Silverthorne

If a horror flick using Native American folklore would:

1) Let the native actors get lead roles instead of support.

2) Let the native population actually be more than just a source of explaining to the white people "OH HELL SHIT TELL ME WTF is THAT?!"

3) Not have the white lead be some long lost, half-breed member of the tribe that 'walked away from it all' because of some sort of culture fueled drama that happened in his youth (seriously, what's wrong with loving your own damn culture all your life? Huh?)

4) Not let the three obviously white actors overshadow the twenty five or so native actors as the 'ultimate' heroes in the story (right up to, and including the 'white man Returning Prodigal Son beating the crap out of the native stubborn, blind and unaccepting tribe member that's trying to stop him from Saving the World Because He Doesn't Know Any Better).

Seriously...I saw the cast roster, and was getting excited, which is why I turned it on.

Now I'm just alternating between laughing at the sheer cheesiness of the movie...and gnashing my teeth at the default 'white folks do all the right things, even against someone else's cultural monsters' setting horror flicks often have. :/

ETA: Actually, it would be nice if these things were applied to any number of horror flicks using monsters from other cultures, and then using characters with those cultural backgrounds as little more than 'tell me shit' points.

First thought: Alice is just too damned 'special', espcially since she pretty much takes away anything any of the canon characters could be doing to save the day. Someone needed to give her the Mary Sue litmus test, I think, before they approved the script. Or not bother with including canon characters.

Second thought: It should have been Claire and not Alice.

Third thought: Claire and Jill kicking ass together would have been awesome.

Fourth thought: The third movie is so far removed from the original intent of the games that I just don't register it as RE material.

Fifth thought: As it is, I'm not really watching RE, but it does make for good background noise while I work on the computer. Which is really why I keep the DVDs around.

Sixth thought: I need to pop in #1 and get my ass whupped a few times this weekend. :) Anyone want to take bets on how many times I die at the hands of the first zombie before I manage to kill it or run like hell? (Also: Chris or Jill, guys?).

You can tell she's not even close to having anything accessible to the guy sitting behind her on the chair (because her butt is flush with the cushion as well). Unless, of course, his dick can mine through the cushions.

...This is what I get for parking on the channel with the movie I want to see that comes on after the bad sex series. :P

It's all a matter of perspective.

( Rant on movies, obesity, and stuff )

That a lot of people don't like the ending of the movie version of The Mist, and I can understand why--there really just isn't a happy ending. Just a cessation of the horror.

For me though, that's what I like about it. It's brutal. But it's honest. And quite frankly, it lets the audience feel the full horror and pain that kind of horror would put the people through, rather than aim for a trite 'everything is okay after all in the end' or the cheap 'bwahahah!' of one last 'unexpected' kill and cheap scare at the end of the movie to indicate 'it really isn't over yet' (Final Destination sequels, I'm looking at you).

So yeah, it's horrible, and heart breaking, and just downright sucks for the main character.

But...it's true to the genre. I'm actually grateful for the chance to feel truly, truly awful about the fate of the people in the movie, and not just in that 'OMG! Did you see when his head exploded all over the place?! GROSS!!!' way.

The Host.

Horror.
From Korea.
Released by Magnolia Home Entertainment.

This is the first 'horror flick' since An American Werewolf in London I've had so much fun watching.

Seriously, guys. Give this one a try. :)

To Resident Evil: Extinction

I got the DVD for free as part of a movie pack. Mostly, I've been throwing it in for background noise, and because even though I know it's pretty far from Resident Evil game canon, it's entertaining in it's own right.

Tonight's the first time I actually paid enough attention to the last minutes to see Alice one and two take on the baddie. And then to see the very end of the movie (I usually lose track right around when Carlos buys the farm).

But, yeah, the thought of an entire army of Alices?

Makes me giggle. Because it's so...absurd. Especially after establishing at the beginning of the movie that none of the clones can apparently even make it out of the Raccoon City mock-up without dying horribly.

The thought is 'damn, she's going to have to spend a LOT of time teaching them how not to die, first'.

Heh.

Note.

The Marine?

It's on crack. Just so you know.