Look to the Wastland! Pt 2
Oct. 15th, 2006 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustPredictably, I eventually simply couldn't get hold of Richard Stanley...his number's not currently in service (interesting), and "no further information is available." But I've filed the story, and I'm fairly happy with it. Hope the Rue Crew feel the same way.
Last night, Steve and I went to see The Grudge 2, which fell down massively on the mythology side of things...the subplot about Kayako supposedly having been the Japanese equivilant of a teenaged sin-eater went exactly nowhere (and doesn't it actually come from another movie entirely?). While there were some interesting potential answers to Aubrey's climactic question ("What do you WANT?"), we were prevented from getting any of them for certain-sure by the simple expedient of the franchise "needing" to continue. (The answer in Ju-On 2 at least made sense, that being: "I want to be alive again...oh, thanks, I think I'll hitch a ride on your fetus, though that does sort of leave my son in the lurch. Oops. Well, fuck him.")
That being said, I did enjoy the sequences set in Chicago, which had genuine oomph. The other stuff seemed oddly crude, especially coming from Shimizu-san. Ah, well.
Along similar lines, I ended up buying and reading the Japanese novel adaptation of Ju-On, which is...odd. Reductionist in some disappointing ways, open-ended and startlingly weird in others. Maybe it's a Japanese thing. And the trailer for Oxide and Danny Pang's The Messengers looks fun, if only because the juxtaposition of extreme Americana (the farm, the scarecrows, the corn) with very, VERY Asian ghosts is nicely offputting. We'll see.
Also: 300! In which the Spartans are all Scottish. And thsi makes a lot of emotional sense, at least for me.;)
Last night, Steve and I went to see The Grudge 2, which fell down massively on the mythology side of things...the subplot about Kayako supposedly having been the Japanese equivilant of a teenaged sin-eater went exactly nowhere (and doesn't it actually come from another movie entirely?). While there were some interesting potential answers to Aubrey's climactic question ("What do you WANT?"), we were prevented from getting any of them for certain-sure by the simple expedient of the franchise "needing" to continue. (The answer in Ju-On 2 at least made sense, that being: "I want to be alive again...oh, thanks, I think I'll hitch a ride on your fetus, though that does sort of leave my son in the lurch. Oops. Well, fuck him.")
That being said, I did enjoy the sequences set in Chicago, which had genuine oomph. The other stuff seemed oddly crude, especially coming from Shimizu-san. Ah, well.
Along similar lines, I ended up buying and reading the Japanese novel adaptation of Ju-On, which is...odd. Reductionist in some disappointing ways, open-ended and startlingly weird in others. Maybe it's a Japanese thing. And the trailer for Oxide and Danny Pang's The Messengers looks fun, if only because the juxtaposition of extreme Americana (the farm, the scarecrows, the corn) with very, VERY Asian ghosts is nicely offputting. We'll see.
Also: 300! In which the Spartans are all Scottish. And thsi makes a lot of emotional sense, at least for me.;)
