Movie: The Langoliers (1995)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal Rating: 8.5

Based on the works of Stephen King, this is a lengthy (3x60 minutes) classic starring Dean Stockwell among others.

Scary moments:

Almost none. Just the waiting and my being thrilled about what would happen next.

WTF moments:

-The dissappearing of all those people on the flight
-When the langoliers appeared


7 things I've learned from this movie:

1)Now I know what you get when you cross chestnuts with Pac-Man.
2)When you sleep at night, don't EVER ask yourself what happened to the previous day.
3)If you somehow manage to turn back time with let's say 15 minutes, do not think about grabbing a snack.
4)If you get lazy, the langoliers will get you.
5)Any strange noise you might hear... it's the langoliers!
6)You can save the money spent on TNT in the case of condemned buildings by hiring some langoliers.
7)On a red eye, you wouldn't want to be caught awake. Especially if strange weather is forecasted on the way to your destination.

Thumbs-up:

Overall, a pretty nice movie. The cast is just as good.

Thumbs-down:

All computer-animated stuff, including the langoliers.

Another Damn Dream

Had one of "those" dreams again. Not as haunting as the one HERE, but somehow still haunting. Scary.

When you focus too much on one thing, you hope of at least not dreaming about it at night. Right.

You will dream about the little things, the ones you never thought affect you during the daytime. Wrong.

The odds of dreaming about the very same thing both day and night, either with eyes open or closed are next to minute. Questionable.

This won't happen again anytime soon. Pray I'm right...

Movie: Desperation (2006)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal Rating: 9.0

A very lenghty movie, but worth your while if you're looking for a great horror flick with a nice plot and storyline. Based on a novel by Stephen King.

Scary moments:

-more than 15.

WTF moments:

1)A cat stuck to the speed limit sign. Later a dog on the entrance to Desperation.
2)The rows of dogs at each side of the highway as Collie drives by.
3)The bloody slot-machine.
4)The body-swapping process.
5)The whole scene in which Steve and Cynthia investigate Desperation.
6)The scene in which David explores the police stations.
7)When Collie shoots Peter.

10 things I've learned from this movie:

1)Never listen to a policeman, especially if he acts weird or has a cut and bleeding face.
2)Marijuana now comes in packs with a smiley on it. :)
3)Trust in your local sheriff . He just might be the next best thing after Charles Manson.
4)'You have the right to an attorney. I will kill you'. Police brutality at its finest.
5)Your dead sister is now a ghost-like apparition. She'll help you figure things out.
6)Human bodies don't last long.
7)Once you're possessed by a more or less evil spirit, you just might have the power to control any animal by shouting a couple of syllables.
8)Chinamen and Americans don't make good neighbours.
9)IN Desperation, the are NO accidents.
10)TAK!

Thumbs-up:

1)Unpredictable plot.
2)Very many references to other movies.
3)Dark humour everywhere. Collie's role is outstanding.
4)This movie flung Ron Perlman right on my list of favourite actors.
5)Lots of scares and suspense.

Thumbs-down:

1)Very many questions are left unanswered at the end of the movie.

Movie: Riding The Bullet (2004)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal Rating: 9.0

Excellent movie, based on Stephen King's novella bearing the same name. Checked the IMDB recently. The rating is far below which this movie actually deserves.

Scary moments:

-more than 10.

WTF moments:

1)The highway scene with the rabbit, the wolf and the crow.
2)Imaginary hospital-visiting scenes.
3)When Alan is trying to slit his wrist in the bath tub.
4)Some scenes in the car with George.
5)The scene in the hospital with the 'meowing' mother... just creepy.

8 things I've learned from this movie:

1)If you failed in riding a rollercoaster as a child, you'll feel sorry for it all your life.
2)Some drivers are not what they seem, so careful when hitch-hiking. I should be careful with this, since I commute to work every day.
3)Anything trying to have a snack on the highway WILL become roadkill.
4)Convince your mother to tell you the truth about how daddy died.
5)DEATH TRAVELS FAST. Literally.
6)Smoking kills... sooner or later.
7)Love doesn't last. Only the love of a mother.
8)NOBODY LIVES FOREVER, BUT WE ALL SHINE ON.

Thumbs-up:

1)Excellent acting.
2)Excellent dark humour.
3)The 'dual choice scenes' were something I really felt comfortable with. Scary as hell, though...
4)The casting for the actors must have been a pretty lengthy process. They all rocked.
5)The plot was anything but predictable.
6)It was a clear and to-the-point movie. No use for extra scenes in the movie.

Thumbs-down:

1)We never get to know what happens to Alan's two buddies.

Movie: Lake Placid 2 (2007)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal rating: 3.0

This is nothing compared to the first part. Awful CGI, lame characters, even lamer lines and not to mention the acting which fell almost below any of my expectations.

Scary moments:

-about 2. (Too damn predictable of a movie!)

WTF moments:

-The horrible CGI.

