RE: Brain Frying, IT, Stalkers
January 23, 2018 at 3:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2018 at 3:50 am by WinterHold.)
(January 21, 2018 at 2:21 pm)SaStrike Wrote: I agree the movie wasn't scary when I saw it a while back. Got a good laugh though. The characters were well written and it was more entertainment than horror.
Exactly: entertainment and not horror. Pennywise is bold and that is quite not cool: to be afraid you need mystery; and mystery wasn't there. That's why I think Japanese ghosts -for example- are way, way way more scary.
(January 21, 2018 at 2:42 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(January 21, 2018 at 2:15 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: In my culture; clowns just seem "outlandish"; don't "belong"; "stupid"; "retarded"...etc.
Comedy usually takes place through a different type of clowns. Actually I can't even remember Arabic culture having any; the culture had hilarious plays done by real actors, like the famous Egyptian "مدرسة المشاغبين".
Clowns just look stupid, not funny, not scary, and even not quite...suitable for anything?
So I had a tough time getting scared by Pennywise.
Many kids in America are scared of them. There is a psychology behind fear of just about anything and almost a word for every type of phobia one can have.
I always see this clown-killer stuff in Hollywood movies; it's more like a theme: the psycho clown who butchers the kids in suburban towns.
Maybe it's more of a... fear of children phobia? fear of kids lead to fear of children stuff, and clowns are children stuff.
(January 21, 2018 at 2:48 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(January 21, 2018 at 2:15 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: In my culture; clowns just seem "outlandish"; don't "belong"; "stupid"; "retarded"...etc.
Comedy usually takes place through a different type of clowns. Actually I can't even remember Arabic culture having any; the culture had hilarious plays done by real actors, like the famous Egyptian "مدرسة المشاغبين".
Clowns just look stupid, not funny, not scary, and even not quite...suitable for anything?
So I had a tough time getting scared by Pennywise.
Hmmm, much like many theists appear to us mundane normal people. Odd that.
Why? just why can't you "live up to the claim of being normal", and post like a normal person, instead of a keyboard infedel jihadist?
(January 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(January 21, 2018 at 2:15 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: In my culture; clowns just seem "outlandish"; don't "belong"; "stupid"; "retarded"...etc.
Comedy usually takes place through a different type of clowns. Actually I can't even remember Arabic culture having any; the culture had hilarious plays done by real actors, like the famous Egyptian "مدرسة المشاغبين".
Clowns just look stupid, not funny, not scary, and even not quite...suitable for anything?
So I had a tough time getting scared by Pennywise.
Wow, Arabs hate clowns. Learn a new stereotype everyday I guess.
No.
I said:
Quote:In my culture; clowns just seem "outlandish"; don't "belong"; "stupid"; "retarded"...etc.
Arabs don't hate clowns. Arabs -like me- don't understand what is so funny about clowns.
That is called "different cultures".
China, Africa, Arabia, Europe. White, Brown, Black...etc.
Clowns, Kabab, Tea, Coffee...etc.
Americans say "ass"; Brits say "Arse"...etc.
(January 21, 2018 at 8:25 pm)Antares Wrote: Are Djinns a thing in your culture Atlas? Or, is that a thing of the past?
Yes. My parents say stories about them; lots of people through my life mentioned "stories" of Jinn haunting and stuff.
I had close friends who were utter believers.
Personally; I don't believe the stories of "haunting" or the scary tales of Jinn. It's just like Pennywise the dancing clown.
But I believe in them being a race that lived on the universe; probably in a different dimension. They can't interfere with our dimension just like we can't interfere with theirs. They are smart and quite advanced; too. Satan is from their race.
Of course you can sense that the belief above is derived from religion. It is. Islam to be precise; Quran only.
But not the grudge-type of haunting and possession.
