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Work:
Finally, after weeks of mostly idling, my blocking issues have been resolved and yesterday I got to dive back in and bang out code. I got quite a bit done, and have plenty more to do in the coming week. Needless to say, I am very happy. There is no shortage of things for me to work on, and it is a great relief to no longer be blocked from getting it done.
Chainsaws:
Carrying on with the Chainsaw Massacre theme, I watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 a few days ago. I won't be bothering with the third one, although I am perversely curious to see the fourth one only because it starts Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger. Anyway, getting back to 2...
It stars Dennis Hopper, and was directed by Tobe Hooper. One would think that with that pedigree it would be at least passingly good. But one would be wrong. This is such an absurdly bad movie words can't even describe it. There are so many bad plot points it is not even worth going into them. Tobe Hooper could not possibly have been going for scares in this movie, he had to have known how constipated the whole thing was. Apparently they couldn't afford a real score, so the soundtrack consists of a single casio-tone keyboard noodling around with attempted dramatic music, failing miserably to be either. Towards the "climax" of the movie, they trot out the entire grandpa scene from the first movie for no apparent reason. The final shot of the movie tries to be a shocking flip-flop of the final shot from the first movie, and fails at being anything but drop-dead funny. I don't think that is what they were going for. I must say, though, that the more I ponder it the more I am entertained in a kind of "Ed Wood sincerely bad" way. This is a movie to toss in when you want to see a textbook example of how unintentionally bad a horror movie can get.
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween:
We had such a good time taking Ben to this, and Ben had a great time as well. He loved the trick-or-treating, and he even went on the Haunted Mansion and walked off with a smile for the first time ever. The transformation of the park was amazing. The buildings on Main Street were all lit up with halloween candy colors, with cool spotlights projecting giant bats and witches flying back and forth along the fronts of the buildings (kind of like the shadow fish from Angel's Egg, if you have ever seen that). Space Mountain was lit up in such a way that it looked like a giant spider web, with a huge spider waiting for its prey. The Haunted Mansion glowed all purple and green, with a red/orange graveyard lurking off to the side.
As for Ben, he looked very cute in his Baloo costume. We had to take it off after a couple hours because he was too hot, but he really seemed to like it as well. He was very curious to be in the park after dark, which almost never happens (although I suppose that will become much more common after the clocks change tonight). He liked the trick or treating so much he never even tried to go into the Main Street Confectionary, which is a first. This is definitely going to become an annual tradition.
Be sure to check my previous post for a link to pictures from the evening.
Finally, after weeks of mostly idling, my blocking issues have been resolved and yesterday I got to dive back in and bang out code. I got quite a bit done, and have plenty more to do in the coming week. Needless to say, I am very happy. There is no shortage of things for me to work on, and it is a great relief to no longer be blocked from getting it done.
Chainsaws:
Carrying on with the Chainsaw Massacre theme, I watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 a few days ago. I won't be bothering with the third one, although I am perversely curious to see the fourth one only because it starts Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger. Anyway, getting back to 2...
It stars Dennis Hopper, and was directed by Tobe Hooper. One would think that with that pedigree it would be at least passingly good. But one would be wrong. This is such an absurdly bad movie words can't even describe it. There are so many bad plot points it is not even worth going into them. Tobe Hooper could not possibly have been going for scares in this movie, he had to have known how constipated the whole thing was. Apparently they couldn't afford a real score, so the soundtrack consists of a single casio-tone keyboard noodling around with attempted dramatic music, failing miserably to be either. Towards the "climax" of the movie, they trot out the entire grandpa scene from the first movie for no apparent reason. The final shot of the movie tries to be a shocking flip-flop of the final shot from the first movie, and fails at being anything but drop-dead funny. I don't think that is what they were going for. I must say, though, that the more I ponder it the more I am entertained in a kind of "Ed Wood sincerely bad" way. This is a movie to toss in when you want to see a textbook example of how unintentionally bad a horror movie can get.
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween:
We had such a good time taking Ben to this, and Ben had a great time as well. He loved the trick-or-treating, and he even went on the Haunted Mansion and walked off with a smile for the first time ever. The transformation of the park was amazing. The buildings on Main Street were all lit up with halloween candy colors, with cool spotlights projecting giant bats and witches flying back and forth along the fronts of the buildings (kind of like the shadow fish from Angel's Egg, if you have ever seen that). Space Mountain was lit up in such a way that it looked like a giant spider web, with a huge spider waiting for its prey. The Haunted Mansion glowed all purple and green, with a red/orange graveyard lurking off to the side.
As for Ben, he looked very cute in his Baloo costume. We had to take it off after a couple hours because he was too hot, but he really seemed to like it as well. He was very curious to be in the park after dark, which almost never happens (although I suppose that will become much more common after the clocks change tonight). He liked the trick or treating so much he never even tried to go into the Main Street Confectionary, which is a first. This is definitely going to become an annual tradition.
Be sure to check my previous post for a link to pictures from the evening.
From: (Anonymous)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
Well, they ended up skipping EVERYTHING, and in my opinion the move could have even got a PG-13 rating. Unfortunately, cutting a bunch of stuff out made the movie not make any sense at that point.