30 Days of Night Comic Book Movie.

J.R. Hudson said:

Two, the sun was coming up. They had to bail.
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I'll buy that reason, at least it makes sense!

J.R. Hudson said:
That last beheading was like 'What the f***?'
I want a sequel. I cannot believe this film only did 30 Million after opening at Number One with $16,000,000. Yet, SAW IV is stronger at $31 Million. Go figure. People like bland and unoriginal.
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-Unfortunatley it seems that most Americans are bland and unoriginal if Saw 4 can make 49 million it's first week and 11 mill. it's second week!

J.R. Hudson said:
What I like about 30 Days is that they brought Vampires back to what they should be; not gothic, martial artists model looking Vampires, but feral creatures that only want to suck blood.

They looked great.
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-Ok, so maybe they weren't model looking but they were model posing! It could have been the best vampire flick of the past ten years.... wait it still may be!

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I thought the end fight was real in the sense it was a street brawl. Again, no martial arts or wire flying; just straight up men scrapping in the street.
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-If it did have martial arts or wire flying I would have definitley hated it, talk about cliche. It could have used some of the great violence present in the movie. maybe they could have torn each other to pieces and beat each other with their limbs all in street brawl fashion.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
You laughed uncontrollably ?

Why ?
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Because it is laughable. This movie was cliched and lame for the most part. It's roots are more with the modern zombie movie than actual vampire flicks. For the first half of the movie the vampires were smart, violent and vicious 'hunters' by the end, they turned out to be the same stupid vampires we have seen for years.

Also the film leaves out a lot of info, which I think would have helped the vampire part of the story. For me, it is either make them mysterious as possible or reveal their history, instead we see them all the time, without any explanation.

Also, if they could freeze Megatron in Transformers, why the hell can these vampires always be out in the cold? :shocked:
 
Did you even watch the film ?

The Vampires refreshingly strayed from the Gothic Euro Vamps that has evolved and went right back to the myths legend; I'm speaking pre-1800's Vampyre.

I'm about done with Vampires dating High School girls and having Nth degree black belts and carrying automatic weapons. Give me the legend as it was known in ancient foklore.

The films roots are exactly where they should be aren't they ? Vampires are the original Undead.

Were we not being told the story from the perspective of the townfolk of Barrow, AK. How can they know or we as an audience know anything other than the shite has hit the fan ?

Any expanation would be nothing but exposition.

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One of the best horror films in a long time. Damn it.
 
Are you sure you watched it? Didn't these vampires come from Russia? If they were in a warmer climate and washed their mouth, you could easily put them into one of the Underworld movies and they would fit in. Sure they were more carnivorous, but their look wasn't anywhere 'outside the box'.

In terms of human fiction/literature, vampires are not the 'original undead'.

As for film roots, how many vampire flicks have you seen where they hunt in packs and are extremely vicious and blood thirsty? Sounds like a zombie flick to me.

The reason why I ask for more is because from what I know of the comic, there is supposed to be a lot more depth into the story. As I said, during the first half I enjoyed the mystery and the quick glimpses we got of the vampires. But then we start getting into their story line and how they work as a group (when the chick gets the UV rays) also how they feel about 'god' and most of the info we get about them is when there are no Alaskans around. Plus the vampires were the only interesting characters in the film.
 
When were they from Russia ? There are many Parts to the Series and from what I understood they took a bit from them.

God ? The only line is 'God. No God.' Wait ... what the hell does that have to do with anything ?

Alright. :undecided You sound like your reaching a bit. If you didn't like it, it must not have been for you.

Well, there's always SAW IV for you. :laugh: :kali: :nads:
 
SPOILERS.

I had a lot of the same issues with the film as some of the others. I thought the beginning was set up really well and I think the vamps themselves were REALLY well done. They looked creepy, weird, vicious etc. Just awesome.

Around the middle of the movie it started falling apart. I think they should have stuck with just a smaller group of vampires, like maybe 10 or 11 so it is actually feasable that you could escape. For 90 percent of the film we only see those 6 or 7 main vampires, but then every once in a while there is like 50 of them bastards.

I don't know what the point of including the UV lamp scene was. They found something that worked and then abandoned it.

I also had a problem w/ the time jumps. Thought they were placed oddly and kind of confused me.

It wasn't believable to me that Billy would have killed his family. And the fact that his house was untouched leads me to believe that the vampires hadn't been there at all anyways.

The boy walking down the street was put in there as a way to isolate Stella. I think they should have thought of a better way to do this. There is no way a kid would have survived that. Even if he did, what made Stella confident enough to get his attention when he is all bloody and looks like a vampire himself?

The deal breaker was the ending. Here they are, literally minutes away from Sunrise and Hartnett decides to go on a suicide mission. What made him believe that he wouldn't annihilate his friends and brother? What made him believe that he would be able to fight off the rest of the vampires? The fight scene was terrible mainly because of the way he killed the lead vamp. A vicious straight right that goes through his face??

THEN-why the hell did he stay in the sunlight. Why not live in a dark house and bone Stella on the weekends?

Overall, I was really disappointed and was REALLY looking forward to the film. It looked great, I thought the performances were good, loved the characters, but hated a lot of the story and ending.
 
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Heh heh Blaine

Slim brings up some interesting points that I can't argue with. I suppose it is the movie whore in me that let some of those things slide.

I too would have preferred a better transitional approach than the sudden DAY 16 announcement.

ONe shot I loved was the overhead skyview of the melee.

It's a horror film, not Schinder's.
 
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Heh heh Blaine

Slim brings up some interesting points that I can't argue with. I suppose it is the movie whore in me that let some of those things slide.

I too would have preferred a better transitional approach than the sudden DAY 16 announcement.

ONe shot I loved was the overhead skyview of the melee.

It's a horror film, not Schinder's.
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The Overhead shot was frickin' dope! Truly awesome. I wonder how many takes that required.
 
Really? I don't think so. Maybe some of the blood splatter effects, but I doubt the whole shot was.

Did you see something that screamed CG to you?
 
Oh I meant

I was thinking they shot individual scenes from overhead using a greenscreen floor and then composited them all into one seamless shot

I of course could be way off base on this one
 
I thought the scene was CG when I first saw it, but I have no idea. As a huge zombie fan, I love when sh!t breaks loose in cities and heavily populated areas. The first ten minutes of the Dawn remake were great for that. Even though this town was tiny, it was great to see the overhead shot of all the chaos.

I also thought there were too many vampires, especially since they didn't want any of the townspeople being turned.
 
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