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[SarahsKnight]

Maybe critiquing your own work often is a writer thing?

I think it's good to do that, though.

 

[bèlla]

However, the vast majority of retail investor accounts lose money. It's very risky, and I wouldn't recommend anyone put any real money into trades unless they're got six months history of consistent profits with minimal drawdown.

I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. That’s the best way to begin. My daughter does crypto. She’s up 7 and pulled out her principle. I made her do it. The rest is gravy and you can see where it goes.

 

[SarahsKnight]

To celebrate the start of my "big weekend" (Friday afternoon to Tuesday evening off from work once a month, assuming the schedule goes as normal), I am about to sit down to - as far as I know - the first movie adaptation of R.L. Stine's infamous series of teen horror books known as Fear Street. I read a few of them late in life, but they were big in the 90's and my sister had quite the collection at the time (I was too little to appreciate any kind of horror-based entertainment at the time), and Stine could get pretty hardcore in these Fear Street books, silly and ridiculous in their own way as they could easily get sometimes. Looking forward to this movie, apparently meant to be the first part of a trilogy with the next two on the way very soon. Just what sorts of crazy adventures - likely ending in most of their deaths - will these hapless high-schoolers of Shadyside be able to get into in Part 1 tonight? Hope it doesn't suck!

(Seriously, in the books why didn't everyone eventually decide to just MOVE out of that accursed town? Half the kids never make it to their high-school graduation!)

 

[SarahsKnight]

To celebrate the start of my "big weekend" (Friday afternoon to Tuesday evening off from work once a month, assuming the schedule goes as normal), I am about to sit down to - as far as I know - the first movie adaptation of R.L. Stine's infamous series of teen horror books known as Fear Street. I read a few of them late in life, but they were big in the 90's and my sister had quite the collection at the time (I was too little to appreciate any kind of horror-based entertainment at the time), and Stine could get pretty hardcore in these Fear Street books, silly and ridiculous in their own way as they could easily get sometimes. Looking forward to this movie, apparently meant to be the first part of a trilogy with the next two on the way very soon. Just what sorts of crazy adventures - likely ending in most of their deaths - will these hapless high-schoolers of Shadyside be able to get into in Part 1 tonight? Hope it doesn't suck!

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(Seriously, in the books why didn't everyone eventually decide to just MOVE out of that accursed town? Half the kids never make it to their high-school graduation!)

Hah!

Sorry, had to come back to post this after the opening line of the movie =>

Cashier Girl at Bookstore: "Oh, the very first Fear Street novel, 'The New Girl'. A classic, to be sure."

*camera immediately pans to frowning mother in her early 40's, who wastes no time in responding*

Mother: "It's trash. .... It's for my teen daughter. Nobody else reads 'em."



With both this and a few scenes from the oddly well-done Goosebumps movie in 2015, I must say R.L. Stine is a pretty good sport when it comes to playful self-deprecation.

 

[angelsaroundme]

I'm planning to wait till all three movies are out. Hope they turn out good.

 

[SarahsKnight]

.... Wow.


WOW this movie sucks. The murderer is by far the least awful main character here. O_O


Disclaimer: That was not a joke.


Edit: To summarize why I am finding this film terrible as shortly as I can, it's because the writer(s) are seemingly trying to be both as "edgy" - by having the teens from a PG-13 literary universe endlessly swear and scream like they belong in an R-rated cinematic universe - and as sensitive and inclusive - by tackling some of the social and cultural issues as they apply to present day (being gay and trans-inclusive, for example) - as possible. And the attempts at both of these qualities in the characters and dialogue are clumsy as all heck. These characters do not act like real people, and for a slasher film where most of the cast just exists to die in certain order, that's saying something. And people who haven't read the core books are fairly certain to be left in the dust with the way the movie's story is being told. How are they supposed to be invested in what's going on when they can't know the significance of this town or the names and histories associated with it?

