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I'm a Champagne kind of guy.
But I gotta say, my favorite drink of choice is appropriately Zombie.

Yeah, Bio. Zombies are a good time. xd I've had one before.

Angela, White Russians are really good. And they do taste kind of like a milkshake or something with a hint of vodka, but don't go overboard just because it tastes so good. You'll be over the toilet before you know it.

Vankala, you said that you couldn't get drunk off wine; that I would have to be a "light-weight" in order to get drunk off of it, and that basically liquor is the only means by which you can become intoxicated. I have proven you wrong through fact, therefore, you didn't know what you were talking about. The fact that you would tell me something like that only points out to me that you don't really drink anything outside of hard liquor and mixed drinks. The fact that you dislike beer only confirms in my mind that you mainly drink mixed drinks, and perhaps Mike's Hard Lemonade or something. And I think the only way someone could come up with such a claim is either if they,

A.) Never drank wine, or have only tried a glass or two on occasion.
B.) Thinks Wine Coolers are Wine.
C.) Doesn't know their s**t. All they drink is liquor and fruity tooty sugary s**t.
D.) All of the above.

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I don't care if you're a lightweight; I don't care if you don't like beer or wine, and I don't care if all you like to drink is liquor and fruity toots. It doesn't make you any less of a person or anything. It's just personal preference. But don't talk trash about my s**t, especially if you don't know what you're talking about.

It'd be like an RE4 n00b who only played one of the original games for, like, five minutes and decided that it wasn't their thing coming in and saying, "The traditional REs were challenging? Pssh! xp You must not be a very skilled gamer then. I would need the new REs, which contain more enemies on the screen at once, in order to have an actual challenge. razz "

Obviously, this person wouldn't know what the ******** they were talking about, which might offend you and provoke a response to the contrary. So getting drunk off wine makes me a big p***y? Calling the older REs challenging makes me a big p***y? Well, I look at it in the completely opposite way. It's the same way I look at people who will only drink mixed drinks and fruity toots. It's sugar. It's watered down. It's not a real drink. Same goes for RE.

4 days til Friday the 13th, and after that, a hopefully as good Nightmare on Elm Street remake. but before that, Halloween 2, which will hopefully be more "itself" then the remake, and after that and Nightmare, a Child's Play remake (My favorite of the Devil's Six), and possibly before or after that, a Hellraiser remake, and then after that, the world, but before that, I have to finish this run on sentence! Wooh!

Now, if only they got the Texas Chainbsaw Massacre series running again...

Apparently, I do. But I get what you're saying. Sorry if I was a d**k about it, everybody.


And then after that, Hollywood might actually come up with some original ideas! But I highly doubt it. The way I look at it is... who cares? I've seen the remakes of just about all of them, and they're all horrid. They all pale in comparison to their originals.

The original John Carpenter Halloween is still my all-time favorite slasher flick. The pacing was perfect, and it scared the living s**t out of me when I first saw it (I was, like, 7). Michael Myers was phantom-type killer. He loomed in the shadows. He stalked his victims, and played around with them for what seemed like forever, which racked up the tension in the audience before he'd finally go for the kill. And the ending was just perfect. They should have never even made a sequel.

Now, let's compare with Rob Zombie's shitbomb remake. He thought it would be a good idea to look into Michael Myers' backstory. Now, in the original, you don't get a whole lot of information. All you know is that Myers was from a perfectly normal suburban home with a perfectly loving family. And then one night, for no reason at all, he kills his sister with a butcher knife.

In the remake, Michael Myers is white trash, his sister and his father are abusive towards him, and all the kids at school pick on him. So then, as a kid, Michael kills a fellow student, then he goes home and kills his sister and his father. And then when he busts out of the nut-hut as an adult, he's pissed off, and he's out to get revenge on all those people who made his life so poopy. So he basically amounts to a butt-hurt frikkin' emo kid now. Not very scary if you ask me.

In the original, Michael Myers was just a bad seed. He didn't need a reason to kill. He was just evil. He was the boogeyman! That was the whole motif of the original movie. And that's why that ending worked so well after he took six shots to the chest. You can't kill the boogeyman.

In the original, Myers took his time, and you weren't exactly clear as to what his intentions were. The remake makes it perfectly clear. He's frikkin' huge, he's pissed off, he's gonna mangle you, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Rob Zombie took all the mystique away from Michael Myers, and basically destroyed his character. And plus, it's one thing to get poked in the eye with a coat hanger, and then shot six times in the chest. People have lived through stuff like that in real life. It's another thing to get shot in the face point-blank with a frikkin' .44 magnum (with the chick screaming all Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style). He wouldn't even have a head to speak of after that. How are they gonna make a sequel? At least the ending of the original left it open so that you could make a sequel (but they shouldn't have).

