I was just reading an old post by Archel and she was talking about weird movies and I just remembered all about the scariest film I have ever seen in my life... It was a few weeks ago and I decided that I was bored and decided to watch "Ring"(1996) by Hideo Nakata. If you have seen it you'll know what I'm talking about...If you ever see it, then I am warning you that your television will never look the same again..It's about this journalist who discovers that there is a mystery around a video tape that if you see it you will get a telephone call telling you that you will die in a week. Then after a week you actually do die. It is quite complicated and SOOOOO SCARY!!!I think that what makes it scary is that it is filmed in a very naturalistic way.The lighting is fairly neutral .Also, the film is not made as a science fiction film or horror.Everything is depicted as perfectly normal.There is a scene that I will tell you about it because even if you know it's SO SCARY it doesn't matter.So, at this scene pure evil-yes, yes- comes out of the television and that's where I put my head in my jumper-you can do that...- ,sat deeper in the couch and started moving like an autistic saying "ohmegod, ohmegod...". I got scared ok??? Since I am talking about films, I want to see Storytelling but I am a bit dubious about it as I am constantly thinking about "Happiness" and whether Solondz can live up to it.The feedback so far hasn't been encouraging but I have to go and see for myself. When I first started writing here I had just entered university and now I am almost finished -sweeeeeeet (or that horrible thing that people say and when I hear it I want to smack them: "awwwww!!Bless!!!".)...-which means I have to do a dissertation. Anyway, since my degree is Media and Comm. with Film I decided that I don't really want to do a dissertation on New Media, Internet and Politics but instead I want it to be about film!!So, this is the title of my dissertation and I am excited about it-I won't be so excited in May but hey... "Representations of a dystopian, technologically advanced world in three contemporary films" and it is going to be EITHER about Blade Runner, Terminator 2 and The Matrix OR Brazil instead of Terminator. It's all about films, popular culture and stuff...It's going to be my masterpiece...I know... Oh yeah.You know, there is this REALLY CHEESY series on ITV2 called Felicity.Does anybody know about it??It's soooo politically correct it would make Todd Solondz puke and decide that he has to go and become a nun, at the same time! I was watching it the other day -double bill as well.It's my job to watch horrible TV.But I love TV.It's what I live for...no, ok...but I like it anyway- and it was all about this person who is not having a good relationship with his father and that other girl hose birth father has died and she lectures him etc etc...it's got everything: student life and university troubles, fathers who are alcoholics, sons who have childhood traumas because the alcoholic fathers were never there-I can feel the tears coming-, daughters who found out they were adopted and came to NYC to find their birthparents and then her birth father dies because she didn't help when he needed a bone marrow transplant and SHE was the only donor!!!HOW HORRIBLE!!!Beverly Hills (first cycles) is nothing in front of this troubled show..Oh yeah the best part was when Felicity-the main character-missed her exams because she was doing jiggy jiggy with her boyfriend and then they realised that there was something wrong with the clock and so the boyfriend went to the lecturer and explained how it was all his fault and please give her a chance, 'cos I love her... mmm I know I have talked about it a lot but it's pure cheese... oh well, on that note:BYE BYE stilton nope cheddar nope blue cheese nope ...................... z. www.studentpaper.co.uk info@studentpaper.co.uk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+