For Christmas Story fans: [link]

Ha! Love the last paragraph:

Standing in front of the house holding a replica Red Ryder rifle, he discusses his future plans — which could include a nearby bed and breakfast — when, seemingly on a director's cue, a motorist passes, stops his car, rolls down the window and shouts, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

FWIW, when my brother gave my nephew a BB rifle for Xmas a few years ago, I got to deliver the "you'll shoot your eye out, kid," line and then cracked up completely.

So far the nephew still has both eyes.

Last night's movie was Dog Soldiers. I knew it was about werewolves and the British military, but for some reason I thought it was about fighting Nazi werewolves in WWII, which would be a rocking movie and I need to go make it now.

But no, it's Zulu, just set in Scotland with werewolves vs. a handful of soldiers. They do actually cop to this at one point, which was amusing since I was in the middle of my standard spiel about how half the movies ever made are Zulu.

I don't know what I thought of it. It wasn't a very good movie - like a lot of EU movies it felt like it had been put together by committee. It turned into a comedy halfway through, sort of, for example. The acting was really very good but the writing was pedestrian and the direction was annoying. And the soundtrack was heinous - they must've just grabbed a handful of off-the-shelf soundtracks and plugged them in, no matter how inappropriate the music was for the scene.

What I mainly took away from it, though, was that it was an extremely HoYay movie. Now, I've been accused of seeing the HoYay where it isn't, but really, this was. Not only was the primary emotional relationship man-to-man (seriously, even other viewers were yelling "Just kiss already!" at one point), there was there a symbolic fellatio scene between the alpha male wolf and the main guy. And it was very negative about women, blaming PMS for evil to some extent.

So now I've seen werewolves as a metaphor for puberty, for menstrual cycles, and for heterosexuality. I still think Nazi Werewolves of WWII would be more fun.

I once saw a play called, "I was a teenage werewolf for the third reich." It was a musical, even.

Last night's movie was Dog Soldiers.

This was the first film by the guy who made THE DESCENT (the woman spelunkers vs. cannibal mutants movie from earlier this year).

Maybe somebody should give him the Tin Man project...

I once saw a play called, "I was a teenage werewolf for the third reich." It was a musical, even.

OMG me too! (Probably I was sitting next to you.) Let us say there was gratuitous howling.

As I recall, the teenagers turned into werewolves when they got sexually excited.

One of the best Photoshop Phridays in a while: [link]