[QuickTidal]

Loki, on 13 January 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Paranormal Activity - what a waste of resources and time. Honestly, I want to go back to each and every person who said it was 'original' (originally boring), 'really good' (good like genocide) and 'scary' (scary like Toy Story 3) and seriously bitch slap them all.

You kind of have to be scared by the idea of a person being haunted (as opposed to a place)...and not by a ghost, but by a demon...that wants nothing but to possess you and cause havoc in your life and those around you. You can't fight it. You can't escape it.

If you don't find that sort of thing scary, then you wouldn't find it scary, and probably felt your time wasted.

Personally the idea of the above scares the shit out of me.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 January 2012 - 01:39 PM

[Loki]

Other movies do it better.

[Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy]

Tapper, on 13 January 2012 - 12:07 PM, said:

Stuck behind my work phone for the remainder of the day because the govt. decided monday 16 is the first day on which they can be petitioned for subsidies. Their budget being only € 48 mln and the date of submission determining your chances to get some money, this means a veritable gold rush.

Unfortunately, in order for your petition to be accepted, you need a 6-year maintenance plan and a 0 condition report by an independent expert, which is what my institution more or less has a monopoly on. sadly, few ask us for maintenance plans, meaning that the people doing those ask for our reports at the very last minute: today. When the sun is shining, sky is blue, temperature is decent, friends have plans involving wine and cheese and normally I'd be free already.

I'm sorely tempted to just go and join them and leave a 'please contact me on monday' message, but that would lead to a shitstorm PR-wise.

Look at it that way, Tapper: it's in your power to cause a shitstorm PR-wise if you don't do your job. If I don't do my job, nobody cares. And yet I turn up every morning. God that's depressing.

[Gothos]

QuickTidal, on 13 January 2012 - 01:38 PM, said:

Loki, on 13 January 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Paranormal Activity - what a waste of resources and time. Honestly, I want to go back to each and every person who said it was 'original' (originally boring), 'really good' (good like genocide) and 'scary' (scary like Toy Story 3) and seriously bitch slap them all.

You kind of have to be scared by the idea of a person being haunted (as opposed to a place)...and not by a ghost, but by a demon...that wants nothing but to possess you and cause havoc in your life and those around you. You can't fight it. You can't escape it.

If you don't find that sort of thing scary, then you wouldn't find it scary, and probably felt your time wasted.

Personally the idea of the above scares the shit out of me.

somehow the idea of a vengeful, scorned spirit of a girl or woman that has been brutally murdered and comes back to spread death and misery across the world unconditionally, really scares me a lot, lot more.
besides, that demon in paranormal activity just doesn't seem in any way real.

[Matador]

Loki, on 13 January 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Paranormal Activity - what a waste of resources and time. Honestly, I want to go back to each and every person who said it was 'original' (originally boring), 'really good' (good like genocide) and 'scary' (scary like Toy Story 3) and seriously bitch slap them all.

Classic horror in substance... Just SO poorly executed. It didn't build effectively, it didn't climax effectively, and the ending was just rubbish. None of it felt authentic... Which, given that the entire point of the "home-made video" filming style is to suggest realism, make it more disappointing. Even if you find the concept creepy (which I do, when it's done right), it was just boring.

[Traveller]

Dammit, the websense filter on the work computers now stops me from browsing game wiki sites in my spare time.

Thankfully at the moment at least book forums seem unaffected ...

[QuickTidal]

Gothos, on 13 January 2012 - 02:04 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 January 2012 - 01:38 PM, said:

Loki, on 13 January 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

Paranormal Activity - what a waste of resources and time. Honestly, I want to go back to each and every person who said it was 'original' (originally boring), 'really good' (good like genocide) and 'scary' (scary like Toy Story 3) and seriously bitch slap them all.

You kind of have to be scared by the idea of a person being haunted (as opposed to a place)...and not by a ghost, but by a demon...that wants nothing but to possess you and cause havoc in your life and those around you. You can't fight it. You can't escape it.

If you don't find that sort of thing scary, then you wouldn't find it scary, and probably felt your time wasted.

Personally the idea of the above scares the shit out of me.

somehow the idea of a vengeful, scorned spirit of a girl or woman that has been brutally murdered and comes back to spread death and misery across the world unconditionally, really scares me a lot, lot more.
besides, that demon in paranormal activity just doesn't seem in any way real.

I guess I'm an old-school, "tell don't show" type guy when it comes to horror.

As I THINK Vincent Price once said...paraphrasing here: "The horrors my mind can conjure up are far more frightening than anything the screen can show me". In this case, something like an empty house where a ouja board suddenly lights on fire is REALLY scary to me.

