Everything is fuckin' moving!*

[bending_sickle]

Sickle's Brief Review of The Crazies:

• I loved this movie. Loved loved loved it. It had heart, it had gore, it had the real sort of horror and the movie horror, it had action, and it flowed. Also, what's not to love about what is basically a zombie movie?


• What I mean about the "real sort of horror" is that there's a lot of scenes - and implied scenes - of people doing absolutely horrific things. Like locking a mother and child in a closet and setting the house on fire. Like walking over to people who are strapped down to beds unable to move and stabbing them through the chest with a rake. Like shooting a man trying to save his mother, then shooting the mother as she runs to her fallen son. Like wrenching a small child away from his mother's arms. Like the army shooting the entire town population, flooding the ground with empty shell casings. Some of these scenes - the first one in particular - were instantly disturbing, whereas the others I'm doing the mental equivalent of shutting my eyes and humming under my breath.


• That said, the "movie horror" is very well done too. The scares and traps and jumps are good, and the slight paranoia that starts halfway through is a nice touch, although it never really takes flight. The deaths are good and showy, the gore is bloody (and at one point a bit too gorey for my tastes - at one point a character's hand was stabbed to the floor with knife, which he proceeded to slide up his hand until he pulled out both hand and knife, then did an awesome Wolverine move and punch-stabbed another). Most characters didn't to ridiculously stupid endangerment things, and I actually cared about them, even if just because they'd managed to not die by the slimmest of margins.


• There's a few snags in the military's plan to contain the biohazard which bugged me after watching. (Not during: I was too engrossed.) For one, the initial source of the biohazard was in the swamp which in turn went into the town's water supply. Now, the Sheriff shut the town water off, but that still leaves a) the contaminated water that got through before he shut if off, and 2) the contaminated swamp and all the water downstream of it. Which means that no matter what happens to the town, there's still a high risk of contamination from the water.


• Secondly, there were rumours that the condition had gone airborne. Well, the army soldier who cut out heroes a break had his mask off and was face to face with one, maybe two infected. Even if the soldier himself didn't catch it, he has to be scrubbed down and decontaminated before he takes that suit off and has it burnt. I doubt this is what they did, though. So that leads to potentially the soldiers going crazy too, which is not good, given the firepower at their disposal and how they're being used to contain the infection.


• This post on IMDB lists some good points and possible events that happened.

Meme: Good Things:

Day 18: I bought a Kinder Surprise egg and had a nice chat on the trip home from German with Girl Who's Name I Can't Remember and Obviously Can't Ask Now, who is rapidly becoming the nearest thing to a friend my age in this city that I have. It's strange, and been a while, but also nice because we get along and there's banter and mutual encouragement.

Video of the Day: Mil Millington's Christmas 2010 Message - Be sure to read his linked story of the wasp. It's hilarious! I've only read his Love and Other Near-death Experiences and Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, but I love his narrative voice, humour and imagery. What? I'm a sucker for crack metaphors. (Also, check out that hitchhiker's thumb in the last gesture!)

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
adrenalineshots' Review Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
kimberlyfdr's Review Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
blackcat333_99's Review Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
and_ed's Review Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
caffienekitty's Review and Picspam Mannequin 3: The Reckoning
x5vale's Meta Some More Dean Winchester Thoughts: Version 2
bellatemple's Floorplan Bobby's House
SupernaturalWiki's Singer Salvage Yard
obstinatrix's RPFic The Same Big and Little Words (Jensen/Misha)
neofox's Fanart The Littlest Samermaid and Prince Dean - *snicker-snorfle*
lere8's Icons
morgentau's Icons
hellybongo's Icons

Doctor Who:
uozlulu's Supernatural Crossover Fic There's an Opportunity Here

Other Fandom:
hesychasm's Inception Questions ; True Grit Review - Non-Spoilery
fandomsecrets' Never Let Me Go Thread
iconzicons' The Simpsons Icons - Animated
marylou_gr's Return of the King Picspam Scenery and Production Design - I'd forgotten how gorgeous this movie was, what with the soul-destroying migraine handicapping my appreciation of it.
cleolinda's Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood Recaps - "...it is the Mount Everest of vampire lit, if Mount Everest were hysterically melodramatic and doggedly repetitive. In other words: I'm reading this so you don't have to."
I Hate/Love Remakes' Episode 3: Gozilla

Random:
marika_kailaya's Writing Babble - This is why I love her writing and characters, even if I am so behind.
made_of_fail_pc's Episode 39: Do Not Leave Co-Hosts Unattended - The new poster is so pretty! *squees*
Scribd's Press Release Date for J.M. Auel's The Land of Painted Caves - OMGOMGOMG! FINALLY! It's been nine years since the last one! and now we actually get a conclusion! *squeeeees*
Rubberbandits' Song Horse Outside - NSFW but pretty awesome nonetheless

* The Crazies

Comments

[seschat.livejournal.com]

KINDER SURPRISE EGGS! :D \o/

Also, yay for German Girl on train cheering you up. ♥ *huggles up to you*

Love you!

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

The Kinder Surprise wasn't up to its usual standards, being a two-part mini doll with unnaturally long and thin legs. What am I supposed to do with that, Kinder? Her arms don't even move! I am disappoint.

You're the German girl who cheers me up most, though ♥

[seschat.livejournal.com]

I hate it when you open your awesome Kind Surprise and there is crap in it. XD IT DESTROYS EVERYTHING.

