The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Released in 2003.
Directed by Marcus Nispel
Starring Jessica Biel, Eric Balfour, and R. Lee Ermey
Rated R

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is brutal, disgusting, masochistic, and ugly. It is also very boring. I hated every minute of this movie. Despite having decent performances from the actors (especially Ermey), their characters were written in such a one-dimensional light that caring about them is fruitless. You do not care about this characters, you want them to die because of their utter stupidity. The film is filled to the brim is cliches and uneven dialogue that it left me cringing in my seat. At 1 hour, 43 minutes, the movie was 13 minutes too long.

Being a horror movie, it's supposed to scare correct? Well, it nevered scared me once or even made me jump. Nispel's direction is heavy-handed as predicted scares come at almost every second. Horror films are supposed to frighten you in a psychological sense, to make you feel that you are within the film. This film doesn't do that one bit. I know that it's a movie but films like Ju-on, the Omen, the Exorcist, and Psycho gave you surprising scares and memories that you don't want to see the film again in fear of being scared again. This film is a total wash, shot in drab colors with atrocious music. Do not see this film, it will only make you stupider.

Grade: F

Hilarious

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Today sucked even more balls.

My dad exploded at me. It was the first time in weeks that my dad exploded at anybody. And it was at me. He exploded at me for not cutting the styrofoam pieces of the ceiling fan boxes. Well, he didn't say shit so that's why I didn't do the fucking piece of shit. He called me a lazy piece of shit who does nothing but sit at the computer. In my mind, I was thinking "should I just stand here and look at him cold heartedly?" Well, my body was already doing it before my mind so I just stood there cutting boxes while he was screaming at me.

THEN

The Maytag guy came. What a fucking relief. At last, a stoppage to the madness. The Maytag was like a stoner. He even got scared at my Dad, when my Dad screamed "Who was that at the door?!"

There was no problem with the washing machine.

Someone fucking turned off the cold water faucet. And it cost us $69. What a waste. Maybe I should've checked the faucets after all. The guy immediately went the hot and cold water faucets and said, "Ouch." He had to say that because we were paying fucking money just for a guy to turn on the cold water faucet.

After that, I decided to do my laundry to get myself away from Papa. He slept the entire afternoon and that was it. He wasted an entire day of work just to sleep. what a fucking waste. Thank god, he's going to work tomorrow.

Shit, I'm off.

Today sucked balls.

Chocolate salty balls.

My dad was home the entire day (again) even though he already has work. And tomorrow, he won't be going to work again because he says that he wants to see the Maytag guy (our laundry washer broke). Yeah fucking ass right. He just wants an excuse not to go to work. I really hate it when he's home because he's like a fucking shitty ticking time bomb waiting to fucking explode at any fucking goddamn stupid moment. Oh yeah, I gots to tell you why my day fucking sucked balls.

My dad paid this guy to install ceiling fans into my brother and I's rooms. God, I didn't ask for a fucking ceiling fan. On top of fucking that, he installed a sliding door onto our bathtub. Our bathtub now looks like a fucking piece of shit. The door is so fucking small that he could see above it. Aside from that is this funky ass smelling shit in our bathroom that my dad put in there. I wanted to faint the first time I smelled it because it smells so fucking ass bad.

There was something funny out of all of this though, the guy who installed the ceiling fans and sliding door is like only 4'6", which was fucking hilarious because everytime he spoke he sounded like a kid. It was hilarious, it was like my dad had another son when installing the ceiling fan.

I don't fucking know why my dad has to fucking stay home tomorrow. He doesn't even know what the fucking problem is with the washer! What a dick. Goddamn him. Then he always complains on why he doesn't have work. You wanna know why Papa?! Because you don't go to fucking work man!

Shit man, I'm off.

Listening: [Lostprophets: Last Train Home]

Got two movies from Netflix today: Kingpin and the critically acclaimed Happy Together. Kingpin was fucking hilarious from beginning to end. But Happy Together bored me to fucking death. It bored me so much that I didn't even finish it. The film, directed by Wong Kar-Wai, is actually very surprising. I thought that Happy Together would be a really good film like In the Mood for Love, but it just wasn't. In the Mood for Love was beautiful to look at and wonderful to listen to but Happy Together is drenched with unclean colors, and it looks absolutely ugly. I've been listening to Lostprophets and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for a while and Lostprophets is an awesome band. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a bit overhyped in my opinion (and the chick singing sounds so much like Pat Benatar).

