David and I spent a very happy Valentine’s Day together yesterday doing what we love to do best … as little as possible :) Yesterday afternoon, we ventured back to North Hollywood to sell off my refrigerator and hand in the keys to my old apartment to finally close that chapter of my life. Last night, we enjoyed a nice sushi dinner and then FINALLY made our way to see Friday the 13th at the AMC movie theater at Century City:

I gotta say, the movie was pretty much what I expected. Modern horror films have no interest in building up suspense and think that high body counts alone do all the scaring. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy the film but, truth be told, I have to say that I really prefer the original 1980s film to this remake. I did like the nod to the 80s in the first 15 mins. of the film. If it weren’t for the GPS device and the iPod, everything about the cold open (the portion of the film before the film credit appears on screen) looked as if it could’ve been 1980 — the shaggy hair, the Star Wars t-shirt, etc. I thought that was pretty clever. I had a few probs with the storyline … like how unlikely it would be to have an expensive home on the banks of Crystal Lake when a killer like Jason Vorhees has been on the loose for the past 20 years. I also hated the way the Trent character was such a douchebag. Did you notice that the guy who played Trent in Friday the 13th (Travis Van Winkle) was the same actor who played the douchebag named Trent in the Transformers movie? WTF? So weird. To me, this remake felt more like a sequel … just 20-some odd years later. Overall, I enjoyed but it wasn’t the end-all, be-all. It would be very difficult to do true justice to a film like the original Friday the 13th — that film gave birth to the 80s slasher genre. In the 90s, Scream restarted the horror movie trend and in the 2000s, Saw gave birth to the horror porn genre. Films like these cannot really be duplicated … but I guess it’s nice to try every once-in-a-while. You can bet your sweet patoot that Friday the 13th Part 2 will be on the way.

This afternoon, David and I are heading to Santa Monica to pick up some things for our place and will likely meet up with some friends for dinner tonight. While VD may be dunzo, we still have our 3 year anniversary on Tuesday night to look forward to :)