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Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
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I admit we're usually really behind on movies, so I'll go ahead and say that we just watched the Blair Witch Project (in-laws and DH & I). I was totally disappointed in the thing! We were all ready for a scary movie and even my MIL was laughing! Actually, she did think it was real (but stupid)...and I wasn't exactly sure...but it all seemed too hinky to me. I told her, "Ok, if it's real...then why wasn't anything recorded after both of them dropped the cameras on the floor? Did they just disintegrate along with whoever else was there? Her buddy was standing there against the wall when she dropped her camera." Needless to say, I was gullable until I just did a little surfing to confirm it was "just" a movie! LOL So did anyone think it was real, find it scary, like it, think it was a waste of time?? I still might have scary dreams tonight.....
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
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I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Maybe that's why the idea of trail running freaks me out. k
Watching it for the first time today could not possibly have the same effect. Sadly.
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Oh great. Thanks for that!!
That movie has become somewhat ingrained in our culture and there are so many send-offs and its style has inspired so much programming out there that it is no longer as scary. Think back to when it came out, before reality television, before the recent resurgance of horror and the current tense world political climate. There was no big web 2.0 internet with so much consumer-driven content and rehashed review upon rehashed review. It came out during a window of innocence and in a last vestage of a pre-information age in which we still had some bit of privacy. And onto that world blew this horrible, realistic, understated voyeuristic view on a world falling apart as fear mounted. We screamed for what could be in the shadows. And at the time it was very very hard to watch. And to think about. And to remember. Watching it for the first time today could not possibly have the same effect. Sadly. And because the fear mounted and the suspense grew, falling alseep after a half hour you missed the worst scariest parts. That, to me, would be like deciding Harry Potter was childish after reading just the first book
As if the old dude escapee from the retirement home didn't freak you out...?