.... And, ewww, EWWW, even as I type this right now the scene that just started happening .... The books were kind of known for abusive and stalker-y ex-boyfriends who inexplicably end up being the hero of the day - and that was never a good message but I assume was probably just naive and innocently tone-deaf on writer R.L. Stine's part - but in the film right now one of the girls is about to have an implied sex scene, getting back together with her ex who has been aggressively jealous and verbally abusive toward her this entire movie. Well, they're both terrible people in their own ways, so, not exactly something I wanted to see or even be implied, but I guess it fits. =/ Basically, I could never grasp why anyone would ever wish to have physical intimacy with someone who is treating or has treated him/her poorly in some way. Just, don't you deserve better than that?
I can't imagine still being physically or emotionally attracted to the girl I hold fondness for right now if she ever turned on me and began to yell at and verbally abuse me all of the time ... or in a jealous rage caused the car I was in to have a potentially bad accident that wound up putting me in the hospital coughing up blood (yes, that actually happened between the above two movie characters I was speaking of ... and now those same two were going to have sex just now before the killer crashed the party on them).

Actually, sex scenes of even the non-explicit, discretionary/off-camera variety in movies just tend to make me uncomfortable, anyway. Not trying to act prudish; they just always seem so forced and completely unnecessary, like they're in the movie just for the sake of being there, as some sort of unspoken tradition.




..... And what on Earth does this line even mean?

*guy distributes pills on a counter to everyone as part of some nonsensical scheme to evade the supernatural killer*

Okay, so, it's very important you take these in order. Pile 1 really takes the edge off; you're going to feel like you are being ... by a unicorn!



WHAT? WHO TALKS LIKE THIS?



@angelsaroundme , might I suggest that you leave me to be the guinea pig who took one for the team in watching this movie before you, and just read a summary on Part 1, then skip ahead to the second part of the trilogy. Considering the titles of the following movies, they can't possibly have the same contemptible, unrealistic characters and atrocious dialogue in them.

Your choice of course, as my personal standards on this kind of thing might be totally different from yours. I just thought it'd be conscientious of me to warn you first.

 

[Tone]

.... Wow.


WOW this movie sucks. The murderer is by far the least awful main character here. O_O


Disclaimer: That was not a joke.

Wow, I think this is the harshest I've ever heard you type ...

 

[SarahsKnight]

SPOILERT ALERT (but I strongly urge everyone here to not check the first Fear Street movie out on Netflix if you were planning on it, anyway):



I ... I am seriously aghast at what awful people the protagonists in this movie are. The three survivors actually chose to oust their two dead friends as drug addicts who tweaked out so hard one night that they are the ones who killed everyone in the course of the movie's second and third acts, in a psychotic rampage. They utterly destroyed the reputations of two people who called them friends just to save themselves from possible jail time because the cops wouldn't believe the supernatural circumstances of the night's events, that actually happened ... and the three survivors have no second thoughts or reservations about having their murdered friends be forever remembered poorly in death by everyone they knew, all to avoid the trouble of people in town not believing the real story at first. Just ... I... can't fathom how the movie expected me to sympathize with and cheer for protagonists like these.

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Everyone in this community, if you presently consider me a friend and I die one day soon before all of you, then may I humbly request of you:
Please do not physically deface the name "Sarah's Knight" on my grave in any way and have everyone we mutually know across CF and the places I have lived all turn against me, now cursing the day I had been born, by your making up stories about me actually being a notorious serial killer who gleefully took out entire convents of sweet elderly nuns with a power drill .... pls k? Thx

 

[angelsaroundme]

@angelsaroundme , might I suggest that you leave me to be the guinea pig who took one for the team in watching this movie before you, and just read a summary on Part 1, then skip ahead to the second part of the trilogy. Considering the titles of the following movies, they can't possibly have the same contemptible, unrealistic characters and atrocious dialogue in them.

Your choice of course, as my personal standards on this kind of thing might be totally different from yours. I just thought it'd be conscientious of me to warn you first.

