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[shadowkat]

You ever wish your life was like the movies? I suppose it depends on what movie you are watching at the moment.

Watching the flick Larry Crown - about a guy who gets laid-off from U-Mart and goes back to school via the local community college, where he finds cool new friends, gets a job at a Diner, and hooks up with his hot speech teacher.

Funniest line? To explain the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek...would take hours..there's just...beam me up now.

LOL!

When I was a kid it was Star Wars, as an adult? Definitely Star Trek...and no contest.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

This is so interesting... there have always been a lot of movies (or books) I wanted to live in...
but even more that I would NEVER want any part of! LOL
I've recently seen Prometheus and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, and I definitely don't want to live in either of those worlds.
I don't want to live in the worlds of 'Cabin in the Woods', 'Avengers', or 'Men in Black3' either!

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel might not be so bad... but Hunger Games would be horrible.
LOL
I've been seeing way too many movies lately.

I was already married before Star Wars came out, and I enjoyed the first three films (well, the first two films...) but I never 'got into them' the way I did Star Trek. Of course I was still in high school for Star Trek and I was madly in love with Spock. Now THAT was a world I wanted to live in!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

You have seen a lot of movies lately.

Did you like Cabin in the Woods?

And how is Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter? Is is worth the price of admission? (keep in mind I wasn't crazy about Cabin in the Woods.)

I almost saw Rock of Ages this weekend, but talked myself out of it.
Same with Prometheus. And Snow White and the Huntsman..

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I really liked 'Cabin in the Woods' a lot, more than 'Avengers' in fact. It worked for me a lot the way 'Galaxy Quest' worked....

So I cannot predict how you would feel about 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter', but it would not be spoilery to tell you that it is done in straight melodrama style: it takes itself deadly seriously (which is kind of hilarious if your sense of humor works that way). I found it very enjoyable (except for a couple of fight scenes that went on a tad too long), and kind of outrageous. But definitely do NOT see it in 3D, it is already filmed too dark, you don't need to add dark glasses.

I never considered going to 'Rock of Ages' or 'Snow White and the Huntsman', those didn't sound like my thing at all.... but I'm seriously thinking of seeing 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World' soon... and [Unknown site tag] seriously loved 'Brave', so I plan to see that too (she said 2D was great, so I'll skip 3D for that too).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I should have skipped Cabin in the Woods...while I didn't hate it, I do despise the genre (torture porn and zombies), so it didn't work for me. 90% of a film with your hand over your face is not a fun experience. There was a reason I didn't like biology and hate hospitals and criminal law.

Galaxy Quest on the other hand was a lot of fun, but it didn't have people tortured with saws, bear traps, decapitated, and skewered...so that may have helped. LOL!

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

well it probably helped me deal w/the pain and death in that I didn't believe any of it was really happening at the time of those early deaths... I mean you get a bear trap in your back and you bounce right back, without collapsing in pain? Seemed to me that it must be a fake bear trap....
I just wasn't 'buying' any of it as real,
and the over the top ending w/the giant hand was just ridiculous....
So I was never taking it seriously enough to be afraid of any of it.

Actually a lot of serious horror fans hated CitW for just that reason, they didn't find it scary at all.