It's been a quiet day after yesterday's furnace follies(and that is neither a complaint nor a challenge, universe, please don't get any ideas.). I've spent it watching horror movies, none of which grabbed me. They weren't offensively bad, but they were just there, predictable and gray and decisively mediocre. Maybe I'm past the age where new horror can strike me at the visceral level; maybe that can only happen when your hormones are in flux and you're oblivious to the grimy cynicism of most of the plots and the staggering dumbassery of the "heroes"(Once upon a time, I would've said that most of the plots failed because no one would possibly be so shitfuck stupid, but with American behavior in response to COVID-19, I'm no longer so sure.).

Or maybe it's the movies that have shifted. Sure, teenagers have always been oblivious and shallow and horny and convinced of their inherent rightness of cause, but I don't remember them being so savagely mercenary. Those who were were Bad People, and the plot often treated them as such, walking cautionary tales on How Not to Behave in a Crisis, and they often got their comeuppance in the final act. Nowadays, they're likely to be extolled as the hero and aspirational figure who's awarded the sole survivor trophy at the end. Or no one survives, and you wonder what was the point of all the blood, terror, and struggle if you're just going to end up mounted on some maniac's bedroom wall anyway? Maybe it's just a reflection of a generation robbed of hope. Christ knows mine were terrible stewards of the world for all our big, brash talk of changing it.
(will be screened)
(will be screened if not validated)
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting
.

Profile

laguera25: Dug from UP! (Default)
laguera25

Most Popular Tags

Powered by Dreamwidth Studios

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags