Sleeping with the tv off - a case study

 Wgbw, I know I just promised to try and stay away from the self-reflective posts, but this is sort of related since I often fall asleep to scary movies so bear with me.

I've chronicled my journey with sleeping with the tv on and off and thought I'd keep you posted about it. 

9/17/12: I've determined I might have to start sleeping with the tv off. 

To those of you know me, this is unbelievable. For years I have slept with the TV on. The whole reason the couchbread is so popular is because of the gigantic TV in front of it.  It used to be a deal breaker with girls. It was never anything personal, but if you couldn't sleep with the tv on I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Even the whole 'let's put the sleep timer' thing never made much sense to me.

I mostly trace this back to my childhood. I grew up sleeping with the tv on. Whenever I went to stay at someone's house I could never sleep. Now, being 26 years old, I still can't sleep with the tv off when I'm not in my own bread.

Lately though it's been giving me problems. For the last 4 months I've been waking up every 3-4 hours, checking the clock, and then immediately falling back asleep. Part of the reason I can fall back asleep so easily is that I've seen every episode of the hit tv show Friends 2539 times so when I wake up and it's on the TV I don't tune in too much. I didn't read too much into at first, but then it was a nightly ritual. After doing some research I found out that it can screw with your blood pressure, your ability to make sound life choices, and can cause over the top nightmares. Now I've never believed in the whole 'sleeping with the tv on leads to depression' argument because I'm generally happier when I wake up and the TV is on and more depressed when I realized someone has shut it off.  But the rest of this kind of spooked me. I've had high blood pressure off and on, make poor decisions (well rarely), and have creepy nightmares on the reg.

After realizing that I'm probably the only person I know who has (or even wants) to sleep with the TV on, I've decided I'm going to start shutting it off when I get drowsy. We'll see how this goes.

9/24/12: What a dumb idea that was

Well, after a day or two of that experiment, I've determined that I'm never shutting off the TV again. Ever.

After an hour of being restless I'd eventually fall asleep but then wake up every 3 hours. And when I woke up I'd just lay there confused, wondering why the TV was off.  "Did the power go out? Did Bricker sneak in here to play a cruel prank on me? Am I not at the Cone?"

I've also figured out that there could be other culprits. My mattress pad is old, my beds not pushed up against the wall anymore, and it's no longer summer (story for another post).

Now of course I'll have to figure out the other problems associated with sleeping with the TV on at a later date (i.e. settling down with someone, our energy bill, etc.), but for now I think I'll keep tuning in. 

The Cube

1) I watched this after realizing they had repped it in The Cabin in the Woods.I do think that I am a pretty big horror movie geek, but I still always have a hard time getting behind these 'cult horror' movies. But I'm trying to get better at it so I tuned into this.

2) I thought the acting was all pretty mediocre. Nobody really seemed believable and didn't seem too shocked that these people kept getting killed off in this random cube that they woke up in.

3) It also seemed like this was an earlier setup of all of the Saw movies. It's just these people all waking up in this crazy metal cube and having no idea how they got there. This must've been a solid plot idea in 1997.

4) My problem is that there's no explanation for the cube. I realized this when trying to tag the post. It's not really a haunted house, no one knows if they were set up by a killer or what's going on. They never figure out how they got in there, who put them in there, or where the one guy that gets away at the end is going. Maybe that's why it's supposed to be appealing, but I'm not really digging it. Like in life (lol) I think things need closure and this movie just ends with too many questions unanswered.

D+

Episodes Season 2

1) I can't believe how long ago it was that I reviewed the first season. I was pretty wild about it and it just picked up as the season went on. This season was almost completely backwards. The first few eps were so tight then it just went downhill from there.

2) They transitioned well to everybody getting used to the breakup. And I never would've guessed about the Matt/Boss's wife thing.

3) And obvi it was tight because Matt is just so wholly inappropriate in all of his jokes and the way the British guy reacts to them is always clutch.

4) The biggest problem with the season is just the redundant plots that get boring. I mean, we get the show isn't doing well. And that the two British people can't reconcile. And that the boss isn't going to leave his wife. But it just happens every episode and only partially gets resolved in the finale. I had to shut off like 3 of the eps as they were going on it got so bad.

