I like movies. Sometimes, scary movies are good. But they can be scary.
But a good scary movie is exact that: scary.
Today, most movie makers think it means showing blood and guts and gross stuff. Scary isn’t bloody or gross. At least, it doesn’t have to be. It just needs to be scary.
The thing is, making movies like that take some thought. And nobody has time for that anymore.
You know what else takes some thought? Surviving a scary movie. Harvey has put some thought into it. Go read.
What about you? Ready to put some thoughts of yours on paper? Or actually, on the little bits of data that make up the Internet? It’s Monday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Exactly. One of the least scary movies I have ever seen is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My own chainsaw scared me way more once.
House of Wax creeped me out quite a bit, and I was in my 40s when I saw it.
1953 Vincent Price version. I never saw the 2005 remake
Anything by Val Lewton is creepy. I don’t think there’s any blood at all in them – but they sure make you squirm.
John Pierpont Morgan, Sr., better known as J. P. Morgan, was born April 17, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut. To commemorate that event, here are the New Lost City Ramblers performing “My Name is Morgan, But it Ain’t JP”.
Do girls rib each other? Guys do it all the time, it is part and parcel of bonding between Bros but do women do it as well? I’ve never witnessed it. I mean they get catty with each other but it lacks the general bonhommie that infuses the male verbal jousting.
I’ve gotten quite tired of the claims that women are the nurturing sex. The ribbing that goes on between men is one of the ways that men nurture each other. As I once heard Sammy Davis, Jr., say, “When they stop kidding you, they don’t give a damn about you.” Men also do it by, for example, taking another man out for a drink or several when he’s feeling down, or taking him to lunch.
As for the catty aspect of women’s conversations, it’s worth recalling H. L. Mencken’s definition of a misogynist as a man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
I also think that it’s instructive to ask men whether they would rather have a man or a woman as a boss and then ask women the same question. The answers aren’t what many people expect.
I’ll get off my soapbox now and go slop the hogs.
Isn’t it better for your shoes if you stayed on the soapbox while you slopped the hogs?
Good idea. I’m going to try that.
http://fortune.com/2014/10/14/poll-many-u-s-workers-prefer-male-boss-to-female-boss/
Internet says “true”
I heard a quote once that said “Men insult each other but they don’t really mean it. Women compliment each other, but they don’t really mean it either”
Do female independent business owners drive themselves crazy?
ELAINE: Why do they call it a wedgie?
GEORGE: Because the underwear is pulled up from the back and … it wedges in..
JERRY: They also have an atomic wedgie. Now the goal there is to actually get the waistband on top of the head. Very rare.
ELAINE: Boys are sick.
JERRY: Well, what do girls do ?
ELAINE: We just tease someone ’til they develop an eating disorder.