elm street ain't nightmare....lindan was

i am a movie buff but i am never a fan of horror movie. i am a coward when it comes to watching really scary or revolting stuff. but i do have my share of horror movies that mould my fear for this genre.

there are 3 movies that i can remember rather vividly. first is nightmare on elm's street (the original one donkey years ago). next is 'it' based on the novel by stephen king. i still think of 'it' whenever i see a clown. and third is a thai horror called 'nang nak'. although i can't understand the language, it was not a problem reading the subtitle. these 3 are good horror movies to watch in my list.....well, also because these 3 are the ones i really watched. hahaha....

and i watched all 3 on tv at home. no silver screen for me. the timid mouse inside me is squirming everytime i thought of buying a ticket to watch a horror movie.

i think my siblings should remember nightmare on elm's street as well.....because all of us watched it together all huddled up in front of the tv on a rainy night. i think i was in secondary school at that time. no adults were home at that time and we closed all the doors of the house because of the rain outside. halfway through the movie, all of a sudden we heard knocks on the wooden door. it made us jumped and we braved ourselves to open the door. when we opened it and saw no one (!!!), we quickly closed the door and were prepared to run up the stairs when the knocks came again. again we deliberated...finally someone went to open it and there stood our neighbour. phew! i can't remember why she knocked on our door at that time....but i still can remember the fear which attacked us the moment we saw no one outside when we opened the door. this incident cemented freddy krueger's reputation in my life.

well, that is until few hours ago. went to watch nightmare on elm's street on the silver screen in ipoh tonight. the cinema hall was quite full and i was expecting a scary journey. after all, it was dear freddy we are dealing with. oh, how i remember him. the star newspaper gave the movie a 2/5 review....so that was bad. and it kinda was that bad. i was not scared at all although the scenes where the characters died were quite disgusting and gory. blood and slits and cuts. the freddy here was not as mean. i wonder if my age played a part....older and more realistic?

anyway, those of you who have never seen our mr krueger on screen before should go and say 'hi' to him. and those of you like me who is thinking of reconnecting with the ghost of the yonder years....well, don't. the old ghost is a better one.

hmhh.....would robin hood be a better choice tonight? but the thought of russell crowe as the thief with honour and cate blancett as lady marion puts me off. again, i have my preconception....blame it on robin of sherwood series i watched in the 80's. i loyally followed that every week. russell crowe is too well-fed for the role and cate is too old. someone please go and watch it and tell me how wrong i am.

and so i won't be getting any nightmare tonight but i think the malaysian thomas cup team had just faced theirs at putra stadium tonight. i managed to catch lindan and lee chongwei's second set after the movie ended. i purposely looked for a dining place with big tv screen to catch the matches.

our hope of reaching the final is dashed in 3 games. i think most ppl know that lindan is a better player than our leechong wei although the world ranking states differently. tonight, lindan again showed that world ranking does not matter. but at least leechong wei did make him fight for some of the points.

i am not pissed with malaysia losing. this time, i am damned pissed with lindan. oh his arrogance. i think he has something against malaysians. did you see how he celebrated after winning the match point? was it necessary to take off his shirt? what? to show off his muscles? and then...oooh....geramnya.......the next thing he did was to flex his shoulder muscles from right to left ala a hip-hop dancer. it was as if telling us what an easy match it was for him that all his muscles were still relaxed and he could flex them without any trouble. i can't stand it. i don't want to watch lindan play anymore!!!!

can't wait to read what the newspaper will report tomorrow.
ok better hit the bed now. have to rest for gotong-royong tomorrow. i wonder if i will be sweating it out cleaning the place or from pointing my fingers and giving instructions. haha....after all, we will have kids assigned to help out. i am sure they are keen to lighten our burden.
have a happy weekend.