that was fucking amazing
10:02 PM 4/21/08 · While I tend to recognize a score of titles when a film comes from a comic series, it's not always a matter of actually having read the series. The things that generally draw me to comics in general is the art style and sometimes if it's a series I like but the art takes a downspin I'll stick with it if the story grabs me enough. However, there are some stories where the art just didn't do it for me so I never really got into them. For example, 300 was a great movie but I was only loosely knowledgeable about the comic it came from because...well...
...let's just say the actors in the movie were overdressed.
I really wanted to see 30 Days of Night in theaters as it struck me as a big screen experience...but didn't wind up going. Can't really say why, maybe then i could but I'm blanking on it now, but I think seeing it at home alone made it much more creepy that it actually is. Even without that, this movie is damned intense and I loved every single minute of it. Performances were good, acting was tight, and I'm not sure if it was just me but there seemed to be something going on with the lighting that made everything more surreal than I think it would've been otherwise.
Haven't taken a look at the behind the scenes stuff as yet, that comes next, but there's a popular line for religious films that comes to mind here. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist". That really works here as we have a pack (coven? swarm??) of vampires that have been so long isolated that no one believes that such exist anymore. Well, any more than Joe Average on a sunny day would.
This is, however, not a sunny day.
Movie takes place in a small Alaskan town that, as the title implies, goes through a thirty day span where they have no sunlight at all. During this time a bunch of vampires, led by a very enigmatic creature, move in and wholesale slaughter everyone they can find. There's a lot of very vivid scenes of this done from overhead as though you were watching from a helicopter that really blows you away with the sheer volume of the carnage.
Some people survive and try to stay alive and that's the film.
There's even a Renfield of sorts.
It's hard to argue realism in such a scenario but I think this is pretty much right there.
Not you atypical vamps. They don't just have fangs so much as rows of teeth like a shark, though there's evidence that early stages of the transformation has the more classic look. Not a wide range of supernatural abilities beyond the superhuman strength and reflexes. The feeding scenes were well done. Ever popular beheading works for killing them and sunlight, or UV exposure, are definitely not good for their health.
It may be a slight prejudice on my part but the vamps really struck me as Romanian/Transylvanian stock. Facial features and hair styles, some clothing. Their leader has a very ornate ring on his right hand's pinky. Something too about the way they talked, when not opting for English. I've only heard a smidge of the local dialects of that region but there seemed to be similarities.
Hopefully the bonus stuff will cover this.
I highly recommend this film if you can see it. Having headphones to shut out all other sound except the movie wouldn't hurt. Definitely turn out the lights...
...I may've cheated as I had a night light.
Nobody's perfect.
...let's just say the actors in the movie were overdressed.
I really wanted to see 30 Days of Night in theaters as it struck me as a big screen experience...but didn't wind up going. Can't really say why, maybe then i could but I'm blanking on it now, but I think seeing it at home alone made it much more creepy that it actually is. Even without that, this movie is damned intense and I loved every single minute of it. Performances were good, acting was tight, and I'm not sure if it was just me but there seemed to be something going on with the lighting that made everything more surreal than I think it would've been otherwise.
Haven't taken a look at the behind the scenes stuff as yet, that comes next, but there's a popular line for religious films that comes to mind here. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist". That really works here as we have a pack (coven? swarm??) of vampires that have been so long isolated that no one believes that such exist anymore. Well, any more than Joe Average on a sunny day would.
This is, however, not a sunny day.
Movie takes place in a small Alaskan town that, as the title implies, goes through a thirty day span where they have no sunlight at all. During this time a bunch of vampires, led by a very enigmatic creature, move in and wholesale slaughter everyone they can find. There's a lot of very vivid scenes of this done from overhead as though you were watching from a helicopter that really blows you away with the sheer volume of the carnage.
Some people survive and try to stay alive and that's the film.
There's even a Renfield of sorts.
It's hard to argue realism in such a scenario but I think this is pretty much right there.
Not you atypical vamps. They don't just have fangs so much as rows of teeth like a shark, though there's evidence that early stages of the transformation has the more classic look. Not a wide range of supernatural abilities beyond the superhuman strength and reflexes. The feeding scenes were well done. Ever popular beheading works for killing them and sunlight, or UV exposure, are definitely not good for their health.
It may be a slight prejudice on my part but the vamps really struck me as Romanian/Transylvanian stock. Facial features and hair styles, some clothing. Their leader has a very ornate ring on his right hand's pinky. Something too about the way they talked, when not opting for English. I've only heard a smidge of the local dialects of that region but there seemed to be similarities.
Hopefully the bonus stuff will cover this.
I highly recommend this film if you can see it. Having headphones to shut out all other sound except the movie wouldn't hurt. Definitely turn out the lights...
...I may've cheated as I had a night light.
Nobody's perfect.