My Basic Ramblings: I've often said that if I were seven years younger, I would spend 100% of my time and 95% of my money at Hot Topic, your one stop shop for Manic Panic, body jewelry, plastic bustiers and Marilyn Manson t-shirts. I would probably look a lot like Queen Mab from the recent NBC miniseries Merlin. (I said to my sister after Part 2 aired, that all the Goth boys and girls are going to run around looking like Mordred and Mab for quite some time now.)
Alas, the last two digits of my year of birth are 73, not 80, and I have to make do with coloring my hair "Miss Clairol Coppertone" rather than "Screaming Crayola Marker Red" or whatever it would be called. (I do, however, get away with funky nail polish, as you can tell by the Nail Polish of the Day page.)
Why do I bring this up? Because, if I were seven years younger, I would probably want to be a vampire, at least if you take this movie's version of it. (Okay, granted, the fashion is a little out of date.)
I mean, look at this movie! If you're a vampire, you don't have to worry about having a job, you can fly, your eyes get all cool and funky looking, you can walk around wearing sunglasses all the time, you can rid the world of Surf Nazis (look in the credits; the group of guys that Kiefer Sutherland and Alex Winter and his buddies attack are, indeed, called "Surf Nazis".) And you never grow old, and you never die. Who wouldn't like living like that? I mean sure, there's the downside that you have to kill people to live, but hey, just find lots of Surf Nazis.
If you think Jason Patric's just a crewcut block of wood actor (I never saw Speed 2 but that's the impression I got from the trailers), you really gotta see this here movie. Sure, he's still kind of a block of wood actor, but in this movie he's got long 80's style hair and he looks quite good. Nice eyes, too.
Here's a question. Jason Patric and Jami Gertz and the little kid are all half-vampires, right? We see several scenes where Jason undergoes his little "weird eyes and fangs and goofy makeup" metamorphosis. There's also a scene where the kid has one too, and the Frog brothers wanna kill him but Jami stops them. Why don't we see Jami with weird eyes and fangs and goofy makeup? Or do female vampires just run around in sparkly gypsy skirts and tank tops?
Then there's the Corey situation. We get both of 'em in this flick - Haim as Jason Patric's brother, Feldman as one of the Frog brothers (Edgar or Allan - I'm not sure which). Corey Haim is vaguely disturbing in this movie - he has a poster of Rob Lowe in a sexy pose on his closet door and wears a t-shirt that reads "Born to Shop!". But who am I to judge? Anyway, Corey Feldman was pretty cool as the vampire huntin' Frog brother. And then they both slid off Hollywood's radar into obscurity.
Dianne Wiest annoys me. She always seems to play a prissy divorced mother who can't control her children (well, she did in this movie and Parenthood, anyway.) They probably gave her the Oscar for Bullets over Broadway because she didn't play a prissy divorced mother who can't control her children.
I always liked the soundtrack for the movie, too. Ian McCullough is a babe. Michael Hutchence was, too, until he, well, died.