I woke up early for my niece's baptism. We got a little lost when we arrived, accidentally wandering into a wedding before we found the place. We were wondering why everyone was dressed so formally. Funny mistake. The ceremony proceeded smoothly for the most part. When it was time for the babies to get baptized, one of the ladies in charge tried fruitlessly to quiet down the crowd. Everybody decided it was the perfect chance to make small talk. It's baffling how a group of adults could be so disrespectful in a time of sacred silence.
After the ceremony, we went out for Korean BBQ. Why are all KBBQ places sticky? It's kind of disgusting. I ate until I was full, but not to the point of bursting like I tend to do at these places. I even had room for ice cream--the cone was stale though. It tasted like cardboard. I guess that's why the ice cream is free as part of the all you can eat package.
Bulgogi is my go-to, so I was disappointed that the place served incredibly chewy pieces. I had to swallow some whole because of how tough it was to break down. My brother-in-law kept talking about how the place uses better quality meat than others, but I'm thinking that Gen is superior in every way. If you wanna hit up a good KBBQ joint, that's where you go.
My little brother dropped me off at the movie theater to watch John Wick with my friends. I like the movie. It's got influences from Johnny To, Michael Mann, and Equilibrium. It's got some of the best shootouts I've seen since...I don't even know. It's unique, fluid, and great fun, and reminiscent of the heroic bloodshed Hong Kong style, but a lot more steady and stylish.
After the movie, we went on a wild goose chase to find the perfect place to drink. We even hit up a bar rescue bar, but the endeavor involved more driving than drinking. I didn't think it was possible to do so much for it to mean so little in the end.
To cap the night, I watched V/H/S Viral, the third in the horror anthology series. It's available as a VOD (similar release strategy as Snowpiercer), but its theatrical release is in November. It's a surefire shoe-in for omega bomba status because it sucks.
The found-footage genre reached its peak with REC and it's been downhill ever since. It's a dead end. Horror is an incredibly contrived genre, and to bring the contrivance of people carrying cameras even in the most terrifying situations is adding contrivance on top of contrivance. It's contrived to the point of pure distraction. I can't take what I'm seeing seriously if all I'm thinking is why these morons don't just toss the damn camera already. "Bonestorm" is probably the dumbest short of them all.
I consider this another shameful addition to "mumblegore," For all the hoopla about Hollywood's creative bankruptcy in horror, The Conjuring is still one of the best ones in recent memory, and that's totally a high-budget studio production. Unless these dudes can produce something on the level of Evil Dead, I'm just gonna forget about them.
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