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[sailorhathor]

Kaye go home, me catch up. We watched a couple of movies and yacked our heads off, hee. All those people who told me, "Oh you have to see the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre! It's so much better than the original!" are filthy liars. Either that, or they're too young to know better. The remake sucked rocks. They passed up so many wonderful opportunities for real terror. The original movie really cared about making things suspenseful. I can remember my reaction, and I was literally sitting on the edge of the couch while Leatherface was chasing the one girl who survived the massacre with the chainsaw. There were scenes where he was absolutely inches behind her, that if she stumbled even the least little bit, she was going to get an immediate chainsaw to the back. THAT was tense. I also liked the conflict created by the girl's brother, the guy in the wheelchair. He was so helpless in this situation; we could all understand his apprehension at being left behind, and yet also understand his sister's reluctance to have to push him all over those high grass fields looking for help. I remember that creating such tension and suspense in me the first time I saw it, and also feeling so sorry for both of them for being stuck in this situation. Leatherface was used much better in the original too. It was just ten times scarier. This remake, I can't remember getting tense once, because just when a good chase would get started, it would end, or someone would do something profoundly stupid, and then you didn't care if they lived or died. Why do so many screenwriters of horror movies make the characters so damn buttstupid? I know it can be done smartly, because I've seen good horror movies where the characters did mostly intelligent or understandable things. Lastly, I don't mind a little gore in a horror movie, but I do mind it when it's plainly used just for the sake of gore and not for the story. Like, "We haven't had anything gory for awhile, let's have lots of pointless blood in this next scene." :P And could the remake have been any more obvious about the T&A? They put Jessica Biel in a white t-shirt, had her tie it around her waist (though she has a little too much of a gut to do so attractively), and then continuously threw her in water. Why wear the damn shirt at all when people can see straight through it? Jesuz. (Don't all the het men run to rent it at once after I said that!)

There were maybe two things about the remake I liked. I couldn't unrecommend it more.

Kaye, I liked the pickle chips! :D They tasted like dill pickles, hence the fact they are called pickle chips! Hee. Thanks for bringing some for me to munch.