Movies That Suck #5 The Mist

Movies That Suck is a feature where I watch a bad movie and share my reactions to it in real time. Sort of like live tweeting without the tweeting. I watch it so you don't have to! This will be spoilery I guess by definition, but since you probably won't want to watch these anyway it probably won't matter? But heads up anyways. So get comfortable, grab a favorite beverage, and let me tell you about a movie that sucks. 

This week is The Mist (the movie version). I've never seen it, but I've heard about that ending, and to be honest it looked kinda good? Plus I heard about how it's not about the monsters outside, it's about the monsters inside- how we react when the world ends- yada yada, so I wanted to see for myself. Well I can say right at the outset- that ending delivers. Not sure I like it, in fact I know I do not, but it was a gutsy call.  

This movie starts off with a bang- literally. Our hero David is an artist and is working on a movie poster when a storm hits, and a tree comes thought the window. The next day he and his wife survey the damage and it's pretty bad- their boathouse was also smashed when another tree fell on it. Oh and there's some weird mist rolling across the lake. David goes next door to talk to his asshole neighbor Norton, since the tree that fell on the boathouse belonged to him, and after a tense conversation (they don't really get along), Norton asks to tag along when David goes into town to get supplies. 

On the way into town they see a bunch of Army vehicles go by. They seem to be in a hurry. Apparently there's a military base nearby where a secret Project Arrowhead is housed. Yeah that has nothing to do with the mist I'm sure. They get to town and David tries to call his wife Steff (they still had pay phones when this came out) but can't reach her. Inside the grocery store everyone's a little nervous and the power is out. David knows Sally, the cashier, and asks her to babysit in a few days. Everyone knows everyone and it's a typical small town, I guess, but you can feel the tension under the surface.    

Ooh Toby Jones is in this (from Wayward Pines) as Ollie, one of the store employees. Mrs. Carmody shows up (played by Marcia Gay Harden) and clearly she's gonna be a piece of work. Some Army guys show up too, but they look a bit shifty. They're talking about leaving town when an MP shows up and tells them that all leaves are canceled, and they need to get their asses back to base. And Laurie Holden is in this as Amanda (she's also Andrea from the Walking Dead). This is looking like a Walking Dead reunion- the guy who plays Dale is in this, and so is Melissa McBride (Carol from TWD). Fun!  

Oh oh a klaxon goes off in town- something is happening. Ooh look there's a mist rolling in- and there's a guy running. He's kinda bloody too. He books into the store and tells them to close the door, there's something in the mist. Oh and John Lee was "taken." Some guy says screw this and runs for his car, but just as he gets there the mist overtakes him. He screams. They close the door. All they can see is mist now. "It's death," Mrs. Carmody tells everyone. The building shakes and Carol from the Walking Dead says she has to get home to her kids, and will anyone go with her? Apparently she left the eight year old in charge of the little one. No one will go, so she tells them all off and leaves.  

A nice older lady named Irene introduces David to Amanda and they all settle in. Irene and another older lady, Hattie, sort of watch Billy (David's kid) while he and Ollie sort of take charge. I say sort of, because Norton and some other guys are talking about leaving, and Amanda overhears Mrs. Carmody talking about judgment day. Tensions are simmering folks. David goes in the back to get a blanket and something is trying to get in through the loading dock. No one of course believes David, and two idiots named Jim and Myron decide to open the loading bay so someone can go out and clear the exhaust pipe for the generator. Apparently it's clogged. Uh- huh I'll bet it is. 

So a bagboy named Norm volunteers to go out, but before he can a nasty ass tentacle comes in through the open loading bay and grabs him. He's toast. Ooh the tentacles are barbed and are kinda tearing the kid up, David and Ollie try to help him, but no dice. He's gone. Jim and Myron meanwhile do not help. Jim's quite the ass. And of course only after the store supervisor goes in back to see for himself do they all realize they're in trouble. They start fortifying the windows while Mrs. Carmody prays and asks to save whoever she can, but when Amanda tries to be nice to her she acts like a total bitch. She's gonna be trouble y'all. 

Mrs. Carmody says it's the end times, and at one point Amanda slaps her to shut her up, as everyone is getting freaked out, but that doesn't work. Norton and a few others leave, and a biker dude goes out to try and retrieve a shotgun from one of the vehicles. Sadly only half the biker comes back. It's getting dark now and one of the army guys, Jessup, talks briefly with Sally the cashier. She asks why he never asked her out in school, and they kiss. But then weird ass bugs show up outside the store- attracted to the lights apparently, which they take forever to realize and put out- and all chaos breaks looks when the bugs break in through the glass. 

