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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Black Christmas

Here is one more movie remake in the already clogged world of horror movie remakes.
I don't think it's necessary to name them. My thoughts on the matter of remaking any movie, not just the classics, are that if you can't improve upon it, don't try. (Thank you very much PSYCHO remake!) However, this post isn't about remakes, it's about Black Christmas, which happens to be a remake.

To be fair, I haven't seen the original so I can't compare them. I had heard that this offering wasn't any better than the original. Worse actually. It was pretty bad. So bad I'll probably never watch it again. Not to many movies I can say that about, but there it is.

The story is about a bunch of sorority girls being stalked and killed by a crazy person. Real original idea right? There is the regular set up. You know, this one is mean, that one's a goody goody, over there is the misfit. The introduce them and make us care ruse. Hardly ever works, I just wanted the jerks to die. While they were introducing the less than memorable characters, they also decided it necessary to explain the back story through a series of ridiculous flashbacks in which there was the unnecessary use of cg. Something I hate. I'm just guessing though, I don't see any other way they could have made that kid's skin glow.

Que the violins, we have a tale of a family of three, they lived in the sorority house before it became a sorority house. The parents hated one another and the mother hated the son. .He was a freak that glowed green, who can blame her? So of course she cheated on her husband then with her lover killed her husband and buried him in the basement. Of course the son saw all. They chased the son to the attic. Then locked him up there for years and years it seems. Don't worry, in true B-movie fashion, he climbed up to the attic through the walls. I'm sure he was sneaking out of there to eat. So blah blah blah, gag me I almost threw up watching this movie, embarrassing but true, that hardly ever happens, but one thing led to another he killed his mom and her lover and got sent to a mental hospital. Now back to the present he escapes from the hospital and is coming home.

I know I was supposed to feel bad for all those people that died but for the most part I just couldn't care. I wish I could say I was drunk when I watched it, would have made it more entertaining. There was a twist even I didn't see coming but that doesn't make it cool.

Big, big let down, tremendous even, huge let down. It goes on the list of movies that thank gosh I didn't put any money down for it.

Maybe I should review something I like for a change, these bad movies can really depress me.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

The Cavern

That's right it's time for another totally unfocused stupid movie review.

So you know that movie "The Descent?" Well it's a great movie. But I'm not reviewing that movie here. "The Descent" is a great movie and highly plausible situation. "The Cave" is yet another caving movie that is better than "The Cavern." I didn't even like "The Cave," but it was better.

We start of on a caving expedition and it's kind of confusing what is going on but somehow they get out and before we know it they are starting another trip to another previously unknown cave system. Now there is this really long drawn out scene around a fire. This I can only assume is to introduce the characters and to get us to like them. It completely fails here. They also introduce the idea that one of them left people behind in a previous expedition.

The next day they finally go into the cavern. Of course there is a creature down there. And lots of fog for some reason. One can only assume that it is to cover up the fact that they are not in a cave.
Or somebody got a fog machine and really wanted to get their money's worth. So there was fog. Despite the fact that there probably wouldn't have been fog in the cave.

So eventually somebody presumably dies. The guy who allegedly left people behind left someone behind here. This is a big theme in this movie. If it looks like someone is in trouble leave them behind. One character thought caves were living things and if he just talked to the cave they would be fine. That didn't work, he got it too.

So pretty much everyone dies. We find out that it was some guy who's plane crashed when he was a kid so he's been fending for himself so he kills people and eats them. There were two girls on the expedition, guess what he did with them?

So I hated all the characters, even the cave dweller. It had bad effects. The camera was jumpy, for effect I guess, suspense? I don't know maybe they had a bad camera man. Whatever it almost gave me a headache from the sheer stupidity of the film. I'm so glad I didn't pay full price for that film.

Monday, September 08, 2008

Ranting......Outsourcing is from the Devil......

Alright, so the last week or so I've been getting calls from Ameritech-Yellow Pages at work. That's who they say they are. Up until last Tuesday they asked for Jeff. Then I spoke to a guy, obviously in India, who kept asking me if I was authorized to confirm our company information and okay a payment to keep our listing going that's why he was calling me specifically. I kept telling him that I wasn't and he said he already spoke to all the other offices (my office is one of 2) of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. Get the point here? I asked if they could call back for Jeff and see if he could help them. The guy said that was impossible, it was on auto-dial (hmmmm... auto-dial eh? He said he called all our offices and spoke to them and called me specifially......) and it had to be done now. I once again explained that any company listing or billing is done in our corporate office. He said, he already spoke to all the other offices of my company and my office was the last one to call and he needed authorization to continue the listing and was I authorized. I said no. By the billionth time I tried to explain to him any company listing or billing is done in our corporate office, I felt like my head was going to explode. Finally I gave up and said I was authorized. Then he asked if I had any questions and once again asked if I was authorized and said he would send me a bill. I then said I didn't want a bill sent to me, I don't handle any of the bills, all bills are handled at our corporate office. So much of the same as above. So once again I gave up, in the hopes of eventually being transfered to an actual representative of Ameritech. Which I did, and I explained the same to him. He said he would take care of it and have our corporate office called.

Well ever since then they have called everyday and asked for me. One time last week Jeff answered the phone and told them I wasn't there. They tried the same line on him and he told them what I told them and they said they already talked to our corporate office and he asked them who they spoke to and the guy hung up.

Today when I was in the office they called again. I again asked who they spoke to and he said the same thing, he didn't call our corporate office, one of his associates did and he didn't have a name. I informed him if his associate had spoken to our corporate office then he would have learned that all of our company listings and billing is handled out of our corporate office. He hung up. I'll do the same tomorrow and so on and so forth.

My impression, they are working from a script, just a few lines. I'm not sure how well they know English. It's annoying and it makes me want to scream.

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Jeff's Birthday!

For Jeff's birthday this year I decided to actually take him somewhere.
He's always surprising me with special getaways for my Birthday and or Valentine's Day every
year so I decided to actually take him somewhere. In true me fashion we went to see my sister Judy in Cincinnati. (I'm cheap and poor. Bad combo!) He was fine with it he always gets along well with Judy. He was glad to get away. He was also a little proud of me for coming up with his birthday plans all on my own. I'm bad at planning things.


This did give us a chance to check out Goodwill Stores we don't ordinarily go to. Of course we didn't get to as many as we'd hoped but the fun was in the hunt. It's what we like to do. We didn't find much either but that's okay too. It's mostly being in the right place at the right time. We did find another thrift store down the street from a Goodwill that had a lot more stuff at cheaper prices. We did find stuff there. Well, Jeff did. Nothing worth mentioning.

Also on the agenda was a trip to Newport Aquarium. Judy came with us. She wanted to see it too. It was pretty awesome. If you like aquatic life which we do. I was missing Shark Week. So sad it's only a week a year! They have tons of different fish and turtles and frogs, and alligators and other underwater animals. The best part was the Surrounded by sharks exhibit. I really loved that one. It was an extremely long tunnel you walk through and they have lots of different sharks swimming around you. Shark rays, manta rays, nurse sharks, tiger sharks and more. I'd never seen such large sharks so close, it was so awesome. That was the last exhibit besides the section where you can touch several different types of sharks. Which I did. Which was scary. I'm terrified of shark bites. Silly these weren't the dangerous sharks.

Also Jeff finally got to see Hancock and Don't Mess with the Zohan. Which I hadn't seen either. They were alright.

Fun was had by all.