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many things, but here's a bitch list of what I'm really very tired of right now.
P!$$Y internet wars over...well..nothing really. You don't like Twilight...don't watch the dang thing. You want "relevance" in your next Star Trek movie, but hate the fact that it will most likely kill sales...who cares? Yes, Virginia, Kanye West jumping up on stage was just that...staged...to get him noticed. He's an a$$hole, accept and move on. Don't feed the troll has been a popular statement on the internet for years. Why would you assume it only applies in conversation?
Obama lovers/haters...so very tired of you. Just as i was, believe it or not, over the Bush lovers/haters. You think he's the new messiah/devil...I really don't care, couldn't care less in fact. Here is the plain, simple truth...what you as a private citizen think...doesn't matter a hill of beans because even if he is the second coming/son of satan...he cannot do a dang thing, cannot spend a dang thing, will not do a dang thing without...a) congress' approval, b) his handlers approval, and c) the big money investors in his winning bid for the presidencies approval.
stargazers...the folk that do nothing but populate the internet with the latest female twigs doings and goings, the latest "hearthrob" male's bedhopping...as if it matters to anyone other than the ones that are most affected by their behavior, the kids that are in their lives through no choice of their own. And yes, I don't have to look at that junk...except...for the fact that it shows up in my email, and I spend time, effort, and money (electricity still costs) getting rid of it.
of being very tired. I long for sleep. Real sleep. Uninterupted hours of sleep that heal the body and sooth the soul. That are not interupted by my child, whom I love dearly but has insured for the last three, almost four years, that I do not get a full night of sleep. Hours not broken by what seems to be a shrinking bladder. By phone calls after 11pm by freakin' computers wanting me to buy something.
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vampires. Seriously, its been done to death the last few years. All the creative minds out there and all they wanna do is tell vampire stories over and over.
And zombies don't seem far behind. Zombieland looks fun, but whens the last time someone came up with something new? Or tried anything new?
We have a plethora of animals in the world, for pete's sake. Anyone used a cat since that stephen king movie?
How bout bears? Granted, they're scary enough on their own they don't have to be supernatural, but still.
Snakes, hey, you wanna terrify my neighbor, have a snake show up.
Spiders. 8 Legged Freaks not withstanding, there are plenty of people freaked out by spiders.
Its just...enough with the damn vampires, already.
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Snakes have been pretty much overdone, too, imo.
I'd like to see more Mole People, though. There's a concept that it seems like there's a lot more to do with.
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If they wanna tell vampire stories, they should do a fighting game that matches up all the various kinds of vampire and vampire hunters over the years.
Louis Vs Bella
Buffy Vs Lestat
HJ Van Helsing Vs Claudia
Dracula Vs the one from Innocent Blood
Nosferatu Vs Edward
Angel Vs the one played by Eddie Murphy
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For a different take on zombies, THE WALKING DEAD comic book series-- available in handy trade form until you can catch up with the monthlies-- is there.
You can go for issues at a time without even SEEING a zombie, or barley seeing one. It's really all about the human drama and how the zombie apocalypse has changed the survivors. And some of the most horrific stuff I've ever seen-- Kirkman is a master of the cliffhanger. It's no wonder this series has been snatched up by the AMC network for the weekly series treatment. And don't worry if you don't see a zombie for a while... they ALWAYS show back up, and always will.
PRIDE and PREJUDICE and ZOMBIES was a really cool idea, inserting the zombie apocalypse into Jane Austen's classic novel. I've been enjoying it. (soon to be a major motion picture!!)
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World War Z took a look at a Zombie apocalypse through a different vantage point. Interviews with survivors.
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I think the problem with zombies is that, even though there's a lot of good material out there, there so much that there's quite a bit of crap too.
Vampires, however, just bore me to death.
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Vampires are the glamor boys of the bump-in-the-night crowd. As such, it's not too surprising that they tend to get an inordinate amount of attention. Wolfmen are definitely the bad boyz of the crowd, while zombies seem to represent every(dead)man. Not sure about mummies. Maybe they're just really, really old, cranky zombies.
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For a "mole people" type thing, I highly recommend the semirecent movie THE DESCENT. I've seen it at least 4 times and could watch it 14 more.
It's an all-female cast, which is fun; amateur cave-divers versus... well, you know.
There's also a lot of psychological thingies going on too for the deepthink crowd.
WARNING: There are TWO endings. My first viewing was of the original ending, which was nearly depression-inducing. So much so that I surprised myself by wanting to see it again (and again and again) when it showed up on ON DEMAND. The On Demand version had the redone ending which was not quite so depressing but actually made me appreciate the original very depressing Director's Cut ending.
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... of people being able to deflect bullets with a sword.
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I was sick and tired of cool vampires before it was cool to be sick and tired of them.
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On vampires, I think so much of the shared boredom / annoyance with them right now (by just about everyone) is the recent attempts to make them cool, beautiful and honestly: "pretty". That takes away quite a bit from the lure of vampires in the first place, IMO. I think some of that is okay, but overall, that should usually be a glamor being used for more sinister purposes.
I recently read Stephen King's "Salem's Lot", which is pretty much the opposite of that. Nothing pretty here, just pure horror and the terrifying use of one vampire in a small town. Its what I consider to be vampire fiction at its very best, and I'd like to see something closer in that direction that Twilight.
Zombies rock too, but are now suffering from the same thing that superheroes, 1980's heavy metal and modern hip-hop suffer from. There is so much crap out there, that it seems to bring the really good stuff down in the eyes of the casual reader/viewer/etc.
Hopefully the next big fad will be the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" / "swamp monster" type creatures. Those space-rawk to no end
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: On vampires, I recently read Stephen King's "Salem's Lot", which is pretty much the opposite of that. Nothing pretty here, just pure horror and the terrifying use of one vampire in a small town. Its what I consider to be vampire fiction at its very best,
Stephen Kings DARK TOWER SPOILER ALERT
The priest from Salem's Lot reappears and the vampires are explained.
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: Hopefully the next big fad will be the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" / "swamp monster" type creatures. Those space-rawk to no end
Swamp Monsters vs. Mole Men!
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