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Jan. 5th, 2009 05:45 pm"Now lemme ask you this, son: what are you doing with a cellular telephone?"
Isn't it amazing how badly a movie can be dated within a decade? Scream could never work now. While the killer was busy taunting you on the landline, you could just call the police on your cell.
Also, why do the two movies that freaked me out longterm (yes, teenage me was too much of a wimp to handle Scream, shut up) revolve around telephones? I'm not sure what I want to hear less when I answer a call (or which one is more of a cliche now, for that matter):
"What's your favorite scary movie?"
or
"Seven days."
. . . DON'T ANY OF YOU BE GETTING ANY IDEAS NOW. I practically needed therapy after I saw The Ring. It's embarrassing in retrospect how long THAT movie fucked me up. My scare threshold has always been pretty pathetic (it's just recently that I've stopped being jumpy for weeks after seeing a scary movie), but The Ring messed with me like no other movie ever has. I'll admit to some curiosity as to how scary I'd find it now, but I'm not curious enough to find out. Maybe once it's also a decade and change old and completely dated in some then-unforeseen way.
Isn't it amazing how badly a movie can be dated within a decade? Scream could never work now. While the killer was busy taunting you on the landline, you could just call the police on your cell.
Also, why do the two movies that freaked me out longterm (yes, teenage me was too much of a wimp to handle Scream, shut up) revolve around telephones? I'm not sure what I want to hear less when I answer a call (or which one is more of a cliche now, for that matter):
"What's your favorite scary movie?"
or
"Seven days."
. . . DON'T ANY OF YOU BE GETTING ANY IDEAS NOW. I practically needed therapy after I saw The Ring. It's embarrassing in retrospect how long THAT movie fucked me up. My scare threshold has always been pretty pathetic (it's just recently that I've stopped being jumpy for weeks after seeing a scary movie), but The Ring messed with me like no other movie ever has. I'll admit to some curiosity as to how scary I'd find it now, but I'm not curious enough to find out. Maybe once it's also a decade and change old and completely dated in some then-unforeseen way.