Poor Sally gets stung- aww I liked her- and Amanda kills one (go Amanda!) while David manages to burn one- they're setting mops on fire to use as weapons. Sally's fucked, unfortunately, and some other dufus lights a mop but then trips and starts a fire. Oh and he's on fire. SMH. These guys are gonna burn the place down. Ooh Amanda is squirting lighter fluid on the one David is trying to burn- that might be my favorite scene of the movie so far.  

This whole scene was pretty awesome and unintentionally hilarious? I mean people are stumbling around and fucking up- it looks what would really happen if a bunch of terrified people were fighting weird ass pterodactyl bugs in a crowded grocery store. I'm having fun with this movie at this juncture. David is beating the shit out of a fallen bug when another one almost gets Billy. Thank goodness Ollie is a good shot. Oh yeah Amanda had a gun, and Ollie knows how to shoot. Those two have it going on at least. 

Mrs. Carmody is getting increasingly aggressive and David wisely predicts that at some point she's going to want to sacrifice someone to buy off the creatures assaulting them, as she's in full end times mode. I guess this is what they are referring to when they say the monsters inside are the worst. They're debating whether they should leave, and what Mrs. Carmody might do, and Amanda asks Dale from The Walking Dead: 

"You don't have much faith in humanity, do you?"

"None whatsoever," he replies.  

So some guy named Joe got all torn up and is in a bad way, so a few of them strike out for the pharmacy across the parking lot to get supplies. The pharmacy is bad, people. I mean spider things. Not cool. Mrs. Carmody doesn't want them to go, says they'll bring the creatures down on them, but Irene tells her to shut up and hits her with a can of peas. I like Irene. People in the pharmacy are webbed up, and the MP from earlier says it's their fault- meaning the military naturally. The spiders' webs meanwhile are nasty, they burn whatever they touch. But Irene kicks a little ass, using an aerosol can to burn a spider thing.  

So it's all coming out. The military was researching windows into other worlds and oops, they opened a door instead. Enter the mist. Two of the soldiers have hanged themselves in the back, and Mrs. Carmody seizes on Jessup as a scapegoat. Blaming the military, she gets everyone so worked up that one of the store guys stabs Jessup- repeatedly- and then they throw him outside as a peace offering or something? He quickly becomes monster food as they all watch in horror. That's the last straw for David and he and a few others make plans to leave. 

But... Mrs. Carmody is on to them, and a standoff ensues. She wants Billy as a sacrifice now, and things look grim, but then Ollie shoots Mrs. C. Game over. David and his people leave, but it's bad in the parking lot. Nooooo not Ollie- I liked him. :( And Myron goes down too- he turned out okay. So it's David, Amanda, Billy, Irene and Dale from The Walking Dead. They get in David's Land Rover and head out.
  

Back at David's house they find Steff dead, all webbed up. Destruction everywhere. They head south, hoping to drive out of the mist, but finally run out of gas. Not before seeing an immense creature though, so big it doesn't even notice them. Whatever Project Arrowhead unleashed, it's bad. 

So it looks like all hope is lost, and here's where that effed up ending comes from. Spoilers here, so turn away now if you want to be surprised! Okay still here? Alright, here's what happens. They still have Amanda's gun, right? And four bullets. There are five of them. So... with no hope remaining, David shoots the other four. The thought being that they take their own way out, rather than being killed by the creatures. David intends for the monsters to get him, but literally two minutes after he gets out of the car the mist starts to thin, and he sees the military going by. They're out in force, burning anything suspicious with flamethrowers, and David realizes... it was all for nothing. They could have waited two more minutes, and survived. 

It's a powerful ending, and a bit depressing frankly. Apparently Stephen King ended his story differently, but loved this ending when the director Frank Darabont came up with it. As the military goes by David even sees Carol from The Walking Dead with her two kids. So she made it! And no one went with her when she left! Hmm... 

Apparently there was going to be a scene as well where survivors from the store are also seen, suggesting that David and his people should have never left, but that didn't happen. Regardless, this is a powerful film in a lot of ways, and notwithstanding the horror elements, that ending sticks 

Movies That Suck - Logan's Run

Movies That Suck is a feature where I watch a bad movie and share my reactions to it in real time. Sort of like live tweeting without the tweeting. I watch it so you don't have to. And honestly- that's kinda the point, because you probably won't want to watch these anyway? But... sometimes we find a gem in the rough. Some of these don't actually suck, or they might suck but still have some redeeming value. And by definition this will be spoilery since I'm pretty much reacting to everything, so just a heads up there. Okay let's take a look. 

