something I actually enjoy or crappy Skinemax softcore pornography to ease the pain of lonliness.
Still, I feel the need to rent movies, and tonight I got one called Soft for Digging, which was creepy as fuck. It's about some old dude who lives in the woods and runs off chasing his cat and ends up witnessing a murder that no one believes he saw. There's all of five lines of dialog in the movie, which is about an hour-and-a-half. It's mesmerizing though, and really well-shot and dreary, even though all of it was shot in the daylight.
I love horror movies, even though they usually scare the shit out of me. The good ones anyway, and I'm super stoked that Land of the Dead is coming out soon.
This will be the first time I'll get to see one of George Romero's zombie movies in the theater--not counting the remakes. The '90s version of Night of the Living Dead was feh, and the recent Dawn of the Dead remake was really good, but it was a totally different movie, which I was kind of thankful for. I didn't get a chance to really compare it to the original so I was able to enjoy it on its own merits. But Romero is the master; he totally created modern zombie mythology and you can't front on that...especially if you're a geek.
I hope Land of the Dead is good, because I'm going to get into a geek hissy if it's not--like totally spouting scene for scene analysis to anyone who'll listen, even if they're not listening, compare shots from the previous films to shots of the new ones, bitch about things like continuity from movie to movie and say shit like "that couldn't happen because in Dawn of the Dead it was established that zombies could only cross still water. Not moving water!" I hope Mr. Romero saves me the embarassment.
He did provide delight for the perverted Italian in me, because he cast Asia Argento, daughter of Italian horror master Dario Argento, who edited the European version of Dawn of the Dead (the original theatrical release is still the best version, though). Though she's no Monica Bellucci (Italian), Asia clearly rocks because she's on some serious Euro art trash shit and directs really bizarre and arty movies in which she has no problem with taking off her clothes and making out with other women--all of which is cool with me. Plus she has a sexy tattoo. It's almost enough to forgive her for being the thing that Vin Diesel was going to do for his country. Regardless, she's kinda horror royalty, and though she'd probably get all fucked up on drugs and blow smoke in my uncle's face over Christmas dinner, she's Italian, so I could bring her home to momma.
Still, I feel the need to rent movies, and tonight I got one called Soft for Digging, which was creepy as fuck. It's about some old dude who lives in the woods and runs off chasing his cat and ends up witnessing a murder that no one believes he saw. There's all of five lines of dialog in the movie, which is about an hour-and-a-half. It's mesmerizing though, and really well-shot and dreary, even though all of it was shot in the daylight.
I love horror movies, even though they usually scare the shit out of me. The good ones anyway, and I'm super stoked that Land of the Dead is coming out soon.
This will be the first time I'll get to see one of George Romero's zombie movies in the theater--not counting the remakes. The '90s version of Night of the Living Dead was feh, and the recent Dawn of the Dead remake was really good, but it was a totally different movie, which I was kind of thankful for. I didn't get a chance to really compare it to the original so I was able to enjoy it on its own merits. But Romero is the master; he totally created modern zombie mythology and you can't front on that...especially if you're a geek.
I hope Land of the Dead is good, because I'm going to get into a geek hissy if it's not--like totally spouting scene for scene analysis to anyone who'll listen, even if they're not listening, compare shots from the previous films to shots of the new ones, bitch about things like continuity from movie to movie and say shit like "that couldn't happen because in Dawn of the Dead it was established that zombies could only cross still water. Not moving water!" I hope Mr. Romero saves me the embarassment.
He did provide delight for the perverted Italian in me, because he cast Asia Argento, daughter of Italian horror master Dario Argento, who edited the European version of Dawn of the Dead (the original theatrical release is still the best version, though). Though she's no Monica Bellucci (Italian), Asia clearly rocks because she's on some serious Euro art trash shit and directs really bizarre and arty movies in which she has no problem with taking off her clothes and making out with other women--all of which is cool with me. Plus she has a sexy tattoo. It's almost enough to forgive her for being the thing that Vin Diesel was going to do for his country. Regardless, she's kinda horror royalty, and though she'd probably get all fucked up on drugs and blow smoke in my uncle's face over Christmas dinner, she's Italian, so I could bring her home to momma.
3 comments:
But is she Italian?
she's italian!
Cool, you just can't beat a decent horror movie. I'm going to try and rent Soft for digging this weekend!
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