Where the hell was I?
Last night was awful fun! I always have a good time with Kyle's peeps! I don't really feel like talking about it right now, I'm just so set on talking about the movies I saw.
Scared Straight!
This is a documentary from the 70's that won an OSCAR. An Oscar. In case you don't know what this film is about, I refer you to the "troubled children" on Jenny Jones who beat the crap out of their parents and inevitably steal some planted money from backstage. You know the story. The drill sargent comes out, and all of the sudden the kids start crying and being scared. Because unlike their mothers, Sargent Killjoy doesn't smoke 5 packs a day, nor does he have to use a cane.
But I digress. Scared Straight is sort of like those shows, in a way. These kids, all of them either theives or drug addicts, are sent to a prison to take a tour of the place, and then at the end of the tour there's the part where hardened criminals are allowed to take some quality time to SCARE THE LIVING SHIT out of the kids.
The most fun part of it all is seeing how strange young hoodlums in the 70's used to act. For instance, now if you're a gang member or drug dealer, you're not very likely to go chatting away to a documentarian about your trade. However, in the 1970's, it was apparently customary for teenage delinquints to yak their asses off. And brag too. One of them was so incredibly excited to be on camera that he wouldn't shut up.
The "Lifers", or the guys who yell at you in Scared Straight, were a happy bunch. They seemed to have a lot of fun at the expense of their students. They even stole everyone's shoes at one point, to show them what it felt like to get ripped off. Another frighteningly common scare tactic was to tell all the male teens how pretty they were, and that if they ended up in prison, they'd be someone's bitch. Dude, seriously now. It gets pretty frackin' old. By the end one of the poor kids who had a nervous laugh had to grab onto the back of a convict's pants at all times. Yes, even before prison he had already become the bitch. Then, just when you thought it was safe, this one guy comes out. His voice is terrifying, he's about 50 times more intense than all the other murderers...I guess you probably would be that way too if someone had RIPPED YOUR EYE OUT!!! Aaaagh! I could barely stand to watch this guy. He didn't even have a glass eye, no patch, nothing. He just shut his eyelid. And then when he was really making a point, he would stretch it open and be like "THEY TOOK MY EYE, KIDS!!"
So the whole point is, this movie sucked, go watch Jenny Jones.
Party Monster
GOOD LORD. Why haven't you seen this movie yet? Go and see it right now! Okay, I have to admit, I didn't think the acting was too good, I mean that Home Alone kid is just not cut out to be good in that role for some reason. However, the diologue, most of the casting, the sets, costumes...THE MUSIC.
This further confirms my suspicions that I was born in the wrong era. I mean, anything but this would've done just fine! Social decay has set in pretty hard now.
But again, I digress. I have to praise Seth Green for an excellent job doing James St. James. He just nailed the character, in my humble opinion. Fez from That 70's Show was DJ Keoki, and he wasn't bad at all. In fact, I'd say he surprised me quite a bit.
Having never read the book, the whole movie was probably better for it. I mean, I always read the book after I see the movie. The book always adds to what you saw. This is a book I'll be picking up! And this is a movie that YOU'LL be picking up, OR ELSE.
"Oh please...Party in the truck!"