7 things I've learned from this movie:

1)Crocs can be found anywhere!
2)Crocs can pop out of nowhere!
3)When on an island, don't even think about hangin' from a tree. It's obvious why...
4)Crocs like giving head. Or is it 'getting head'? Hmmm...
5)Even though crocs chomp heads off, heads are still found later in the movie.
6)Crocodile-keeping is legacy. Heritage even. Passed down from sister to sister. Raising crocs is part of the Bickerman family traditions.
7)Crocs avoid eating blondes... 'you are what you eat'?

Thumbs-up:

None I can think of...

Thumbs-down:

1)Horrible CGI...
2)Crocs change sizes throughout the movie.
3)Horrible acting.
4)This movie is a disgrace to crocodiles.
5)Do NOT watch this movie unless you're a diehard fan of Lake Placid 1!

Movie: Lake Placid (1999)

IMDB Link: HERE
Personal rating: 6.5

This horror flick isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I remember getting a version dubbed in Hungarian in about 2002, but never watched it. Tonight I felt kind of bored and decided to give a horror movie that doesn't involve too much philosophy a shot. It was worth my while.

Scary moments:

-about 4 or 5.

WTF moments:

-The croc attacking the bear.
-The second crocodile's appearance.

10 things I've learned from this movie:

1)Bears make weird sounds when chewed on by crocs.
2)Cows can be blindfolded and fed to the crocs.
3)Husbands can 'accidentally' be fed to the crocs as well.
4)Crocs do not eat heads.
5)Crocs tip over boats for no particular reason.
6)When you decide to take a walk in the forest, do not step on larger branches.
7)Helicopters have large amounts of fuel.
9)You can live on a farm and have a 30-foot pet crocodile.
10)When you find a huge tooth in a lake, the creature it belongs to can no way in hell be a crocodile!

5 thumbs-up:

1)The attempt of mixing the horror and comedy into something watchable.
2)Some of the dialogue is hilarious!
3)Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson's acting. Bill Pullman's acting is also nice.
4)Clear and to-the-point movie. Could have been longer, though...
5)'Law enforcement is very dangerous work, isn't it? And you have such big wonderful boobs! =)))

5 thumbs-down:

1)The uselessness of the dramatic music when Cyr flies in.
2)The old lady had the most swear-worded lines in the movie.
3)Bridget Fonda's constant nagging. Plus she falls off the boat two times and gets tripped by the croc's tail... for a main character she sure is clumsy as hell.
4)Some lines are thrown in there in order for something just to happen.
5)Sometimes people can't make up their minds whether to film in 16:9 or larger...

A Midwinter Night's Dream

Wed, Jan 21 2009.
[21:01]

Firstly, I don't even know what language I should write this in. Secondly, I found out that I for one don't have the slightest idea about dreams and reveries. Nor do I know why the hell I am blogging this thing.

Anyway, it was a normal day at work, 6 classes in a row, no sweat. I met up with Moldo and went to buy something down at Real. We separated after having done the shopping and I came home, turned on the computer, had a few insignificant chat lines on YM. At about 5 o'clock I felt the need to get some shuteye. This of course turned to a quarte past 6. Then I somehow fell asleep. 'I'll wake up in about two hours and do what needs to be done, then I can still spend some time pondering about my open class tomorrow.'
And the funny thing is what I had least expected was a dream!
Picture the whole thing as something similar to a perfect dream or even THE perfect dream. All I ever wanted in life was there: friends, snow, harmony, dreams and even HER. That's what made all this so special.
I believe in dreams, but this seemed more like a doing of the great Oversoul which in its infinite power, decided to gift a human with a mere spark of blue dream powder, yet still enough dosage in order to overwhelm the dreamer with a certain sense of completion. How much of what I've been dreaming about made me determine it's THE perfect dream? Could there have been an even 'perfecter' dream? For the moment I don't care.

[20:35]: Dream-break
I just set the alarm at this exact time. I had no trouble at all getting up as I usually do. I quickly jumped off the bed, didn't give a damn about the cool air hovering in the room, reached under the bed for my slippers and like an arrow, I quickly got into my room, where I grew warmer. I was only trying to avoid what happened to poor St. Coleridge while he was trying to write Kubla Khan. Shook the mouse in order to make the monitor pop out of standby, opened a notepad and started writing everything down by sequence until about six or seven very consistent lines printed themselves on the monitor. All this was done very carefully, so no music or chatting while I tried to jot down a picture-perfect description of the dream. I saved about four copies of the document, yet I still feel like this is one of those dreams one isn't too likely to forget. Or at least willingly or very soon.

Yes I keep a dreamlog, some of us do. Dreams are those little things that can make our short, insignificant lives worthwhile.
In the last few days I haven't quite been sleeping regularly or efficiently for that matter. So to speak, four hours/a day seemed quite enough. Maybe the hours of gathered unsleep were the reason for my chance of having dreamt. Or was the listening of this song the trigger for my rocket into dreamworld?



What to do now? Should I text the people from my dream and tell them how glad I am that I am in their lives? That would sound kind of stupid in the world we live in nowadays... I'll find a way. I swear it. :)