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Originally Posted by J. Tithonus Pednaud
No doubt. One of the reasons I liked 30 Days was because it dropped all the romantic undead bullshit and revisited the original vampire-creature mythos. I'm checking it out again tonight.
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Yeah. Instead of sipping Chardonnay and doing the weeping willow to thumping goth and techno tracks and gently giving their "victims" love bites whilst fucking them, they're hissing, tearing people to shreds (women, children, and alzheimer's patients are not spared), lighting towns on fire and sowing chaos while alluding to their mythology and looking creepy, ancient (if they had a cyber-goth phase, they grew out of it), and sexy in their totally sweet suits.
If nothing else, the character design was fantastic
What's the problem with the other characters? They're hicks in the frozen north. Some of them will deny it until they're faced with it and
their lives are at stake, while others take action and defend the herd at their own expense. Pretty accurate. And using UV rays was damn clever. Just a shame that the hot vampire bitch had to die.
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Sure, I'll agree with you on this, the climax was a little stupid. They couldn't trust another vampire to stay on their side, but somehow he figured that WITH THE POWER OF LOVE he could stay good long enough to change at the *exact* moment to shove his vampire-y fist through the back of the bad guy's throat, and still share a touching sunrise with his estranged wife before turning into charcoal.
Also, what the hell is a Utilador? Is it a generator? A heli pad? A giant woodchipper? A sanctuary when you and your town have gone to shit?
CHUD.com said it best. This is a big dumb action film. It looks great, lots of blood, it's exciting. The problem is, you never have a sense of character, no one to empathize with. They show little emotion, they care nothing for supplies, and they're all in great mental health by the end of it. The Utilador is their bastion of hope, and while too far to ever reach until the end of the film, it's close enough to the center of town to recognize people hiding under their cars. It's fun to watch them fight vampires for a couple of hours, but you never get the feeling that they're under siege by them for a month. One moment, it's hour 23, the next, it's day 13 and Hartnett has grown a beard; not to mention, they've had no food, no water, there's no tension, and the vampires, who were surgically tearing apart every house in the town didn't find theirs until halfway through.
That being said, it's a fun movie.
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