This week is Logan's Run. I'm gonna be upfront, I actually like this movie. I mean it's silly as all get out in some ways (70's aesthetic, for starters) but I love the idea, and the particular take on this dystopian future. Plus it's far in the future, which is always a favorite of mine. There's plenty of suckage though, don't get me wrong, and we'll get to it all, trust me. So without further ado, let's watch Logan's Run. 

Sometime in the 23rd century...the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in an ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo- mechanisms which provide everything. 

There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carrousel. 

So there's your plot, folks. How much you wanna bet some rebellious souls are gonna say no thanks to the euthanasia at thirty thing? You'd be right. Logan 5 is a Sandman, a sort of police officer who terminates Runners- those brave souls who try to flee the city for a place called Sanctuary, where presumably one can continue living past thirty. He's an asshole just like the rest of the Sandmen- I mean, at one point he and his friend (and fellow Sandman) Francis are chasing down a Runner and they're having a good time, taunting and toying with the poor guy, until he falls to his doom. So initially Logan is not a nice guy. 

The fun begins when the city computer gives Logan a mission- -to go outside the city, find Sanctuary and destroy it. And to ensure his cooperation, the computer turns him Last Day- meaning he is now thirty and has to submit to Carousel. So he's committed, in the hope that the computer will give him back the four years he still had. Yeah, somehow I'm thinking don't hold your breath pal. By the way everything is ridiculous looking- again, there's a 70's retro future vibe going on here, and the shots of the city are so obviously fake it's almost painful. But at the same time, it's kinda cool for the imaginative scope. It looks a lot like Disney World, to be honest, with monorails going everywhere and buildings that look rather like Disney's Contemporary resort. 

 Right off the bat though we get a sense that Logan's not a total asshole? The movie starts with him at the Nursery, looking at his newborn baby through a glass (he can't hold it or anything, babies are apparently raised by the computer or something when they're born- no one knows who their parents are). Francis shows up (and let's be clear, Francis is a complete asshole and makes that abundantly clear at every chance. He's like what the fuck, why are you hanging around babies, let's go party and kill Runners. They seem pretty different. And sure enough it's Carousel time that very evening, and during the ceremony a Runner is detected. Logan goes after him, Francis joins the fun, and soon you have a dead Runner. 

Okay- Carousel. This thing is weird- everyone who's turned thirty has to come here in white robes, and they're wearing these freaky masks, and once it starts they float up into the air and get blown up, basically. The crowd goes wild, screaming at them to renew - to be reborn, I guess- but frankly I don't see anyone renewing. These people are not smart. Logan is questioning things a bit and Francis is all like what? Why are you thinking? Francis is A-okay with everything. Oh, and everyone in this city wears green or red. 

If you watch the Carousel sequence and think- who dreamt this shit up- you wouldn't be alone. Weird. Oh, and when Logan calls for clean-up (the dead Runner) these guys on hover vehicles come and spray a mist on the body, and it liquefies into the ground. Pretty gross. There's a lot of little fucked up things like that in this film. Anyway the next we see Logan he's chilling at home and wants to have sex, so he summons a partner- Jessica 6, played by Jenny Agutter (apparently adored by fanboys everywhere exactly because of this film- seriously, this is a thing). I can sorta see why- she has nothing on under that flimsy little green whatever she's wearing. 

Logan's ready to go but Jessica has changed her mind- she says she put herself on the Circuit because she was sad, but it was a mistake- and tries to leave, but Logan wants her to stay. This is a totally hedonistic society, after all, and apparently people just couple with whoever they want, whenever- there is no concept of marriage. 

Logan's robe, though. Anyway when she balks he asks "do you prefer women?". I imagine in the 70's this was meant to be edgy. Turns out Jessica is sad because she lost a Runner friend. Logan, charming as always, is like 

 

But again she says no and he's like why are you wasting my time then? She then asks

"Why is it wrong to run?" 

He tells her she shouldn't be thinking such thoughts- he sounds like Francis now- but you know he's had doubts too. And this is all before the computer gives him his mission to find Sanctuary. Logan's still getting there. Also Jessica wears an ankh and the ankh is associated with Sanctuary, so Logan knows she may be a sympathizer for Runners. The kicker is, when he gets his mission the computer indicates that there are 1,056 unaccounted for Runners, and Logan's like no way- we kill them all. Or they renew, right? The computer is rather ominously quiet when Logan presses it on whether anyone has ever renewed?  

