My Opinion on the Alarming New 'Historical Horror'

This is something I wrote a while back...so.

I must say, I never expected our thrill-thirsty society to sink this low. And yet, our downward spiral away from civilized, respectful entertainment continues to pick up speed and has reached a level of gore which is disgusting. You know, just the other day I remarked to my mother, “I want to see a movie about people dying brutal, terrible, torturous deaths, and I want it to be based on a true story!” Thanks to several producers, my wish has been granted. I am indeed a lucky one.

A few days ago, while at the movie store, I was looking for an interesting movie I hadn’t seen before. As I picked up Shanghai Noon, I happened to glance at the New Release shelf, where I noticed a movie entitled The Search for the BTK Killer. I was at my grandparent’s house when the BTK killer was caught, and followed the story in their USA Todays. While I don’t doubt most people have heard of the man, let me say it is not a pleasant story. It is, indeed, what nightmares are made of. And now, apparently, it’s what movies are made of. I’m sure the siblings, parents and friends of the victims will be fist-fighting to be the first in the neighborhood to get a copy. Today at the same movie rental chain, I picked up a booklet to see what new movies were coming out soon. There I read an ad for a movie that claimed would let me relive the rape and murder of seven nursing students. All based on a true story. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
We have finally gone past The Hills Have Eyes and Saw. Now we can watch Zodiac Killer instead. Lucky, lucky us. I personally am waiting for Virginia Tech. No doubt it’s already in the works. I’ll be first in line for a ticket. As will many other people, I’m sure.

I have a not-so-strict movie policy. I will watch anything you give me, as long as it is not horror or ‘R’. But are these new movies truly horror? Or are they in a genre of their own?

Perhaps they’re written off as being OK because ‘that’s life’. Or rather, that’s death. Let people
choose between a movie about Jane Austen and a movie about Adolf Hitler, and sadly, many people will choose Hitler. More action. And yet if you have to choose between meeting Jane Austen and meeting Hitler, there’s not quite such a toss-up. Hitler was not a nice man. So why is it all right to see his murders as blockbuster material? Don’t enjoy watching things you wouldn’t want to happen to you, unless you know it’s fictional with a happy ending. World War Two’s ending was not overly happy for many Jews. Think Anne Frank. Hardly happy.

Or what about Columbine? Thanks to directors and producers everywhere, we have a movie that can give suicidal teens a place to start their mad rampages of high schools. Or colleges. Maybe next it’ll be an elementary school and we can make a movie out of that. It can join the revered ranks of Hostel and The Hills Have Eyes, ascending to the top of them all to be their king. Oh, joy. I can just imagine kids tugging their mothers’ dresses: “Mommy, I want to star in a movie like that.”

The best part of this entire thing is that we can now immortalize people who have committed atrocious acts. For some murderers, it’s a draw to continue killing. They can go down in history, in a cheap slasher movie that people will watch for that reason: It’s a cheap slasher movie. And they know that somewhere out there, they are influencing someone. Hollywood makes it OK to be a killer.

While I’m out picking these movies up, I think I’ll also get Halloween. Except it might not be exciting enough. I don’t want to corrupt myself by watching a made up movie. Those are no fun at all.

The one thing I completely do not understand is why people pay to see this rubbish. If you want to be scared, ask Greenpeace what’s wrong with the earth. That’s all true, too, and in many ways it’s much more terrifying. However, it requires at least a few brain cells to understand what these environmentalists are talking about. Well, you could go stand on a street corner in a big city. But then you might become the next subject of one of these movies, and we wouldn’t want that, would we? After all-it’s OK as long as it happens to someone else. Unfortunately, we’re all someone else to someone else.

I believe horror movies in general are a waste of time, money, and minds. And yet this new type of movie, this real life horror, manages to pass them all without a struggle. I’m just waiting for these movie makers to be sued. And if they make a movie out of that, I might just have to go see it.

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Florida Poem ;)

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Way Earlier Than I Thought

But here's my first official post. It was kind of begun a week or so ago, when I insulted a mutual acquaintance to one of my friends on AIM by calling him a 'big, dumb teddy bear'. I don't dislike him at all; he's just not the brightest crayon in the box. As insults go, not the nastiest. But today, said friend was presumably trying to jumpstart our dead IM and said 'I'm smarter than you.' We began discussing this statement and I said, because we're both rather intelligent but she is, by far, a better debater than me and would undoubtably win, 'Why label as smart, smarter, smartest. There's no need, we're both smart.', at which point her debater ears began twitching and she brought up this past conversation and started in on how hypocritical I was being.
I get my feelings hurt very easily, and I thought she knew that, mainly because she has reduced me to tears before. However, I can hardly blame her, because, out of pride, I've never let her see. And then, when I use some weak argument I'm trying to pass off as a joke, she'll start on me as if I was treating it as a logical argument. Once again, this is online, and it's hard to tell, but I think you'd be able to tell that, no, I DON'T believe the classmate is 'selectively mute' and that's what I meant when I said 'dumb'. I do have a reasonable IQ, and I know that there's no such thing as 'selective dumbness', not am I inventing it and pretending I think it's real.
I guess what makes this so hard is that she's right. I can get as mad as I want, completely tear her to pieces for being a jerk, but she's totally right. It was wrong of me to insult this person who wasn't around to defend themselves. It was doubly wrong to act all high and mighty about not labeling people when I've done it myself. She's also said I'm mean. I don't agree with her as much there, but she does have some points, mainly my treatment of some of the people in our group.
It's much more painful to be told that you're a hypocritical jerk when a part of you knows you actually are.

Welcome

First off, many thanks for taking time out of your day to bother reading this. 'S pretty nice. I really don't have a specific purpose in mind for this, just to get some ideas out there, sometimes blow off some steam. Often they're not going to make sense, and I apologize. Often I don't make sense, even in person, and it's much harder online.
Before I truly begin, today I want to list out some warnings, some of what I think, so that we can minimize people yelling at me for what I believe, because that will minimize me yelling back.
I'm a Christian, but I read Harry Potter, The Golden Compass, Stardust, etc. I don't believe it's going to hurt me because I understand that it's fantasy. I hate horror movies-that's probably going to be one of my first posts, hahaha. I am moderate politically, but in some areas I can appear very conservative or very liberal. I basically make my own political party. And I like writing poetry, so undoubtably some of that will pop up on here. :)
Thanks again, enjoy this and later posts.