:(

C+

The Breakfast Club

1) Pretty solid movie. I'm not wild about all of the emotional moments that tend to take over these movies but it was good.

2) I don't really understand why everyone could get so emotional during the day. I mean, I get the stir crazy thing. I've been sitting in my room for the better part of the last 4 months watching mediocre horror movies. It screws with your head. But I think all of them end up crying at some point during the day. And they drop all these emotional bombs on each other. Just seems sort of odd.

3) For example, I don't think I would fit in here. Never having had detention (yeah buddy) I can't say for sure, but I imagine I'd probably just try to nap or read some of the magazines or something. Maybe try to talk to Emilio Estevez about wrestling or something, but besides that I can't imagine this is too hard.

4) Rumor was that it was shot at GBN but I have no idea having never been in the GBN library. Oh- how tight was it that the wrestler was named Andrew? Pretty tight.

B

Rocky IV

In the spirit of America (yesterday), I figured I review one of the best Rocky movies: this one lol.

1) It's one of my favorite Rocky movies because it's not as long as the rest lol. And he's fighting for America which is tight.

2) It's pretty unbelievable that the guy gets TKO'd for real at the beginning of the movie. Seems like Las Vegas has had enough experience with boxing fights that they could prevent that from happening.  

3) Obvi my biggest beef with the movie is that the famous Bill Conti song GONNA FLY NOW isn't in it. It's one of the best songs to rep while you need to get motivated to finish your workout and it makes me sad it missed this film. Wikipedia informs me that he was too busy with the tight Karate Kid movies to do this which is fair because all of those movies are top-notch.

B+

Mean Girls

I'm gonna try to get out of the way all of the non-horror movies I've seen recently since the great month of October is almost upon us. (I guess this has a little Halloween stuff in it. They go to that party and her two friends are watching Friday the 13th Part 2
).

1) It's a really solid movie. Pretty funny, original, and was a big motion picture debut for a lot of the people in it.

2) The really crazy part in this movie is that Lindsay Lohan plays the hero of the movie while Rachel McAdams is the evil one. I don't read a lot of gossip magazines (obvi) but I get that LL's gotten herself into a fair share of trouble. But evertime I think of Rachel McAdams I just think of how tight she was in The Notebook.

3) The other crazy thing  I never realized was that this was Amanda Seyfried's  big debut. She's one of my celebrity crushes which I'm sure I've mentioned before (see Jennifer's Body or Letters to Juliet).

4) And how tight was that kid's business card? Math enthusiast/bad ass M.C. Top notch.

Good stuff

A-

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

1) @Stone thought I should review this and that's not a horrible idea. I actually am not a fan of family/feel-good movies generally but this one was pretty good.

2) I know it's a fictional story and all, but it's pretty unbelievable. He has this big factory that sells candy that nobody's ever allowed to inspect? Obvi they don't abide by any safety regulations. Kind of makes you wonder if those oompa loompa people are paid well and stuff.

3) And really the kids are going this apeshit over winning a lifetime supply of candy? I mean, I know kids dig the candy and all,  but it's probably not worth getting this excited about. Back in the day I used to love those nerd ropes until I ate myself sick of them, but don't really think I would've been this nutso about winning a lifetime supply of the stuff.

4) And actually this movie is pretty spooky. That dude who tries to buy off the kids is creepy, the whole factory place gives me the willies, and the fact that there's just all of this scary unchartered territory to conquer gives me the shakes. The newer version of the film actually scares the hell out of me more. Johnny Depp is generally creepy to me but he is just off the charts in that movie.

B-

Buff Boxing

Wgbw, I don't usually tune out of blogging about movies but I occasionally get off the subject (see buff, KU BBall, and UFC). This morning I started watching this awful horror movie that's not even worth the blogs time. So I figured I'd venture off of scary movies for a min and share my recent experience getting back into kick/boxing.

1) Yesterday was the 3rd month anniversary of me getting back into kick/boxing. I've lost around 18 pounds since I've started doing it. I can't say that it's all related to just doing that since I've taken up long walks and I've obvi still been gii at the gym, but I know it's had a pretty big influence on it. I think group training is inevitably better than gii by yourself because it's hard to stop half way through when you're tired because everyone else is still pushing it.

