Monday, November 02, 2009

Halloween Weekend

To get in the mood for Halloween, I saw Paranormal Activity on Friday night with a couple of friends. I had heard mixed things, ranging from the scariest movie ever to not scary at all.

Overall, I would say it had its moments with a pretty scary ending, but it was more psychological thriller than straight-up horror film. It was also a very well-made movie - great character development with good pacing of the storyline. The entire movie takes place in the house, and we only meet 4 characters. I don't know a ton about film and movie-making, but I think it's a great example of how to make a good film.

I searched online afterward, and I have to say that some of the "alternate endings" sound a lot better than the one they went with.

On Saturday, after the UT game (we're #2 now!), a friend and I headed to DC for Halloween fun. Our first choice had a ridiculous line around the corner, so we quickly needed to come up with a plan B. Our plan B place is usually really chill and never has a line. Not sure why (maybe since it was Halloween?), but there was a line there too!

Oh, and on the way to plan B, we went to this other bar that seemed a lot less crowded than every other place so we decided to check it out. Yeah, we quickly figured out why. Not only was it pretty crowded inside, but I got a full bottle of beer spilled on me within 2 minutes of walking around inside. Disgusting.

We finally ended up at another place that had a rooftop bar. This sounds a lot better than it was, especially since it was raining on and off, and we spent a good part of the (rest of the) night trying to huddle under the umbrellas. My friend said that it's usually a packed line to get to the rooftop, and I can see why there was no line now.

For costumes, there were a number of cereal killers (why was that popular this year?), a few Lady Gagas, a few variations of H1N1/swine flu, a couple of people from the Hangover, and a Billy Mays. We also saw a guy wrapped completely in bubble wrap. Not sure who he was supposed to be, maybe the bubble boy?