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Okay, first a run-down of my day:

• Got there at noonish (mom worked later than planned).
• David-the-creepy wasn't there.
  
• Ran off and bought my hair bleach and then some pizza-thing for my lunch.
• Went to see 30 Days of Night.
• Sat / wandered around for the last hour and a half or so of mall-time idly.
• Got to the church mildly late.
• Ran around like a headless chicken getting things ready.
• Had to create at least two new slideshows right then and there on the spot with no prior informing having gone down
  (This did not help with the headless-chicken-feeling one bit.)
  
• We have a guy who can sing now! On stage! With the microphone! This makes me smile! :)
• Successfully didn't blow up the world.
• Dinner while re-typing slides after group.
• Headache from Hell.
• Hot-chocolate + Coffee = Mmmmmm; and there were chocolate muffin-cupcake-things which were also very good.
• Got home and SLEPT. Sleep is good.
• Woke up and am typing this. Hum.
  

And now about the movie -

Good points -

• The plotline / basis of the movie (month-long night, vampires, trapped and onoes!) is really neat to me, in general (aside from the eek factor for me; never ever living anywhere where night lasts longer than it ought to). 
• The fact that the chick didn't make me want her to die earns them points.
• The main character was using an axe a lot and looked like he was internally angsting about the killing the entire time. Aww.
• No sex scenes! I was told early this week that someone said there was a lot of sex / nudity / whatever in this movie, but there wasn't any at all. Which makes me very, very happy! I don't like that stuff. :)
• Most of the characters actually felt real and so when they would die or see someone die or whatever it actually seemed mostly-real, not like they were only acting.
• The brother! With the axe and the little girl and the freaked-out-shaking afterwards and awwww. <3<3
• Not sure if this is a "good" point, but it's not a bad one, so... but there was a lot of gore in this movie. It's very bloody, a lot and often and there's a lot of axe-hacking and head-removing and thumps when things hit the ground and blood all over (which seems strange; wouldn't vampires be less wasteful with the blood?)... yeah, gore. Which doesn't bother me, so that's okay, but it just sorta sticks in my mind as being possibly the goriest movie in awhile. I think it rivals HHE (not sure about HHE2, though, but... close or even-with, I guess? Been forever since I saw that one, I don't remember it well) on the gore level (though surely nowhere near the amazingness of HHE, but that's clearly beside the point. <3)

Bad points -

• The scene with the fire and the vampires standing there and the people trapped in the building / under the car made me panic. Like "ZOMGcan'tbreathe" sort of panic, which... I've never had before over a movie.  Granted that's probably my own fault (thinking of that happening in Annaron!verse was a bad idea, haha), but it was a downside to watching.
• The whole premise of the ending made me mildly mad. Dude turns himself into a vampire to save the rest of them, except... no. It doesn't work that way! Shouldn't, anyway; he wasn't trying to kill the humans like he ought to have, and the vamps would have known a lot faster that he was one of them (not just because, oh, look, that wound should have killed him but he's getting back up...) from smelling, and blah, no. Should have done something else with the end, there. Could have possibly just held the vamps back another hour or so, right? Lit them on fire. Something! Gah. Yes, displeased with that. Sacrifice is one thing, but... grr.
  [Em, if you read this: if you evereverever turn Aaron for any reason at all ever I will CRY and ...rawr. Yes. XD <3]
  
• The camera angles made me mildly dizzy... but at the same time I liked it and all, it looked neat. But dizzy. @.@

In general, I liked it. It was far less annoying than most horror movies (and movies in general, I think) tend to be for me; the female lead didn't bother me (I wasn't all attached to her or anything, but she wasn't squealy-screamy-eek-annoying like most chicks are, so that was okay), the male lead reminded me of someone I know and was in general pretty cool...

...but then there's the fact that it was a vampire!movie and I was at several points having to remind myself that it was a movie because, yeah, it scared me. Never been scared of a horror movie before ever, not like that. Gah.

And now I go sleep again, I think. XD