Adrien and I are knee deep into our annual Halloween Month Long Movie Marathon. Last night
we watched Near Dark, an eighties movie that I had heard of many places, but had not been able to see until now. It had been in an article that I read many years back about the "25 Scariest Movies You Have Never Seen," which yielded such greats as Session 9 and The Exorcist III (both of which I highly suggest).I'm not sure that Near Dark was scary per say, but it was interesting, and it had a young Nathan Petrelli from heroes as the lead character. Essentially it is a vehicle for Bill Paxton to go crazy. This led A and I to conclude that Bill Paxton has two kinds of performances: awesome and craptacular (the kind of crapulance that makes you wonder how he can get any acting job - Nicholas Cage falls flatly into this category).
Near Dark constitutes one of his awesome performances. I wouldn't say that the movie is awesome, but it's interesting.
that's all.

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