Bad films

[keaalu]

I never did find out what the hell I was watching last night - I think it was some crap like the redone "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", as there was a chainsaw in it, but it didn't actually scare me, just made me say "why the hell am I watching this crap?" a lot. :P I'm glad I didn't pay to watch it at the cinema, I'd have wanted my money back.

Anyway.

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     “What in all the holies are you watching, Vee?” Slate plonked himself down in the nearby armchair and considered her puzzled expression only briefly before returning his attention to his cheem.
     “A very bad piece of cinematography,” Ivy replied, carefully, frowning.
     “Mm,” Slate glanced back to her. “What makes it bad?”
     “It makes very little sense to me,” she returned his gaze for a brief moment. “There is very little plot, and it is illogical,” she paused, and he gestured for her to continue. “A girl is being chased by an insane criminal with a petrol-driven chainsaw, and she hides in an abattoir. Who in their right mind would do that?”
     “You know, Ivy,” Slate observed, softly, and pulled a face as the protagonist (at least, he guessed she was the “heroine” since she seemed to do nothing but scream a lot) leaped out of a locker and hacked the chainsaw-wielder’s arm off with a meat cleaver. “For films as bad as this, lacking in logic is the least of their problems. They’re designed to scare you, to make you jump. The writers probably didn’t think they’d get an armchair critique from someone like yourself – and you can turn it off if it’s boring you, you know.”
     Ivy made a sound that could have meant anything, and returned her eyes to the screen. “It is a terrible film, but I should like to know if she is killed at the end,” she commented, and Slate wondered if it was badly-disguised humour he heard in her tones.

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I don't know. Don't ask. It's just something that occasionally happens, I have the desire to write something weird and bam, there it is.

Comments

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

I like that, finally I get to see a little more of her AI-type personality. :D

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

Ivy: *blinks* I have "an AI personality"? It's that definable?

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

As in, she thinks about things on a very logical basis while completely ignoring or being in ignorance over what sort of effect it is supposed to have for organic beings. That sort of mind, which can sometimes have trouble understanding the irrational behavior of organic brains, yet has its own "supernatural" strengths, is all part of the "AI-type personality", or synthetic mind.

I dunno, a lot of it is just that gut feeling that I get when I see it in action, which brings me lots of warm fluffy feelings for some reason. ^^ :D

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

Ivy: *is in a pigeonhole again :( *

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

Sorry for being the way I am. But since Ivy's personality is from synthetic origin, that means that in order to like her for her true personality, you have to appreciate all the subtle differences between her and a typical organic being, anyway, so I think it's a good thing. Sheesh, I thought she'd be flattered. :p

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

"in order to like her for her true personality, you have to appreciate all the subtle differences between her and a typical organic being"
- hmm, well, from my POV, not really. ;) Since she doesn't necessarily want to BE seen as different - only in so far as any other person is different to everyone else.

And don't apologise. ;) I'm not upset, just playing devil's advocate. ;)

[duraji-synth.livejournal.com]

Mayyybe, but you know, then we'd go back to the whole argument of "why make her synthetic if she wants to be treated like an organic being?", which just opens up a collosal can of bees (worms are harmless) all over again. It's just so frustrating how we can love the same thing, yet completely not understand each others' reasons for it. :p

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

Aha, but see, there you have the rub - you ask "why make her synthetic if she wants to be treated like an organic being" - which misses the point. In my fiction, she doesn't want to be treated as a biological being, she wants to be treated as a person. Not "intelligent machine be my friend!" just because she's a machine. ;) (And no, that's not a jab at YOU, because it'd be a jab at me to a certain extent too, but rather those other characters who ARE wont to do so). And I think I understand you, and vice versa, we're just passing like ships in the night over this point. ;)

[julian-wilbury.livejournal.com]

I guess that means I have an AI-type personality, because I feel the exact same way. :( Except my speech wouldn't be so formal. It'd be more like "Sheesh, did the writers even try to put in a plot? I mean, she's being chased by a chainsaw weilding maniac, and she hides in a *bleep*in' LOCKER! Who's STUPID enough to do that???"

I don't watch those type of movies anymore for that reason. The victims just getting stupider and stupider. :(

[keaalu.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't watch them either, really, there was just nothing else on and I couldn't find my TV remote. :P And it's usually the nails-down-blackboard incessant oh-my-god-woman-do-you-ever-shut-UP? screaming that does it to me...