2) It's kind of crazy that I still feel like I struggle with basic combos sometimes. I guess it makes sense that I wrestled for 6 years and was always pretty mediocre at it even though we drilled it all the time. I think I'm constantly getting better but I guess I just thought it would all come together quicker. (FWIW I could still put a whooping on Hardy, just not a lot of people who train at the gym lol.)

3) I'm a real big fan because it also forces you to work on your core/legs which I usually never have any motivation to do. It's also boosted my endurance when I run and engage in *other* activities requiring cardiovascular endurance. The only trouble with it is that I feel like I'm overtraining sometimes when I lift a bunch of weights in the morning and have to box at night. I'm still trying to tackle that problem.

4) Anytime I've taken someone there with me they always think it's pretty tight. If any locals want to check it out I highly recommend it.

#teamswoll

Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

1) It's better than I remembered but that's not saying much. Of all of the 80s horror sequel movies (this, Halloween and Friday the 13th), the Nightmare series is by far the worst. This movie isn't horrible but it's definitely the movie that starts the downward trend for the whole Nightmare series.

2) I guess it starts off in a similar manner as the other ones which is solid. The problem is the goofy ass ways that they start TKOing Freddy. I tried rewinding this to figure out exactly how that girl beats him up and I'm still not sure I understand it. She like shows Freddy that he's actually been possessing all of these other kids and so he just collapses on himself?

3) And how does she start accumulating all of the other kids powers? This also begs the question that if this can defeat Freddy (at least until the next movie) why don't they always do this in future movies?

4) It's also disheartening to realize that if eventually I ever become good at boxing that Freddy could still just put a whooping on me.  

C+

The Haunting (1999)

Sorry bw, I was going to post this much earlier in tha week but I passed tha bar(!!) and am just getting around to it now.

1) It took me a while to sit through it, but it was actually one of those movies that got better the more I powered through it. Liam Neeson tricks these people with sleeping problems to come stay over a this creepy place to see if they can eventually just believe that the place is super scary.

2) Then it got kind of goofy. One of the chicks realizes she is the daughter of one of the wives of the dudes who killed all of these kids so that they could stay in tha house for eternity with him.  So she decides that she just wants to never leave the place so she can reconnect with these people or something.

3) Little kids always spook me out so I guess that part was pretty freaky. And when the chick sees the person hang themselves it was scary. I think it kind of reminded me of that creepy ass scene in The Omen when the babysitter decides to jump off tha house in front of all of those kids.

4) It had a pretty star studded cast. CZJ, Liam Neeson and Owen Wilson all had much larger roles in some more popular movies. Surprised they all got together for this one.

C

Piranha 3DD

1) My ADD often times gets the best of me. Back in the day I reviewed Piranha 3D and immediately regretted making myself sit through it. I don't know why I decided to give this one a go but dear lord was it bad.

2) The whole movie is just so ridiculous. The piranhas get lodged up inside of people, inside animals, and even can navigate these complex sewer systems. (Random FYI it took me a minute to figure out how to spell sewer lol). I understand that they intended to make it more ridiculous than the first one, which I should've realized and avoided this altogether.

3)  I'm all about the short movies. I think this one was an hour and 21 minutes. But no joke there's like 15 minutes of credits at the end where they just keep showing David Hasselhoff. If you skipped through the intro and ending credits you could probably have just have called this a short film.

4) It's hard to reiterate how bonkers this was. At the end of the movie the prianhas have learned how to run around on land. Just think about that for a minute. These piranhas have been sitting in this shut down touristy site for like a year and have suddenly learned to evolve to become killer land creatures. SMH.

Not even the R rating can make up for this,

F

The Apparition

1) Talk about a letdown. I was pumped for this movie after the sick trailer for it and all the hype on all the horror movie blogs I read. It turned out to being almost as bad as One Missed Call (which I accidentally got on blu-ray lol).

2) It seemed like it tried to latch on to all the Paranormal Activity movies too much. There's like all this creepy shit that keeps happening but none of it is actually scary. Like the soap in the shower turns black and there's a bunch of mold underneath the floor and stuff. Yawn.

