Also, I saw "Snakes on a Plane" yesterday

[xiphias]

It was fun. It was a bad movie, and I enjoyed it.

Still, I think I'm too empathic for horror movies. You're not supposed to care about the 50+ nameless people who got killed by snakes who didn't get any screen time. (I think you only see a dozen or so, but they mention in the dialogue that there are fifty dead, and that's after the FIRST wave of attacks.) They're just supposed to be gross background material. Doesn't work for me. I can't watch car chase scenes in movies without thinking about the neck and back injuries of the drivers and passengers in the other cars that are just supposed to be obstacles for the heroes and villains to driver over, around, and through. That, incidentally, is why I so much loved The Bourne Identity -- because, in the car chase scene, while they DID crash into other cars and so forth, the way it was filmed made if feel like those were REAL crashes -- like the characters -- and writer and director -- were aware that other people existed and were potentially getting injured -- and that the good guys even cared about that fact.

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[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

I used to avoid all horror films on principle. Then I found out there are two kinds... "gory" horror films where a lot of people die, and "sophisticated" horror films... I don't know that these are actually more sophisticated, but they tend to have a smaller scope - affecting one family, rather than, say, a whole plane... Some examples would be Something Wicked This Way Comes (film, not book, I didn't like the book), Lost Boys, The Thirteenth Floor, The Hunger, and Sixth Sense. There are a few red shirts in these - particularly in Lost Boys, but it's not a slasher fest. I don't / can't go to those.

Kiralee

[goljerp]

Did you ever see Run, Lola, Run? There are several instances where Lola, as she runs, bumps into someone (or nearly so), and you then get a brief aside, in still photographs, telling you what happens to that person as a result. It's kinda cool...

I think the empathy thing was the raeson why I didn't like First Contact: I cared about all the characters; I didn't want them to die (or become borgs, which is worse.)