Do I listen to it before, after, or during reading?
Insent. I hope. If you can't open it let me know and I'll try a different deelie-o on the option thingymajiggies. Sorry to be technical. And all of the above. It will make no sense before, but don't let that stop you. It doesn't make much sense after, either. (It's not like it has spoilers, it's just ridiculous. AND AWESOME. But mostly the first thing.)
Jaws knockoff movies (like, Piranha, and Alligator - both Sayles scripts incidentally) are indisputably horror movies. The fact that Jaws straddles the line between a manly seafaring adventure and horror, does not diminish the fact its influence was entirely in the horror genre.
But I do not stoop to the petty accepted reality of what everyone calls things! That would be too easy! I think I would also say Piranha & Alligator are thrillers, not horror. As per my arbitrary guidelines above, which don't correspond to anything anyone but me has ever said, but that's because I'm being brilliant here and stuff. And you don't even know!
(And I had more to say originally but it mysteriously vanished, and I think the point was that "you don't even know" has replaced "totally," which means it's bedtime for Strega. Finally.)
Insent. I hope. If you can't open it let me know and I'll try a different deelie-o on the option thingymajiggies. Sorry to be technical. And all of the above. It will make no sense before, but don't let that stop you. It doesn't make much sense after, either. (It's not like it has spoilers, it's just ridiculous. AND AWESOME. But mostly the first thing.)
I listened! It was pretty ridiculous! I am looking forward to this book.
As per my arbitrary guidelines above, which don't correspond to anything anyone but me has ever said, but that's because I'm being brilliant here and stuff. And you don't even know!
Hee.
When I was taking genre classes in film school, the line between sci-fi and horror was drawn (very fuzzily) between Threat From Within (horror) and Threat From Without (SF). Basically that the bad guys in horror films represent dark places in the human psyche (and can be used to explore The Monster In All Of Us, etc), and bad guys in SF movies represent The Other (and can be used to explore xenophobia & fear of the unknown & stuff). Not that genre lines are ever really that clear-cut, but if you had to make a call, that was a good place to start.
I have no solid opinion on Jaws because I have not seen it in probably 15 years.
Yeah, but nothing's going to beat Ple's Red Bull and Vodka drunken belligerence.
"What the fuck ever!"
Didn't she throw some French in there, too?
Seeing Waiting to Exhale in a theater full of black women was totally more fun than the movie.
I mean, I like it fine, but the hilarious ones weren't on the screen.
(...dude...)
It covers more than movies, but this seemed like a good followup to the discussion of cinematic badasses: Badass Moments in Sci-Fi History.
It covers more than movies, but this seemed like a good followup to the discussion of cinematic badasses: Badass Moments in Sci-Fi History.
The first entry is indeed awesome, but the whole thing is hilarious.
The first entry is indeed awesome, but the whole thing is hilarious.
It's a rarity that I read an entire article like that. Loved every word!
