{"id":375,"date":"2006-08-13T20:55:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=278"},"modified":"2006-08-13T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T01:55:35","slug":"afraid-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of the dark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan and I adore movies.  But for some reason, we don&#8217;t see very many in the theatre.  Since we&#8217;ve been together (going on 4 years), we estimate that we&#8217;ve seen less than 10 on the big screen.  The ones we can remember, in order, are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Red Dragon<\/li>\n<li>Love Actually<\/li>\n<li>Big Fish<\/li>\n<li>Lord of the Rings 1<\/li>\n<li>Lord of the Rings 3<\/li>\n<li>Derailed (won the tickets)<\/li>\n<li>V for Vendetta (won the tickets)<\/li>\n<p>I know.  We&#8217;re pathetic.  But at least we admit it.\n<\/ol>\n<p>So&#8230;last Sunday, while waiting to catch our 2 am flight from Saskatoon, we decided we&#8217;d kill some time by going to the theatre to catch a flick.  Perfect.  It had been ages (obviously), and there wasn&#8217;t much else going on after 9 pm in the city.  We pulled up and decided that we&#8217;d choose from the 5 or 6 that were playing, even though we didn&#8217;t recognize many of the titles.  After finding that most were &#8216;John Tucker Must Die&#8217;-esque, we decided that we&#8217;d go with the one choice that neither of us remembered hearing about before: The Descent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"photodir2.jpeg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/photodir2.jpeg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"160\" height=\"313\" id=\"image280\" style=\"height: 313px\" alt=\"photodir2.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/photodir2.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It started out looking a little low-budget, but it turns out that low budget can SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU!  I admit to being a bit of a wuss in my oldish age, but I actually spent sections of this movie watching from between my fingers and whispering to Dan that we should just leave and find out about the ending later.  Check out the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lr-c_jBy7XM&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">trailer<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"descent.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/descent.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"173\" id=\"image279\" style=\"height: 173px\" alt=\"descent.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/descent.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was by no means the best movie I&#8217;ve ever seen.  As with all thrillers and horror flicks, there were some things about this one that didn&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> work.  But it did exactly as it was supposed to, to the point that I was even a bit chicken to head into the washroom alone after the movie was over.   It played on all your primal fears and made me realize that I am much less adventurous than I thought was.  Not that exploring unexplored caves was ever an option for me&#8230;I mean, imagine the bugs that live down there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan and I adore movies. But for some reason, we don&#8217;t see very many in the theatre. Since we&#8217;ve been together (going on 4 years), we estimate that we&#8217;ve seen less than 10 on the big screen. The ones we can remember, in order, are: Red Dragon Love Actually Big Fish Lord of the Rings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}