3) And how about that dude not telling his new lady friend that his old lady friend was TKO'd by whatever that spirit thing was? How mad would you be if you found out about that skeleton in the closet lol?

4) Maybe the worst part (besides sitting through this) is that it's really turned me off from wanting to see any of the new horror movies that are due out in the fall. This had so much promise but was just too disappointing :(

D

See No Evil

1) This is a really solid movie. I never usually make it to the movie theater unless it's with a lady friend or Louisiana Judz (except for that time I got DB to go to Prom Night with me lol). But this movie was special enough to go see live.

2) It has several tight connections to tha Friday the 13th movies.The chick at the beginning doesn't have any eyes like that little girl in Freddy v. Jason. Also the whole theme where the mother summons her son to commit all those murders is pretty similar.

3) The theme music kind of drags on. I get that his mom made him listen to it nonstop during his childhood but you figure at some point he would call shenanigans and decide to turn on some different music at some point. Just imagine if he was tunin' into some TSwift at some point \o/

4) Despite it being a pretty solid horror movie it was also kind of funny. During the part at the end of the movie, the big guy falls down with this bar jammed into his head and keeps hitting it on the building. The entire theater was cracking up about how goofy it was lol.

A-

Save the Last Dance

1) I realized I never reviewed this movie before and that is a fucking shame. This movie rules.

2) Part of the reason I have such a thing for it is obvi Julia Stiles. I'd put a link up to all of my reviews on here where I rep her but there's already been too many. Just do a search on the side bar and you'll see <3. Sean Patrick Thomas is also super tight too. He's obvi blowing it up in this movie but also in Halloween Resurrection.


3) The weird part is that I generally have zero interest in artsy kind of movies (see The Artist) or (if I ever had the desire to review them) Adaptation or Midnight in Paris.This one isn't so much artsy but it does involve ballet lol.

4) It's also weird how old all the "high schoolers" are in it.  I know a lot of movies revolving around high schools have students that are actually way too old to actually be in high school, but I'm pretty sure Sean Patrick Thomas was like 30 in this.

4) The best scene is where they first dance to that tight song in the club in the beginning. If only I could make moves like that lol.

Good stuff,

A

Taylor Swift: We are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Wgbw, some of my most popular posts have revolved around my celebrity crush Taylor Swift. In the spirit of that, I thought I'd review her new song.

1) I think it's clear that she's probably abandoned her country music background. I know this had been writing on the wall for awhile, but it's still kind of a bummer. Love story still had a country background, and even Mine (sort of) did. This is a total pop song.

2) Don't get me wrong, I'm still tuning in. Obvi my love for her music developed when she was a country singer and I still have a huge thing for country music. I just hope that maybe part of her new album will still pay heed to her roots.

3) I know the lyrics to this song aren't super nuanced either and they are obviously targeted at a younger audience (who will like the shit out of them). But I haven't ran into too many people who have heard the song 4-5 times who don't get hooked by the catchy beat of it.

Not what I was hoping for out of her first song off the new album, but still super solid,

A

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1) This is a pretty solid movie. I used to watch it on the reg until that time that the Shock brought all those crazy people to the cone and it got stolen :(

2) A lot of the movie obvi doesn't make any sense. If the babysitter died they should've just called the police. And why on earth didn't the clothing place do a background check on her? Fake resumes usually don't work for a reason.

3) That Bryan guy kind of reminded me of Daniel in The Karate Kid. He gets all riled up towards his lady friend for no reason and then ends up doing something embarrassing right at the wrong moment.

4) At the end of the day I don't really know why I like this movie. Obvi there's a little RomCom in it, but besides that I don't have a good explanation for it. 

4) Although it did have quite a few stars in it. Obvi Christina Applegate was big for being in Friends. Danielle Harris was in a bunch of the Halloween movies too.

B+

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

1) This is probably the worst Friday the 13th movie because Jason isn't even the killer smh. It's actually kind of unclear that he's even in the movie or if it's just people's imaginations. But how can you make a Friday the 13th movie and not have Jason be the guy making moves? It's like the time the Halloween movies decided that leaving Michael Myers out would be profitable smh.

