if i ever get lost in the woods

there’d better be a creek or a lake or something near-at-hand. i don’t think i could pull a grylls and drink my own pee. i mean, swallowing a little of nerd one’s when the latex sheets are on the bed is one thing… drinking a gallon of my own is, you know, quite another.

carlosison: totalfilm: 50 Horror Movies That Haven’t Been Remade… Yet Paging John…what do YOU think should totally be remade? on this list? nothing. i mean, there are some stinkers here, sure, but there are also more than a few true masterpieces. and even the stinkers are kinda perfect in their own peculiar ways. the remakes will, inevitably, be worse. everyone in the cast will be a hot twenty-something, even if that makes no sense to the original story. those hot twenty-somethings will all be obnoxious, sardonic douchebags who fling caustic one-liners riddled with “funny” pop culture references while simultaneously winking at the audience in a nod to the self-aware and self-referential metanarrative that’s become the norm in modern horror movies. so, you know, the audience will hate them and not really give a fuck if they live or die. which, when you think about it, is the exact opposite of how horror movies should function. i mean, that’s one of the reasons we all loved “the cabin in the woods” so much. it skewered the tropes that have become the norm in modern hollywood horror flicks and gave us a cast that was actually likable. but not everyone is joss whedon. and would whedon or someone like him.even be interested in helming a remake? hollywood needs to stop remaking and rebooting shit and let its creatives be… creative.
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carlosison:

totalfilm:

50 Horror Movies That Haven’t Been Remade… Yet

Paging John…what do YOU think should totally be remade?

on this list? nothing. i mean, there are some stinkers here, sure, but there are also more than a few true masterpieces. and even the stinkers are kinda perfect in their own peculiar ways. the remakes will, inevitably, be worse. everyone in the cast will be a hot twenty-something, even if that makes no sense to the original story. those hot twenty-somethings will all be obnoxious, sardonic douchebags who fling caustic one-liners riddled with “funny” pop culture references while simultaneously winking at the audience in a nod to the self-aware and self-referential metanarrative that’s become the norm in modern horror movies. so, you know, the audience will hate them and not really give a fuck if they live or die. which, when you think about it, is the exact opposite of how horror movies should function. i mean, that’s one of the reasons we all loved “the cabin in the woods” so much. it skewered the tropes that have become the norm in modern hollywood horror flicks and gave us a cast that was actually likable. but not everyone is joss whedon. and would whedon or someone like him.even be interested in helming a remake? hollywood needs to stop remaking and rebooting shit and let its creatives be… creative.

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Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican party’s nominee for governor, once cited Martin Luther King Jr. as justification for his argument that sexual relations between two people of the same gender should be illegal. E.W. Jackson, the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor, believes that gays are “degenerate” and “spiritually darkened” and will eventually destroy America. Mark Obenshain, the party’s nominee for attorney general, recently attempted to require women to contact the police within 24 hours of a miscarriage.
Hey, Virginia, we need to talk. (via motherjones)

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do any of you guys remember the brief, halcyon days of the zip drive? i watched an episode of “the west wing” this morning that featured a reporter passing information to c.j. on a zip drive disk. a zip drive disk. there’s no nostalgia quite as palpable as the nostalgia triggered by obsolete technology.
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do any of you guys remember the brief, halcyon days of the zip drive? i watched an episode of “the west wing” this morning that featured a reporter passing information to c.j. on a zip drive disk.

a zip drive disk.

there’s no nostalgia quite as palpable as the nostalgia triggered by obsolete technology.