Cabal said:

It translates best to “the horror film” in Arabic. For sentences, you can't use an internet translator very well, but single words give multiple great options for people to work with. 

actually, i meant, figure it out phoenetically, pronunciation.  i rarely use internet resources for translation, machines dont understand phraseology, so, they tend to lead to errors.  copy/paste isnt very conducive to learning, in my opinion. 

buried somewhere within all my junk is a couple phrasebooks for arabic, farsi/dari, and pashtu.  thank you, us army.

tcm, i only give it up to the first one, and that, only because it freaked me out when i first saw it, at age eight or so.  today?  eh.

these days, the vast majority of horror movies, classic or not, mostly bore the shit out of me.  i guess the genre as a whole just isnt as effective anymore, you know?

Violentdope said:

I'll be there opening day for sure.

i probably would have, but i cant stand the theater experience these days.  waste of money.

mostly, thats because of the weaknesses of the theaters around me.  theres always at least one factor fucking everything up, often more than one.  bad sound, bad projection, bad seating conditions, bad concessions, bad moviegoers. 

and from the owners on down, nobody who works in them gives even the slightest fuck.  unless youve been in the lobby for more than ten minutes without spending money.  then they give a fuck, because youre loitering, and they throw you out. 

i think the last time i went to the [local] theater was for a midnight showing of episode iii.  i showed up at around eleven oclock, nobody there but a cop.  the cop says, come back at 11:15, or im tresspassing.  for real.  as if he works for the theater, the cop [who i already knew] tells us, 'read the back of the ticket.'

the back of the ticket says, 'doors will open at 11:15 pm'.  they shouldve put a note under that about how being there early means you are subject to arrest. 

i mean, fuck, the patrons from the evening shows had basicly just left, the place was only closed for about a half hour…