2) This one was also way too drug out. I didn't really enjoy the setting at the midway house since it wasn't really at some camp/lakeside like the rest of tha movies.

 3) That one girl who gets TKO'd in the woods was pretty fly \o/

4) After revisiting some of my reviews of all of the other Friday the 13th movies I don't think the C- ratings were necessarily deserved. I mean, the movies aren't that good, but they are still Friday the 13th movies which makes them at least B level.

No camp Crystal Lake, no Jason, no Bueno.

B-

Re-Animator

1) Pretty solid overall. I was kind of skeptical after Mick recommended that I review it, but it actually turned out pretty good.

2) Not too many movies have embarked upon the reanimation theme and this one was tight. In an odd way it kind of reminded me of Pet Semetary because of that cat that comes back to life all crazy.

3) The original crazy guy does seem to just make poor choices during the movie. Why would you inject someone bigger and stronger than you with some goop that makes them come back to life to wallop on you? And when all these resurrections are going poorly his solution is to just inject faster lol.

4) Speaking of poor choices, why did the original med student let him come live with him? He's creepy, weirds out your lady friend, and only wants to pay in cash. Although I will say I'm not really one to talk. The other day I called direct TV to ask them about the length of their contract and 30 minutes later I had signed up for a 2 year premium package lol.

5) I forgot that that awful movie American Beauty mentions this when the two guys are smoking.

B+

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

1) One of the big problems is there's not really a focus on the 13 ghosts. On the DVD there's this extra feature that explains a background story for all 13 of the ghosts that goes into a way over detailed biographical explanation for all of them. It'd be cooler if they explored that in the movie instead of having to do it after the fact.

2) Some of it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I'm still unsure why those big pieces of glass can deflect all the ghosts away. I mean, that one guy got killed with one of them so why can't the ghosts use them? And why would the ghosts leave these super power glasses around that allow them to be detected?

3) Crazy that Shannon Elizabeth and that Monk guy were in it. Pretty funny that Brock from She's All That is in it too lol. He's always kind of a n00b in horror movies and this one's not too different.

4) At least the movie poster was pretty solid. It spells 13 all goofy, and says Misery loves company. I can't find a link to it, but back in March when Missouri and Duke lost ESPN ran that headline lol.

Meh,

C-

Friends with Kids

1) Pretty slow but pretty solid. It weirdly reminds me of When Harry Met Sally. I mean, there's two platonic friends who tiptoe in relationships while nitpicking at their friends that do the same time. She falls for him and he rejects her, the opposite happens, then there's some big speech at the end that reunites them. Pretty good.

2) Obvi I have a thing for the RomComs that end with some line that connects back to some other part of the movie. Like in A Lot Like Love or in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. I totally didn't see him coming back and audibleing his pick to 'dying a slow and painful death so I can still be with you.' I mean, he doesn't say a romantic thing the whole movie and then decides to go to town on that one.

3) I think my only real problem with it is that it's kind of slow/depressing. It's not like the movie is 3 hours long or anything, but most of the movie is just showing everyone else fighting and not enjoying their lives. Not really an LOL RomCom.

4) It's kind of funny that Jon Hamm is so angry the whole time. I wonder if the directors made Missouri jokes and he'd just instantly get riled up.

If you're in the right mood it's pretty good,

B

Paranormal Activity 2

1) Wgbw, after reviewing the First and Third I finally made it to the second. This is probably somewhere in the middle of the two movies. It's obvi scarier than the first one, but no where near the 3rd one.

2) After watching these out of order, they still kinda confuse me. It's like the second one is a prequel to the first in the sense that it's just a little bit earlier while the 3rd one is the actual prequel. Kind of confusing to go all out of order. I'm really hoping the 4th one just goes down after the events in this one and not in between a bunch of them lol.

3) Anybody catch the Michael Myers look-a-like hanging out in the background of that kitchen scene? He's pretty visible for a lot of the dark camera scenes and goes away sporadically too \o/

4) That reminds me, if I was putting together one of these movies, I'd never waste money to see if there were any IMDB 'goofs'. I mean, pretend a cup was in one scene and not in the next. It's not really a goof, just a weird paranormal activity that the movie doesn't really explain. Seems like it's hard for the production crew to go wrong in these movies LOL.