Logan asks Jessica for help contacting the Runner network, but her friends don't trust him and want to kill him. Jessica, conflicted, goes with Logan to Cathedral- a slum, basically- to apprehend a Runner, but Logan lets the Runner go. Oh-oh, Francis sees him do it though and kills the Runner himself. Francis is not nice. Logan is basically a Runner now, though, thanks to the city computer, and is soon on the run with Jessica. After we have a frankly weird scene in a New You shop, a place where people can go get a new face or a total body do-over. They use lasers to rearrange your features and a quick healing mist, or something, and the assistant at New You is none other than Farrah Fawcett of 70's fame. New You goes all wrong, though, as they're Runner sympathizers there and someone calls and tells them to kill Logan. 

That doesn't happen and now we get to the most lurid scene of the movie! Jessica, feeling that Logan is legitimate, finally takes the lead in helping him escape and they take a shortcut through the Love Shop. Cue some truly bizarre music and gas that makes you...amorous, we'll say...and nude people clutching and grabbing at Logan and Jessica, trying to drag them into their orgies. Somehow they fight their way out and now they're in the tunnels and byways below the city, or behind the scenes, like at Disney or something. Francis, dogged as ever, follows and harries them the whole way.

When they reach the Runner underground Logan surreptitiously activates his tracker. He's still a Sandman, after all. The underground are not friendly but Farrah shows up and validates them, after some prompting from Jess. Unfortunately the Sandmen arrive and wreck the place, and Logan and Jessica are on the run again, with Francis in pursuit. At this point Jessica tells Logan she wants to be with him, and accompany him, and Logan is still secretly trying to complete his mission. A lot of movies would play that up- when exactly does he come clean-  and honestly, he never really does. They just sort of become a couple and fall in love, but he never really (at least onscreen) tells her it was all a lie initially. We're getting ahead though.

 In his defense he does shoot a Sandman to help them escape, so maybe he's already really a Runner? They run through some awesome pipe tunnels and end up in a waste disposal plant (not sure what it's supposed to be, but Amazon tells me it was filmed at a waste plant) and Francis is not far behind. Rather unforgiving, that one. They end up in some frozen caverns (what the fuck, really?) and find all the unaccounted for Runners- they've been frozen solid as "food storage" by a robot named Box. Box is apeshit and tries to freeze them too, but they escape and... they're out! They emerge from the caverns and see their first sunrise. They've never seen the sun before. 

The whole Box thing is weird as fuck. Apparently his programming went haywire and when the food from the sea (plankton and whatnot) stopped arriving for storage, it assumed the Runners were food. 

"The other food stopped coming, and they started." 

So much for Sanctuary. No one made it. 

Also nude shot of Jenny Agutter as they doff their wet clothes and don furs to warm up. I love how Michael York only takes his shirt off but Jenny has to go full nude. Anyway their life clocks don't work outside so they're free! No more counting down to thirty. Jessica's not sure she liked the outside though. 

They go swimming (nude) and in a moment that calls back to their initial meeting, she asks if it's up to her whether they sleep together. He answers yes of course and her reply is 

"This time, the answer's yes."

So yeah they're together. And Logan still has not fessed up to his initial deception! Never does, either. 

Next up... the Washington Monument. Yes, they are in the Capitol and wading through waist deep water on the National Mall. Everything's overgrown and post apocalyptic, but no people in sight. They finally meet the Old Man (played by Peter Ustinov) in the Capitol building, where he lives with a bunch of cats. They've never seen cats. I have to admit, I'm kinda curious about this development- there apparently is no Sanctuary, just ruins. Are Logan and Jess truly the only ones to ever make it out? 

Francis shows up, like a bad penny, and they fight. Poor cat about gets trampled as they flip over a desk. Francis is toast- finally- after Logan beats him down with a flagpole. That was pretty cool. They're now truly free- but Logan wants to go back and tell the people the truth. Jessica's like fuck that, we just got out. Legit. But back they go because Logan has morals now. Old Man goes with, and when Logan is of course captured and interrogated, the computer malfunctions because his answers don't compute. So let me get this straight- this computer runs everything, for thousands of people in an immense domed city, but it can't handle Logan telling it there's no Sanctuary, and that the unaccounted for Runners were frozen? What a crock. 

Not only that but the whole city starts blowing up. Really? So the ending is a little lame, although the scene at the end where the people come out and see the Old Man- the first old person they've ever seen- is pretty good. 

