Numbers Numbers Numbers

I was at a loss of inspiration for blogging the past day, crazy since horror is one of my favorite movie genres, but I promised Ms. Ashley that I would post. And then the movie 1408 came on. I have to admit that this is one of few movies I actually liked (a lot) that was based on a book written by Stephen King. I don't want to say that the others were bad, just that they weren't as good as they could have been. Needless to say, but I'll say it anyway: Stephen King has a LOT of books that have been made into movies... Could this make him a monopolizer of both the book and movie corporations? This is besides the point. I am not here to discuss books, which are another great passion of mine, I am here to discuss movies with NUMBERS in the title! heh. 1408 is a movie about Mike Enslin (John Cusack) who stays in 1408- a hotel room that is haunted... and as Samuel L. Jackson says in the movie "It's an evil f***ing room." There are times when you think that everything is real when it is actually just a twisted dream and time is one confusing trip after another. He has only an hour to live as the digital alarm clock counts down his minutes, his seconds, his breaths of existence. All the while you believe he is going to make it... or die a gruesome death like the tenants before him. The room distorts itself. He thinks he's insane at first, but then he knows... it's the "evil f***ing room."


The Number 23 is another amazing movie with numbers in the title. This involves Walter Sparrow's (played by Jim Carrey) obsession with the number twenty-three. It begins with a book (books are everywhere, n'est ce pas?) written by Topsy Kretts. A nice little pseudonym for a twisted mind. He sees the number everywhere: in names, signs, dates, letters, time. It consumes him and he doesn't know why. He begins to see similarities between himself and the main character, the voice named Fingerling, of the book that sparked the terrible infatuation. Who is this Topsy Kretts? Why is there only one copy of this book? And what will Walter find to be the answer to the connection? If you like suspense and schizophrenia, you will enjoy this movie. And if you think Jim is going to be funny in this movie, you are sorely mistaken and should watch Dumb and Dumber instead.


Se7en starring Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow... is a great movie with, as you can see, a great cast. This is a favorite among many of my friends and for good reason. A man, whose name we never know and face we only see toward the end, decides that he will start killing people in a fashion according to the seven deadly sins (hence the name Se7en) and these are not for the weak of stomach. It is a gory film, but with good taste- not intended to terrorize the mind, only to make you see how messed up (an understatement) this killer is. He's meticulous, keeping hundreds of books containing his every thought, sometimes holding the victim in their place of death for months (sloth and gluttony are very nasty)... and he does this without getting caught... until he wants to be caught.

Yet again another class, so I must be on my way. There are many other great movies with numbers in the title:
300,
200 Cigarettes,
Pi (because Pi is a number and a movie that I highly recommend)

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