Eh,

B-

LOL

1) This movie really appealed to me at first. Some teen drama movie that had an acronym in the title. How can it go wrong? LOL was I wrong.

2) I had to shut this off early it was so bad. The whole movie is just about her drama with her friend, boyfriend, mom, and France.

3) The amateur music by all these people made the movie worse. Every time there's a transition to a new scene some mediocre music by these amateur bands makes you wish it went by faster LOL.

4) The only slightly redeeming part of this was Phoebe's Season 1 boyfriend Roger was in it and so was Rachel's mom. LOL.

/o\

Alan recommended, and I approve, the first ever grade below an F for halloweenjitsu,

G

Leprechaun 2

1) Generally I enjoy watching horrible sequels to horror movies but this might just be the exception to the rule. Instead of building off of the horrible plot of the first movie, they just decided it would be best to make the plot about the Leprechaun trying to find a bride.

2) The kicker is that he can only find a bride every 1000 years or something. I guess that means, contrary to the first movie, that he leaves his gold unoccupied when seeking out a mate. And if he was seeking out a mate shouldn't he at least have tried to get Jennifer Aniston to stick around from the first movie?

3) And how can he make all this magical stuff appear? He makes all these mirages pop out that somehow TKO everyone. That one guy thought he was making moves on that girl but he was actually sticking his head in between some lawnmower blades? SMH.

4) I get all the rules about what TKO's vampires, witches, and most ghosts. But I had no idea that iron was what killed leprechauns. In the first movie it was a four leaf clover. I guess I should figure this out to be a true horror buff lol.

D-

Mighty Ducks

1) I'm not much for Disney movies (obvi) but this has got to be one of the 10 best movies of all time. It's got a little law stuff, some motivational sports revenge, and a little romcom on the side. Just solid all around material.

2) I always have this debate with myself about whether this or the Karate Kid is a better movie. I still haven't made a final decision but it is tight that they reference the Karate Kid in this movie.

3) It also has one of the most motivational scenes (outside of 8 Mile obvi) when Bombay says YOU'RE GOING DOWN RILEY.

4) The worst part about this movie is it's no longer in my possession. @Joel conveniently "borrowed" it before taking off to Louisiana smh.

A+

The Changeling

1) Reminds me of a mix between Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity. Unfortunately the movie just seemed to move to slowly. In the Poltergeist or PNA at least there was some development. Here, the guy just kind of goofs around while barely anything creepy happens.

2) The guy should've probly done some prior inspections of the house. If I was gonna move across the country (not ever happening) I'd at least look around at the neighborhood or see if anyone had ever died in the house. After he moves in that one group even tells him he shouldn't live there!

3) That being said the guy never even seems really creeped out. You never see him scream or run out of the house too terrified to come back. I guess I always wonder in the Paranormal movies like this why the people don't just jump ship. If the Cone became haunted I'd be out of here in a heartbeat lol.

4) At the end of the day it's hard for me to get on board for the ghost stories where the ghost isn't actually evil. I mean, that poor kid obvi needed some redemption, but I don't know if a horror movie is the way to go. Instead of doing all that spooky stuff, why doesn't the kid just make a bunch of evidence of his death available to the guy to take to the police? Would solve his dilemma while avoid scaring the guy.

C-

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

1) It was really original in that it kind of set the foundation for movies where people try to stay in a haunted house for some purpose. Halloween Resurrection is a pretty recent copy (plus the whole Michael Myers thing).

2) Also original was the whole theme that if the house ended up engulfing you, you got to stick around and haunt everybody else that came in.

3) I did get confused because I thought the deal was once the door was closed to the place nobody could get out. But then that Annabelle chick is just hanging outside the window spooking people out?

4) One of my problems with these older movies is the kind of stuff that spooks people. Don't get me wrong, I get scared about super dumb stuff all the time. But the scene where that 1 pound door hanging skeleton pushes that girl into the pit of doom is kind of goofy. It's like, just push the skeleton out of the way or cut off the puppet hangers on the top of it lol.

