So apparently I'm cursed...by bad movies.

I've been watching a bunch of movies in the past week or so. Very few really good ones, as it turns out. Ladykillers and The Day After Tomorrow were both pretty good, and the old 60s movie Night of the Living Dead was decent, if dated. Dawn of the Dead was reasonably entertaining, if not particularly horrifying in any way, shape or form. But since then I have come across a number of movies that have been so bad that I have been completely unable to bring myself to even finish watching them. They are:

AVP: Alien Versus Predator - It makes me cry to think that these two great movie series' had to be brought together in such a godless orgy of bad moviemaking. Got halfway through before deciding it wasn't worth it to watch these once-proud concepts be raped.

Hot Shots - Technically I watched all of this, but stopped paying attention halfway through, so I couldn't actually tell you what happened. Really profoundly dumb. Slapstick humour doesn't do it for me anymore.

Ghost Ship - A really boring ghost movie (it didn't help at all that I've already seen it, though in my defense I was bored the first time too). Got maybe a quarter of the way through it.

In Dreams - Got this one on a recommendation from Claire, who is apparently an enormous wuss and has way different standards than I do for what comprises a scary movie. Tried twice to make it through (picking up where I left off the first time), failed both times. I actively hate Annette Benning's character, which is the closest that this goddamn movie came to making me care about it. I hope the serial killer murders them all in that stupid apple grove she keeps dreaming about.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - A movie made with no greater purpose than to cause disgust and hopelessness in the audience. What a dreadful film. It wasn't even scary - just stock slasher-gore stuff. I turned it off before the second victim could be, I dunno, dismembered alive or something. Only thing worth noting is that this is the third time I have seen the actor who plays Claire's creepy, psychotic, toe-fetish boyfriend in Six Feet Under die on screen. Although this was the first time that involved meathooks.