Has anyone else seen this movie? It came on FX Saturday night and I was pleasantly surprised.
Synopsis, the town of Barrow, Alaska lies far enough north that once a year in the dead of winter the town gets no sun for 30 days straight, none. This little detail attracts the attention of a group of vampires. They arrange for a familiar (not a term used in the film, just a rough term) to help sabotage some things like wrecking the town's only plane, stealing cell phones and killing sled dogs. By the time the 30 days of night start Barrow is cut off from the outside world. The vampires descend and in an orgy of violence slaughter the town. A few people escape and hide out, trying to avoid vampires, starvation, and freezing to death while waiting out the night.
The big thing here is that we're getting away from the idea of pretty vampires, or even relatable ones. You really can't even pity the creatures in this movie as they are all total and complete monsters both in action and appearance. It's kind of refreshing to see vampires portrayed as bad guys with no redeeming features after two decades of pussification by Hollywood.
And yes, for those of you who are going to mention it I am well aware that is not how the lack of daylight works up North or even remotely what the real Barrow is like.
30 Days of Night
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Re: 30 Days of Night
Loved it, personally. For pretty much all of the reasons you listed.
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Re: 30 Days of Night
Never saw it, and never intended to. Didn't this film star Josh Hartnett? That's a pretty big strike against it, in my book.
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Re: 30 Days of Night
Eh, he's not a strong point of the movie. I'm not about to give any of the actors any real credit but he doesn't hurt it in my opinion.
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Well, that's better than most of his performances.Tyyr wrote:he doesn't hurt it
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Didn't really do it for me.
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