Near Dark (GoMA: Monsters)

This is a pretty good movie, but I think maybe the love it gets is disproportionate to the love it deserves. It must've hit a lot of people at just the right time for them, and I an see why they'd love it so much, but I guess for me it's a bit too late. Still, it's a pretty good film, and I'm glad now I own it. I had bought it because it had such a good reputation, but I was underwhelmed with it. But seeing it on the big-screen properly really made me appreciate it a lot more. It's a vampire film, in which no calls them vampires, but it's a love story, and also a story about family. So it's pretty good. That sounds good, doesn't it? There's a bit going on there.

Of note is that I think this is Kathryn Bigelow's first film. I should probably confirm that while I look up if I spelt her name right.

Good news, I spelt her name correctly, bad news, apparently she had another feature film before this one, but this is the one people remember.


Ok. what else? I should probably mention the score by Tangerine Dream. I don't know if I'd call it pretty good, but I'd say it was interesting at least. Kind of a trippy, dreamy soundtrack, I think. I'll have to have a listen again to get a better grasp on it.

The cast is pretty good, with a couple of movie-geek favourites in Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton. I don't know who the others were, but the main guy looked pretty familiar, like maybe he ws the guy from the TV show Wiseguy, though I don't think it was him. (having just checked IMDB, I recognise him from the TV show Heroes). (And oh crap, the girl is the groupie from Pink Floyd: The Wall).

Anyway, basic story, boy meets girl, girl bites boy, boy starts feeling sick and reacting to the sun, girl and her vampire family kidnap boy and try turn him into one of them, boy doesn't want to kill his family so runs away and gets a blood transfusion, vampire family track him down to kill him, boy defeats family and saves girl, the end. It's pretty good, and I'm looking forward to this growing on me as I re-watch it over the years.

One also note before I finish up here, the scene in the bar, that's areally good scene, and feels like Tarantino before there was Tarantino, so maybe from now on we should say dialogue is Near Daskesque, rather than Tarintinoesque. A really solid scene.
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