I see dead people. In Japan.

[yendi]

Watched The Eye last night, which was neither all that nor a bag of a chips. It certainly wasn't bad, per se, but it was easily the most westernized J-horror film I've seen in years (all they needed was a sex scene), which makes you wonder why they'd bother with an American remake. A couple of nifty moments, but nothing all that original. It is nice to see a slower-paced horror flick that works on creepiness as a motivator, but too many films have done it better. And the out-of-nowhere Final Destination scene did nothing to help matters.

I do want to re-edit it to have the kid in the hallway saying, "I want my two dollars," instead of, "have you seen my report card." That'd be a lot more amusing.

Otherwise, watched my Mets lose again. Really, who needs horror movies when you're a Mets fan?

And we introduced Elayna to The Empire Strikes Back yesterday. Finally exposing her to the classics. I told her this morning that today, she'd see her first Ewok. She asked what that was, to which her mommy replied only, "jub-jub."

(And yeah, I hate the Ewoks, but this is a child who still thinks that Jar-Jar was a great creation, and compared to him, the Ewoks are practically Shakespearean).

shadesong and kaosfox saw Episode 3 last night. As I've stated before, I've got no intention of paying good money to see it, but 'song said she enjoyed it.

Oh, I did catch the season finale of Medium, finally. Damned fine. Haven't watched the season finale of House yet.

Oh, and laurel, over at TVpicks.net, reports that The WB will re-air the season finale of Gilmore Girls next Tuesday, allowing those of us who were fucked over by the network's asshat programmers to see the whole episode.

Speaking of that site, TVPicks can also use your help, given some nasty financial news over there.

And finally, tonight's the season finale of Lost! Woohoo!

Comments

[aiela.livejournal.com]

My ten year old has -seen- the original trilogy, but not recently enough that she remembers, so now she is terribly excited to watch them. "We get to see when Luke and Leia grow up!"

It's just so bizarre to watch her come at this from the opposite direction from where someone who grew up with the original trilogy was all "Woo, we get to see how Vader became evil!" when this all first started.

[yendi]

*nod* It's such a weird feeling watching these kids approach from a perspective that looks at the films from the eps 1-3 viewpoint.

Did your girl see Ep 3 yet? How did she handle it?

[aiela.livejournal.com]

We took her over the weekend, after I did a lot of thinking about it. She's seen other PG-13 stuff and she's seen the first two and she really wanted to see this one. She's the type to have a pretty good handle on fantasy and reality and whether or not violence is appropriate, so I wasn't very worried. She enjoyed it, although she has always been just heartbroken knowing that Anakin grows up to the evil.

But she enjoyed it. She's seen all three of them in the theatre.

[amokk]

We'll be showing our kids the movies in the correct order when they grow up, the same as they'll read the Chronicles of Narnia in the correct order as well.

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

I've got no intention of paying good money to see

Amen! Preach, brother, preach. I keep trying to explain this concept to the people in my workplace and elsewhere, and we keep having these Rosencrantz & Guildenstern conversations.

"But you have to go see it...It's a Star Wars movie."
"No, actually, it's not."
pause
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean what I said."
"But you said it's not a Star Wars movie."
"It's not"
pause
"But it says Star Wars in the title."
"That doesn't make it a Star Wars movie. You see, Star Wars is based on the premise that mythologies are still being made, and they're made for grown-ups. It's about people making choices and having faith and realizing their potential, not about politics or special effects."
silence
"But you said it wasn't a Star Wars movie...it is, and you have to go see it."

[yendi]

:-) Fortunately, most of my co-workers get it (even if some gladly waited in line for this one).

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

I'll email you my thoughts on "Medium". Was so torn up by the end of it, it still haunts me, just a little!

But I love love love Arliss Howard's voice. He could talk me to sleep, just by reading the phone book, and I'd have sweet dreams all night long. *sigh*

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

The Eye is half a bag of chips. It's one of those bags of chips you get at work that's half full of air, and you pop it to scare the shit out of someone in the next cubicle. There are two or three of those cool tasty overbaked brown chips in it, but the rest are just, y'know, chips. And air.

[yendi]

Man, someday someone will figure out how to bag nothing but those overbaked chips (and the half-popped popcorn kernals), and I'll be so damned happy.

[ninjakitten]

<3 House.

Just sayin'.

Also, I actually saw The Eye. It scared =me=! But then I don't watch horror movies, generally, so I'm not an average audience. I can't quite remem... ohhh right, that was the ending. Heh. I kinda liked it, in a "GET OUT OF MY CHAIR!!!!!!!!" kind of way.

[yendi]

I missed almost all of House this year because of Veronica Mars. I'm hoping for some serious summer reruns. :-)

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

The Mets just need to learn to not start Glavine against the Braves -- he did better than usual against them last night, but the greedy bastard is just cursed.

[yendi]

I think this may have been his best start ever against them. Then again, the way Hudson pitched, why waste a Pedro start?

[amokk]

Ep. 3 was better than 1 & 2, and some even think it's better than Empire Strikes Back, which I believe is possible but not fully agreeable. I think it's up there, though.

Some bad dialog, some bad scenes that could have been cut, but overall very good. Go ahead and rent it when it comes out. ;)

[phantom_wolfboy]

So you'd say that Medium was well done?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oy!