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Crawl and 1OOO	Creepshow	Lead	[-]
Posts: 11756 (11/23/07 11:12 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I have a lot of comments I could make about this movie, but the one I'll choose is the most random and irrelevant. The Far Side always seemed to make jokes about animals thinking about things the way humans think about the animals. Example, a cockroach having a nightmare about a shoe descending towards it. But cockroaches probably don't even know what shoes are -- only humans know about smashing cockroaches with our feet. Horror movies are sort of the opposite. Rather than having everything think about things the way humans do, everything is always doing whatever it does, but it always affects humans. So, a guy rises from the grave to get revenge on his children. But why is it a human that rises from the grave? Could a chipmunk rise from the grave? If that happened, it would be a comedy. Or an animal is in a crate, and it eats people. But, uh, animals CAN eat people. There's nothing supernatural about it. Apparently, what makes it a horror movie is that, in this movie, it specifically eats people. If it ate a penguin, it'd be a nature documentary. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
Flying Omelette		#1	[-]
Posts: 17995 (11/24/07 12:58 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I saw part of this on TV years ago. I didn't even know what it was for years. The parts I remember seeing were: The tail end of Father's Day, all of The Lonesome Death of Jody Verrill (though I don't remember the acting being as goofy as it was - I do remember my mother saying, "Only Stephen King would dress up like that" in the scene right before the ending), all of Something to Tide You Over, and the very beginning of The Crate before the crate is even discovered (I just kind of vaguely remembered the part with the annoying wife at the party and her husband's Walter Mitty-esque fantasy of shooting her.) I might be glad I didn't see the part with the cockroaches years ago, though. For a long time, we had a cockroach problem in the basement and the laundry room, but my mother refused to do anything about it because she insisted they weren't cockroaches, "just water beetles". When they started making their way to the upper floors of the house, and I convinced her they were cockroaches by showing her pictures, she finally got poison and traps to get rid of them. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
Crawl and 1OOO		#2	[-]
Posts: 11756 (11/24/07 5:49 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	As though an insect infestation is OK just as long as they aren't cockroaches? Huh? Anyway, I too saw this movie as a child, when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. My babysitter (or her husband) had it on an early VHS tape. I remembered the set up and conclusion of Father's Day pretty well (honestly, there isn't a whole lot more to it). I vaguely remembered They Creep Up On You, but there wasn't much else to that one, either. I remembered a bit more of Something to Tide You Over. I definitely remembered the people being buried in the sand -- that did seem kind of scary when you're a kid. I distinctly remembered the TV shorting out, and the wire being frayed the next day. The other stories I didn't remember at all. So, anyway, one reason we rented this was because I was feeling nostalgic about it. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
Flying Omelette		#3	[-]
Posts: 17995 (11/24/07 7:58 PM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	As though an insect infestation is OK just as long as they aren't cockroaches? Huh? I guess her logic was that a few water beetles in the basement and the laundry room were okay. I guess she thought they just subsisted on water alone and wouldn't get into anything else. Note: Cockroaches aren't even beetles. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
CLOUDBOND007		#4	[-]
Posts: 10693 (11/24/07 11:55 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My dad said the same thing about the ones we had in our other place (called them water beetles), but I eventually learned that they were in fact some kind of roaches. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Crawl and 1OOO		#5	[-]
Posts: 11756 (11/25/07 12:38 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Is this some New Jersey thing? "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
CLOUDBOND007		#6	[-]
Posts: 10693 (11/25/07 12:44 AM) Lunitari Mage Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The roaches are in disguise as beetles because they're embarrassed about living in New Jersey. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Flying Omelette		#7	[-]
Posts: 17995 (11/25/07 12:46 AM) But you had to have the BIIIIIG salad! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Maybe that's why New Jersey is so badly-infested with them. Everyone thinks they're water beetles so they don't do anything about them. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
TaroSH		#8	[-]
Posts: 2383 (11/25/07 4:31 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I saw this ad on TV when I was a little kid, and part of it was this stormy night and cockroaches started pouring out of the sink drain and covering everything in the kitchen. That ad is probably why I was so terrified of cockroaches as a kid.
ACC KAIN		#9	[-]
Posts: 779 (11/28/07 10:06 AM) Band on the Run Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Loved that movie when I was younger. It was one of the first true horror movies I ever saw. Well, I guess it's more of a horror/dark comedy movie, but still - definitely the first movie I saw that had zombies in it. Maybe I should see it again some time because my memory of some of the sketches is rather vague now. I really only remember the guy turning into a plant, the people buried on the beach, and the guy getting attacked by cockroaches now. "No one can withstand the power of KAIN"

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