Right. All netflixed.

She eventually gathered the courage to ask about it, and apparently it's just his normal voice.

Hmm. I suppose it could be the effect of a carton-a-day smoking habit or somesuch. But 10-15 years ago his voice was much higher-pitched, clearer, and had a slight nasal quality. Ah well, glad to hear it's not a sign of dire medical news.

Well, I have a rental of Hideo Nakada's Dark Waters to watch tonight, so between that and eating some of the humungous bag of Smarties I bought as trick-or-treater insurance today I expect to be getting to sleep sometime Wednesday.

I avoid scary movies like the plague. But at the Halloween party I went to on Friday, one guy was dressed like the girl from The Ring. He was terrifying lots of people, but didn't bother me in the slightest, since I hadn't seen it. I chatted with him for a bit, and he said that the most irritating part of the costume was the difficulty in seeing through all the black hair hanging in front of his face.

I'm kind of looking forward to the end of the Halloween scary-movie-push period.

I did just see Bad Santa, though. It was really funny, in a slightly horrifying way.

I did just see Bad Santa, though. It was really funny, in a slightly horrifying way.

Ack. I hated that movie. I didn't find it very funny at all. Lauren Graham notwithstanding. What happened, Terry Zwigoff? I loved Ghost World.

Why did you hate it, P-C?

A lot of people liked it for being mean-spirited. To me, it was mean-spirited for the sake of being mean-spirited. Billy Bob Thornton cursed a lot because hey, a Santa who curses! That's funny! And all the characters were needlessly cruel to children (excepting Lauren Graham's character). And then there was excessive violence. Oh, Bernie Mac. I liked Bernie Mac.

I guess I just wasn't its target audience. I was a little surprised by how much I didn't like it, because I don't normally not like movies so much. Then again, it suffered from my having seen Elf recently, which I loved the hell out of, unexpectedly.

I definitely didn't like it for being mean-spirited. The cruelty to children was the horrifying bit. I did like the kid, a lot, and I didn't expect to. Especially the fact that he gave him a wooden pickle. I was like, what the hell? But it made me laugh, at the unexpectedness. And then the visual of Billy Bob and Tony Cox walking through the parking lot had me giggling like crazy. And the partnership between the two of them was pretty funny, I thought. Basically any time a child was on screen, however, I was kind of cringing, though. It's definitely not a movie I need to own, or even really see again, but I did think it was funny, and I don't feel like I wasted the hour and a half that I used up watching it.

And I'm dying to see Elf, but it won't be out on dvd for a while yet.

I thought Bad Santa was hilarious. Haven't seen Elf. Love scary movies.

I like the short-sentence opinion-weighing posts I make in this thread.

Oldies fans --

Anyone else see You'll Find Out on TCM yesterday? (OK, I TiVo'd it and haven't seen the ending, but...)

Kay Kyser takes his band to a haunted house to play at a 21st birthday party. (It's the birthday of the manager's girlfriend.) Spooky old house. Suspicious characters played by Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Peter Lorre.

Completely and utterly silly, but intentionally so. A few laughs. A few pleasant (but not classic) big band tunes. The type of horror spoof they should film and show every Halloween.

Oh, wait. They already filmed it.

I saw about ten minutes of it, Fred, but the beginning turned me off. I don't mind silly, as long as it's funny. We probably should have stuck it out until Lugosi, Karloff, and Lorre showed up, but there were a lot of bad horror movies to watch.