wednes | Don't open that door, it's a Trap!

Tonight, I sat here all by my lonesome and watched Saw II which H bought me and which I had not yet seen. Holy Crap! It was awesome, I daresay it was as good if not slightly better in some ways than the first. Such violence, such suspense! And the Last House on the Left reference? Le Mou Jouste!
I must confess though, that the dialogue was pretty badly written, with tons of profanity in place of someone taking the time to think of interesting language or unique speech patterns for the characters. Plus, there was a wide gap between which characters got developed and how much. Then again, I always have to complain about something.

Jigsaw does not fuck around. Well, he does, but he plays the merry jokester in a very serious and violent fashion. Of course, the movie has another compelling, amazing and startling ending that I totally did not see coming. Well, I figured out one tiny part of it, but it was pretty obvious when you think about it. Anyway, I am delighted to learn that Tobin Bell and someone else (I don't wanna give it away) have signed on for Saw III, due out later this year. *does happy Jigsaw dance* It's always so nice when borderline nerds like Tobin Bell or Robert Englund rise to prominence as movie murderers. Horrorfans, get thee to this movie if you haven't seen it already (I know, I'm behind)

In case anyone missed it, the new chapter (three) of my new chick lit story is posted over at

wednes_writes. If you can't see it, it's because you haven't joined up proper. I hope to have another chapter done by the end of the weekend, and hopefully it will be more fun to write than this last one was. There's some cool stuff coming up, and chapter three laid a lot of the groundwork.

Even though it isn't listed over in the IMDB cast list, I am told by some rude jackass over there that the Dursleys have indeed signed on for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie, which comes out 439 days from today. What? I was bummed that they were cut last time, and glad that we will see Diddikins get chased by dementors.

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I had a problem with Saw. I'm not sure how much it had to do with the movie itself and how much had to do with the problems I had trying to see the movie. Regardless, something about it pissed me off royally. So I didn't make much of an effort to see the sequel even after a friend sent me a copy. When I finally did get around to watching Saw II, I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Not that it's a great movie or anything. But it didn't piss me off as the original had for some reason.

Could that "reason" by Cary Elwes perhaps? He bugs me from time to time, and I never really understood why he made the leap from poncey fake-accent guy to regular horror guy...but I'm not sure he's actually suited to horror.

I do think SAW II is the superior film.
Welcome to Godfather country...Alienland...whatever else you call it when the sequel is better!

Actually I don't really have a problem with Elwes. I'm not exactly into him but I don't hate him.

Aliens better than Alien? Hardly. Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto will not be outdone by Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser.

My adoration of Bill Paxton is well documented.
But Aliens is considered by many (not really fair, since they are not really of the same genre) to be the superior film. And if you look at what most Americans look for in horror, they are correct.

Myself, I prefer gothic horror to action horror so I go with Alien every time. But for an action movie, Aliens is one of the best ever.

I'm sure those people who think Aliens is the superior film probably prefer T2 to Terminator. But I'm not here to cater to the whims of those people and their ridiculous opinions.

Fair enough.

On the subject of 'twists', I got those of both films early on. Hell, I knew the twist for M. Night Shamalamadingdong's The Village when production was announced. And I'm not bragging here. Because I much prefer it when I don't see the surprise coming from a mile away. But sometimes they're like a boxer who telegraphs his punches a week in advance.

The Village was certainly easy to spot at a distance, but there is still much to enjoy about that movie. It's main problem was the piss-poor marketing. First, they billed it as a horror movie, which sets people like me up for huge disappointment; then the farcical (shall we say Bushesquely fake) scandal with SciFi channel and their supposed documentary.

When it comes to M Night, I'm always more interested in the shift in theme rather than the shift in plot. Like Signs isn't an Alien movie, it's a movie about a man who lost his faith--and also there are some aliens. And unbreakable starts out as a simple mystery, and then turns into a mindfucker and a super hero movie in one grand gesture. I love him. and I think Lady in the Water is gonna kick ass. Paul Giamati? How can it not?

When I saw SAW, I was pissed because it seemed so obvious that Michael Emmerson's character was the killer. He's always crazy in stuff. So him not being it was a big twist, but Jigsaw being in the room the whole time was inspired, IMHO!

But I must agree, nothing is better at the end of a horror movie than some kind of enormous and wonderful surprise.

The guy on the floor not being dead is what I got. That the cancer patient turned out to be the killer was something of a surprise to me. But by then I didn't care all that much.

And for a movie with Paul Giamati to not be good, it'll take some doing.

Don't open that door, it's a Trap!

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