The Horror!
So I'm getting Showtime and the Movie Channel free for the next few months (Thanks DirecTV!) and have been attempting to find some interesting movies to watch. What have I discovered about these channels? They are pretty much all horror all the time at night. Let's review just a few titles played over the weekend:Saw IV
Hostel 2
Scream
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Halloween
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Scream and Halloween are fine movies in their own way, but was there really a need to have a Hostel 2? Or Saw IV? Even more annoying about Saw IV is that apparently it is necessary to have seen Saw III to understand the ending. Whatever happened to making horror movie sequels that are just more murder, mayhem and screaming virgins with little backstory? Jason can keep killing kids at Camp Crytal Lake and you don't have to have seen the first one. Hell, Jason wasn't even the killer in the first movie. My favorite Nightmare on Elm Street is the Dream Warriors (aka part III) and there is absolutely no need to have watched the previous two movies. And there is really no point to this except I was annoyed to have semi-watched two terrible movies that apparently required having watched two other most likely equally terrible movies to fully "appreciate" their sequels.
In better news, FLIX (a channel that may or may not be included in my regular package) had Office Space on the other night. I've discovered the movie is much more enjoyable now that I do not have to spend my life living in that cube world anymore. I was all, "Suckers!"
posted by E @12:49 AM