As some of you may already know, I am currently unemployed. While exploring different avenues and opportunites, including but not limited to: assassin, ice cream salesman, poacher, merman, inventor, eagle, etc..., I have decided to host my own blog so that all of my friends and family can follow my day to day goings-on and come along with me on my journey. Just where will this journey lead me? I don't know, but hopefully I will discover the meaning of life, which I will then sell it to the highest bidder and live the rest of my days on a private island with an unlimited supply of chocolate milk (which is my favorite beverage).
But I can't just throw random thoughts on a page with no construct and expect you all to habitually read it. So here's what I will do. Once a week I will conduct a movie review. This is just a starting point. If you have other suggestions of fun activities I can add to my blog, feel free to offer them. And if I don't take your advice into consideration, don't be sad. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, it just means I don't like your idea :)
So here goes, I'll write a film review of a movie I recently saw, The Haunting In Connecticut. You've got to hand it to the marketing gurus behind the release of this film, which was actually nothing like what the trailers made it seem like it was going to be. After watching the previews for this movie, I prepared myself for the next The Excorsist. What I walked into however, was more like 13 Ghosts on some mild steroids. It started out very promising, but honestly, how many times are you going to get scared by a burnt corpse popping its head around the corner? Wouldn't you eventually get sick of the guy scaring you and say something like "Hey man, I know you lived here first and everything but you're dead now and I'm getting really sick of you jumping out and scaring me like this. You do it again and I'm gonna punch you directly in the scrotum"? I mean that's what I would say after the 15th time he did it, but then again, that might be a tad confrontational.
To be fair though, the movie did have a somewhat intriguing theme. The main character, who has the most contact with the burnt corpse, is very sick with some form of cancer and very close to death, The thought was that those who are this close to death somehow have an increased ability to commune with the dead, or at least those that have not yet "crossed over". Interesting concept, or an interesting take on the concept at least, and it was carried out in a decent fashion throughout most of the movie. On a scale of 1-10 though, I'd give the movie a 5. I have to give Cornwell and crew a nod for their collective creativity and I did get "spooked" a couple of times, but in the end, all I can say is... ehh.
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