So I have got to rant a bit. I hate horror movies today. For serious. I think within the past 10 years I have liked maybe 7...maybe...most of them are the Final Destination films. I don't know. Magic is just gone from them I think. There is no excitement. Nothing left to the imagination. Film, especially horror movies...nowadays lack imagination. For one, you see everything...what happened to suspense? Halloween? Nightmare on Elm Street, Psycho, hell even Candyman and others...yes...movies like From Beyond, The Thing remake, Re-Animator, Day of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead...where gore and guts are flaunted...there is still a level of fantasy, fun, they don't take themselves too seriously. Recently a friend and I watched this movie called Smiley...ah Smiley...I don't even know how to describe this masterpiece...let me just say this...I am a lame homebody who doesn't know anything about anything when it comes to computers, or the silliness that accompanies it...that being said Smiley deals almost completely with the internet subculture, the whole time I was sitting there watching I kept having to ask my friend what pedo-bear meant, what this website was...are they hackers? Fuck if I know. Needless to say it took us a day or two to actually finish this crap fest. So this movie is sort of like a new "young" version of the Candyman mythos. Basically what you do is video chat roulette...you set up a video chat with a stranger, then you type "I did it for the LULZ" 3 times and low and behold a myth called Smiley will murder said person in front of you. This leads to a girls mental breakdown...is smiley real? Is smiley a figment of her imagination? Are her friends really missing or just joshing around?? Who the hell knows and who the hell cares! This movie is full of terrible actors (apart from creepy teacher ROGER BART & non believing detective KEITH DAVID) who do their roles very well...weird things that if you aren't in the know...you will be constantly confused & asking questions and seeming very stupid to a boy you wanna impress...they try to make this movie intelligent but it just falls flat. And the flick ends with a very wah wah ending. Apart from Roger Bart's creepy conspiracy theorist college professor...who sexually harasses the main character...with the great line...WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO FOR THE LULZ?

Its a pretty impressive performance in my opinion. I mean I would definitely do something for the LULZ if it were Roger Bart. He's just creepy sexy enough :-) Its all a jumbled mess and whats worse is with this movie being so bad...its played so damn straight! So serious! I mean...where is the fun? Movies like Halloween had nice built up suspense & real life characters with real life jokes and actions of real teenagers. Maybe i'm just too old, i'm not sure...its probably right on with the youth now...and I feel really sorry for them if they totally get this movie and think its the new generation of horror. WOO...time for bed.