Captain Trips

It's a sign that I watch too many horror movies that I am admittedly a little freaked out by all this "swine" flu business. On the one hand, I want to take the "we'll be fine" attitude, but on the other, I have to wonder, "what if this is the next Black Plague"? We are so goddamn complacent and arrogant sometimes that the idea that something like this could actually come in and do some very serious damage doesn't even come to most people's minds. My own paranoia isn't being helped much by whatever the fuck is going on with me right now. I think it's some nasty allergies, but it feels like it could be a head-cold. Whatever it is, I want it gone.

Other things freaking me out is that the rains have come and with the rains come the worms. I about had a heart attack when I nearly stepped on one yesterday on my way from work. It probably took me an extra 5 minutes to get home trying to avoid them. And what's the first thing I hear when I wake up this morning? Dave Ryan talking about how the streets and sidewalks are covered with worms. I only saw a few when I left for work (surprisingly no where near dirt), but that's too many. Worms are my kryptonite (sp).

H2 Trailer

This is gonna shock and amaze people who know how I felt about Rob Zombie's "reimagining" of Halloween, but having watched the teaser trailer, I'm kinda interested in seeing where he's going with this. I'm mostly wondering how so many people whom I'm pretty sure DIED in the original (or at least the version that I saw) are going to return again. I guess we knew Annie didn't die which was just dumb, but was I just dreaming that he crushed Dr. Loomis head? And Laurie shot Michael in the face, right? Remember how in Scream, Sydney shoots the killer again to make sure there would be no surprises? I kinda like the idea of someone actually just killing the damn killer and letting it all go. Granted, Scream decided to traipse out all new killers later to continue the franchise, but I am sick and tired of killers being revived in movies. While I liked the remake of My Bloody Valentine, I'm not at all disappointed that there won't be a sequel. Sure, the remake left us with a big old question about what would happen to the killer now, but so did the original. I said before (maybe only in one of my ICFTB emails and not in this blog), I think part of the nostalgic appeal of the original MBV is that we didn't have a bunch of lame sequels later that turned Harry Warden into yet another Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.

So it would have been great if Rob had just left his ending as it was. Then again, apparently, the DVD has a totally different ending than the theatrical release. I couldn't make it through the DVD as you may recall because I thought that movie was diarrhea. Anyway, clearly, Rob isn't going completely away from the John Carpenter's film's sequel because a portion of it doesn't take place in a hospital but it appears to involve ten million other things. In fact, for a "teaser" trailer, it sure shows a heck of a lot. Unfortunately, one of the things it shows is a ghostly Sheri Moon Zombie, I assume reprising her role as Michael's mom. I don't want to be one of those people who jumps the gun and claims this is a Mrs. Voorhees rip, but that footage sure reeks of F13 a bit.

I don't know. Maybe I'm softening in my old age. Maybe I'm less angry about this than I was about the first "reimagining" because it's clear this is a sequel to his assy remake and not an attempt to remake the original film's sequel. If I could just go in and pretend this movie isn't using character names like Michael Myers and Laurie Strode and Dr. Loomis, I might be able to muddle through. Then again, if Rob wasn't trying to get people into theatres by co-opting the name Halloween, I would go to see his movie anyway because I tend to think his movies suck.

Polar Bear Express(ion of Anger)

I have been weening myself of Jezebel lately. While I appreciate a lot of the stories, the comments in some of the posts just drive me batty. I'm all for feminism and equality for everyone, but that includes holding women RESPONSIBLE for their own bad behavior and decisions.

For example, they posted a story about some dumbass women who jumped into the polar bear den at some zoo and got mauled. The thing that bugs me about their post is at the end of it, the writer starts whining about how if society didn't act like polar bears as cute and adorable, this lady might have thought twice about trying to go up and hug this bear. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

While it is true that animals are "marketed" as all cuddles and cuteness, a 32-year-old woman should know at least to be cautious around them. Zoos have cages and fences for a reason. Now maybe this lady has some sort of mental deficiency in which case whomever she was at the zoo with should have their head examined for not paying attention.

This reminds me of that case where the little girl was bitten by a meerkat at the local zoo and because her inattentive, dumbass parents didn't want her to go through the trauma of rabies shots, a whole family of meerkats had to be put down to make sure the child was okay. Yeah, Meerkat Manor probably does make kids think they are the cutest little things and petting them would be cool, but GROWN-UPS should be there making sure the kids realizes that they are actually wild animals and people should be very careful around them.

Jezzies, quit acting like women can't make bad decisions. I hope this woman will recover too, but I also hold her responsible for putting herself in danger. It cuts both ways.

I just had to get that morning rant off my chest.