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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-10-21 09:19 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-10-21 09:19 pm
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I'd rather have a bottle in front a' me than a frontal lobotomy.
I apologize for the subject line. It was the punch line of a painful joke told by one of my psychology professors a few years back and has never quite left my brain.
(If you don't get it, maybe try saying it out loud. Minor word play.)
Watched Session 9 and am going to talk about it now, though only a little.
Not being one to read the summaries or to recognize names of actors much at all, anyway, I have to admit, I was a bit surprised when Horatio Caine turned up. Okay, okay, the actor is David Caruso, and the character in this movie was named Phil, but my brain keeps referring to him as the guy from CSI: Miami because it's about the only place I have ever seen the man.
He is such a crap actor. Honestly. Despite this, I really like watching him! He doesn't seem to care that he can't act that well, and somehow this makes everything he says and does hilarious. (Here is a video of a lot of his horrifyingly funny opening lines from CSI: Miami. If it still doesn't make sense or is not amusing in the least, here is another video that sort of explains it.)
So it was a pleasant surprise, but it meant I spent approximately 85 minutes out of 100 giggling, which was pretty inappropriate, considering it was supposed to be Horror.
It made the lines about Hank running off to Miami a lot funnier than they had any right to be, too.
Ramblings about Surprise! Horatio Caine! aside, though, I actually did enjoy it.
Surprise! [Random Phrase]! is... something I have found myself saying. It came about when Aniko and I were making fun of some truly awful - but unnamed, as I am not going to point fingers even through the internet - stuff. I have started using it to refer to Absolutely Ridiculous Plot Points that seem to come out of nowhere. They usually have no bearing whatsoever on the real story, though, of course, that is not always the case. Mostly it is fun to say. The second part is, so far, always composed of only two words, but I'm not sure if it has to be that way or if I just like it that way.
(And, yes, I realize the guy who played Bill - Paul Guilfoyle - also went into CSI, but he isn't nearly as entertaining as Caruso is.)
Either because it was just really obvious or because I was recommended the movie because it it similar to Silent Hill, the cause wasn't a surprise to me. For a while, I felt like they were trying to make us think it was Horatio who was responsible for Hank's night encounter/disappearance, but it always seemed obvious to me that it was Gordon.
Despite being sure of that, the sequence in the dark hall-area was really creepy. Possibly because, yes, it really was very Silent Hill-esque, and Silent Hill is really creepy. Logic.
I wasn't really very fond of Hank. He was a bit of an annoying character, but I still felt pretty awful for him, what with the "ice pick" in the eye and him just staying down there in the dark and ugh it's just creepy.
The guy who played Mike looked very familiar, but I cannot figure out why. I did like Mike. (Actually, I liked everyone aside from Hank, who I found, as stated already, a bit annoying.) Also, I really liked the interactions between Mike and Jeff. Okay, so Mike pretended to lobotomize Jeff over lunch one afternoon, but beyond that. (I thought it was great that, instead of making Jeff go down in the dark despite his admittance to having nyctophobia, Mike just always went to check the box.)
... The scenes just as Mike was finishing the recording of Session 9, with the power cutting out, were really very scary. Especially the one with poor Jeff dashing down the hall as the darkness chases after and of course overtakes him. That was be terrifying, and to be extremely afraid of the dark as it is... And to be in an abandoned mental hospital. eek!
(Though, hahaa!Horatio Phil doing the "flashlight/gun walk" that we see so often on CSI: Miami had me laughing again.)
Jeff's death was the one I liked the least, just because of how awful his last moments were. Trapped in the dark in an abandoned building with a coworker running around with blood on his hands, and your search partner's run off with the flashlight... Finally the lights come back and you get outside and call anyone to come for you, only to be murdered by your uncle. Ouch. Poor kid.
I don't like the title, by the way. Session 9 just... I don't know. Didn't feel like it had much to do with anything. Sure, everything suddenly happened right before / during / after Mike finished the final session, but it wasn't actually related. It was just a handy coincidence.
Now, if Mike listening to the sessions had somehow been responsible for the stuff that went down and Gordon's slide into insanity, that would have been awesome. Unfortunately, we know that's not the case, because Gordon had heard the voice and killed his family before Mike had even been on the site.
I mean, I understand the point of the title and all, I just don't like it. eh.
...I think I am suddenly out of things to say. Funny how that just happens sometimes.
The ending made me very sad. Alas! I still liked it a lot though. It was rather Silent Hill-y.
Edit:
Added a few more comments under the cut.
(If you don't get it, maybe try saying it out loud. Minor word play.)
Watched Session 9 and am going to talk about it now, though only a little.
Not being one to read the summaries or to recognize names of actors much at all, anyway, I have to admit, I was a bit surprised when Horatio Caine turned up. Okay, okay, the actor is David Caruso, and the character in this movie was named Phil, but my brain keeps referring to him as the guy from CSI: Miami because it's about the only place I have ever seen the man.
