Fright Night
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ericadawn16I wasn't sure about seeing Fright Night. Yep, I love Toni Collette, Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin isn't too bad either..., plus, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Dave Franco? Then, on top of that, you have David Tennant being so incredibly sexy beyond belief...
But it was a horror movie based off an 80s film I never saw and the ads seemed confused about whether it was comedy or horror and if it was just a horror film...well, the last time I paid money for one of those was either Scary Movie 4 or Scream 3...
Then, I found out that it's written by Marti Noxon.
I know, the name probably has no meaning to you. She hasn't had the genre success of Jane Espenson but Marti Noxon wrote some of my most Favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer EVER...
What's My Line? Part 1
What's My Line? Part 2
Surprise
The Wish
The Prom
Wild at Heart
New Moon Rising
Buffy vs. Dracula
Plus, she's the one singing "It isn't right, it isn't fair, there was no parking anywhere, I think that hydrant wasn't there" in "Once More With Feeling."
With those credentials, I was finally sold on Fright Night which would be written by someone who knows how to write a good vampire tale.
It was SO worth IT! I really wished it had earned more money. Maybe with better marketing and more 2D showings, it could have and we would have our Peter Vincent sequel because dammit, he needs his own movie. It'd be glorious.
It was exactly what I was expecting...written in the same vein of Buffy, only with more blood and cursing...oh, how I loved the cursing especially when most of the fucks come from David Tennant's mouth with Ten's accent...
Peter Vincent: You were late with your cue.
Ginger: No, you were early, just like in bed.
Peter Vincent: Go fuck yourself.
Ginger: Yes, I will, someone has to!
Peter Vincent: Fucking Ebay!
Peter Vincent was just...AMAZING. I could have watched him so much more because it was so well-rounded. At first, he comes off like a sort of modern Jack Sparrow with the theatrics and drinking and fucking and such, but as the film goes on, we get to see all these other layers to him so by the end, I cared a lot more about him than Charley, lol. It was a lot more satisfying seeing him help bring down the vampire that murdered his parents which probably created a lot of his dependency issues than a teenager pissed off about childhood friends that he'd abandoned anyway.
However, I really wanted a more complete epilogue about how we get from Vincent is now mortal human again to Vincent is totally cool with teenagers fucking in his penthouse apartment unsupervised.
My mom: Maybe he was just that grateful for finally killing the vampire that killed his parents.
I don't know, still seems odd considering his behaviour earlier and makes me all that more curious about what he would be like after his ordeal...I mean he was practically giggling in that last scene so it seemed like he was a changed man after his ordeal and not having to worry about the vampire anymore. However, people would probably be expecting his old self so would he try to maintain that image which was largely a lie, create a new one or retire into some totally different career?
My mom had also been hoping that his character would hook up with Toni Collette.
Oh! OH! Peter Vincent referred to the teens as the "Scooby Gang"! I know, it could be innocent, it could just be referring to the cartoon but dammit, she wrote Buffy and we're dealing with Vampires! It's a Buffy reference!
I'm assuming that Christopher Mintz-Plasse will be in a movie someday where he doesn't start off as the friend and then turn evil along the way...
So, I've learned this summer that if Colin Farrell is in a movie, then his house is totally getting snooped.
Also, that last part about not doing anything I wouldn't do, not that that would limit much except (something starting with a M) and sushi...
Did anyone catch what the M word is?
I'm also tempted to make a personal rule that if Lisa Loeb is in a horror flick, that's a sign of quality.
Okay, bottom line, if you love David Tennant and can stand gratuitous blood, you NEED to see this film and if you didn't care about David Tennant before, you're going to love him after. I'm not the only one to make the Jack Sparrow scene stealing star-making comparison about him in this, it's just...awesome, worth the cost of the movie right there. My mom was even tempted to see it and she HATES horror movies.
But it was a horror movie based off an 80s film I never saw and the ads seemed confused about whether it was comedy or horror and if it was just a horror film...well, the last time I paid money for one of those was either Scary Movie 4 or Scream 3...
Then, I found out that it's written by Marti Noxon.
I know, the name probably has no meaning to you. She hasn't had the genre success of Jane Espenson but Marti Noxon wrote some of my most Favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer EVER...
What's My Line? Part 1
What's My Line? Part 2
Surprise
The Wish
The Prom
Wild at Heart
New Moon Rising
Buffy vs. Dracula
Plus, she's the one singing "It isn't right, it isn't fair, there was no parking anywhere, I think that hydrant wasn't there" in "Once More With Feeling."
