Archive for April, 2009

“Sara of Sarasavestheworld.org is holding a contest where everyone wins! She is donating $20 to a charity of the contest winner’s choice. If I win, the money will go to The American Cancer Society! Visit the contest page here if you want to enter too!

Even if I don’t win, Sara will make a link for my charity anyway!

I’d just like to explain why I’ve chosen the ACS to receive my donation, should I win. Three of my four grandparents have been taken from my life because of cancer. I know how much this hurts, and I don’t want anyone else to have to suffer like they did. Every dollar counts for research.

Quickly, let’s name off some movies that were based on/inspired by a ‘true story.’

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• The Haunting in Connecticut
• Domino

Now, do you know how true these stories are? Let’s focus solely on ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ for a minute. In the movie, a group of 20-something’s go on a road trip for some concert they have tickets to. Along the way, while smoking large quantities of pot, they almost kill a girl walking down the middle of the road. They needn’t be worried, though. She kills herself a few minutes later, and wrecks their van just as much as she would have had they hit her. Bitch blows her head off. Then, on a wild rampage to try and find the sheriff, they make the worst horror movie decision, like, ever. They split up. Jessica “I’m-dating-Justin-Timberlake-now,-bitches” Biel and her movie boyfriend find a house… in the middle of nowhere. Seriously. I don’t even think there’s a road leading to this place. But they seem to think it’s ok for boyfriendface to go inside and use the phone while JB stays outside with creepy-dude-in-a-wheelchair. Oh, and creepy dude also likes to feel up young ladies, apparently. Well, JB decides to go inside and look for her boyfriend when he doesn’t come back outside. She finds tons of creepy shit, and so did he, and then OMG. Leatherface ATTACKS, y’all! With a CHAINSAW! And it’s a MASSACRE! For the rest of the movie, you see nothing but inbred creepy people living in BFE and people getting hacked to bits by a chainsaw.

And this movie is “based on a true story.” IMDB will tell you the movie was inspired by the life of Ed Gein. Who’s Eddie, you ask? He’s this guy from Wisconsin (yeah, NOT TEXAS.) who murdered women, not with a chainsaw, and kept bits of their skin. He had human body parts in his fridge, and even had a belt made of nipples.

So why do people get SO IRATE over me saying that TCM wasn’t actually true to the story? I don’t get it! Those things didn’t happen in the movie like they did in real life. And even if they’d made a movie following the actual story closely, it still wouldn’t have been AS true to life as it could have been.

So people, really. Believe what you want to believe, but don’t come crying to me when you finally figure out that Kiera Knightly didn’t actually do all those things she did in Domino. Mmkay?