August 2006 Archives

There's not much I can say for this movie other than it is evident that I rented the wrong movie. I had in my hands Marebito and A Tale of Two Sisters. I put the latter back. Now I regret it.

This film started out relatively creepy. Then it took some path that I just wasn't following. Man is obsessed with fear. Man goes into tunnel. Tunnel suddenly looks not unlike Genesis in Star Trek III. Man finds naked woman chained. Man somehow gets out of bizarro tunnel with naked woman and puts her in his apt. Naked woman doesn't eat food. Naked woman likes blood. It became some weird vampire experience with oddly sexual/animalistic blood drinking scenes. What I can't understand is why the guy didn't slice his wang and let her lick that, as he was obviously getting off by her licking his hand. Pervo.

About 3/4 of the way through, I fell asleep. And I have no idea what happened.

With Pulse opening up today, I thought I would take this opportunity to plead with Hollywood to STOP REMAKING FILMS. The list of remakes is just astonishing. The Wicker Man I don't particularly care about, cause the ass slapping in the original kinda put me off. And I have no problem with ass slapping, but this was just weird.

I just read today that they are remaking Battle Royale. And by remake, I mean someone feels the need to market to the young teen American audience (as it will inevitably have a PG-13 rating). It's just horrible and I'm not happy about.

Now about Pulse. I'm a little torn here. It looks creepy, but the PG-13 rating just puts me off. No offense to the younger crowd, but I do not want to see a movie and put up with a bunch of 13-16 year olds texting each other and acting like idiots. (I originally included 17 yr olds in that mix, till I realized that they can get into R movies anyway.) This has happened quite a few times, and really the only alternative is to see a "Past curfew" showing, which is what we did for Stay Alive. Then there's whole movie itself. I can't say Kairo was my favorite movie, but I understand what it was attempting to say. I have a feeling that Pulse bastardized (this is my new favorite word) the plot, removed all the existential overtones (not necessarily damaging), and threw in some cheap scares for the teenagers. Not to mention the fact that it didn't test well when it was supposed to be release months ago, so it had to be reworked. So I may just wait for the DVD release, as it most likely will be "Unrated".

Making this decision doesn't help me with the "If I only saw 1 movie tonight, which would it be?" problem I have. I'm at least 3-4 movies behind at this point.