With those credentials, I was finally sold on Fright Night which would be written by someone who knows how to write a good vampire tale.
It was SO worth IT! I really wished it had earned more money. Maybe with better marketing and more 2D showings, it could have and we would have our Peter Vincent sequel because dammit, he needs his own movie. It'd be glorious.
It was exactly what I was expecting...written in the same vein of Buffy, only with more blood and cursing...oh, how I loved the cursing especially when most of the fucks come from David Tennant's mouth with Ten's accent...
Peter Vincent: You were late with your cue.
Ginger: No, you were early, just like in bed.
Peter Vincent: Go fuck yourself.
Ginger: Yes, I will, someone has to!
Peter Vincent: Fucking Ebay!
Peter Vincent was just...AMAZING. I could have watched him so much more because it was so well-rounded. At first, he comes off like a sort of modern Jack Sparrow with the theatrics and drinking and fucking and such, but as the film goes on, we get to see all these other layers to him so by the end, I cared a lot more about him than Charley, lol. It was a lot more satisfying seeing him help bring down the vampire that murdered his parents which probably created a lot of his dependency issues than a teenager pissed off about childhood friends that he'd abandoned anyway.
However, I really wanted a more complete epilogue about how we get from Vincent is now mortal human again to Vincent is totally cool with teenagers fucking in his penthouse apartment unsupervised.
My mom: Maybe he was just that grateful for finally killing the vampire that killed his parents.
I don't know, still seems odd considering his behaviour earlier and makes me all that more curious about what he would be like after his ordeal...I mean he was practically giggling in that last scene so it seemed like he was a changed man after his ordeal and not having to worry about the vampire anymore. However, people would probably be expecting his old self so would he try to maintain that image which was largely a lie, create a new one or retire into some totally different career?
My mom had also been hoping that his character would hook up with Toni Collette.
Oh! OH! Peter Vincent referred to the teens as the "Scooby Gang"! I know, it could be innocent, it could just be referring to the cartoon but dammit, she wrote Buffy and we're dealing with Vampires! It's a Buffy reference!
I'm assuming that Christopher Mintz-Plasse will be in a movie someday where he doesn't start off as the friend and then turn evil along the way...
So, I've learned this summer that if Colin Farrell is in a movie, then his house is totally getting snooped.
Also, that last part about not doing anything I wouldn't do, not that that would limit much except (something starting with a M) and sushi...
Did anyone catch what the M word is?
I'm also tempted to make a personal rule that if Lisa Loeb is in a horror flick, that's a sign of quality.
Okay, bottom line, if you love David Tennant and can stand gratuitous blood, you NEED to see this film and if you didn't care about David Tennant before, you're going to love him after. I'm not the only one to make the Jack Sparrow scene stealing star-making comparison about him in this, it's just...awesome, worth the cost of the movie right there. My mom was even tempted to see it and she HATES horror movies.
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Date: 2011-08-26 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 03:32 am (UTC)One of the reasons I haven't seen it is how much I love the original. Every time I see an ad I can't help thinking, "Colin Farrell is sooo not Chris Sarandon."
...and the ads seemed confused about whether it was comedy or horror...
It should be funny and scary. Not an "either or."
I know, the name probably has no meaning to you. She hasn't had the genre success of Jane Espenson...
She means something to me. Also, from a quick look at IMDb, she may not have been having the "genre success" of Jane Espenson, but she's been having serious success. It says Marti has won not one but two Writers Guild of America awards with Mad Men. ;) Learning Marti did the script for the remake does make me more inclined to see it sometime.
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Date: 2011-08-27 07:26 pm (UTC)Chris Sarandon?
Really?
Okay, to me, Chris Sarandon didn't exist before Felicity so I couldn't reconcile that with my image of him as an older man with a beard.
Youtube to the rescue!
He looked really, really different in the 80s but I think Colin Farrell comes off more my type...well, let me rephrase that. It's more than that.
I loved Buffy. I started watching Buffy from the very first episode being premiered on WB and I loved the idea of vampires looking like my age or teenagers. It seemed novel compared to Anne Rice and everything else.
But then, it became the norm and Twilight killed it...
So, I liked how Colin Farrelll has this look of timelessness but he is a bit older.
Actually, that was one of the things I really enjoyed about Darren Shan's books...his vampires aren't immortal, they just age really, really, really slowly so if they're able to survive, they still go through middle age and gray hair and everything else.
