Thursday, November 1, 2007

Places that are cold

Fun Haloween!

I saw, in order of apperance:

A) A guy in a batman shirt who looked like a slightly hispanic Christian Bale (yes, I will now claim that I canvassed Bruce Wayne);
B) My first street fight (complete with a whole lot of cops)
C) The move "30 Days of Night"

They were Amusing, Slightly frightening, and Suprisngly entertaining in the order listed.

Bruce Wayne was a nice guy. The fight was kinda scary, but the police were all over the place in..well, in not too long. It was just two guys, but it got pretty intense---just fists, no guns/knives/etc, which was what I got a little scared of when it started.
Josh Hartnet was fine, but really got shown up by the bad-mf russian lead vampire, who was huge, and somewhat frightening. Also, the guy in the bar through most of his apperances makes the movie worth seeing, mostly because of the contrasts of his wanna-be insane posturing/trying to scare the other folks, followed by his interactions with said Russian vampire.

At least I think he was Russian. My theory is that they all came across from asia back when there was an ice-bridge (you know, the good old days), which explains the weird language and obviously mixed Euro-asiatic ethnicities. Some pretty intense fight choreography, some wholly unessecary gore, and some neat cinemtography. Also, the conception of vampires was pulled off: not Bella Lugosi, or Anne Rice, but more a big pack of wolves out hunting. Except they were smart. I wonder if they creators watched Jurrasic Park a few times before shooting the movie. Unfortunatly (or fortunatly?) while it was "Boo!" scary, there was no lasting fear---but that might be just because I'm not in Alaska, and thus not really in danger of being stuck in a small snowed-in Alaskan town in the winter with Vampires.

Anyway, more very soon.

1 comment:

Spelunker said...

Or are you? WEEEEOOOOOOOWEEEE (creepy music)

Perhaps you're in Alaska right now and being controlled by vampires who keep the illusion going that you're in Chicago in order to take away your fear so when they feed on you your blood doesn't taste bad.

Not that I know anything about being a vampire.

...

Or do I? WEEEEEOOOOOOOWEEEEE