D'aw, sweetie! *huggles up to you* <3

I HOPE YOU'RE HAVING A GOOD WEEK?

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I was very frowny-faced at Kinder. Very. That kind of failure is just Not Done.

Argh, week. It's still just Tuesday and aaaaah feels so long. German classes aren't filled with the joy and excitement that Goethe courses usually are and I blame it all on the teacher. (Oh, Substitute Teacher! Why did you abandon us?) But I muddle through anyway.

As for my internship, grr. It's an exercise in frustration because I'm editing articles, making sure they all have the same style and no glaring errors, and the last two I've done were terrible. I mean, their references were all over the place, with half the information missing, the quotes weren't even correct, and then footnotes do things like, "This bit where Person is talking about nuclear disarmament is in this article," whereupon *Sickle looks up article* and says, "Uuuuh, dude? The article's on food and biological experiments. WTF?".

Most memorably, reference an introduction on Person by Mr X, where Person is quoted giving a speech (which is not referenced) where, in that speech, he quotes another text. *cue Sickle hanging up a map on the wall and tying strings everywhere* And the quote was wrong, too. Like, two words were verbatim and that's it. *pulls hair out*

It's like I'm editing reports written by first year undergrads on crack. I just stare at the page going, "But what are your sources? What year was this written in? What do you mean, "various authors"?!? Give me an editor!"

...sorry for the rant. (But honestly I don't understand how these articles got published previously numerous times like this and no one's thought, "hey, something's fishy". Because oh yes, the authors republish their one article so many times it's almost embarrassing. And annoying, because I'll be trying to find out more information on a reference and keep finding only that same article in different forms.) Okay, rant stop now.

In other news, I love you and you are my squishy, yes? Yes. ♥ How's the week treating you? Better than last week, I hope. There shall be no moping! Only good things for my squishy!

[seschat.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, you know you're always welcome to rant at me. *huggles*

It's like I'm editing reports written by first year undergrads on crack. I just stare at the page going, "But what are your sources? What year was this written in? What do you mean, "various authors"?!? Give me an editor!"

Omg, I am seconding this so hard. I have feelings about getting your sources right and therefore get easily annoyed at people screwing up the format, or worse, disregarding its existence altogether. I've been helping my mother prettying up her thesis and it wasn't that hard to figure out how to do it, and anyway, you even get guidelines on how-to and what not. So, really, I hear you, sweetie. ♥

*cuddles you* Yay, I am your squishy! :D

And as for my week, I hope the moping and semi-depression will stop soon enough, because I'm sure as hell getting fed up with this. I kind of burst into hysteric tears - for no apparent reason - with people around, and, yeah. So not cool. And P was so freaked out, haha. But I think I'll be okay. On another notion, I went to see Strawinsky, Ravel and Modern Composer I Didn't Catch the Name Of (it was a trumpet concertino) on Thursday in Stuttgart, and it was awesome and a bit scary because oh my God, Strawinsky was a flash! I don't know if you ever were really drunk, the disorienting, oh gods I am so confused I think I am going to fall down CURSE YOU GRAVITY drunk, but that's what I mostly felt like. Completely tense, wringing my hands, as if to make sure I still had a body. EVEN THOUGH THAT PROBABLY SOUNDS LIKE I'M ENTIRELY BONKERS. :D

Love you, my darling heart! Hugs and kisses and more hugs! And now I shall pretend we can just meet for a cup of coffee and bask in the schmoopy fantasticness of the thought. ♥

Also, I just saw this in a store last week. It doesn't become apparent in the picture, but it's a gigantic Kinder Überraschung, at least three times its usual size! I minor geeky explosion of glee was had, oh yes. :D

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Some of the authors can't even quote passages correctly from their own books. Like, they edited them and they still can't get it right. Ugh. But at least that's over (for now).

*pets her squishy* No tears! No semi-depression! And no moping! *waves hands around like a magician* Woes begone! *smothers you in hugs* Sorry you've been feeling down, honey, and I hope things get better soon. You've been having a stressful time, that's for sure. (To say nothing of Ye Annoying Sibling, which is a whole new level of stress.) But you'll make it through in one piece and everything'll work out and THERE WILL BE PONIES AND UNICORNS AND GLITTER AND RAINBOWS. Because you deserve it. And I'll kick anyone who says different.

...I've never actually been drunk. I think. Maybe. I've been woozy tipsy. And sleep deprived. (Ooooh, so deprived.) But I curse gravity anyway and no, you don't sound nuts saying you got drunk on the music, and I'm delighted that the music made you feel like that. I'm certain that's what music aspires to do - to make you feel like there's nothing but the music going through you.

*cozies up to you and the imaginary coffee and basks*

...that egg. Oh gods, that egg. *grabby hands* (Although I'd image that the disappointment of getting a crappy toy out of that monster would be so much worse than from a normal egg. Still, giant Kinder egg.)

*smiiiiish*

Apropos of nothing...

[seschat.livejournal.com]

NEED TO HUG YOU. :(

Re: Apropos of nothing...

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

*PENGUIN HUUUUUGS the frowny face away*

Re: Apropos of nothing...

[seschat.livejournal.com]

*grins*

*GLOMPS*

*SMISHES*

♥!

Re: Apropos of nothing...

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

*MOAR SMISHES*