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by Charles Gustine on Saturday, 19 May 2012
Can a showrunner leaving a TV show ruin a Saturday? I mean it’s JUST a TV show! And Saturday’s are a valuable commodity. You can’t just go ruining them left and right.
I won’t go so far as to say that Dan Harmon getting, in essence, fired from “Community,” my television obsession, ruined my Saturday… but it was a shock to my system this morning.
by Charles Gustine on Friday, 2 March 2012
Alright so, when last I wrote about Dungeons & Dragons, I took the following approach: “The more flippant the better!” Or as Cole Porter said, “Be a clown! Be a clown! All the world loves a clown!”
by Charles Gustine on Monday, 10 October 2011
Let’s face it: the horror movies I’ve been watching so far are way too good.
by Charles Gustine on Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Who Is the “Right” One Exactly?
I talked a little bit in my last post about the very personal nature of the horror of transformation in “The Thing.” In that movie, even our hero cannot say “I am clearly not the monster here” and make it sound convincing. (He tries to sound convincing and… yeah, he doesn’t pull it off.)
From what I know of the genre, this is an exception to a much-commented upon rule. I feel like, as I watch more and more “conventional” horror films, I’m going to find myself stuck in that very restricting rut that makes up the morality of most horror cinema –an outside force accosts the non-monsters; if you are good (no pride, no envy, no drinking, no sex) you’ll probably survive and if you are bad, you’re meat. If you’re the monster, you’ll have your fun, but the deviance you spread will ultimately result in your demise. This is horror’s bread and butter: do no wrong and you’ll live, mostly for the sake of the audience who needs to be able to leave the theater with something to hold on to, some discernible positive direction.
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