The husband, he amuses me.
Jul. 31st, 2008 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feliciakwSo, a couple months back, while we were having lunch at IHOP, Geo and I were talking, as we often do over lunch, about our current TV shows and the actors who appear therein. We often discuss their other projects, and what story or screenplay ideas of Geo's they might fit in.
And Geo says that he'd like to see the remake of House of Wax. Huh-buh-WHA???? Um . . . okay . . . Why?
Well, now that he knows someone in it, he says. Meaning Jared. Because neither of us really care about Paris Hilton. In fact, Geo says, "I hear Paris Hilton gets killed pretty early on." (Oh, if only . . . ) So I put it on our Netflix queue.
So we rent it, and I enjoyed Jared's stuff, and the production design was fairly amazing, and I wrote my review, and we sent it back to Netflix.
Then, a couple weeks later I see that Geo has . . . bought the orchestral score to the movie. Okay, what? He thought the orchestral score (as opposed to the rock soundtrack) was really cool. "But," I'm thinking, "it's a remake of a Vincent Price classic. Since when do you even want anything to do with such things?"
Then last week, I'm sitting on the couch, and he comes up behind me and says, "You're going to laugh."
"Oh?"
"Guess what I bought for $2."
"What did you buy for $2?" I ask. And somewhere in the back of my mind, a little voice says, "House of Wax."
And he pulls out the DVD of . . . House of Wax.
I throw my hands up in disbelief.
I should point out that Geo also surprised me when he purchased the DVD to the remake of 13 Ghosts, also based on a horror "classic" of the same name, which, incidentally, was also 3-D in the original. Huh. But the remake had the same production designer as HoW, and the production design in that one was also, admittedly, very cool. So I really wasn't surprised with the HoW purchase, but still . . .
And people claim I'm trying to make excuses for watching this stuff.
And the other night when Geo couldn't sleep, he went to the computer room and watched the movie on the computer. He was amazed as the details in the set design and cinematography (a lot of which is missed on our rather . . . inexpensive . . . TV set), and he said you could see in great detail when Jared's character gets his Achilles tendon clipped (OUCH!!!! CRINGE!!!!). And he finds some of the twists they put in the story very interesting.
So now I can watch the Jared stuff all I want. But we still don't have a copy of Cry Wolf, which, imo, is the better of the two stories.
And Geo says that he'd like to see the remake of House of Wax. Huh-buh-WHA???? Um . . . okay . . . Why?
Well, now that he knows someone in it, he says. Meaning Jared. Because neither of us really care about Paris Hilton. In fact, Geo says, "I hear Paris Hilton gets killed pretty early on." (Oh, if only . . . ) So I put it on our Netflix queue.
So we rent it, and I enjoyed Jared's stuff, and the production design was fairly amazing, and I wrote my review, and we sent it back to Netflix.
Then, a couple weeks later I see that Geo has . . . bought the orchestral score to the movie. Okay, what? He thought the orchestral score (as opposed to the rock soundtrack) was really cool. "But," I'm thinking, "it's a remake of a Vincent Price classic. Since when do you even want anything to do with such things?"
Then last week, I'm sitting on the couch, and he comes up behind me and says, "You're going to laugh."
"Oh?"
"Guess what I bought for $2."
"What did you buy for $2?" I ask. And somewhere in the back of my mind, a little voice says, "House of Wax."
And he pulls out the DVD of . . . House of Wax.
I throw my hands up in disbelief.
I should point out that Geo also surprised me when he purchased the DVD to the remake of 13 Ghosts, also based on a horror "classic" of the same name, which, incidentally, was also 3-D in the original. Huh. But the remake had the same production designer as HoW, and the production design in that one was also, admittedly, very cool. So I really wasn't surprised with the HoW purchase, but still . . .
And people claim I'm trying to make excuses for watching this stuff.
And the other night when Geo couldn't sleep, he went to the computer room and watched the movie on the computer. He was amazed as the details in the set design and cinematography (a lot of which is missed on our rather . . . inexpensive . . . TV set), and he said you could see in great detail when Jared's character gets his Achilles tendon clipped (OUCH!!!! CRINGE!!!!). And he finds some of the twists they put in the story very interesting.
So now I can watch the Jared stuff all I want. But we still don't have a copy of Cry Wolf, which, imo, is the better of the two stories.
