DragonSinger

I secretly laughed at the idjit kids trying to make out blurry images on the Playboy channels because I was thinking to myself, 'Y'all really don't know how it's going down on Showtime after midnight'. I didn't say a word either because they totally would have gotten caught and ruined it for me. Showtime may have played some boring stuff during the day, so I think it flew under the radar until Red Shoe Diaries became popular.

Sorceress, a.k.a. stuff I shouldn't have been watching late night on Showtime as a kid, but my insomniac ass would watch anything with magic in it. ANYTHING!

The Witch - 5.5/10 Well this was the second letdown. It was interesting at first but then went downhill for me because the family was annoying, and this felt like reading an old history book. Not just the speech they were using(I honestly didn't have any problems with that), but the way the story played out. Giving this movie a true old folklore vibe wasn't bad in itself either, but there's something about the execution of it that left me bored. Oh now I can kind of think of why. They went the old folklore path but did annoying things like the 'creepy twins' trope which annoys me because it's always something that forces weirdness into movies when it's unnecessary. The dialogue also felt unnatural at times because of that same forced creepiness. Train to Busan - 10/10 I unwisely started this at the beginning of the pandemic, so I had to stop midway because the characters were too likable and it was giving me anxiety. Fast forward to today when I finished it, and it was nice having this after continually being disappointed by recent horror movies. Seeing this at different points of the pandemic is weird too. I started it before the masks' drama, so I more appreciate the human selfishness on display in this film. But it's not completely cynical which is something I want to watch right now. Also, HOW DARE THEY choose that adorable little girl so that I had to worry throughout the movie about her surviving. They could have at least made her a little annoying. I had zero anxiety about them kids in The Witch

I was watching way shittier movies back then for that to even register as more than a 'meh'.

You knew I was going to whisper "Surf Ninjas was a great movie", didn't you?

There's needs to be some kind of caption or subtitles to state what make-up a person is rocking when it looks gorgeous. I want to know what eyeshadow that lady on the back left has on. The is the only ASMR that appeals to me:

I never really understood how they spread so quickly until I saw a video of dry brush that lit up like it was doused in gasoline. The seconds it took for those flames to spread so far was terrifying to watch.

That is so not in my wheelhouse. Even my YA stories are gory. I do follow a bunch of illustrators on Twitter though, and a couple work in children's books like Vashti Harrison. Following someone like her could give you decent insight into that medium.

I'm married to my work, and it's gonna stay that way for a while.

I want to fight J.J. Abrams.

Nope. I usually buy fruits and veggies, but too many people don't know how to properly pick them out.

Hannibal has ruined me. NBC let the show get away with so much shit that now when I see similar gruesome stuff in other shows or movies, it's not as good. Midsommar spoilers: I hate that I want to bingewatch Hannibal, but my brain can only handle a few episodes at a time right now.

Midsommar - 2 out of 'Why the fuck did I watch this movie?' stars. Modern cult movies are the fucking worst. I fucking hate them, but I still watched this shit. It's my fault for giving this shit a chance because Hereditary only went down the toilet at the end. Not so with this film. It was a turd from beginning to end, and nothing in this movie made it worth wasting my time. Other than portraying some grief well, all other human reactions to events in this film make no sense, and I ain't gonna bother listing anything else because this is one of the few films that pissed me off as much as Enter the Void. Ari Aster is going on my ban list.

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No clue why this made a double post.

Reorganizing my work space. Not even joking. Moving art supplies, crates filled with crap, wiping off dust, shifting furniture, and it's been taking me a while to finish. I'm gonna attempt attacking my dvd/blu ray shelves today. At least by next week, I'll have space to dance to choreography videos again. That's my real workout but cleaning has been burning calories.

Y'all had nothing but annoying sports and Fox News before Covid-19, but now that I can't eat inside and have to wait in the car for pickup, y'all motherfuckers are playing Star Wars? That is some bullshit. *Squints through the tinted window as the Death Star is about to be attacked*

Editing was definitely a factor. I'm pretty sure one scene went from bright ass day to night, and I was like 'WTF?' Fixing that wouldn't have made me care about the MC, but the movie itself might have clicked more.

Nightbreed - I have no idea how to rate this. It wasn't a terrible movie, it just didn't click with me. But it was interesting, and like other Clive Barker stuff, not something I should have watched before going to sleep because my dreams were filled with people being skinned alive. The biggest reason I was meh on this was because I just didn't care about the main character. He didn't really feel fleshed out while I cared more about what happened to his girlfriend. One of the interesting things was that watching this made a puzzle piece fall into place in my mind. I would bet that Bryan Fuller is a big fan of this movie because those moments of intimacy between Boone and his psychiatrist definitely feel like influences on Hannibal the show. It was like finding a blueprint but unlike Hannibal, there wasn't as strong of a cast to properly pull off that tension in Nightbreed. This did leave me more interested in reading Cabal though. Logan Lucky - 7.5 I love kooky heist movies like this. Bonus points if Daniel Craig is using a southern accent. One thing that annoyed me was Seth Macfarlane. Even though he's like in three scenes, he breaks the illusion of the movie because while the other characters are goofy but still human, he has to be a cartoon character in a ridiculous wig which screws up the whole vibe. I wish someone else had been cast for that role or at least didn't make the character so hammy. An Inspector Calls(2015) - 4.5/10 Blah. I hate these kind of storylines because they're so forced. Five people, including four who are family members, ruined the same woman's life in five separate occasions without any of them realizing they knew the same woman 🙄. I usually seek out other versions when there's a bunch and one fails for me because another cast might pull this off, but nah. The story itself is trash.

*Slides into thread* HERCULEEEESSS!

Fuck that shit. Bingewatching shows/movies on streaming sites is the only reason why I'm accomplishing any work. Who knows how many people didn't get murdered during this pandemic because Netflix is keeping some people sane.

I looked up one of the Anna Nicole movies on IMDB and just found out that 'breast fondling' is a tag in the parental section. Ah, memories:

Dragon Con was one of the few times I could see a bunch of my friends in one place. My Facebook should be filled with my friends exchanging sewing advice or where to meet up for last minute costume adjustments in their hotel rooms right now while my procrastinaing ass would still be comparing fan tracks to see which days I wanted to go on. I miss people.

I make myself feel better by buying puts against Tesla in my fake money account. It's nice knowing if I had real money, I would have timed it right and gotten a nice profit. That one put cost like 4 grand too.

HBO and Cinemax played a bunch of shitty action movies back in the day, and the ones with female leads always ended up with sex/rape scenes for the dumbest reasons. Anna Nicole Smith was in a couple of them too.