*Blog entry started on March 16, 2020.
And now the virus has left us without any opportunities for fun. That is
a bit of hyperbole of course. With 14 video game libraries, two
streaming devises, a region-free DVD player, a UHD Blu-ray player, and a
VCR, there are plenty of means to have fun in my living room.
Provided you can deal with the company of a hard-to-read former better
quarter. (Eva the Cat will always get half). Ironically, I think I have
become the cat in the relationship. She just loves having living things
around her. If they do not come up to her for pets and snuggling, their
activities do not matter to her. Perhaps I should find a dead mouse to
tell her to get involved with the environment. At least that will
provide me with a chance to get in trouble, if only for a few minutes.
What
I cannot do go out and is get into trouble. If you cannot do that on
Saint Patrick's Day, when can you? Are the Irish-Americans (my lesser
quarter) going to get an unofficial? Maybe I should start printing up
some green racist shirts.
My current job and my access to it would make it the ideal speakeasy. It
is the Roaring 20's after all. Call in some of my friends in the
performance industry from Peoria, and there would be some money to be
made. The parking is off the street, so no reason for suspicion. And we
do have a guy with access to kegs and other booze. If it was not for old
people being the primary people coming into the establishment, there
would be zero risk of viral concerns. But the lobby is closed.
Thank the gods the liquor stores are still open. That may be able to
numb the loneliness further enhanced by my ex's nature. Then again, I
might just go on a seeming endless YouTube dive as I wait for her to go
to bed like she says she will. She was nearly asleep by the end of the
"Westworld" season premiere, but the lights go on, and her crafting
catalogues are then opened. If you are just bored, let me know. I want
to get to bed at a decent hour, so I will be more than happy to move to
another room to watch the pregnancy-horror comedy that I suspect you
will lack the stomach for. Fifty five cents is all I want to give Red
Box at a time.
Snatchers - Overly Clever Title and Story
Sara seems to have everything going for her way to start her junior year
of high school. Being in the popular clique has secured that. It only
cost her relationship with her mom and best friend Haley. The only thing
that could make things better was if her ex-boyfriend Skyler would take
her back, but since he returned from a trip to the Mayan settlements in
Mexico, sex is the only thing on his mind. If she was willing to
alienate those closest to her for status, why hold on to virginity?
Skyler is not exactly bright enough to be ready with protection, but if
anything unplanned for occurred, Sara will have at least a couple months
to deal with it. After morning sickness and mood swings the next day at
school, she suspects something is wrong. 24 hours later, she is nine
months pregnant. Being the daughter of a teen pregnancy, she cannot let
her mom find out. Her boyfriend is a little too dim and way too horny to
turn to. Her clique status will be lost if they find out. Only Haley
has enough concern for her to be trusted with this problem.
This problem escalates when Sara gives such an explosive birth that it
immediately kills the OBGYN who was prepped for the delivery. The two
escape the monster at the free clinic, but it appears that there is
another fetus in Sarah. Our protagonist cannot wait in the pelvic exam
position by a blender all night to solve this dilemma, so they decide to
seek out a veterinarian to help them out. But the little alien's
ability to hijack human host bodies and Skyler prepping to attend the
big welcome back house party. Can two teenage girls stop what they
surmise to be the end times the Mayan's promised?
"Snatchers" is a fun take on eighties horror tropes that only suffers
from the current social restrictions on horror. These prevent the
feature from being the chaotic and unapologetic comedy that its
inspirations were allowed to be. I mean, why can we not hilariously kill
douchebag popular kids like we use to?
The structure of the story requires too many acts. Once the creature is
presented, we should focus on the hilarious means of battling it and
have a more immediate method to multiply it. In the end, the film barely
qualifies for pluralization in the title. Act two's first half is fun
as the girls work on preventing the spread of the monsters, but the
chaos from the second inciting incident is lost. If you were going to
focus so much on the science of the fiction, perhaps introducing
immediate horror is ill advised.
Focusing on the dealing with the unplanned pregnancy makes for an
entirely different movie. The dialogue and performances are solid, but
once we get the monster, we want to see the monster. So until we get to
the climax after the creatures are reintroduced, the picture drags.
There has to be a way to have both a tale of a strained sisterhood and a
monster movie with strong special and gore effects at the same time.
With "Snatchers" implying there will be a sequel, I hope there is a
chance that we will get to see it.
"Snatchers" is only a few tweaks away from being a classic horror
comedy, so watching the second act will be a bit frustrating. When the
feature commits to laughs and gores, it makes the annoyances worth it.
Olde Money Boyz (Directors/writers Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman and
writer Scott Yacyshin) prove they are up-and-coming auteurs in the genre
and it will be fun to see what they come up with next. Lets just hope
they take the critiques from their 100% on the Tomatometer seriously.
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