I woke up early to take a test for the county to become a store clerk. I thought I could breeze my way through it like I did with the Data Technician test until I realized that I knew nothing about inventory. In the first five minutes, I already decided that I just wasted my time. I took a bath on the questions regarding inventory and safety, but I'm solid I got everything involving basic arithmetic, filing, and grammar correct. What can I do except my best? The drive home was exhausting though. Traffic up the yin yang.
I got home and ate some food, interspersed with a short session of Destiny and episodes of Boku wa Tomodachi Sukunai Next. It took an agonizing 2 hours to get through my workout, but with the help of Youtube videos, I succeeded. Finally, it was time to dine on tonight's main course: Frankenstein. Don't Look Now was an aged film that gave me a taste of old school. I wanted to go older, and besides, classics such as Frankenstein and Dracula should be part and parcel of any self-proclaimed horror aficionado's film history.
While the movie maintains that theatrical quality I love about old films, I confess that it is quite dated. I recognize that it paved way for the mad scientist trope, but it just wasn't as good as I expected. Since I'm familiar with the source material, I'm disappointed in the alterations, especially the change of the lead's name from Victor to Henry for no reason at all (well, the reason was that Henry sounded "nicer," but that's a lame reason). The movie runs about 70 minutes long, so it felt like an episode from a really old horror anthology show, something along the lines of The Twilight Zone.
Speaking of old horror movies, the oldest one I've ever seen is probably Nosferatu, which has straight up subtitles interposed between scenes. It's funny how, now that I'm older, I can watch old films like nothing. As a kid, they seemed very plodding. In actuality, they're usually briskly paced. Then again, the only old films I watch are classics, so that probably has something to do with it.
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