It’s the holiday weekend, what other kind of film are you going to check out… if you’re me? I saw “I am Legend”, but being as that didn’t annoy me, I’ll save that review for a little bit later. In the meantime I bring you 30 Days of Night.
Or as I like to call it, 30 things the film makers don’t know about cold, blood, terrain or film making.
In Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the U.S, the winter sun sets and does not rise for 30 days and nights. From the darkness comes an evil force that strikes terror on the town, and all hope is pinned on a husband-and-wife cop team. (Yahoo)
Way up North in Barrow Alaska a clan of vampires come to terrorize a town. As a vampire I might think, “Awesome, 24 hours of dark… I don’t get cold… so why can’t I be completely lazy after I trek to the middle of no where and feast on people for thirty days? We’ll kill the majority of them in the first day, refuse to turn anyone- although we will… and they’ll know our language immediately… and the blood won’t ever dry or dissipate because blood does that… Being as I’m a vampire, then absolutely nothing in nature or reality can apply as I’m fictitious. Oooh look- there’s a white out and no snow accumulation after and WOW- that kill we did ages ago is still stained on the snow!”
That was pretty much what I got out of the film. It was a gore fest that at no point was I able to look past the plot holes, the characters who are in freaking Barrow Alaska and yet there’s no steam escaping from their lips when they speak and their skin remains such as if they were in a… studio. Sunset came in the late evening and sunrise came in the early morn. For anyone who lived or lives in Alaska, even at the Southern most part of the main land mass knows that- “Nah, that doesn’t happen.” 9 am sunrises and 3 pm sunsets are more realistic- in the Southern areas for that time of year. But put that aside I guess.
Josh Harnett as their savior? That should have told me from the start that the movie wasn’t plausible even if vampires existed and were a true threat. He even made a fictitious piece even more unbelievable.
Slade, the director, jumps you from day one to a week or two later and strangely it feels as if the film took place in a 24 hour period of time. I’m sorry, but if I were trapped in an attic or store for whatever period of time he was trying to convey, there’d be signs. Not to mention that if a large number of vampires feasted on everyone from the start- they probably would have left shortly after and saw that the idea was flawed and to stick with large cities easier accessible climates.
I didn’t read the graphic novel that this film was based off of, but after seeing this tripe, I think it’s a novel I can safely go my entire life without reading and feeling better for that.
I was hoping for a good scare, not more fear from our Hollywood film makers- I’ve been scared to death of the next piece of (insert foul word here) they’d churn out since Crash.
Current Mood:
annoyed
I actually didn’t go see that movie because my mom and sister didn’t like it. I should have ignored them as they have never like any of the movies I do. I guess something in the force was telling me not to go. Thank you force!