A movie dilemma
Good grief... the Boss has assigned me to review a Japanese horror movie next week! And I NEVER watch horror movies! Arrgh!
I figure my imagination doesn稚 need any extra help; it痴 wild enough as it is, you know. *grin*
I知 pretty selective in the stuff I choose to watch, mostly because I grew up in a household where TV was regulated. We had to get Mom痴 permission to watch shows; there was no such thing as just turning on the 妬diot box� (as Dad calls the TV) to 都ee what痴 on�. No, we had to check the TV guide first, decide what we wanted to see, let Mom read the synopsis, and get her OK on it.
I still have vivid memories of Mom pronouncing, 的t痴 a stupid show! You don稚 need to see this!� � and that would be that!
On the whole, the TV was hardly ever used in our home. It was on for the daily 5:30pm cartoon (a half-hour segment) and the 8pm news, and sometimes a half-hour programme at 8:30pm like Knight Rider, MacGyver, Hunter, Matlock or The Cosby Show. Then we壇 be sent off to do our homework and revise our lessons!
Sitcoms usually ran at 7:30pm, which coincided with dinnertime, so we had to miss those. All meals had to be eaten at the dining table, as a family � no such thing as eating in front of the TV. No such thing as leaving the TV on and craning your neck to see, either. The TV stayed off!
On Saturday mornings, when the stations would have zillions of kids� programmes and cartoons lined up, we were allowed to choose only three programmes to watch. After that it was house chores time and then schoolwork again.
My friends are always stunned when I recount this to them. You have to realise that, in Malaysia, TV is already heavily censored � these days even kissing scenes are cut out! You値l see two people痴 faces getting closer and closer to each other, and then you blink and the next thing you know, they池e drawing apart. I知 like, 展hat? What? Did I miss something?� LOL
I still think my parents were pretty strict, but I think it was a GOOD thing. They protected me from lots of unwholesome stuff, even if I joke that I became a bookworm out of sheer desperation for some form of entertainment!
So now the question is� how am I going to review a movie when I am almost certainly going to close my eyes through 90% of it?
I searched Google for information and this is what I came up with: Return Of The Ring. This doesn稚 sound good at all� eek!
(Update: My colleague has most kindly and graciously agreed to review this movie in my stead... thanks, Geoff! I SO owe you!!)