So does this movie suck? Well, it is dated, and visually it's bonkers (although at times it's kinda cool too). It's mixed, really, but the premise is awesome and honestly... I like it? I actually wrote a review for this movie a while back (you can read that here) and in addition to it being shorter, I still agree with everything I wrote then. But I had a blast rewatching and this might be *gasp* one of my favorite retro science fiction films, honestly.

Movies That Suck #21 Big Trouble in Little China

Movies That Suck is a feature where I watch a bad movie and share my reactions to it in real time. Sort of like live tweeting without the tweeting. I watch it so you don't have to! So let's have a look...  

This week we're looking at Big Trouble in Little China. This is tailor made for this feature, naturally- I mean we might have to go back to Tremors (sorry Tremors fans) or The Mist to find one this bad. in other words, this feature is back on track with the suckage! Although to be honest, it was already back on track last week with Chernobyl Diaries. Regardless, let's get started.    

This is all about Kurt Russell as Jack Burton, a truck driver who gets mixed up with the supernatural in Chinatown. You see, he's friends with a guy named Wang who owes him money. Wang doesn't want to pay though- and oh he's gotta pick up his girlfriend, Miao Yin, from the airport first, so Jack goes with him. At the airport Jack sees Gracie, played by Kim Cattrall (wait, Kim Cattrall's in this?) and thinks she's hot. She shoots him down though, and meanwhile some punks from the Lords of Death (Chinese street gang) abduct Miao Yin. Jack and Wang race back to Chinatown and track them (not sure how) to an alley, where... they witness a fight between two rival gangs, the Ching Sing and the Wing Kong. After they shoot each other up a bit, they decide to have a martial arts fight- one of the worst I've ever seen. This is terrible so far. 

Okay no one here can act- especially Wang and Kim Cattrall. And in the middle of the alley fight these three dudes come down from the sky- I guess they're called Thunder, Rain and Lightning. And they use magic. Jack tries to drive away and oops runs over some old guy- Lo Pan- but surprise! Lo Pan is uninjured. He's the big bad see. Light comes out of his, um, eyes and mouth and Jack is blinded. Temporarily, thank goodness. Okay the facial expressions here are killing me- seriously I know this has become a cult classic of sorts, but it's so bad. Anyway Jack and Wang run- right into the Lords of Death guys they were looking for- you know, the ones that took Miao Yin. So they run from them too- but I'm confused, they were looking for these guys- why are they running? 

I guess the Lords of Death work for the Wing Kong, and Lo Pan runs it all. Jack and Wang take refuge at the Dragon of the Black Pool restaurant (cool name) and guess who shows up? Gracie! Small world. She knows all about the gangs, including that the Lords of Death are going to sell Miao Yin to some group called the White Tigers. I have no idea where this is going. Oh, and some guy named Eddie Lee shows up. Turns out that Miao Yin is worth extra cause she has green eyes. 

"She's got green eyes."

"Oh no. Seriously? That's an extra to these people. It's like leather bucket seats. It's double the price"

Um. So here's the plan. The White Tigers run this brothel where apparently Miao Yin is being held, so Jack goes in there to find her. And there's a reporter named Margo who shows up- she's apparently working with Gracie. I don't know. But wait those three dudes- Thunder, Rain and Lightning- show up, kick Jack's ass, and take Miao Yin. So much for the rescue. Wang's pissed off and wants his girl back, so him and Jack are going to get her. They barge in to the Wing Kong place and are promptly captured and brought before Lo Pan. He explains why he needs Miao Yin- she is to be sacrificed so he can be young again, and some curse on him is lifted. Oh and this guy has been in so many cheesy movies it's not even funny. 

So Gracie, Margo and Eddie to the rescue! Except, um, they're captured too. But wait- Jack and Wang free Eddie and escape, and they release a bunch of women prisoners. The martial arts choreography is really bad, by the way. So they escape through some sewers and they all get out- except for Gracie, naturally, who is grabbed by some freakish monster thing. *Sigh* Oh, and Miao Yin still hasn't been rescued. So... if I was her I'd be losing confidence at this point. Meanwhile, back at the restaurant, Jack and Wang are gearing up for... what, a third try? Margo says call the cops (duh), but no... Jack knows better. And Egg (I haven't talked about him yet, he's some dude that has special powers, I don't care) shows up with the Chang Sings (remember them?). I guess they have allies. 

