{"id":1296,"date":"2010-02-18T23:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T06:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2013-02-23T03:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T03:40:58","slug":"paraboring-inactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2010\/02\/18\/paraboring-inactivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraboring Inactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, don&#8217;t bother.  And, speaking of not bothering, I&#8217;m not going to bother with &#8216;spoiler warnings&#8217; [as if I ever do], because <i>the trailer already spoils the ending<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to see it, rent it and get the rifftrax.  Because that&#8217;s the only way you can survive the incredible boredom.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not kidding.  It&#8217;s not even remotely scary.  I&#8217;ve seen scarier episodes of&#8230;whatever that show is on SciFi [or SyFy, as it&#8217;s now called] where the plumbers go around looking for evidence of hauntings, and getting mostly evidence of how people work themselves up into believing shit&#8217;s happening when it&#8217;s not&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It could&#8217;ve been better.  Maybe.  If they left out the weird darkside thrumming that alerted viewers to when stuff was about to happen.  And maybe if they&#8217;d done some other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Like, instead of having it escalate, have it be more random.  Have stuff happening in the background of the boring, couple-ey scenes that don&#8217;t do anything for character development.  Stuff that you have to, y&#8217;know, be paying attention to notice.  That&#8217;d be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>But, no.  You&#8217;ve just got the one door moving, some sheets moving, some lights flipping on and off, and&#8230;a lot of boredom.<\/p>\n<p>Also, on night 18, there&#8217;s an elephant.<\/p>\n<p>You think I&#8217;m kidding, don&#8217;t you?  I&#8217;m not.  No, there&#8217;s not <i>actually<\/i> an elephant in the house &#8212; that might be interesting.  It&#8217;s just that trumpeting noise.  Part of the &#8216;ooh scary sounds&#8217; is very much an <i>elephant<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I probably wouldn&#8217;t have made it to night 18 if it weren&#8217;t for the Rifftrax, though.  I would&#8217;ve shut it off after night 3.  Instead, I managed to sit through the entire thing.<\/p>\n<p>My reward?  &#8220;Who let Cthulhu in here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, guys.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t bother. Seriously, don&#8217;t bother. And, speaking of not bothering, I&#8217;m not going to bother with &#8216;spoiler warnings&#8217; [as if I ever do], because the trailer already spoils the ending. I&#8217;m not kidding. If you are going to see it, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2010\/02\/18\/paraboring-inactivity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,110],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-moviestv","tag-negative"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-kU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}