Something like THE EXORCIST, which people always tell me is SO scary...bores the crap out of me. I can't understand how anyone could be scared by that.

Horror really does seem to be as subjective as it gets from person to person as I know a good solid number of folk who agree with Loki and Matador's dislike of the PA film (this includes about half the people I initially watched it with). For me...I was freaked out.

[worry]

I liked PA a lot too. Not like an A+ or anything, but I'd give it a solid B, and it did scare me in parts. Coulda helped that I was alone, on a very stormy night, in somebody else's house. But I liked the second one a fair amount too, in different conditions. Nothing about the performances rang false to me in either of them, though it's true not every idea the filmmakers had was successful or scary. But it ultimately hit me on the same level of fear as, say, a home invasion robbery (which I have something of a preoccupation with already for some reason).

[JLV]

I don't know what my specific taste in horror could be called, but I can tell you I despise gore horrors like Saw, and they're not frightening at all to me. The Strangers scared the crap out of me.

On topic, I'm SO TIRED and it's making me work slowly.

[Mezla PigDog]

Do not go out with a bunch if repressed heterosexuals from work to a gay bar with pole dancing apparatus. Just don't.

[Illuyankas]

Hahaha, you cringing with the regulars away from the screaming and squeaking noises.

[JPK]

Have to be awake in five hours to get ready for work but I'm not tired in the least. Damn.

[Mentalist]

not enough time for... well, anything.

the need to sleep means days are almost unproductive.

[Illuyankas]

I think I hurt Darkwatch's feelings

[Gust Hubb]

Woke up at 4 am. Got to work at 6:30 am. Just finished work at 10 pm. Enjoying dinner at 11:00 pm...

[Ain't_It_Just_]

I find myself in a bewilderment, a most perplexing one. About three weeks back I accepted an invite to go to my friend's school formal, an extremely flattering offer if there ever was one. This takes place on the 17th of February. During all this time, however, another friend of mine, one of my best friends in fact, was planning her 18th birthday. It was all she talked about, and it happens that the much-anticipated event also falls on the 17th of February.

I am honestly torn. Which one do I go to? Going to both is impossible, and I don't want to disappoint either of them. Looks like I'm going to have to. Too much of a good thing, eh?

[amphibian]

Ain, on 15 January 2012 - 06:03 AM, said:

I find myself in a bewilderment, a most perplexing one. About three weeks back I accepted an invite to go to my friend's school formal, an extremely flattering offer if there ever was one. This takes place on the 17th of February. During all this time, however, another friend of mine, one of my best friends in fact, was planning her 18th birthday. It was all she talked about, and it happens that the much-anticipated event also falls on the 17th of February.

I am honestly torn. Which one do I go to? Going to both is impossible, and I don't want to disappoint either of them. Looks like I'm going to have to. Too much of a good thing, eh?

Simple - go to formal. Leave mid-way through. Go to birthday party dressed in formal outfit (with change of clothes in the trunk of car).

[Tsundoku]

Ain, on 15 January 2012 - 06:03 AM, said:

I find myself in a bewilderment, a most perplexing one. About three weeks back I accepted an invite to go to my friend's school formal, an extremely flattering offer if there ever was one. This takes place on the 17th of February. During all this time, however, another friend of mine, one of my best friends in fact, was planning her 18th birthday. It was all she talked about, and it happens that the much-anticipated event also falls on the 17th of February.

I am honestly torn. Which one do I go to? Going to both is impossible, and I don't want to disappoint either of them. Looks like I'm going to have to. Too much of a good thing, eh?

You accepted an invitation to a formal event, done deal. Apologise to 18th birthday girl but what's done is done.

Excuse youreself after the formal itself and get to the 18th, although by then being full of 18 year olds they probably passed out after their 2nd beer hours ago ...

I would suggest you also get yourself a wall planner, or use your touchphone calendar function (they're not just for internet and music you know ).

I must say I'm a little annoyed by this modern notion of "provisional acceptance" ie people will accept whatever invitations without checking their calendars - and considering how many people worship their touchphones means they have no excuse - but only until something better comes along. Check your dates and only accept an invitation if you mean it. If something better comes up after your initial acceptance ... tough. An acceptance to a formal event is you having given your word. It's up to you if keeping it means anything to you.

[Centzon Totochtin]

^ what sombra said. Once you are booked for a date that is the one you go to.

[tiam]

as its a sunday morning (afternoon actually) I am ofcourse hungover as fuck