we've finally started watching netflix on a regular basis again. i guess that means we've settled in to the new place. here's a quick review of recent viewings.

halloween 5 - i watched this one by myself as twiddle thumbs is away. recently she said she is no longer interested in watching scary movies anymore. she just doesn't like the gore or to be frightened. alright, well there are a few scary movies out there that i've never seen and would like to see so i guess i'm going to see these by myself. "halloween 5" is one of those movies. now i can say i've seen the entire series, unless they've made another i'm not aware of! there really wasn't anything scary about it. this movie was not necessary to make as part 5. this would've been ok as a whole new movie by itself. the premise is that there is an internet reality show the young college kids are going to be on. for the show, they spend halloween night exploring the childhood home of michael meyers. to have the scare factor, ok it has to be something already notoriously scary in our minds which is why it had to be part of a series. but i think it could've still been scary as a separate movie on its own. what happens is, when you attach the infamy of "halloween" and michael meyers to any setting, you are let down because you expect too much. a slightly interesting thing about the movie is that there are viewers watching the internet show and they do not believe it's real. that's part of modern society. we are such voyeurs that we don't believe anything is real anymore. but of course, actually none of it's real. it's just a movie.

bad taste - this is the film we have been holding onto forever! i think we tried to watch a little bit before we went to japan and then a little bit after we came back but we just weren't interested in it. after watching "saw 2", twiddle thumbs decided she didn't want to watch anything else scary or with gore so i watched it since she's away on business right now. it's not bad at all for being made during weekends for 3 years but somehow it's just not interesting enough. i'm not into gore either. it's just a little too disgusting for me without being funny enough to compensate. there are some minor kiwi jokes that made me chuckle. only watch this one if you're trying to see all of peter jackson's movies, which is what i'm trying to do actually.

saw 2 - this is the film that made twiddle thumbs stop watching scary movies. it wasn't that scary. not enough to make me stop watching scary movies! the puzzles the victims have to solve to get out of weren't as interesting to me this time. i suppose it's because the novelty of the concept for such a horror film no longer exists. if you saw the first "saw", then you're set. only if you're really into horror do you need to go on in the series. but now that i've seen parts 1 and 2, i might as well see part 3 and finish the trilogy. it's hard to find a good horror trilogy, mostly i think because they end up becoming series and dragging the storyline out to where it's no longer scary, it's funny, (i.e., "freddy vs. jason").

mallrats - this is the film kevin smith did after "clerks". i'm still not sure if i like this writer/director and so i'm trying to watch all his films to figure it out. i think his films are hit or miss with me. i either like it or i hate it and there's no inbetween. i didn't hate mallrats but out of the like factor, it ranks the lowest for his films. it's just kinda ok. if it's on tv or if someone has it and you've never seen it, pop it in. it just isn't anything great. it's kinda funny to watch it now, so many years later, to see shannon dorky and ben asslick back in the day when she was queen and he was the new guy. at first i didn't like the characters jay and silent bob, at the very beginning, when i first heard of them years ago. just like "beavis and butthead". but after watching it for a bit in order to get it, i enjoy the characters. jay and silent bob are enjoyable in "mallrats" too.

he loves me, he loves me not - this is one we've been holding onto forever too! we received this before we went to japan and let a friend borrow it while we were in japan. we didn't watch it until we settled in to the new place, obviously. at first i always read the disc jacket for the brief film description to refresh my memory as to why i netflixed the film in the first place. the description didn't seem like anything i would be interested in so there must've been something else i read about the film to make me put it in my queue. when we were watching the film, i kept thinking again how this is not a movie i would want to watch. i almost stopped watching but i gave it a little bit longer to develop because afterall, there was a reason i put it in my queue, i just couldn't remember that reason. and then it happened! the film took a twist, an interesting twist. i don't want to spoil it at all. either you will like the film or you won't. but give it a chance. don't walk away just because you too think that it's not the kind of film you'd watch. it starts off like some sappy love-affair story of a woman wronged but the surface is deceiving.