Ah, the lovely Boylan Sisters!
December 26, 2009
For so long I've been trying to introduce Rames to my beloved movie musicals but he always avoided the topic all together. He hated when people broke into song in movies, he said. He hated when people "sang in a choir." Above all, he didn't want to be watching a film where random actors started dancing in bizarre situations. I gave it up for a bad job and refrained from bringing the subject up. It's okay to differ in opinion, I told myself. Not everyone has to like the same things... I hated it, but everyone says this is what makes life interesting.
But how can anyone not like Annie? It's a classic! Then, after some discussion, I realized Rames had never actually seen the movie. It was surreal to me. I was constantly singing "Tomorrow" while cooking dinner or I'd burst into "Hard-Knock-Life" while in the shower... he always seemed to know the songs but had actively refused to watch the movie. I always assumed he was familiar with the plot. How should I have known Annie never really reached Europe?
Tonight, on a whim, I downloaded Annie (1982) and simply insisted he sit down and watch it with me. I snuck into the office and pouted... "If I clean the entire Christmas dinner dishes ON MY OWN, will you watch Annie with me?" Because he had missed me while I was away at the Essers and felt like indulging me a bit, he agreed.
At the beginning of movie, I warned him whenever a song was approaching: "Okay, so it starts with a song but it's a nice one... there's another shortly after but it's nothing annoying." And, 20 minutes into the film, he admitted that it wasn't annoying after all! That it wasn't as bad as he'd thought! He found it heart-warming, Annie grew on him, he enjoyed Oliver Warbucks... he finally understood who Bernadette Peters is!
He liked it.
Then, he admitted that all this time he thought "Annie" was about a 20-something year old woman who finds love after having a hard life.
He had no idea that it was about children.
This, I believe, is the core of Rames's confusion/dislike of musicals -- he really and truly has some bizarre misconception of them. Just like the time I made him watch "Mulan" and he enjoyed it... afterward he told me he had been under the impression the movie was about a dragon.
I have discovered something phenomenal. Now, I just have to decide which musical movie to show him next.
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What is your quest? What is your favorite color?
October 24, 2009
Rames and I watched Paranormal Activity last night and it was such a let down. I'm really picky about my scary movies, see -- I'm not a gore fan and I don't like watching 90 minutes of someone getting tortured/slashed/dismembered. But haunted house movies are totally my thing. That's why I was really pumped about seeing PA; I'd read that it was horrifying and I was looking forward to being scared.
What the hell, though? The first 30 minutes were utterly boring and the rest of the film was a jerky hand-held camera adventure of really stupid people going to sleep... and waking up. With their door wide open every night, I might add. Granted there was approximately 5 seconds of some vaguely interesting thing that happened to them around 3 a.m. every night but nothing overly startling. I went to bed and, after Rames was finished making fake demon noises outside of my door, I fell into a nightmare-free sleep.
Lame.
If all goes to plan (meaning there is no sudden, inland hurricane swooping into Strasbourg) I'll be jumping out of an airplane tomorrow. Skydiving! The weather looks promising right now so the chances of it happening seem pretty good. If this is my last blog post, you know what happened.
Seventh Moon
October 5, 2009
Seventh Moon is the worst scary movie I have ever sat all the way through. Let me ruin it for you:
So, these two typically American tourists have just married and decided to honeymoon in China, visiting the groom's family. They arrive on the WORST DAY EVER as it's the night the moon demons come out and kill you unless you present them a really awesome sacrifice like...
I'm assuming you can see where this is going, right? The two find themselves, naturally, abandoned in the woods next to a little village with a bunch of goats/chickens/dogs all tied up outside with candles and notes. The blonde asks, "What's thiiiis?" about a thousand times. When they get back to their car they see it's been covered with blood. They still don't get it. They get in their...
You know what? It doesn't even matter, that's how stupid it was. There's some running and screaming, the idiots figure out THEY are the sacrifices, the husband gets taken and the RETARDED BLONDE CHICK spends about 10 minutes of screen time looking for him in a cave like this:
And the worst part was the fact that the whole thing was meant to look like it was filmed with some sort of hand-held camera (by the same guy who did the Blair Witch Project) and you couldn't see a single thing. Even the parts which were somehow supposed to be scary were ruined because the camera was out of focus and pointing at a bit of trees in the background.
Brilliant.
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