Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

One last lazy day here to finish off the staycation. We have a crockpot of chili going that’s been smelling delicious all day, and I’m watching some carefree football because my team is on a bye. Hope everyone enjoys the remainder of the weekend (unless yours is already over).

My Switcher 3 is on the way.... Might arrive today, although it's not due until tomorrow

@BruceCM Mine as well! It is in the "process of packaging"! It will arrive tomorrow but I will have to pick it up the after that because I will not be in the office
Yeah I order my games at my work place

Mine has 'shipped', @Zuljaras .... They usually only do that day before release, so I don't know why it was earlier

@Link-Hero @bimmy-lee yea so i watched the movie last night, alone with the lights out. And it actually freaked me out. Most movies dont with the exception of the exorcist, paranormal activity 1-3 ( wasn't crazy about the other ones), and this. I had to actually look up " ending explained" articles since I felt like i needed some clarity on a few things. But overall, pretty scary, and I'm blaming both of you for my lack of sleep last night 😂

Edit: beginning of the movie though was pretty sad and depressing. I may or may not have been water works at a few points of the movie.

@NintendoByNature - Glad you checked it out and “enjoyed” it! I don’t get freaked out often from movies often either due to decades of desensitization, but this one got me bad. It’s so well acted that it’s tense and scary even when it’s not trying to be overtly scary. I think there’s only one or two jump scares in the whole movie. Yes, the events in the first half which set up the second half are just bruuutal. You’re basically a beaten, emotional mess by the time the scares begin. Both times I watched it, I found myself holding my breath during the nut allergy scene.

Rolls in, waves, mumbles something about being busy

What'd I miss?

Promptly passes out

(Not fully back, but I somehow survived my busiest weekend of the month)

@bimmy-lee yea I wasn't jump scared so much as generally frightened. Anything that has to do with that type of horror, freaks me out. That nut allergy scene made me feel absolutely terrible then angry at the outcome. Then out of nowhere, stuff gets real and i was peaking out of one eye lol.

@bimmy-lee What is it about the 50's and 60's that "cute" and "deeply disturbing" temporarily became synonyms?

I'm by myself again today, so I put on Hellraiser 3 and Bloodlines. Still not as good as 1 & 2.

I ordered a stylus for my iPad mini so I can begin doing art that I might post to my twitter
Digital art has always peaked my interest, especially since my twitter following is comprised with a lot of Twitter art community members

Loved Hereditary, Hated Midossomar same director and are night and day. Hereditary was so awesome and intense at the end. Midossomar was... Looong, boring and so so slow.

The Orphanage (2007) is a really good horror/thriller movie... Guillermo Del Toro is the producer. I recommend it a lot.

@PACO_PEREZ Oh I wanted to see Midsommar. I heard it is different from Hereditary, but I’m curious to check it out. Someone described it as similar in ways to a Bergman film, which had me interested. Not sure how accurate that is though...

Liked The Orphanage a lot. Really great one.

@NotTelevision It does have some similarities with hereditary, it's not at all a bad movie, or has a bad plot, it's actually visually stunning... It's just so... So slow... Soooo slow. That's my main complain.

There is another Guillermo Del Toro thriller name Julia's Eyes (Los ojos de Julia). It's great at making a really tense moments.

I only need to see GDT’s name attached to a movie, and I’m instantly in.

@NEStalgia - It’s so true! I blame the Great Depression. It must have broken our sensibilities for 30ish years. That conflation is what draws me to that sort of stuff. My great grandparents had a house full of those sort of cute/haunting items. It was like the Mütter Museum of creepy cute things. Disturbingly interesting. They were classic depression folk. Saved everything. When we cleared their house out for the estate sale, we found four right wooden legs. Why? No one was missing a right leg. Or a left. I guess they had a good stock of them if they ever became necessary.

@Link-Hero - That scene is what first sucked me in. They have us reeling with the breathing issue, then just blast us like we’re Little Mac with a lightning fast uppercut out of nowhere. It seems mean to admit, but that little girl creeped me out just by being on screen.

@HobbitGamer - I don’t understand how Hellraiser fell right off a cliff after the sequel. It was all right there for them to churn out a great series. At least we have the first two though. The first one makes me feel like I shouldn’t be watching it. It’s so evil. Good times.

@bimmy-lee @HobbitGamer that chatter tooth fool in hellraiser still gives me nightmares

@NintendoByNature - Oh boy, yeah, that chatter teeth cenobite haunted my dreams for a long time when I was younger. I don’t think he even does much other than chatter his teeth, but that was enough. He was the scariest one for me.

@bimmy-lee he didn't need to do or say much, just his presence alone was jolting.

Hey guys, I'm back. Did I miss anything interesting over the long weekend?

But it’s so cute