Not that Wonderland Ugh. Once again, here on a Saturday 12 hour shift. I�ve watched 2 movies today, Wonderland and Ginger Snaps and I am totally starving. Well, hungry, at least. I am SO bored. I am also slightly pissed off at my co-workers who keep telling me just how dead this shift is. I�ve fielded as many phone calls as I do on a regular day, and I�ve opened about 15 cases today. That�s not a slow day. That�s a normal day for me, minus the 100 emails I usually process. Even the engineers say that when I show up for a Saturday gig, it gets busier. WTF? At least I�m done with PIH for the day, the miserable fuckers. Reboot your damn computers and get new phones, to hell with you all. Heh heh , feeling a little toxic, yes? It usually happens about this time of the 12 hour shift. 2 hours until April comes and I can leave. I did make a doozy of a mistake today and involved the manager for E7K in Atlanta but we had a good time about it and it all got resolved in the end. And no planes fell out of the sky, so I consider that well taken care of. The movies? Ah, yes. Wonderland. This is based on the Wonderland murders that happened in 1981 that John Holmes, the great Johnny Wadd, the 14� porn star of infamy, was �involved� in � at least at the time he was pretty well implicated yet acquitted. However, GODDAMNED PHONE! STOP RINGING! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SLOW SHIFT!!! ahem However, his girlfriend, Dawn Schiller, later revealed after his death that he told her that he was forced to watch as the murders took place, and he more than likely took part in at least part of the proceedings. Val Kilmer does his usual selfish strung-out bastard as John Holmes, although I kept looking at him and thinking, �he�s turned into a fat bastard, hasn�t he?� One very interesting thing was the use of real footage, such as John Holmes movie footage over the opening credits, superimposed with the photos of the actual bodies from the murder scene. Another extra on the disc was the actual video shot by the police investigating the crime scene. With the bodies still there and all. I thought that was odd. Wouldn�t they need to get releases from the family members and all that? I find these �drama-documentaries� interesting because most of them play up what the public pretty much already KNOWS, or at least ASSUMES, what actually happened, yet at the time, no one had enough evidence to convict or at least enough knowledge to know what REALLY REALLY happened, but it shows at least the most PLAUSIBLE situation. For example, there�s Sid and Nancy which takes the more romantic view that Nancy�s death was a tragic accident and Sid�s death was a romantic suicide. In Autofocus you just KNOW that John Carpenter killed Bob Crane but they don�t show that, but they do show just how agitated the Carpenter character was that night. An interesting thing about that, the director refused to let Willem Dafoe be the actor in the shots where Crane was killed, because there�s still the notion that he didn�t do it, despite a deathbed confession, as I understand it. Or deathbed conviction due to a blurry photograph that MIGHT show grey matter. Anyhoo, I rather thought Wonderland was okay, although I know many people don�t like it � perhaps because you never see John�s schlong. This ain�t Boogie Nights, people. No prosthetic wee-wees here. Oh, and Eric Bogosian plays Eddie Nash, the Palestinian racketeer whom Holmes sets up. Where the hell has that guy been? The second feature was Ginger Snaps and I don�t know where I got the notion that this was a �70s slasher/boobie exploitation flick but that�s not what it was. Ginger Snaps is actually a very good Canadian horror/comedy (yes, parts of it were quite finny) about two outcast sisters, and the madness that ensues when one (Ginger) gets bitten by a werewolf and goes a little nuts. Ginger SNAPS, get it? This has some wonderful creature effects but the story is very strong and it is acted very very well. A little bloody and strange. It did have some great lines, though. �I can�t have hair on my chest, B. That�s FUCKED!� Ginger to her sister, Brigitte �I�m WAY OUT on the corner of �Fucked Up� and �Evil�!!� Ben to Brigitte, after being bitten by Ginger. The disc didn�t have any extras on it though, beyond the trailer, which disappoints me. I was also disappointed that Wonderland didn�t have a commentary on it. I was led to believe that one of the discs had John Holmes footage on it too. I guess not. I guess I�m just gonna have to go down to my local adult superstore and rent some. Yes, we have adult superstores here. One of the ones close to my house is actually the size of a Walgreens (or possibly even bigger) and is brightly lit and full of neon and full of very helpful salespeople. It�s a great thing to have a lengthy convo about the advantages of one lubricant over another. And some of the vibrators there cost more than my first car, for cryin out loud. It�s a very happy place, though, I will say that. Gary and I should go a do a little shopping. And I should leave some Mary Kay pamphlets there.
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