Daily Archives: June 13, 2012

Fright Night the Review

Movies

If you are looking for a fun vampire movie, might I suggest Fright Night. This remake of the 1985 movie of the same name sees Colin Ferrell as Jerry. He’s the Fright in Night. A vampire of extreme methods and a zest for being a vampire. He moves in next to Charley (the always awesome Anton Yelchin) and it takes the disappearance of a friend that tips off Charley that Jerry isn’t human.

It’s a movie that doesn’t take it’s time to get to the point. It throws the Twilight style of vampire far behind and goes for the pure monster angle. Real refreshing to see, the cast is all great and it’s really well paced. It’s a good looking movie too. I only have 2 complaints.

Some of the CG effects are so bad it’s distracting. Terrible compromising, really awkward human animation, it’s easy to tell when the CG takes over. My other complaint is some weird acting by Colin Ferrell. He’s a great actor and he plays an outstanding villain here. But for some reason he decideds to really ham it up. It’s like watching vaudeville or something. The scene where he goes to Charley’s and asks him for some beer took such a weird turn I thought I was watching outtakes. At this point Jerry knows he’s been made and Charley is doing his best to stay cool and not tip his hand. So their interaction would be much different from a normal conversation, but it’s played so wrong you can’t help but laugh.

Aside from that, it’s a great rental at the very least. Easy to skip, I’d recommend you check it out for some good movie monster fun.

Crash!

Life, You know what grinds my gears?

Got into my first car accident yesterday. In Paramus, I had to stop behind a Honda CR-V who wanted to make a shady left hand turn (double yellow line, but there are no signs that say you can’t do it. I’m not sure if you’d get pulled over if a cop saw you…it’s a super shady turn to want to do). It was raining and a Pontiac Aztec didn’t stop in time and rear ended me.

I heard tires screech, then silence, then POW *shattered glass flying*. I first thought a grenade went of near my car, it was such a weird sound and physical sensation. I didn’t move too much, the entire car shook as the energy shot through it from back to front. My lower back feels tweaked, but I think I got pretty lucky. The other driver was fine and her car had no damage. The spare tire was shoved a couple inches into the door, so the glass is totally gone and the door is dented in all around the tire. Not sure if the spare got messed up, it probably did though. I’ll find out tomorrow. I was surprisingly calm through the whole thing, but it was such a shock, that’s what’s sticking with me. The woman was really upset, she admitted it right away that she was in the wrong.

Pain in the ass having to go through the insurance system, hopefully everything goes smoothy and I’ll have my car back into new condition. Figures, the day after I finally get the tire pressure light to completely reset. That was annoying and now this. Hey, no hospital and my car still works fine so any moaning sounds kinda silly.