How can I be so tired today, when I had so much sleep last night?

[vovat]

Okay, it was actually during the day, but I had hoped I would be well-rested, and it didn't quite work out that way. Wouldn't it be cool if we could just accumulate sleep, and then be able to be awake for longer periods of time?

Last night, bethje and I watched Jason Goes to Hell. In this ninth installment in the Friday the 13th series (and I believe the first one not to actually use Friday the 13th in its title), Jason gets blown up, but his heart finds a way to possess other people's bodies. He seems to choose progressively weaker bodies each time, though. It's supposed to be some kind of weird survival instinct, but it doesn't really seem to fit with what we know of the character. There's some bounty hunter who knows how to kill him for good (and has a finger-breaking fetish), but we never really find out HOW he knows this. And the idea that Jason has some hitherto unknown relatives strikes me as somewhat of a rip-off of Freddy's Dead, which New Line Cinema had released about two years previously. A bit at the end suggests that the resemblance between the two ending movies is intentional. Of course, these movies weren't really the end for either supernatural serial killer, but while Freddy's later appearances (A New Nightmare and Freddy vs. Jason) seem to be outside of the regular Nightmare on Elm Street continuity, Jason comes back for another regular sequel (which I'll probably be watching pretty soon).

BRIEF POLITICAL NOTE OF THE DAY: Okay, I'm a week late with this, but I just recently saw this article mentioning that Congressional Democrats caved in to Bush on the Iraq spending bill because they "did not relish the prospect of leaving Washington for a Memorial Day break — the second recess since the financing fight began — and leaving themselves vulnerable to White House attacks that they were again on vacation while the troops were wanting. That criticism seemed more politically threatening to them than the anger Democrats knew they would draw from the left by bowing to Mr. Bush." Okay, are we even going to PRETEND this country is a democracy anymore?

Comments

[colbyucb.livejournal.com]

Ughhhh I love the Friday the 13th movies. They're so awesomely, amazingly bad. My favorite part of that particular one is when the bount hunter is all rarrrghhh and eats the heart. It's just... yeah. Whenever I watch it for some reason I think of those canned tomatoes that are still whole, but peeled, that some people put in chili and that texture, though I know a heart would probably be a lot different. Oh well. Also, there used to be a youtube clip of the part where the bounty hunter says something about putting a hot dog through a donut, which would be hilarious for people not familiar with the movie to click a link to see, but I cannot find it!

*does not feel bad about possibly spoilering a 14-year-old movie*

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Isn't it actually the coroner who eats the heart, rather than the bounty hunter?

I never really watched horror movies as a kid. Beth grew up on them, but she hadn't seen most of the Friday movies until recently. The thing is, she introduced me to the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and as corny as that sometimes gets, I think it remains creative throughout, and presents the characters as people we can actually care about. Jason's victims, on the other hand, are pretty much always just interchangeable horny teens.

[colbyucb.livejournal.com]

Isn't it actually the coroner who eats the heart

You must be right, since you just saw the movie XD

The creativity is why I love the Nightmare series on an entirely different level than Friday the 13th, but the latter remains a very nostalgic thing for me since those were some of the first horror movies I watched in my childhood.