Guilty Pleasures

We all have them. Yup, I know you do too so don't pretend you don't. It's just that sometimes guilty pleasures are very unexpected....Like some of mine. Here's my top 5 in no specific order...Don't judge me.

1. Glee

I love Glee. It makes me happy. I love the songs and I love how ridiculously sappy it gets sometimes. Sue Sylvester is the most evil person ever, yet I can't help but love her. Maybe this is the reason I love her so much:


Either way, Glee rocks.


2. Lady Gaga
For someone who listens to mostly punk rock and metal, liking Lady Gaga is almost a crime. But I can't help it. Her costumes are outrageous, her make-up is insane and her music videos make no sense. She has everyone confused by her existence. I love her. This is my favourite video from hr because of the Tarantino influences...Check it:



3. Jennifer's Body
Most horror fans HATED this movie. I like to think that they just missed the humour in it. Check this clip out and tell me you didn't laugh:


4. Perez Hilton
To be quite honest, I don't really care what most celebrities are doing with their lives and whether they've crashed their car or who they're dating. But everyone once in a while you find a gem of a story. Like this:
Something Wrong, Courtney?

5. Jersey Shore
Yeah. I hate to admit this one. But I've watched since the first episode came out and I'm stoked for Season 2 to start. I hope Snookie gets punched in the face again.




You know you love some things that other people hate. Just let it out my friends. Let your guilty pleasures out.

Watchmen

So I blogged about how I bought Watchmen about two weeks ago for $3 but I hadn't watched it yet. Setting aside three hours to watch a movie is kind of a big deal. But last week one day when I wasn't working I finally watched it.

The last time I watched it was when it came out in theaters and I had forgotten most of it. What an awesome flick though. I know there are certain things that had to be left out of the movie from the book due to time restraints and everything but even so, I think they did an incredible job of interpreting it into movie form.

The special effects were unreal. Especially the way they created John. The soundtrack is amazing. The way they played Bob Dylan through the opening credits while the news headlines ran sent chills through me. It was so fitting.

Although the story line itself is more attributed to the book than to the movie, the story in the movie didn't change much and you can still pick out all of the important parts and relate them to the way our world is now. The story itself contains so much social commentary it's difficult to take it in all at once.

I'm going to need to watch this movie again. And maybe again. And then maybe again. Setting aside three hours for a movie is just such a pain in the ass.

Breathers - A Zombie's Lament

A lot of people have told me about their hate of reading. I like to think that most people hate reading because they haven't found a book that they really love yet. So many people associate reading with the times they were forced to read stuff like Shakespeare in high school. And let's ace it, who likes being forced to do anything? Certainly not me.

Sometimes I also find it difficult to get into a book. But other times I fly through books within a week because I love it so much. That's what happened to me with Breathers.

Breathers is a story about a man named Andy who kills himself and his wife in a horrible car accident. Unlike his wife however, Andy re-animates. He has a broken ankle, a flattened arm and his vocal chords have been ruined from the accident. He can't get a job, can't stay out of the house past 11pm and people are constantly throwing rotten food at him screaming things like "Go back to your grave!" Since every 1 in 200 people re-animates, the undead have formed support groups for themselves called Undead Anonymous. Andy meets a girl at one of these groups and falls in love with her.

Andy goes through much turmoil and trouble in his second life and it's all entertaining. The book literally made me laugh out loud, which made people think I was listening to voices in my head on the train.

The rights to the book have recently been sold to Fox Searchlight Pictures and Diablo Cody has her hands on the project. Most book-to-movie adaptations lose something in the transition. But I really like Diablo Cody so I'm hoping she will do something fantastic with it.

Read Breathers! You won't regret it.

Blu-ray

Is Blu-Ray really that much better than DVD? What about if you watch a DVD on an HD tv? We have an HD tv that I watch all my movies on and I think they look great. Is there really any point in spending the money to get a Blu-Ray player AND re-stock your movie collection? hell i still watch movies on VHS sometimes and I still think they're great. What is this obssession that people have with buying more expensive things for a slight increase in quality? Can't we just be happy with what we have? Do you really need to see the pimple on the actor's left cheek that much more clearly?

It's silly, people. Just watch your movies. And enjoy them.

I love cheap movies!

I was at Rogers Video yesterday and got The Watchmen AND My Bloody Valentine in 3-D for $3.19 each! score!





I've already watched My Bloody Valentine last night. I don't know if I'm 3-D illiterate though or what because I don't think I got the 3-D effect. Everything was just green. Strange.

Every summer...

...there's something that happens in Toronto.

Something magical
and exciting

and very, very expensive.

What is it you ask? Well it's the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear!

I went two years ago and had a blast meeting Tobe Hooper and Sid Haig and Rugero Deodato! Such a fun-filled day. I didn't get to go to the one last year because I was in Newfoundland and I missed my love Bruce Campbell. We will be together some day!

This year there are more great guests including Bill Moseley and GLENN DANZIG! Check out the rest of the guests here!


Who's coming with me!?

Orphan

Someone had told me the ending to this movie a couple of weeks after it came out so I didn't even bother seeing it because the ending that the person had told me was lame. But my sister and I had nothing to do the other day so we watched Orphan.
The movie is about a couple who has two children but wants to adopt a third after they had a miscarriage years earlier. The go to an orphanage and meet a young girl named Esther who they quickly decide to adopt. As the little girl gets settled into the house weird things start to happen and Esther seems to be at the scene of the crime each and every time. The young girl torments the parents through putting the other two children through hell and back.
The ending is still pretty ridiculous. You think the little girl is just psychotic but then BAM! Absurdity.

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