On the Vagaries of Human Desire

[xifeng]

Dear Lee,

You hate horror movies. If given the opportunity, you will grandstand for hours about your vague, grandiose moral objections to a genre that relies on shock to make its point, and if you haven't driven off your audience by that point, you will then take the opportunity to point out that your imagination is morbid enough without adding more lurid imagery. There is no sense in renting a horror movie; you already know that you won't like it and that you will indulge in macabre visualization and won't be able to sleep at night.

Oh, but The Imprint is set in nineteenth-century Japan, so that of course makes it COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

Seriously, if you rent it and can't sleep afterwards, it is YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT.

No love, and scant tolerance,
Lee

Comments

[lemurjoe.livejournal.com]

I totally sympathize. I hate slasher movies and yet am actually contemplating going to see The Hitcher, in a theater no less. Why? Because Sean Bean is in it. And he plays the bad guy. Arrgh!

We can keep each other awake for the rest of our lives to avoid nightmares from our otherwise bad choices. :)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, Sean Bean. Because I'm secure enough in my masculinity to admit when another guy is hot. I can imagine the importance of the choice before you. ;)

Huzzah! It might do a number on the old driving-to-work thing, though.

[ebony-queen.livejournal.com]

o.O Wow that is almost my EXACT stance on horror movies.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oooh, we're sekrit psychic twins!

Or, more probably, sekrit psychotic twins, since I for one am not psychic.

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

I hate horror movies, too! But I'm a complete pansy, whereas it surprises me that you'd be at all perturbed, other than finding them cheap and tasteless. But if you want to go ahead and rant about it, go ahead. I love hearing people complain about everything wrong with the horror genre. I wouldn't stop reading, no matter how long you decided to carry on. :DDDDD

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! It is an effeminate pansy-chylde and her magical dancing emoticons of doom and sparkles! :DDDDD

Sometimes for me it has to do with the fact that I don't like to see decayed or mutilated faces; I can deal with other body parts, but faces just stick with me, which is one of the factors behind my decision not to pursue physical anthropology as a career. (Before you met me, there was a point at which I was considering it.)

I'm not generally a pussy about blood and guts, but if I'm going to enjoy the movie, then I need the blood and guts to have a purpose and not just be there for their own sake, which is my issue with a lot of horror flicks. I watch movies for a lot of reasons, but "being grossed out" isn't one of them.

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

I call the ":DDDDD" face a "Seify moment," named for momo, because she's the one who pulls faces like that, not me. Well, not originally.

Ugh. I completely agree with you, since even the sight of a skull or skeleton scares me to no end. And thanks to such wimpiness, I've always written off anything involving bodies, living or dead, as a career. I couldn't stand even giving somebody a shot, much less dealing with remains.

Most horror movies love to splash blood around and mutilate people for no reason. Some might say that "scaring the audience" is a reason, as is "grossing the audience out," but I disagree. No way is that criteria for me to run out and spend my money on the movie. Usually, after seeing something with too much blood that isn't a Kurosawa movie, I throw up. -_-6

[dethorats]

Awww, Hirsch. I'll try to keep you away from tempting historical setting Japanese horror movies if you'll keep me away from any and all things featuring sharks.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Together, we shall shield each other from the horror of rubber fetuses (yes, I swear to God there are supposed to be rubber fetuses in that movie--personally, I prefer them to the real thing XD) and giant flesh-eating sharks!

[aeromancy.livejournal.com]

Haha, wuss.






(I cry and call my mommy when I happen to see accidentally see a preview for a horror movie on TV. ._.)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU GUYS EVERYONE LOOK AT ANEMOS' SHAMEFUL SECRET

I mean, I just leave the room with a minimum of crying and such.

Wuss x 2. XD

[aeromancy.livejournal.com]

It's not so much a secret as it is a way of life!

I looked up info on the movie because I'm a curious moron like that, saw a couple of pictures that I really didn't need to see, and now I'm off to hug Totoro because he'll protect me from the bad, bad creatures.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

As he ought, or otherwise I would doubt his efficacy as a tutelary spirit. ;)

I read the back of the DVD case, and that was enough for me. However, I definitely prefer rubber fetuses to the real thing.