Posts made by Auspice

I'd fux with that.

Well, I mean, that's cool, but it's no golden snitch spinner:

I love Equilibrium.
GUNFU IS AWESOME SHUTIT.

@Cupcake

Just remember: receptionist and other people in the incompetent coworker's role know how to do their thang and they probably noticed who the weak in the chain was, too.

Here is my full review for Insidious, which is spoiler-y, but I mean this movie is 7 years old so deal:

Insidious is a horror film suitable for non-horror fans. The thrills are cheap and easy to spot. The 'jump scare' is used liberally and without impunity, so even the most easily startled can brace themselves for the moment it comes. Even so, those moments are tame by horror film standards. As the movie features around a family and specifically the strained relationship between Renai and Josh, it comes across more like the plot of a romance film (a couple reconnecting) at times than a horror film. Renai is a mother struggling to hold her family together while her husband grows distant... plus her comatose son just so happens to be haunted.

The greatest injustice in this film is how underrepresented the second son is. He is utilized to inform us that Dalton is "walking around" at night and then we never see him again. Josh's storyline, while understandable once the context is provided, is forced before Lorraine appears to give us the context. He is just cold and distant; almost two-dimensional in nature. When he does come around to Elise's methods, it takes him mere moments to do so. A photo falling off of the wall. Instead of the logical response ("Renai, you got these ideas from seeing his drawings."), he decides to go all in. He was not the voice of reason for long.

While there's a certain suspension of disbelief required for movies (and often horror movies in particular), Insidious seemed to require a lot of it to make the pieces fit. Overall, the film felt like a children's tale (astral travel into the further) that had been twisted into a horror story for adults. As a result, the various aspects of the movie did not always felt like they fit quite right. Specs and Tucker were fun, but almost too light-hearted for the movie (they brought too much levity rather than just enough). The various creatures (were they demons? spirits? the dead? it is never fully clarified at any point) seem almost lifted from fairy-tales and children's novels without actually being such.

Ultimately, Insidious comes across as a film that began life as something meant for a much younger audience and not enough elements were changed for the audience it was given. While it only received a PG-13 rating, I feel it could have been given more of a mythology to support the background of the 'Further' rather than the family and romance story (especially given that sequels focus more on Elise than on Renai). In the end, the movie suffers being disjointed and becomes a series of obvious jump scares and vignettes rather than a solid story that hits the appropriate beats.

Insidious had never really looked good to me (I still haven't seen Sinister). We were told we had to watch it / write the review.

And my gut instinct was kind of right. If you liked it, hey, that's cool. Everyone's got their thing. It just was not mine. At all.

The first two sentences of my review:
Insidious is a horror film suitable for non-horror fans. The thrills are cheap and easy to spot.

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

Which movie?

Insidious.

One of my assignments in my last class (as mentioned on another thread) was to write a professional quality review of a movie. I rather tore the film apart.

A few of my classmates (as we had to give feedback) replied to say 'Many of your issues with the movie were fixed in the second film if you had watched it.'

Dumbasses, the assignment was not to review a film series, it was to review a film. Singular My review stands.

Aaaand... a super generous friend has put in the last of what I need for things (truck + rent).

Anything else will go towards deposits on utilities, initial goods for the apartment (like the uh, dishes and silverware I don't own XD), etc. Link again for those who don't have: https://www.gofundme.com/uzzqh-moving-to-austin

I also have a wishlist for things on Amazon: http://a.co/2TPrzYm
(Currently it ships to where I am now. Once move date is nearer, I'll update. I don't want things going there now.)

@Meg said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@WTFE uhm, I have questions.

I'm wondering who thinks that's an angry expression.

But then I think people would laugh at me for not getting the joke

and then I wanna know what the joke is

and then WTFE's liver breaks again

What I call my 'driving packet' is getting assembled today. I use my phone for GPS on the drive, but I like to have printed directions also for cases of no GPS signal (happens often through UT/CO).

Honestly, all that's left is packing and getting the last of the monehs together. (And giggling at Meg's knob polishing.)

20 days.

@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

She loves me really.

Well, yeah.

I thought that was obvious.

@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice True, I don't deal with kindergarteners.

Not since the restraining orders, no.

@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice I also teach high school. That was a very inappropriate way to take that.

Then you wouldn't be my instructor, would you.

@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

@Auspice Unless i am your instructor. Then you better bloody well suck up.

You have an SO for that.

This doesn't apply to a lot of us, but some.

Your education is for you. Don't (always) suck up to your instructor.

I had to analyze a poem a few months ago for a class. I dislike poetry in general, but this one was downright bad (IMO) and I made my opinion known in what I wrote. Not only did I end up with a 100% on the assignment, my instructor thanked me for my honesty and asked if she could use my essay as an example for future classes for both my analytical approach and my honesty about the poem.

Some instructors, yes, will totally let personal bias affect grading. You can usually see them coming from a mile away. But if you are told to write based on your view of something, then damn well do so. The education is for you, not for them.

I had to write a 'professional-quality' review of a movie this week for class. I thought the movie was garbage. You better bet your ass I made it known. So what if my classmates wrote glowing reviews. Maybe they thought it was great. Maybe they're trying to suck up to the instructor. I thought it was garbage. In the end, this education is for me and me alone and I thought Insidious was utter drek as far as horror films are concerned.

Less than a month from move. I'm almost done packing the non-necessities, so I'm getting fidgety. I have everything lined up (utilities, truck rental, etc.).

...funds are still not fully set in stone though. That's got me anxious. Like, 'panic attacks keeping me up at night anxious.' I'm still working all the angles I can, but I'm not finding answers yet.

I'm fighting hard to be optimistic, but fuck it's hard some days.

@Meg said in RL things I love:

my reputation is 699. aw yeah, iykwimaityd.

And ruined with a single upvote.

One of my projects for the class I'm finishing up was a short story. Came out just shy of 4,000 words in the end.

Horror. Cyberpunk.

Love both genres. Never written a story in either.

I think I rocked it. My instructor fuckin' loved the rough draft. Like, we're talking a 100% on the rough draft.Just submitted the revision for the final. 15% of my grade. I think I nailed it. Like I've already identified a place to submit it to. I'm proud of this. I think I nailed it.

...I wrote all the initial drafts, revisions, and notes by hand, too. Ran a pen out of ink. Don't even care. I'm just proud of this shit, damnit.

@Admiral said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

They played a a bar in Houston and I was like ten feet from the stage at most. Small place, totally packed. The entire audience was explosive.

Best concert I've ever been to. I am spoiled now.

...so we're gonna hit up Sabaton sometime yeh?