Thanks, I appreciate the warning. I had concerns because they mentioned the series was being changed to be for grown-ups. In the past that might have meant more sophisticated and intellectual. These days it tends to amount to swearing and being edgy like you said. My expectations are a lot lower after what you wrote about it. I didn't read the Fear Street novels but they probably should have kept them as they were in adapting them.

 

[Tone]

Hey @bèlla , you were in my dream last night!

I was surprised at how white you looked and I remember thinking, wow, she really is the way she is on here...irl, and she is from a totally different world than me.

Yeah, I know, strange...I've been having fun dreams of late!

 

[SarahsKnight]

I imagine Miss @bèlla might appear as radiant as any angel to many in their dreams. ^-^

 

[SarahsKnight]

My expectations are a lot lower after what you wrote about it. I didn't read the Fear Street novels but they probably should have kept them as they were in adapting them.

On the plus side, a preview of the second part during the credits of the first gives me hope that it will get better. After all, the same characters from the first movie clearly will not be here, with their petty, catty high school drama. This one's taking place at a summer camp, and at an entirely different time, it appears ... obviously also with teens just like in any Fear Street book, but still, there's hope that they'll be more sympathetic people than the ones in the previous movie. ... I mean, you certainly can't make them worse people than I've already seen.

 

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So uhh, has Bells actually shown her picture to anyone here or is her looks the figment of peoples imaginations?

 

[bèlla]

Hey @bèlla , you were in my dream last night!

I was surprised at how white you looked and I remember thinking, wow, she really is the way she is on here...irl, and she is from a totally different world than me.

Yeah, I know, strange...I've been having fun dreams of late!

I don't have porcelain skin. I'm a light beige. But it's funny you say that. When I saw the pictures from my aunt's retirement party I said the same. You're really light.

Behavior wise, I'm the same. The music and sites I share are things I look at r/t. I have a laid back poise. I'm not super proper, religious, etc.

 

[bèlla]

I imagine Miss @bèlla might appear as radiant as any angel to many in their dreams. ^-^

LOL We need to work on my halo.

 

[Tone]

I don't have porcelain skin. I'm a light beige. But it's funny you say that. When I saw the pictures from my aunt's retirement party I said the same. You're really light.

Behavior wise, I'm the same. The music and sites I share are things I look at r/t. I have a laid back poise. I'm not super proper, religious, etc.

Yeah, that's how it was in the dream, and you were speaking just like you type here. And your voice was whiteish too...ha ha. And you looked pretty young, like mid 30s!

 

[bèlla]

Yeah, that's how it was in the dream, and you were speaking just like you type here. And your voice was whiteish too...ha ha. And you looked pretty young, like mid 30s!

This is my vernacular. I adopt my conversation to the environment. But the tone and elocution are constants. My voice is clear. I've been speaking publicly since childhood. Some might call it 'white'. But it's really good English and years spent before an audience.

I'm aging well. God's grace and genetics.

 

[Tone]

This is my vernacular. I adopt my conversation to the environment. But the tone and elocution are constants. My voice is clear. I've been speaking publicly since childhood. Some might call it 'white'. But it's really good English and years spent before an audience.

I'm aging well. God's grace and genetics.

Hmmmm, this is interesting. I wonder if the person in the dream is an image of you...

Because, ive never seen the woman before...

...and if so...why?

The subconscious is a powerful thing, I guess.

 

[bèlla]

Hmmmm, this is interesting. I wonder if the person in the dream is an image of you...

I doubt it. But we've spoken a lot recently. The mind replays things.

 

[angelsaroundme]

On the plus side, a preview of the second part during the credits of the first gives me hope that it will get better. After all, the same characters from the first movie clearly will not be here, with their petty, catty high school drama. This one's taking place at a summer camp, and at an entirely different time, it appears ... obviously also with teens just like in any Fear Street book, but still, there's hope that they'll be more sympathetic people than the ones in the previous movie. ... I mean, you certainly can't make them worse people than I've already seen.

That's the good thing about the bar being low, it can only go up! Summer camp should be a fun atmosphere too and it works good with horror most of the time. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts when it comes out.