He is such a crap actor. Honestly. Despite this, I really like watching him! He doesn't seem to care that he can't act that well, and somehow this makes everything he says and does hilarious. (Here is a video of a lot of his horrify
So it was a pleasant surprise, but it meant I spent approximately 85 minutes out of 100 giggling, which was pretty inappropriate, considering it was supposed to be Horror.
It made the lines about Hank running off to Miami a lot funnier than they had any right to be, too.
Ramblings about Surprise! Horatio Caine! aside, though, I actually did enjoy it.
Surprise! [Random Phrase]! is... something I have found myself saying. It came about when Aniko and I were making fun of some truly awful - but unnamed, as I am not going to point fingers even through the internet - stuff. I have started using it to refer to Absolutely Ridiculous Plot Points that seem to come out of nowhere. They usually have no bearing whatsoever on the real story, though, of course, that is not always the case. Mostly it is fun to say. The second part is, so far, always composed of only two words, but I'm not sure if it has to be that way or if I just like it that way.
(And, yes, I realize the guy who played Bill - Paul Guilfoyle - also went into CSI, but he isn't nearly as entertaining as Caruso is.)
Either because it was just really obvious or because I was recommended the movie because it it similar to Silent Hill, the cause wasn't a surprise to me. For a while, I felt like they were trying to make us think it was Horatio who was responsible for Hank's night encounter/disappearance, but it always seemed obvious to me that it was Gordon.
Despite being sure of that, the sequence in the dark hall-area was really creepy. Possibly because, yes, it really was very Silent Hill-esque, and Silent Hill is really creepy. Logic.
I wasn't really very fond of Hank. He was a bit of an annoying character, but I still felt pretty awful for him, what with the "ice pick" in the eye and him just staying down there in the dark and ugh it's just creepy.
The guy who played Mike looked very familiar, but I cannot figure out why. I did like Mike. (Actually, I liked everyone aside from Hank, who I found, as stated already, a bit annoying.) Also, I really liked the interactions between Mike and Jeff. Okay, so Mike pretended to lobotomize Jeff over lunch one afternoon, but beyond that. (I thought it was great that, instead of making Jeff go down in the dark despite his admittance to having nyctophobia, Mike just always went to check the box.)
... The scenes just as Mike was finishing the recording of Session 9, with the power cutting out, were really very scary. Especially the one with poor Jeff dashing down the hall as the darkness chases after and of course overtakes him. That was be terrifying, and to be extremely afraid of the dark as it is... And to be in an abandoned mental hospital. eek!
(Though, hahaa!
Jeff's death was the one I liked the least, just because of how awful his last moments were. Trapped in the dark in an abandoned building with a coworker running around with blood on his hands, and your search partner's run off with the flashlight... Finally the lights come back and you get outside and call anyone to come for you, only to be murdered by your uncle. Ouch. Poor kid.
I don't like the title, by the way. Session 9 just... I don't know. Didn't feel like it had much to do with anything. Sure, everything suddenly happened right before / during / after Mike finished the final session, but it wasn't actually related. It was just a handy coincidence.
Now, if Mike listening to the sessions had somehow been responsible for the stuff that went down and Gordon's slide into insanity, that would have been awesome. Unfortunately, we know that's not the case, because Gordon had heard the voice and killed his family before Mike had even been on the site.
I mean, I understand the point of the title and all, I just don't like it. eh.
...I think I am suddenly out of things to say. Funny how that just happens sometimes.
The ending made me very sad. Alas! I still liked it a lot though. It was rather Silent Hill-y.
Edit:
Added a few more comments under the cut.
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Jeff dashing down the hall was so scary, and so well-done, I thought. People who make horror movies! Gore and entrails and oceans of blood are not scary, and they're not half as scary as this scene! That bit's always stuck with me, just for how frightened I was of lights going out.
Now, if Mike listening to the sessions had somehow been responsible for the stuff that went down and Gordon's slide into insanity, that would have been awesome.
I agree! It is kind of creepy to consider that Gordon's family was dead all that time, but yeah.
Anyways! I'm glad you liked it, and won't HATE ME FOREVER for suggesting you watch it. I'm probably overly fond of it just 'cause it's one of the only horror movies that's ever given me anything at all resembling that crawling sense of dread the Silent Hill games manage.
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Part of me wonders if part of the reason that scene is as scary as it is is because of Silent Hill, with the descending darkness and all. Regardless, though, that was a scary, scary scene. (But...! But...! Quick jump-scares are so much easier than actually scaring someone!)
I did like it very much! So thank you for the recommendation! I generally do not watch horror movies, because they are generally "BLOOD! GUTS! RANDOM TOPLESS FEMALE! YOU ARE TOTALLY SCARED NOW, RIGHT? RIGHT?" so it was very cool to have one to watch that wasn't just ... well, Allcaps of Terror-esque. (One of the only horror films I've actually watched, the Japanese version of the film Pulse, managed to freak me out a whole lot, but I don't know if it was really in a Silent Hill way, or just in a "That is really freaky" way.)