Scary movies and stories are my favorite things to indulge in. I know it sounds strange to think of terror as an indulgence, but I really do love it. I like the feeling of being scared and jumpy as well as not knowing what is about to happen. Since I’ve seen so many horror flicks it takes a lot to actually scare me these days so I mainly thrive on the suspense more than anything else. However, when a movie comes along that is actually realistic and spooky enough to make me scared, it engulfs me and has me afraid of walking in the dark for days. Working with the Medical Examiner and performing autopsies, blood and guts just isn’t a source of scary anymore for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good slasher flick as much as the next person, but all those are is exciting, not scary for me. Movies that are based on true events or insanely realistic are my favorites. The Strangers, Silence of the Lambs, and The Exorcist, are still scary every time I watch them. In addition to being entertaining little bits of sunshine in my life, watching scary movies with friends or dates always makes for a good time. It is always fun to watch people jump or jump out and scare them during an intense scene. Cuddling up to a guy is also fun during a gory movie. It lets the guy pretend to be big and tough while I pretend that I’m scared and need his manly courage to protect me.

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There has been a lot of hype about the new movie 2012, but does it really give you give an insight to what is coming in the world? I have been told that it signifies the end of the Mayan calendar and that the theory is once the Mayan calendar ends that is the end of the world. Is it really depicting the end of the world? I am deathly afraid of the movie because there is so much hype about the end of the world. I think however the movie is wrong in their script. If I can remember anything about the end of the world according to the bible I believe it says the world will end by fire. There will also be an incurable disease, but if you look at the world today there may not be a complete cure to cancer but they can clean out the cancer and they can also cure most people to an extent. There is also the hype of the astrological signs that has been widely opened. It says that Jesus shall return when you see a man pouring water into a well. Jesus as we know was the age of Pices and as anyone remembers the sign for Pices is the man pouring water into a well. What does this mean? No one knows the exact date of the return of the big man above. Could all of this be hype or could there be a truth that none of us is aware of? The only thing I know to do is to continue my life as he would want me to and hope that I may answer for myself the day he asks me to.

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Walking out of movies is sometimes necessary. You hate to not get your money’s worth, but sometimes ya just gotta bite the bullet and walk away. Besides, it’s better to just waste money on a crappy movie than time as well. The last movie I walked out of was “2012”. It wasn’t the worst movie ever, but it wasn’t good and I just wasn’t in the mood to sit through a flop. After the first few falling buildings and sinking land masses, the novelty had worn off. The special effects looked pretty cool, but it seemed like that’s all the movie was built to showcase. I still don’t even know how the movie ended, but I don’t really care to. The last movie before “2012” that I had to bail out on was “Inglorious Bastards”. That movie seemed to be trying a little too hard to be typical “Tarentino”. Besides, Tarentino said himself that he was trying to make a “spaghetti western” out of a WWII flick. Some things just don’t go together satire and WWII are about as good of a mix as peanut butter and vinegar. Blah. Very bad stuff. See? Sometimes it’s just not a good idea to sit through a turd of a movie just cause you payed for it. That just becomes negative fun. If you sit through the entire movie, you lose your right to complain about it. Just like being hung over. You can’t whine about a hangover and expect sympathy because you did it to yourself. If you sat through the whole movie, you just have to eat the fact that you wasted valuable time and move on with your head hung in shame.

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Over the weekend I watched “Fantastic Mr. Fox”. Despite the animation factor, this movie is still very obviously a Wes Anderson movie with it’s simple speech and witty dry humor. All of the characters are very uncomplicated and embody a deep honesty. Even though Mr. Fox hides some goings on from his wife, he is still very honest about who he is. The movie is based to the book by Roald Dahl and keeps with the same basic plot: some angry farmers get tired of sharing with a sneaky fox and decide to do something about it. It’s a pretty standard kid’s book theme, but the movie manages to be charming for people of all ages. Instead of using fowl language, the characters in the movie replace four-letter words with “cuss”. This too is a pretty Wes Anderson way of doing things. By having Mr. Fox exclaiming “Don’t cussing point at me!” kids aren’t exposed to profanity, but adults get to enjoy more mature jokes. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is visually delightful and unique. I found it refreshing to watch a movie that wasn’t negative or profane, but still entertaining with all of it’s simplicity and imagination. George Cloony’s voice as Mr. Fox is incredibly convincing and affective along with the rest of the all star cast. While the animals are all sneaky thieves throughout the movie, their actions seem to be sanctioned by mother nature herself. Mr. Fox and his family make the farmers look like inhumane beasts for wanting to protect their goods.

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With all the hype of the Twilight movies and books, I can understand that there are a lot of people out there who are pretty obsessed with the new movie and the actors in it. What I can’t understand is everyone creeping around trying to get personal information about the actors and being nosey and trying to get in to their lives. The main actors in the show, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, have been linked together since before the first movie was in theaters. They have done several interviews together where it’s pretty obvious that they are dating. This, along with the parts they play in the movie as Bella and Edward, has caused insanity among the paparazzi and press. People are going wild, chasing them around trying to make them talk and taking pictures of them when they are trying to get away. Can you imagine that life? You are that young, and everyone in the country is trying to find out who your boyfriend or girlfriend is, and they are running around chasing you to catch you holding hands with them? I can sit here and blab on and on about how I think they should just leave them alone, btu they are not going to. Even if they confessed and said they were together, people will just not leave them alone. This is why I love my personal life, and I love my privacy. I feel so bad for these people, and I think it would be impossible to have a healthy relationship when put in this position. I feel sorry for y’all, and everyone needs to just back off!

