Isn't psycho-killer-in-the-woods the plot of every Australian horror movie these days?

Well, I understand the top priority is always going to be milking a property's brand equity for all it's worth, but I'm talking more from a cinematic perspective.

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It was way fun, definitely, but pretty amateurish imo. I can't see how this would translate into a decent movie without major changes.

Nope, very different.

The Bird Box That Couldn't Slow Down

Sure, they can remake it all they like, but it seems like an exercise in futility as they'll have a hard time topping the first two.

For my money, nothing ratchets up a movie's tension and terror levels quite like Veronica Cartwright's hysterics. It ought to be mandatory that she makes a cameo in every horror film.

It was OK. Had its moments.

After the '56 and '78 versions, why even bother, really?

I like them more with the smoking ban. Once I hit my mid-twenties sitting in high concentrations of secondhand smoke start giving me massive headaches. But yeah, if you don't drink, hanging around in a bar would be a drag, I concur.

I mean, it's great fun in a hacky B-grade kind of way, I think, but nothing more than that. It's flawed in a way I find distracting. I actually like Day better…

He seems to have gotten over that.

Eh, it's OK.

Doing some boring spreadsheet work and just wrapping up the audiobook of Roadside Picnic. The narration is by Robert Forster and it’s fantastic – a gritty, gravelly blue-collar tough guy reading that perfectly fits the gritty, gravelly blue-collar tough guy characters. The story itself, on the other hand, I found…

We've lied too. For years we told my youngest that any meat we gave him was "chicken", since he claimed to only like chicken. Never knew the difference. We also used to give them veggie hotdogs and lunchmeat and such and tell them it was the real thing.

I, for one, will be filing away "carefully calibrated sets of values and tastes" for future use. Thank you.

You mean it's not actually a western Canadian delicacy?

"idiot-guy faces"

I was born a judgmental bitch.