Derby Review
Aug. 8th, 2010 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlGreg and I went to the roller derby last night. Greg enjoyed it, but I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. In fact, I found the whole thing down right boring.
The game is split into two thirty minute halves, and each half contains an unspecified numbers of Jams. A Jam is a two minute play during which each team's Jammer (point scorer) tries to lap as many members of the opposite team as possible. They receive one point for each member of the opposite team they pass. There's more to it than that, but that's the gist.
Between each Jam the teams rotate players and are given thirty seconds to set up for the next Jam. Changing players every two minutes, sometimes less, kept the game from building any momentum. Just as I was getting excited about what was going on, the Jam would end and thirty seconds of shuffling would commence. Lame.
I also found the scoring system really hinky. I felt it gave an unfair advantage to whichever team was in the lead and prevented the trailing team from catching up. There were times when I was certain that one team or the other had scored, but when I looked at the scoreboard, discovered they hadn't. I had no clue what was going on even with the rule sheet sitting in my lap the whole time.
Finally, I didn't really like the crowd which was made almost entirely of hipsters from Williamsburg. They were all white, tattooed, pierced, and obviously well off. They seemed almost offended they had to sit in cramped, smelly, college court bleachers to watch the game.
While I'm glad we went, and I'm glad Greg had fun, it's not something I'd ever want to do again.
The game is split into two thirty minute halves, and each half contains an unspecified numbers of Jams. A Jam is a two minute play during which each team's Jammer (point scorer) tries to lap as many members of the opposite team as possible. They receive one point for each member of the opposite team they pass. There's more to it than that, but that's the gist.
Between each Jam the teams rotate players and are given thirty seconds to set up for the next Jam. Changing players every two minutes, sometimes less, kept the game from building any momentum. Just as I was getting excited about what was going on, the Jam would end and thirty seconds of shuffling would commence. Lame.
I also found the scoring system really hinky. I felt it gave an unfair advantage to whichever team was in the lead and prevented the trailing team from catching up. There were times when I was certain that one team or the other had scored, but when I looked at the scoreboard, discovered they hadn't. I had no clue what was going on even with the rule sheet sitting in my lap the whole time.
Finally, I didn't really like the crowd which was made almost entirely of hipsters from Williamsburg. They were all white, tattooed, pierced, and obviously well off. They seemed almost offended they had to sit in cramped, smelly, college court bleachers to watch the game.
While I'm glad we went, and I'm glad Greg had fun, it's not something I'd ever want to do again.
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Date: 2010-08-20 05:06 am (UTC)I should really watch Halloween again. Haven't seen it since my brother made me watch it when I was 8. I have no recollection of it whatsoever.
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Date: 2010-08-20 08:52 am (UTC)IT'S SO AWESOME!!! and has the BEST MUSICAL SCORE EVER.
Also recommended: Nightmare on Elm Street (1, 3, & 4).
The Fog (original).
the Wicker Man (original).
The Devils Rejects
Descent
The Bride of Frankenstein
Phantasm
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (original AND the remake)
I'll remember more later.
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:50 pm (UTC)Senior year of college me and a couple of friends made it our mission to watch the entire Elm Street and Friday the 13th series. Good times, good times.
Descent
Dude, that movie scared me so much I slept with my light on for a MONTH (I was 28 at the time :-/), well exceeding the previous record holder, The Ring, which only made me sleep with my light on for a week.
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Date: 2010-08-20 09:44 pm (UTC)that was good, too! (the original Japanese version).
"But 3? Dream Warriors? Seriously? "
YES!! IT's FUN!!
"Dude, that movie scared me so much I slept with my light on for a MONTH"
BOO! I really think it's going to be considered a CLASSIC, just as Halloween is now!
OH I also like SAW.
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Date: 2010-08-21 04:13 am (UTC)YES!! IT's FUN!!
I guess, in a hilarious, craptastic, mid-eighties sort of way.
Strangely, I didn't actually like Descent. The ending was a let down for me. Yet, it was obviously good horror because it scared the shit out of me, and I suppose I like it for that reason. That's also the reason I will never ever watch it again for the rest of my life. I won't watch The Ring again either even though I loved it.
And SAW?! You LIKED Saw?! Now there is a movie I regret paying full price to see in the theatre. I thought it was stupid and pointless. It's a good thing I saw it with a guy who was more interested in making out with me and getting his hand up my shirt than actually watching the film. Otherwise the outing would have been a complete waste.
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Date: 2010-08-21 09:14 am (UTC)I thought it was scary and clever! and well-acted.
Saw 2: good, Saw 3: OK, Saw 4: good, Saw 5: very good, made me want to watch ALL of `em again!
"I saw it with a guy who was more interested in making out with me and getting his hand up my shirt"
lucky guy!
"Strangely, I didn't actually like Descent. "
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!
"The ending was a let down for me. Yet, it was obviously good horror because it scared the shit out of me, and I suppose I like it for that reason. That's also the reason I will never ever watch it again for the rest of my life."
I would've preferred she escaped, but I understand the point. It makes it even MORE scary.
"Audition"
never seen that one!
"hilarious, craptastic, mid-eighties"
pfffffffft! try awesometastic 80's way! FREDDY!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2010-08-22 12:04 am (UTC)Have you seen the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street? I refuse to on the grounds that no one could possibly be as good in the role of Freddy as Robert England.
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Date: 2010-08-27 09:17 am (UTC)People Under the Stairs: GOOD
Shocker: OK
Wes Craven decided to make a more commercial movie (Shocker) and it WASN'T successful.
The Cave: good, but is as much an action movie as horror.
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Date: 2010-08-27 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-09-24 07:23 am (UTC)wazzat one like!?
DO YOU like Steve Miller?
I do!
and what am I doing right now?
LISTENING TO FLY LIKE AN EAGLE!
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Date: 2010-09-25 04:57 am (UTC)As for Audition:
It's weird and Japanese. I didn't think it was scary. Other people disagree with me. Here's the synopsis care of IMDB:
A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. The widower ultimately becomes enamored with and fascinated by one particular young woman...but first impressions can often be horribly wrong
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Date: 2010-08-20 09:44 pm (UTC)THAT one DOES suck.
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Date: 2010-08-21 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-21 06:32 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Savini
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Date: 2010-08-21 11:57 pm (UTC)And that is exactly what I love about it! It doesn't even pretend to be anything else.
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Date: 2010-08-21 11:59 pm (UTC)The Grudge: CEEEEEPY and I had fun making that uheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee noise and scaring my girlfriend!
Shaun of the Dead: SO AWESOME THAT IF YOU COULD CUT IT, IT WOULD BLEED AWESOME, AND THE AWESOME WOULD CONGEAL INTO SOMETHING AWESOME.
the Evil Dead movies
Bubba-Ho-Tep
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Date: 2010-08-22 03:03 am (UTC)I...am hesitant to see Shaun of the Dead mainly because the people in my life who like it are people who have totally different taste in movies than I do.
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Date: 2010-08-22 12:57 am (UTC)"WE'RE YOUR DREAM WARRIORS ! MAYBE TONIGHT WE'LL BE GONE!"
YES I like DOKKEN!!!!
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Date: 2010-08-22 03:04 am (UTC)Somehow I'm not surprised :-)
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