Rob Zombie is just a bad Tobe Hopper wannabe. All his movies just try to be like Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And don't even get me started on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and it's god-awful prequel. That was my second favorite horror movie of all time. Just stick with the first two original Tobe Hooper films.[/rant]


That's exactly the way I look at it.


Well, it'll be bloodier. Plus, it looks like Jason is actually going to be in it as the killer. In the original Friday the 13th, his mother was the killer, and Jason only popped up at the end in a dream sequence.


Anyway, screw all these remakes. The only film I'm looking forward to is coming out on 3/6/09. WATCHMEN! Let's hope they don't ******** it up!

Yeah, well, there's no squid. stare I think I can live without it though, as long as the rest of the movie is true to the graphic novel.

And apparently, WB was told by Fox ahead of time that they had the rights to the movie. Fox just didn't choose to sue until after production had ended. Smart move, obviously. WB had already dumped all that money into the movie, so there was no way they were going to let it go to trial and halt the movie release, which pretty much guaranteed Fox a quick, hefty settlement out of the deal. I don't really care. They're both just in it for the money. I'm not choosing sides, because I was never worried that the movie wouldn't be released because of the lawsuit. So Fox didn't really cause me any stress. I knew that either Fox's case would be dismissed, or WB would be paying Fox a lot of money. So it turned out they payed Fox a lot of money. Sucks for WB, but doesn't affect me one bit. I just want to see the damn movie.

Do you really wanna know?

MAJOR SPOLIER: Reportedly, Veidt uses Dr. Manhattan to build a machine under the guise of solving the energy crisis, but uses it to blow up a bunch of major cities (not just New York). The machine mimics Dr. Manhattan's energy signature, thus framing him for the crime. I've also heard that Dr. Manhattan gets on the T.V. and says, "Okay guys, everybody get along now, or I'm going to nuke youse all!" - I really hope that part doesn't happen, as it kind of defeats the whole purpose. Either way, I think it kind of mucks up Dr. Manhattan's character a tad. Now he's no longer leaving because of his boredom and apathy with the Earth and it's people, he's basically being exiled. (Twice now!)

Oh, Thee Stranger. That wasn't necessary. I'm pretty sure we all knew that (Regarding your exploration of Halloween and it's remake). Anyways:

1. I will have to disagree with you on your saying that Rob is a Tobe wannabe: His House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects flicks are PERFECT throwbacks to the grind house era of horror films, and in those regards, he emulates Hooper quite well (But only during his Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Funhouse era). That being said, I don't really like 'em anyways...

2. Everything you said about Halloween and it's remake is so true. It hurt to see what he did with it, but quite frankly, I'm excited about the sequel because we know what to expect (Meaning no more disappointments), and if anything, we can enjoy it solely for it's Mikey factor, who, no matter how established, is still a man (Or shall I say, Boogeyman) of pure evil. I don't care if now he's someone to be pitied and not frightened of for his more humanistic nature, cause either way, he's gonna do what he does best: ******** kill people. Hell yeah. If it's still something you can't dig on, then worship the originals like I do as well.

3. Bio, I own the remake (But not the prequel). I was just saying, no new iterations in the franchise has been announced yet, and it seems that Platinum Dunes has dropped it altogether, which means no more Leatherface for quite a while (Or ever), which makes me sad.

Concerning remakes:

4. You know why I'm bat s**t crazy excited for Friday the 13th? Because it's not really going to be a remake. It's just gonna be another installment with Jason killing promiscuous teens at Crystal Lake. And if that's not what you want from another Friday movie, then what the ********? Ha ha.

5. I'm going to give them a chance with A Nightmare on Elm Street. They could do good with this, even without Robert. They could re-establish Freddy as someone to be feared again, and get really creative with their kills too, what with awesome CGI and what not (Though we know they don't need CGI to do that). If they could do with this the same as they are doing with Friday and not Halloween (Meaning, just sticking to the original formula to appease the old school fans), then I'm excited for this.

6. The Child's Play remake is going to be 'effing awesome. With Brad Dourif and Don Mancini returning with an even "scarier" take then the original, what's not to love? (By the way, this is my favorite of the Devil's Six series, so to say I'm excited for this is saying something.)

7. I blame this age of acceptance for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake not having a warm reception.

8. If they stick to their word and create Hellraiser's remake to be something entirely different from the original, then this is the remake to look most forward to.

Look, I really don't want remakes, but more so, I really don't want to see my idols disappear either, so if remakes are how they are supposed to continue to thrive (And for whatever blasphemous reason not sequels), then I will give them all a chance before I cast judgment.

Original horror movies to look forward to: Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, Wes Craven's 25/8, John Carpenters...Something...Forgot the title ha ha.

Remakes to look forward to: Anything Guillermo Del Toro does. God I love this highly imaginative director.