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If you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want for it to be spoiled, then I would suggest you stop reading RIGHT NOW! GO AWAY! Unless you have or you don’t care that I might spoil it.

I loved it! It was waay better than Twilight. The new director did a lot of things differently, and the movie was more believable. They felt like they were really in love, in the last one I didn’t really get that from it. The acting seemed a lot more humorous than the last movie too, and it followed pretty close with the book. There were a few things that were out of place and you could tell that people in the audience were confused about it, but they were necessary to make sense of the novel in movie form. Edward wasn’t hardly in the movie, the main focus was on Bella and Jacob. He was only at the beginning and the end, and during the movie you just saw his figure when he was trying to tell Bella to stop acting stupid and being dangerous. They made it look like there was a bigger romance between Bella and Jacob than it seems in the books, but I guess they had to because that’s what the people wanted to see. The wolves looked decent, on Twilight the graphics kind of sucked when they tried to show the things vampires could do and I think they did better on this one. The Volturi were what I expected, Dakota Fanning as Jane did a really good job and looked really good, but she had a pretty small part in the movie so you didn’t really get to judge it. Now, I am so excited that I saw it at the premier because it would be my luck to fall onto a blog like this one and get mad at someone for spoiling some of the movie. I am excited to go see it again sometime!

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Sooo… as I’ve been gushing about for the past few weeks, last night was FINALLY the premier of the new Twilight movie New Moon. My cousin, his friend, and my boyfriend all came over to my house around 9 and watched a bit of TV, then headed on over to get in the line for the movie. It was INSANE. There were so many different premier theaters that there were different lines all over the place. You had to go in with your tickets and get a bracelet that showed which theater you were in, and then find your line and wait in it. There were tons and tons of people sitting outside in their lines and I was scared that we were going to have to do that, but thank God we found ours and there was still a bit of room to sit inside. We were about 50 or so people back, so we knew our seats were going to be decent. We waited, took turns going outside and walking around or sitting in the car, and about two hours later they let us go into the theater. We rushed in and just barely found four seats that were together. We were on about the third row back, which was perfect. Then, once we were in we still had about an hour left to wait, so I went out to get some concession stuff and the lines out there were horrible too. It took about thirty minutes to get some popcorn and coke for us, which was probably good cause I was so impatient for it to start it was nice to have something to do. SO, for my next blog, don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie because it will definitely have some spoilers in it and I don’t want anyone to get mad at me!

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I want to have an extensive DVD library at my apartment, and that is an expensive thing to want to conquer. So far, I have a decent collection, with just a few that I’ve gotten as gifts and bought myself when I thought I’d watch them more than once. My boyfriend recently bought a DVD burning program that he can copy any DVD, so he is slowly growing his collection. It’s just hard to know where to begin when you want to do something like that. Should you buy older movies that you used to love, start with the new releases that are coming out, or just go out there and buy what ever you can find? Do you just buy the ones that you’ve already seen and know you like and will watch again, or just the ones you haven’t seen so you can watch new ones and see if you like them or not? I don’t know. I think that I’m just going to let him build his collection up and then claim that it’s partly mine, too. And just borrow them from him. He’s slowly turning into a DVD rental store. I just want to make sure that I get all the movies I love now, so that some day when I have kids they can watch the movies, because someday it might be hard to find them. I have all of the Disney movies on VHS, and I hope that when I’m older and my kids want to watch them I still have a working tape player. Maybe I should just start a Disney movies collection and buy them when they come out on DVD, and that can be my movie collection focus!

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I think it’s really annoying when movies with foul language and lots of violence or sex are shown on regular basic TV. They have to edit the movies so much, that sometimes they lose some meanings during some of the scenes. Their mouths move to the original words anyway, so it’s not like you can’t tell what they are originally saying. They have to take out scenes a lot, and then you miss what’s going on and if you haven’t already seen the movie you get lost. I would rather not even watch the movie if it’s not going to be in the original form. It’s not that I necessarily like vulgarity and violence in my movies, I’d just rather see them the way they are intended to be seen. Or, maybe I do like my movies with lots of cuss words and violence in them, because that’s just how I do things. I was watching The Departed on FX last night, and the whole movie is changed. I don’t understand why you can’t say “fuck” on TV, but you can still show someone get shot in the head and their blood splatter all over the wall behind them. They take the language in movies a lot stricter than the violence, and I guess I don’t agree with that. Movies on TV aren’t worth wasting your time watching unless they are rated less than PG-13 or you’re just not going to get the same experience. I will just stick to renting the cool movies and not letting cable ruin them for me.

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I hate how when you read a book, and then it comes out to be a movie, you are always disappointed in the movie. I think it’s just impossible for a movie to portray what someone reads. Any time you read a book, you get that specific mental image of what you think the characters look like, and everyone can’t have the same perception of the descriptions that are given in words. You might see the entire settings different, or a scene you had imagined in your head so well may come out differently when shown on TV. I think it’s just hard for directors to please everyone. I try not to get too upet when movies aren’t what I had hoped after reading the book, because I understand it can’t happen exactly. With the Twilight Series, a lot of people were mad about some of the actors that were chose to portray certain characters, because those actors were not what they had imagined when they read the books. I, on the other hand, really enjoyed the movie in part because I watched it before I read the books. So, when I was reading the books, I was imagine the actors from the movie doing the things they were doing, and I didn’t have the chance to make up in my mind an image of what they should look like before hand. Sometimes it’s better that way, to see the movie first and then read the books so you can appreciate them both.

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