10:32 AM on a Sunday Morning.
Got home late after a trip down to Hershey to see evil Jim and to see the movie “From Hell.” I know, I know, most people are thinking “Johnny Depp and Heather Graham — it’s going to be a Hollywood wonder!” Well, I’ll tell ya … the movie is very dark. It’s a lot darker than “Sleepy Hollow” was so don’t go in thinking that this is a franchise movie. It’s dark. It’s twisted. It’s shocking, and it’s a good movie.
The only thing I could say I would have liked changed would that it would have been a whole lot creepier if it were in black and white and filmed in the style of the old 40’s or 30’s movies. But, then again, that’s me.
The movie was pretty shocking and evil Jim took great glee as he stood outside in the hall after the movie while I used the men’s room and watched people come out of the theatre with shocked looks on their faces. I have this theory that it’s based on those shocked looks that he took great glee in observing, he bluntly stated that he’s going back with his Evil Sister to see it again. Evil Jim hates movies. This must have been good.
I’ll give one more thing: not too gross. If you can handle going to the Jack the Ripper web sites and seeing the actual crime scene pictures (which are pretty bad), you won’t have a problem with this. There’s a couple of really intense moments and HEY! This is a movie about Jack the Ripper after all. Don’t bring your kids and don’t go in thinking that it’s a Disney movie. Not a good family outing unless you want to put them into therapy for the rest of their lives …
On a side note, wat up wif people bringing 4 year olds to R rated movies? While I didn’t see any in “From Hell,” when we went to see “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back” there were tons of little kids. I mean, hello, drug humor, sexual humor, etc. It’s your choice to take your kid, but I’d rather my kids (when I have them), go see Disney’s latest crap then to come home calling everyone “You F*kers!” That’s just me. Call me crazy.
Today features me getting off my butt and sorting things for the next rounds of strips. I have oh, 12,000 pictures to sort already and I still have some tape of this week’s Call for Help to process, let alone the whole Screen Savers in Seattle mess. There was nothing scarier than Leo trying to duck walk with the guitar. Leo, middle aged overweight white guys should not duck walk. It only works for Eric Clapton because he is GOD. Or as close to it on guitar as you can get without actually leaving this realm of existence. 🙂
Leo, I’ve accepted it. I’m a white guy. I have no rhythm. I have no soul. I can’t dance and the only way I could dance is to be in some boy band where the dance moves are preprogrammed into my cerebral cortex. YOU SHOULD NOT BE DANCING. Unless you’re gong for the dancing Homer thing from the Simpsons, please, make the pain stop …
Jessica was back for Seattle, which was okay. Though leather pants just sort of scared me. The girl has two thing legs then a butt that just sort of appears like one of those “hubba hubba hinies” from Laverne & Shirley. Don’t know what I mean? Ask around. You’ll laugh and I won’t have to be too graphic here. Okay I’ll be graphic, prosthetic butt enhancers. LOL Laverne got back when she’s wearing them. Jessica had back the same way.
Finally, call for help still scares the hell out of me. Gnome rolls over guests and there should be some warning to guests that this guy is either insane or just on sugar and the producers should apologize to guests after each segments and give them large gift baskets and promises not to sue. You know the same sort of “We’re so sorry, but she’s insane …” type of apologies they used to give guests of Rosanne. The Gnome should try downers. Or no water after midnight. I swear the boy is a gremlin.
I liked the fact that both Laura from the chat desk and Cat from Screen Savers got a chance to be on the show this week. Both are pretty good on the show and while I wouldn’t tune in to the show to see either one on a regular basis (there are waaaaaay too many negatives about that show to get me to watch on a regular basis), it was a surprise to see that the Silicon One wasn’t there this week and it was a different show without her. I hope that this means that others from the chat desk will be getting shots here and there. Shows that they can do more than just chat …
On that note, the poll has 18 votes now. For a tiny little techtv site hey, that’s pretty darn good. Patrick is losing ground to the Chat Girls in what you tune into TechTV to see — so vote if you love Patrick …
Take care,
k9