Vikings vs. Jack Bauer
Aug. 18th, 2008 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uberreinigerDo you remember Hagar the Horrible? He's that cute Viking frm the newspaper comic strips. This morning I had this really immersive dream that Hagar the Horrible stared in this dark, violent, intense, and very, very good CGI direct-to-DVD movie. It was more like an actual Norse saga then the Sunday funnies. I basically got to watch an entire commercial-quallity movie in my sleep. Nothing like free entertainment. I was even watching the screening in this very nice room on a big screen, like at a convention or something. After it was over the director gave a speech, and he was this big, muscular guy dressed in a Greek robe with tattoos and those body-modifications implants they put under the skin to create ridges. Not a guy who's going to be directing romantic comedies any time soon.
Yesterday we went and saw Mirrors. I didn't know anything about this movie except that it had Kiefer Sutherland and ghosts coming out of mirrors. It turns out Kiefer plays a depressed, lonely guy who takes a job as an overnight security guard at a huge, dark, burned-out building and then starts getting harassed by the undead. Yeah, that hit a little too close to home for me!
It was a far better movie than I was expecting to be. I was expecting it to be like almost every American horror movie that's come out in the last six years: a cookie-cutter production; sleek and with pretty special effects, but a wafer-thin plot and no real scares. I was pleasantly surprised. Mirrors is a pretty scary movie with good acting and some serious gore in a few places. There were one or two plot holes, and I don't think the ending quite achieved what they were aiming for, but still one of the better American horror films of the current decade.
Otherwise the weekend was spent reading/listening to the works of Richard Matheson, (best American writer no one's heard of,) playing World of Warcraft, and watching Shin-Chan. Fun times.
Yesterday we went and saw Mirrors. I didn't know anything about this movie except that it had Kiefer Sutherland and ghosts coming out of mirrors. It turns out Kiefer plays a depressed, lonely guy who takes a job as an overnight security guard at a huge, dark, burned-out building and then starts getting harassed by the undead. Yeah, that hit a little too close to home for me!
It was a far better movie than I was expecting to be. I was expecting it to be like almost every American horror movie that's come out in the last six years: a cookie-cutter production; sleek and with pretty special effects, but a wafer-thin plot and no real scares. I was pleasantly surprised. Mirrors is a pretty scary movie with good acting and some serious gore in a few places. There were one or two plot holes, and I don't think the ending quite achieved what they were aiming for, but still one of the better American horror films of the current decade.
Otherwise the weekend was spent reading/listening to the works of Richard Matheson, (best American writer no one's heard of,) playing World of Warcraft, and watching Shin-Chan. Fun times.