At only an hour and 11 minutes, I'mma be tuning in,

B

21 Jump Street

1) I never watched the 80s version so maybe I'm out to lunch, but I didn't think it was that great. I mean, it was pretty funny and had it's moments and stuff, but didn't really live up to all the hoopla it was getting.

2) It's hard for me to understand that one of the main plot lines was just Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum fighting about how much attention they are getting in the fake high school. It's probably not worth getting that riled up about lol. The other problem was how long the end dragged on for. That whole last preparation for the showdown scene just kept going and going.

3) I never realized that the original guy besides Johnny Depp made a guest appearance in the hit TV show Friends as one of the bullies in season 2 named CARL.

4) I guess as a bonus it was one of the only Johnny Depp movies that he didn't personally freak me out in.

It was still pretty funny,

B-

Wolf Creek

Before I set off camping tonight I might as well review a spooky movie to creep me out lol.

1) I don't really know what all the fanfare was about. Generally I seem to wonder what the big fuss is whenever some independent film gets worshiped but I figured this might be different since it was a horror movie. Guess not lol.

2) I'm still not wild about these torture movies and this is pretty illustrative of this. That part where the girl gets paralyzed makes me naucious (sp?) just thinking about it.

3) On top of that, why does this guy have superhuman recovery powers? The girl shoots him and he gets flipped over in his car but he can still operate a sniper rifle with top level accuracy? Doesn't make much sense.

4) Overdone theme with some goofy killer that was too sadistic.

D

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Watching scary movies everyday is really running laps around reading about torts lol.

1) A pretty solid sequel. A lot of times, the sequel to a horror movie (or subsequent movies after that) can really blow. Fortunately, this one was okay. Actually having looked at my review of the first movie, I'd have to say that I actually probably underestimated it quite a bit.

2) The solid cast made it pretty tight too. The brother from Eastbound & Down is on it, as well as Mekhi Phifer from the critically acclaimed movie 8 Mile.

3) I guess if a killer tried to get me on the Fourth of July each year, I'd be a little more skeptical of taking a free trip some stranger on the radio gave to me. Seems like some poor planning on their part.

4) Actually speaking of which the title is kind of misleading, because it's actually 2 summers after the first movie. I dunno if the fisherman was just busy or something in the interim period but it should be called 'i still know what you did the summer before last' lol.

Nothing too wild,

C

The House of the Devil

1) Big shout out to @danger for recommending this one. It was pretty solid all around. Girl needs money so she goes and babysits and all this crazy stuff starts going on with the creepy family.

2) It had one of the scariest jump-out-of-your-seat moments that I've had in forever. There's this part where her friend leaves the house and this creepy guy starts talking to her. Then he just says- 'so your not the babysitter?' and pulls out a gun and just kills her. It was just so crazy unexpected /o\

3) The rest of the movie was pretty unpredictable/original. They did a solid job of making it seem like it was made in the 80s.

4) My only real beef with it was just how malicious/unforgiving/disturbing the whole movie was. Back on one halloween, me, the colonel, milhouse, and the old lady friend watched every halloween movie. At the end of all of them we all just had this feeling that was like, man the ending to that was messed up. I got that feeling again but it only took 1 movie.

5) Tight how Dee Wallace was in the first part of the movie. She's in a wreck of horror movies and is a KU grad!

B

American Reunion

What's good blog world. Back from tha long hiatus and gonna gii before July gets over \o/

1) It was pretty solid. Stifler always makes it rain and this movie wasn't any different. My only beef with these American Pie movies is that they always have these cheesy problems to deal with that don't really make sense. Like why do they have to have that Kevin/Vickie story drag on for 4 movies? SMH.

2) It does make me wonder why they always hate Stifler. I mean, after the second movie they were all good with him and then hate him for some reason before the 3rd movie. Then they ended that movie being good but hating him here again. Doesn't make that much sense.

3) I felt bad for that poor doctor guy who flew out to his girlfriend's high school reunion only to get dumped and then had to watch her make out with some other dude lol. Bet that flight home wasn't much fun lol.

4) Quality move at the end having Stifler gii with Finch's mom. Didn't really see that coming.

Solid stuff,

A-