Summary: Trying to remember a movie involving a haunted plane trip, I found people ranting about the state of horror today. I rant back. Also, while researching copyright laws, found RIAA's statement about how piracy is too benign a concept to apply to illegal downloaders. I'll rant about that, too.
Two [kind of mini] rants: the state of horror today and RIAA's considering of piracy [i.e. real pirates] to be relatively benign
BLOT: (28 Feb 2012 - 10:26:05 AM)
Two [kind of mini] rants: the state of horror today and RIAA's considering of piracy [i.e. real pirates] to be relatively benign
This morning, I was eating breakfast and I went, "What's that movie where the guys refuses to turn off his handheld device upon take-off and makes a big deal about it, something to do with ghosts haunting a plane?" and the movie turned out to be
While I'm not too excited about 7500, people screeching about "the death of originality in horror!" and "GHOSTS ON A PLANE?!? DERP!" should hush. We live in a time where the most anticipated movies are all sequels and remakes, and there have been other horror movies on a plane.
Horror movies, like romantic movies and comedies and action films, only have about 4 seeds. It's always what is done with them that matters. And one of the BIG seeds is: supernatural something plagues erstwhile group in an isolated capsule that represents the everyday. The other big one is: pre-formed group stumble into the supernatural something's domain, often desecrating it and citing its wrath.
Horror is essentially a study of the outside and inside being thrust together and bound without easy escape. [rant off]
If rants about horror aren't your thing, then another one that I stumbled upon was the RIAA's use of the phrase: It's commonly known as "piracy," but that's too benign of a term to adequately describe the toll that music theft takes on the enormous cast of industry players working behind the scenes to bring music to your ears. And while I expect a body like the RIAA to try and sling hyperbole, I mostly felt sad1 about the fact that either forget or disingenuously don't care that piracy is a real thing with a long history of terrible consequences: murder, rape, stealing of money and vital supplies, pressing people into slavery of both the labor and sexual kinds, sinking of 1000s of ships, costing countries the equivalent of billions of current American dollars, impacting trade routes, and even forcing some countries to change their national borders to better reflect the issue. Ports and cities were burned. Modern piracy is still costing in the billions-of-dollars range and impacting international law. But, yes, RIAA, let's say that actual people being killed and raped and pressed into slavery and actual goods that cost billions being stolen is too benign a concept.
1: The severity of my sadness in ratio to my want to be a smart ass I'll leave up to your guess and imagination, but aim high.
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