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Date: 2011-08-27 09:34 pm (UTC)I've pretty much figured the ads are crap. I mean Colin Farrell has spoken of how much he loved the original, which made me like him more, and how he didn't want to be part of a remake until he saw the script. That says to me the script has to at least be decent which is hard to tell from the ads.
Chris Sarandon? Really?
Yes, really. I think the first time I saw him was... *looks at his filmography* ...the A Tale of Two Cities he did in 1980. To me he will always be Jerry Dandridge and Prince Humperdinck. I can't pick just one.
Okay, to me, Chris Sarandon didn't exist before Felicity...
I never watched Felicity, but from his filmography that was over a decade later. You should see him younger.
He looked really, really different in the 80s but I think Colin Farrell comes off more my type...
Colin Farrell is younger than me. I don't notice it as much as I did when we were both younger, but he still isn't my type. To the extent that any of the actors in the remake increase my interest in it, David Tennant playing Peter Vincent does intrigue me. It would be laughable if they hadn't updated Peter, but with the new version of Peter...
I loved Buffy.
I loved vampires long before Joss Whedon conceived of Buffy. Don't get me wrong, I not only saw the original film with Kristy Swanson and Donald Sutherland, but watched the show. It wasn't the first "Young Adult" vampire story. I'm vastly annoyed when I see people talking about The Vampire Diaries as a Twilight knock off when the original novels predate not only Twilight but Buffy. The original trilogy was done in '91, the year before the original Buffy film. It's the added fourth book that's '92.
I started watching Buffy from the very first episode being premiered on WB...
I didn't have a WB station when it first started to air, and it's possible there are episodes from both first and second season I still haven't seen. Of course, since my interest was in the vampires rather than the slayer, I've made more of an effort to see Angel and Spike than Buffy herself.
...I loved the idea of vampires looking like my age or teenagers.
I've always been leary of younger actors playing vampires. I know good ones can act much older than they are, but I can't help feeling there really is no substitute for experience.
It seemed novel compared to Anne Rice and everything else.
Younger vampires weren't new when Anne Rice was including Claudia in her books. I can never remember the name of the short story that inspired her to write Claudia, but it was one from the 1930's.
But then, it became the norm and Twilight killed it...
I've only seen the first Twilight film. I haven't tried reading the books or watching any of the other films. The combination of the teen angst and the vampires sparkling is just too much for me to take.
So, I liked how Colin Farrell has this look of timelessness but he is a bit older.
Colin Farrell may work as a vampire, I won't know until I see it, but he'll have to work at it to impress me.
Actually, that was one of the things I really enjoyed about Darren Shan's books...his vampires aren't immortal...
Doesn't sound like my cup of tea. I prefer immortal vampires.
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Date: 2011-08-26 04:06 am (UTC)Me too. He's way more interesting than an angsty high schooler! XD
And I was hoping for a Peter Vincent sequel too, but alas, it's clearly not to be.
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Date: 2011-08-26 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-27 07:44 pm (UTC)Aww, this makes more sense.
Do you know if there's any fanfic yet?
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Date: 2011-08-27 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-26 05:54 am (UTC)Lol. I'm going to see tomorrow anyway... but yeah, Martin writing it is definitely an added reason to see it. :)
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Date: 2011-08-27 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-29 01:47 pm (UTC)She mentioned Buffy, and I believe Harry Potter, made fun of twilight, and made some maybe-so-maybe-not parallels to DW (though, me and my friend might have seen more than was there) but nevertheless, we left the theater with really silly grins on our faces.
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Date: 2011-08-30 10:29 pm (UTC)*has fic ideas*
lol
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Date: 2011-08-26 10:17 am (UTC)I *did* catch the M-word
Date: 2011-08-29 01:43 am (UTC)(I don't like mini-golf or sushi either, so this made me doubly giddy.)
Also, there was a part where he said "WELL --" like the Doctor and I just about DIED OF SWOONING HAPPY.
This movie, Sorcerer's Apprentice ... why must all these new films I fall in love with tank at the box office and shoot down chances for sequels?? :(
Re: I *did* catch the M-word
Date: 2011-08-29 02:26 am (UTC):(
Re: I *did* catch the M-word
Date: 2011-08-29 03:32 am (UTC)*feels like punching things*
Did you notice it was distributed through Disney?
Re: I *did* catch the M-word
Date: 2011-08-29 03:21 am (UTC)I KNOW!!!!
We simply must become millionaires and finance them ourselves...
damn...
I'd also include Cirque du Freak. I'd love to know with all the changes to the first three books how they would have done the other ten.