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Apr. 12th, 2008 @ 04:03 pm veni, vidi, vici
Oh baby oh! I absolutely aced the CS test. I'm, oh, 90% confident in 99th percentile and 99% confident in 90th percentile. Scores will be available in about a month. If I mysteriously don't post my score, it'll be because I don't want your monitor to crack under the weight of its awesomeness, not for any other reason.

I watched THE MIST in the hotel the night between my tests. Oh My God. I saw the ending coming but I still couldn't believe it. That's a little more messed up than I prefer my scary movies, thanks. Yikes.
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From:[info]normalcyispasse
Date: April 13th, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)
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I just watched The Mist the other night. The ending was rather predictable but you're right, it was a little "messed-up" for a standard-issue horror flick.
From:[info]chrisrw109
Date: April 14th, 2008 03:18 am (UTC)

The Mist

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Yeah it was one of those endings where, particularly if you'd heard vague rumors of the 'harshness' of the ending you could see it coming, but I didn't think they would really go through with it.

Yeah a bit more dark then we've been trained to expect dark endings to be.

The downside to that of course being... it wasn't didn't come with an adjoining portion of 'good' to go with it.
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From:[info]adb_foldem
Date: April 14th, 2008 06:28 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, yeah, What a surprise. One of the brightest guys I know does well on a standardized test. Yawn.

LOL. WTG!
From:[info]salixquercusii
Date: April 16th, 2008 02:54 pm (UTC)
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I'm glad you owned it.

From an old T-shirt: "veni, vidi, I took a valium."
From:[info]roberthart_phd
Date: April 23rd, 2008 06:40 pm (UTC)

Classic Stephen King

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His very best work taps into horror that is very human and not at all supernatural.
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From:[info]extempore
Date: April 23rd, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC)

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Yes, but it should be said that he didn't write the movie's ending. The book ends with them driving around in the mist, not knowing what's going to happen. The director was responsible for the new ending (which king apparently loved.)
From:[info]roberthart_phd
Date: April 24th, 2008 02:34 pm (UTC)

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That is really interesting, I read that Darabont only agreed to make The Mist if they kept the ending, had no idea he changed it. ALSO interesting is that the original ending of Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption leaves Red and Andy's meeting in Zihuatanejo as hopeful but unrealized (which is consistent with the theme of hope being everything...but I like the movie ending).