Jul. 12, 2003 - 3:47 pm
well we almost ended up seeing Pirates of the Caribbean last night, but didn't quite make it. my friend David was in town and he and his girlfriend Erin made it to the theater on time, but we had to wait for some of Erin's friends and of course the move sold out just as they got there. so instead we went with Leslie out to eat at TGI Friday's and then Leslie and i retreated to her place to watch something. since Leslie always wins :), we ended up watching one of the two movies she had checked out from Gemstone. i guess she made this one sound like the better of the two.
it's been talked about and advertised as sort of a modern day Frankenstein. it's about this really strange 20-something girl who doesn't have any friends except for this eerie looking doll inside of a glass case. she's somewhat insane because her parents made her wear an eyepatch to school as a child. she had an intense lazy eye and they thought the eye patch was a better idea. it wasn't. now she's looking for a guy to fall in love with and she actually does. but he starts to realize that she's a little too freaky, even for him, when she bites him and starts rubbing herself down with blood. after he decides to get a bit of distance from her, things start to get a bit crazy and May starts thinking about making new friends.
this movie was surprisingly funny as well as surprisingly gory. probably the most gore i've seen in quite a while. but i guess you'd kind of expect that with the whole Frankenstein description. hopefully you would anyway. i was quite disgusted by the soundtrack. it really sucked. this terrible folksy girl singer-songwriter crap that was popular in the mid-90s, but it just sounds dated and bad now. and it's not even someone who's famous. i guess it was probably cheap for the filmmakers though right? so there are some good aspects and some bad aspects to this. i'm not sure how often i'd really recommend it to people though.