Everything is fuckin' moving!*

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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

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