I also played an hour of straight Dance Dance Revolution and it tired the fuck outta me. I don't even sweat this much during workouts at Bally. Maybe I should just tell my mom to cancel my membership at Bally so I could just do DDR full time.

Yesterday, I should have gotten my Shiri disc but the thing is, it was broken in two. I am beginning to hate Netflix's way of handling DVDs. Sometimes I have to take time to clean the discs before inserting them into the DVD player or laptop.

Later kids, 'til next time

On next week's episode: Daniel directs the sequel to the Passion of the Christ - JESUS: Reloaded!

Today was an awesome day. Finished my finals (they were mad easy too!) and went to the bookstore. Tried selling my books but they told me that they won't be needing them anymore. I was entranced by this girl in the bookstore today. Man, was she really beautiful. She reminded of all those commercials where a girl has like wind blowing through her, jeez, it was unbelievable.....that is.......until she answered her cellphone and started talking like a black person. I hate those kind of people. But, what can you do eh?

My dad had work, finally. I thought that he would never get work. But he did. And his boss was kinda mad at him. He was supposed to be working for the past two days but he didn't.

My mom told me that we didn't get all our movies from Cecille. Shit man, what the fuck? I was really waiting for those DVDs and got only half? What the fuck man? I can't blame my cousins for this because they just gave the goods. My mom's friend didn't deliver it and it's because of this i'm really pissed. It was only 4 DVDs, Jesus.

Fuck man, I'm out.

Studied two films for my film examination final tomorrow. The two films were Chen Kaige's Together and Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood For Love. Both were excellent but I felt more towards Wong's film. His film is shorter but much more involving. To me, the film is voyeurisitic in numerous ways. I loved the lighting and music in the film. But most of all, what truly impressed me was Christopher Doyle cinematography. This is the same person who did the camera work for Zhang Yimou's Hero. He is a genius at shooting scenes. Without Doyle, the film would have looked bland. Much to the credit of Doyle and Wong, most of the credit should actually go to the actors. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Infernal Affairs) truly deserved the best actor from the Cannes Film Festival and it shows. He is comparable to Pacino, DeNiro, Brando at the top of their games, combined. He is an actor that provides consistent work throughout all his films (especially Infernal Affairs). Maggie Cheung also does an admirable job as his beautiful neighbour. She is so elegant and beautiful, one cannot look away from her. Her porcelain skin matched with her gorgeous eyes, but what I loved most about her was her neck. Cheung has a beautiful neck that reminds me of a swan. Her performance is like that of a swan, graceful and beautiful. Both lead actors never overacted or underacted. They did what they had to do and they were perfect.

Chen Kaige's film, Together, focuses mostly on a father and son. The father wants what's best for his son, who is a violin prodigy. The father tries to look for the best teacher that he can find. While his father is away, his son befriends a beautiful prostitute, Lili, who finds that men aren't everything after all and happiness doesn't matter with age. The relationship between the father and son is emotionally heartbreaking and Kaige pulls the right strings and at the right times. I began to get teary eye at the end when the son starts playing the violin for his father while gentle tears start streaming his pale face. A beautiful film with admirable performances.

On a side note, Sofia Coppola dedicated her Best Original Screenplay Academy Award to numerous directors including that of Wong Kar-Wai. Coincidentally, In the Mood For Love, is almost exactly like Lost in Translation without the middle aged man.

In the Mood For Love: A+
Together: A

Mood: Tired
Listening: [Jay-Z/The Beatles: The Grey Album]

I really hate rap. But when it is done so well, so different, and so very original I love it. DJ Danger Mouse has taken the samples from The Beatles' The White Album and used them as background against Sean Carter's biting and sizzling lyrics to create The Grey Album. I love this album. From the awesome "Moment of Clarity" to the genius that is "What More Can I Say?" this album is remarkable.

Mood: Happy
Listening: [Foo Fighters: All My Life]

Today was another boring day.

With the exception of one film.

Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi.

It was brilliant.

It was enthralling.

It was awesome.

That's all I can say.

I've been watching movies nonstop lately. Last night it was Ju-on: The Grudge. It wasn't the remarkable television series but rather the lackluster motion picture. You see, I was terrified by the television series. It was minute by minute the most scariest shit I have ever seen. The movie though, did not live up to my expectations. Sure, a few scenes scared me but most of the scares were just recycled versions of the television series.

My dad was also on vacation the entire day. I took a nap at 2 and while waiting for that sound of the garage to come up I slept. I really hate it when my dad takes a vacation, I'm always scared of him because he screams for no apparent reason sometimes. It's really getting on my nerves, his screaming. Well, fuck it. I'm going to fucking bed.