Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Fight Scenes and Rings

So I'm up trying to write a barfight scene, and it is Just not working. How come it makes perfect sense for barfights to erupt in movies and on television, but I can't envision one happening at Psycho Suzi's here in "friendly" Minnesota?

The (stereo)typical bar fight is like dropping a match into a can of gasoline; one punch, and everyone is swinging. In Minnesota, two people could shoot it out with rifles in a bar, and everyone would either a)leave or b)break out their cell-phone-cameras to take pictures. Hmm. Might have to ditch the cause-and-effect logic and reach for the smoke-and-mirrors...

Saw Ring2 last night, it was surprisingly good. For a movie which has the lamest plot concept in the history of plot concepts, (watch a videotape and die 7 days later) it is still pretty good. Not as creepy or artistic as the first, but also nice in that the poor-decision-making-teens are notibly removed from the movie after the first five minutes. Refreshing, although the director did watch "The Sixth Sense" too many times. I am not a fan of shocking your audience just to shock them (IE: The Grudge, a terrible movie by the way) but the "spooky kid" thing totally creeps me out...

Ring on,
-CZ

Labels: Hollywood, movie reviews, The Demonslayers Handbook, Writing