Let’s Go To The Movies, Annie

I went for a double feature with ‘Tash on Sunday. The Skeleton Key which is wonderfully scary. And then we watched a bit of The Brothers Grimm which if you are considering watching—at all costs, please do not go! We watched like an hour’s worth and nothing had really happened.

I think that movie has no sense of what it wants to be too. It tries to be funny(fails), tries to be scary(fails), and tries to be an adventure(fails due to boredom). If it had concentrated on just one of those elements, it might have succeeded. Also, it has at its premise an idea of merit.

What if the Brothers Grimm were shysters who went town to town telling their stories to scare people? I mean, that’s a good start. But it was all downhill from there.

I didn’t notice this trend until the second time we were watching another scary movie. The movie people are smart and put trailers for more scary movies before the scary movie you are about to see. One of these is for this terrifying new movie coming out called The Exorcism of Emily Rose I think? Anyway, it looks great. And by that, I mean that it looks absolutely bone-chilling!

It has Laura Linney and Tom Wilkerson in it. And I think that in order to do some sort of scary, dealing with the devil or spirits movie it is absolutely crucial that you have someone with an accent in it. Preferably an English accent. Because you need this person to dole out the requisite exposition to creep you out. But if it’s just a normal person telling the ghost story, you’re not going to get freaked out.

I mean think about it. When you got told ghost stories as a child, it was always more scary if an adult told it to you, and I think part of it was because they had an accent to you. (Little Kid is an accent. And to a Little Kid, Adult is an accent too.)

As a totes sidenote: I watched Scream 3 on tv last night and can we all just admit what a disappointment that was? After two great movies. Then comes this crap-o-la. The one good scene is where Jenny McCarthy(spoiler!) gets killed. Other than that, my cat’s litterbox has better quality film potential.

And three final notes:

–The Jolly Rancher gummy candy isn’t worth getting. Ignore it! If you were thinking that it would be as yummy as the Jolly Rancher flavor starbust-like candy, it’s not.

–It’s fun to sit in the back of a movie theater. Natasha likes to sit back there because you can see the whole screen. I never thought about that before because my vision isn’t 100% so I always sit in the middle. But after doing it a couple of times, I like it. 1) You never have to fight for seats. 2) She’s right, you can see the whole screen. 3) It’s fun to sit in the back because you can hear the projector.

–“Give the maid the night off/Turn that kitchen light off!” from Annie is probably one of my favorite musical theatre couplets ever.