Lo Pan helpfully explains to Gracie that he now has two girls with green eyes- her and Miao Yin. One to marry and one to sacrifice? Meanwhile Jack and gang are underneath Chinatown- Egg is leading them on a secret way. This looks like a $5 set- really. I mean, so fake. I gotta wonder at this point, did they intentionally make this bad or were they playing this straight? It's horrible. There's some weirdass mystical ceremony that Gracie and Miao Yin "survive", and Lo Pan declares he will marry both of them. Right. Okay the rescue crew are in Lo Pan's place now, and we get some gibberish about how it is Egg's destiny to defeat Lo Pan or whatever. He's got a magic potion too. And... there's a floating head with a bunch of eyes. I'm glad this is almost over. 

Okay on to the wedding. They all drink Egg's magic stuff and crash the wedding, but Jack, doofus that he is, knocks himself out before the big fight. Thankfully Gracie's on the case and kicks a little butt, but then Lo Pan is cutting her with his long nails and drinking her blood (??) - oh wait, that's Miao Yin, sorry. Lot going on. There's a lot of martial arts wire work going on, too- you know, people flying through the air and swordfighting while they're doing it. And I love the neon! They're in an underground chamber but there's neon lighting running all along the walls. Nice. 

There's an escalator too. But we'll get there. First, Lo Pan and Egg have a mystical battle, which is a stalemate, then Lo Pan flees with Miao Yin. They cannot seem to rescue her! Jack and Gracie go after her (why don't they wait for Wang and the rest?), and they kiss on the way. You know, and after the kiss, as they confront Lo Pan, Jack has lipstick on his face from the kiss. Now that's a nice touch. Jack faces off with Lo Pan while Wang, who shows up in the nick of time, fights Thunder. And- shocker of shockers- Jack kills Lo Pan! With his knife! After spending the whole movie being a dipshit he's- the hero! Nice. Oh, and Gracie wipes the lipstick off. Wang and Thunder, meanwhile, are fighting, and furniture is flying- was this meant to be funny?- and when Thunder sees Lo Pan is dead, he kinda loses it? As in, he expands like a balloon and- blows up? 

I know. There's only ten minutes left, thank goodness. So now they just have to get past Lightning, and- well- Egg drops a statue on his head, so that's that. And Jack finds his truck! Miao Yin is rescued! It's all good. They celebrate later at the restaurant and Margo invites Eddie over- so that's happening. Egg slips out but Jack asks him if he'll go back to China, and Egg replies, 

"Well, China's in the heart, Jack."  

Aw. So are Jack and Gracie a thing? Well... no, actually. Jack would rather keep truck driving. Although he says he'll "think about it." Wow, I imagine Gracie will have sleepless nights waiting for him to come back. Anyway, and oh- the freakish monster thing that grabbed Gracie back in Lo Pan's place? It stowed away on Jack's truck! Surprise! The next rest stop should be interesting. 

Okay so I've seen this now. Sorry to say. Apparently it was meant to be funny, but I don't know... it's just bad. Like not even in a "so bad it's good" kinda way, although apparently some disagree? It is a cult classic now, after all, supposedly. I'm not feeling it though.  

Sunday Post #241

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer

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So maybe it's spring? Temps have finally warmed but only a little. I'm ready for seventies. Anyone have some nice weather they can send over? In other news Lindsey Stirling is on tour and will be coming to Michigan at three different venues- hoping to make it to one of them. I had a good week and recently made a list of all my upcoming reads- to my surprise there are over a dozen coming just in April and May that I have to have. For someone who is a mood reader that's actually planning ahead pretty far for me. 

Let's see Movies That Sucked this week was... Mad Max: Fury Road. That was fun. As always I love the comments- they're the best part. And this week will be The Mist. Looking forward to seeing everyone's thoughts on that movie.     

Last week I reviewed the Tomb Raider movie as well as The Window. And I posted some Avengers fanfiction. It's been a busy one! This week I'll have some mini- reviews (or something) and who knows? Hope everyone has an awesome week!    

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Swamp City

This image is my writing prompt for the week.

The air was thick and alive with insects as he trudged through the fetid water. To all sides rose the crumbling ruins of the ancient city, now overgrown and desolate. The water sloshing as he moved along made him wary- he was making too much noise-  but surely there was nothing left here to fear? At one time, yes, but no longer. Nevertheless he shivered in spite of the heat  as he passed the obscene statue of some elder god- a grim reminder of the city's dark heritage. There was a time when the croakings and chantings would warn of atrocites to come, with the fall of night, but surely that time was past?