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I loved that episode of Carnivale. Totally creepy.
I forgot Tep doesn't watch horror. Oops. But I'm gratified everyone else thought Cloverfield was as stupid as I did. Characters were completely too stupid to live. Halfway through I was rooting for them to get to Central Park West and find Beth dead. Ah well. Lesson learned.
For serious! Speaking of Cloverfield, he spoiled Hud's fate in the very first paragraph. What the hell.
Also a test subject, have read Watchmen, am seeing it tonight.
With 13 other people, most of who have read it. I'm excited.
I enjoyed Cloverfield
Me too, Matt.
I skipped Cloverfield, because of the whole unsteady-hand-held-camera-induced-nausea thing....
Really? I mean, yay! I'm all for people enjoying whatever, but I was just really disappointed. It seemed like nothing more than an exercise in, "Let's see if we can make a movie that would be *like* a home video, if someone took it during an alien attack!" And ... it wound up being as boring and self-indulgent as a video like that would be, for me.
I did think the guy who played Rob was cute, though.
I'm seeing Watchmen tonight with four people who have read it and my co-worker who didn't know what a graphic novel was until last week. The idea was to have her go in completely blind, but she's since looked up a little more about the book. I showed her the first trailer because it's awesome, and when she saw Ozymandias, she asked, "Is that the bad guy?" I was all, "Uh, no, he's just one of the main characters." Heh. She's baffled about how popular Watchmen is, even with people she didn't even know read comics. She hadn't ever heard of it.
I'll admit that the Cloverfield characters were generally Too Stupid To Live, but since I run into people like that every day it didn't seem that farfetched to me. Well, aside from the giant monster devastating Manhattan.
Also, I bought that Rob and Lily had motivation to go back for Beth based on the trauma they'd just suffered. Now Hud and Marissa were complete idiots for not joining that group the Army was shepherding to safety when they had the chance...