the monkey manifesto: adventure

Today at the gym, TNT was playing Cujo... I'm not sure why the gym decided to keep it on as I'm sure there were many other things on that the channel could have been turned to. It was news, Cujo, news... those were the three channels... strange mix.

I guess I'm wondering why Cujo was on at all... is it some sort of exercise motivator?

"Whew, it's a good thing I'm exercising and getting in better shape... if I ever came across Cujo I'd be able to outrun him..."

Have you ever watched Cujo? It's a very odd movie. The movie started at 8:00 am, and at 9:00 Cujo attacked the first guy. An hour of TV time (approx. 45 minutes of movie time) took place before that horror which the book is actually about began. The movie is only 91 minutes (93 minutes Canadian because they tell time differently, apparently) long, and I had to wait an hour before Cujo starts attacking people?

Jesus fuck... that's boring.

The first hour is all about a marriage falling apart, and coming back together and falling apart some more, and a wife is having an affair, and the husband's ad campaign falls apart when the cereal he's advertising causes some kids to have some minor internal hemorrhaging...

None of this has anything to do with a RABID ST. BERNARD reigning terror on a small New England town.

All in all, it was pretty dull. I'm sure the book is much better. In a book I would accept the marriage plotline and the ad campaign plotline and the monsters under the bed plotline... because it's a big-ass deforesting Stephen King book. A tome if you will. In a Stephen King book there's time for all of that, because it's so fucking long.

In the 91 minute version?... get to the rabid St. Bernard reigning terror.