So, about that Daybreakers movies...
*1. Maus I: My Father Bleeds History - Art Spiegelman
The second thing I've read this year that won the Pulitzer and centres around survival with father and son stories. I'm sensing a theme for the year... I have quite the history with this graphic novel, having first discovered it by accident in Junior. I like this one better than the sequel, but I remember so much more from the sequel being that it's the part that takes place in Auschwitz. Having read this directly after finishing The Road I did notice something, Vladek Spiegelman (Maus is his story as told by his son Art... with mouse doodles) really reminded me of the father (let's call him Viggo) in The Road. Vladek and Viggo had very similar attitudes with scavenging and the cautions they took to hide. I found it interesting because while Viggo is a made up character, Vladek lived and did all these things. It just made The Road that much more real... not that it needed to be more real.
Anyway... so just got back from Daybreakers. I am so bewildered by that movie that I just don't know what to think anymore. While watching it I liked it just find until Ethan Hawk meets Willem Defoe's character and says: "My name is Lionel Cormac... but everyone calls me Elvis."
Seriously? Elvis? We're going there??? It's like they just stopped trying after that point. The movie was just so stupid, and there were so many plot-gaps it was just frustrating (for example: 'Elvis' there goes into the sun, gets scorched, and is scared for life. Same thing happens to Ethan, but his pretty little face is fine for the rest of the movie).
The movie both tried to be really silly (like the test-vampire at the beginning saying "Ouch" and then blowing up, and the vampire chimpanzees... yeah, vampire chimpanzees...) and be ridiculously dramatic and poignant when it had NOTHING TO BE POIGNANT ABOUT. Dragging the (what were they called, 'undersiders'?) into the sun when there are about 50 more practical ways to carry out executions, the slow-motion 'everyone-eating-everyone' scene near the end (which I was not the only audience-member laughing out-loud at), the brother... oh god, every scene with the brother nearly put me to sleep.
It was just too much, and it could have been so good! I normally really like cheesy shit like this, or at least am amused by it, but this was just AGONIZING to sit through.
The weirdest part, I came home and checked it's score on IMDB: 8.2 out of 10
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a much more understandable 6 out of 10. That sounds about right.
Not everything in this movie was terrible, but it just took itself waaaay too seriously. And OMG, it was stupid. The cure was stupid too. Even Ethan Hawk's character thought the sure was stupid...
-LS
P.S. Apparently this is my 500th entry on LiveJournal. The time does fly...
The second thing I've read this year that won the Pulitzer and centres around survival with father and son stories. I'm sensing a theme for the year... I have quite the history with this graphic novel, having first discovered it by accident in Junior. I like this one better than the sequel, but I remember so much more from the sequel being that it's the part that takes place in Auschwitz. Having read this directly after finishing The Road I did notice something, Vladek Spiegelman (Maus is his story as told by his son Art... with mouse doodles) really reminded me of the father (let's call him Viggo) in The Road. Vladek and Viggo had very similar attitudes with scavenging and the cautions they took to hide. I found it interesting because while Viggo is a made up character, Vladek lived and did all these things. It just made The Road that much more real... not that it needed to be more real.
Anyway... so just got back from Daybreakers. I am so bewildered by that movie that I just don't know what to think anymore. While watching it I liked it just find until Ethan Hawk meets Willem Defoe's character and says: "My name is Lionel Cormac... but everyone calls me Elvis."
Seriously? Elvis? We're going there??? It's like they just stopped trying after that point. The movie was just so stupid, and there were so many plot-gaps it was just frustrating (for example: 'Elvis' there goes into the sun, gets scorched, and is scared for life. Same thing happens to Ethan, but his pretty little face is fine for the rest of the movie).
The movie both tried to be really silly (like the test-vampire at the beginning saying "Ouch" and then blowing up, and the vampire chimpanzees... yeah, vampire chimpanzees...) and be ridiculously dramatic and poignant when it had NOTHING TO BE POIGNANT ABOUT. Dragging the (what were they called, 'undersiders'?) into the sun when there are about 50 more practical ways to carry out executions, the slow-motion 'everyone-eating-everyone' scene near the end (which I was not the only audience-member laughing out-loud at), the brother... oh god, every scene with the brother nearly put me to sleep.
It was just too much, and it could have been so good! I normally really like cheesy shit like this, or at least am amused by it, but this was just AGONIZING to sit through.
The weirdest part, I came home and checked it's score on IMDB: 8.2 out of 10
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!
Rotten Tomatoes gives it a much more understandable 6 out of 10. That sounds about right.
Not everything in this movie was terrible, but it just took itself waaaay too seriously. And OMG, it was stupid. The cure was stupid too. Even Ethan Hawk's character thought the sure was stupid...
-LS
P.S. Apparently this is my 500th entry on LiveJournal. The time does fly...