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VideOftheDay Oct 31st – Cirque du Freak Trailer
Oct 31st
I’m gonna try this -- bear with me -- as I try and post a video each day :) Will be completely random, and just for fun ^^;
I’ll start off my VideOftheDay (cool title, no?) with the most recent Vampire movie to hit the big screen -- Cirque du Freak. Perfect for Halloween, eh? :P
I actually saw this today (well, it was the 30th, but whatever) and really enjoyed it. You’ll find Cirque du Freak appear on my “Now Reading” section pretty quick. The character development really sucked (and I mean really) but it had the action that I was dying for, and there are… VAMPIRES! I absolutely love vampires.
Warning: Spoilers start here. I’m not gonna give away the ending, but if you want to see it, I tell how it all gets set up, and it will kinda ruin the surprise.
We start off at Darren’s funeral. But he’s not quite dead. He’s playing on his cellphone as the dirt is piled on his coffin. …wtf, right?
Okay, so what it’s about -- basically, Darren is a goody-good, and his BFF Steve is bad-boy. The movie starts out with Steve convincing Darren to skip class, and they break lights. Darren gets in trouble, parents go psycho (he’s ruining his life by hanging out with Steve) and they ground him for 2 months. Not to mention that they say he can’t hang around with Steve anymore. So Steve went from BFF to Secret BFF. Poor guy.
But they are given a poster for a freak circus in town -- the Cirque du Freak -- and decide to sneak out to see it. And here’s where it gets interesting. One of the performers is a vampire and has this awesome spider. Darren loves spiders, Steve loves vampires. So when Darren goes to steal the spider (!) Steve asks vampire to turn him -- and is turned down.
Darren sees all this, but gets away with the spider anyways. So when he brings the lovely thing to school, and Steve sees… well, it all goes down the shitter. Steve gets bitten by highly poisonous spider, and the only way the Big Bad Vampire will give Darren the antidote is if he agrees to go half-vampire himself, and become an assistant (hence “The Vampire’s Assistant as this movie’s title). Well, Darren goes for it…
And then, it’s full circle -- time to die. Now the fun begins.
How do you find these kids, Disney?
Oct 31st
So I was watching the Disney channel earlier today (Yes, cartoons are a guilty pleasure of mine :P) and one of their “What a Life!” things came on. I only caught a bit of it but I thought it was kinda cool -- Japanese puppet shows, where the kid does sound effects or something. So… just out of curiosity, I decided to Google and see if I could find anything about it.
Well, I did. I found it right on YouTube. Amazing how my vague search gave me the right results!
Isn’t that an awesome little deal? I’d love to see one of those shows in person. And if you’re curious, the kid is called The Great Mario and is available for parties.
Interesting.
Collection of billboard media
Oct 31st
These two are from movieguy711 on twitter:
Video #1
Video #2
LoganLerman.com.br has a collection of photos here.
Here is a higher quality video:
And then sictransitsuzy posted a description of what it was like there -- they gave away free copies of book #1 for signing!!! -- and you can read it here. There’s also some good pictures.
crazy_singer did the same thing, which you can find here :D
(There are pictures of the signatures!!! Nice note there Logan :))
And then we got a little article with some quotes here. I’m sure the quotes can be found on a dozen other articles, but yeah….
Got some more pictures from xstitchedxx (that she found on wired) that can be seen here.
And finally, humaax3 posted some pictures here.
Man, this is the sort of thing that I really would’ve liked to have gone to. I’m such a nerd for events like this :( And getting to meet the actors would have been SO AWESOME.
