tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553633213256417629.post2692078061361671246..comments2024-03-25T19:43:11.027-04:00Comments on Planet Blue: All-Out Giant Monster Attack! Episode 7 - Them!Eric Fuchs (BlueHighwind)http://www.blogger.com/profile/10520427554161808399noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553633213256417629.post-88415909441942267312013-02-05T22:37:31.715-05:002013-02-05T22:37:31.715-05:00Don't get me wrong, I liked The Shining; it...Don't get me wrong, I liked <i>The Shining</i>; it's just that, after all the freaky supernatural stuff with the creepy twins and elevator of blood, a guy with an axe is kind of a step down in scariness. I guess video games have just desensitized me to maniacs wielding sharp objects, because <i>Halloween</i> didn't scare me either.Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15023030270752174611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553633213256417629.post-1285138210973328972013-02-05T11:29:46.849-05:002013-02-05T11:29:46.849-05:00Oh, I enjoyed the movie, I just thought that the f...Oh, I enjoyed the movie, I just thought that the first part was scarier. Maybe all these years of video games have desensitized me to axe-wielding maniacs. A crazy dude with an axe has obvious capabilities, motivations, and flaws: he can whack you to death with his axe, he wants to whack you to death with his axe, and he needs to get close to you to whack you to death with his axe. The creepy ghost twins, on the other hand, scared the crap out of me. Who are they? Where did they come from? What do they want, and how will they go about getting it?<br /><br />Supernatural things scare me, mortal dudes with sharp objects do not. Unless the dude in question is real and coming after me.Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15023030270752174611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553633213256417629.post-30888930664449953782013-02-05T09:52:16.577-05:002013-02-05T09:52:16.577-05:00I have to disagree. When Jack Nicholson grabs his...I have to disagree. When Jack Nicholson grabs his ax, that's when the movie starts to move off the rails. Remember all those hallucinations or ghosts or whatever Wendy is seeing? The man in the dog mask giving head to another man in the room? Plus Jack Nicholson is a father trying to murder his own family, which is pretty fucked up (though it would be scarier if Nicholson didn't act like he was insane the entire film) but its still a group of people trapped in a haunted hotel in the middle of nowhere, one of which has gone mad.<br /><br />I actually rank The Shining as the greatest horror movie of all time, by the way.Eric Fuchs (BlueHighwind)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10520427554161808399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553633213256417629.post-59135486807907228722013-02-05T08:48:31.399-05:002013-02-05T08:48:31.399-05:00I've said similar things about the movie "...I've said similar things about the movie "The Shining": that it stops being scary the moment Jack Nicholson picks up the axe. After that point, the danger is no longer a nebulous, omnipresent force that seems capable of bending reality to its will; it's just a crazy dude with an axe. Sure, Nicholson is good at "crazy dude with an axe", but it's just not as scary.Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15023030270752174611noreply@blogger.com