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A great premise and some good ideas freeze over by the time daylight returns in 30 Days of Night
Vampires on Ice:
30 Days of Night
10-22-07 "Knight Thoughts" web exclusive review
By Richard Knight, Jr.
30 Days of Night
10-22-07 "Knight Thoughts" web exclusive review
By Richard Knight, Jr.
Here's the note I took at the outset of the 30 Days of Night screening:
"This movie has a great premise - I hope it's as wonderful as it promises to be"
Here's what I wrote at the credits:
"It wasn't"
In-between:
"The granny says, 'We'll be alright. We got walkie talkies.' This, naturally, is a sure sign that she's going to be killed minutes later."
"Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma and X Men: The Last Stand plays the Renfield/vampire familiar character with lots of twitches and white
spittle but still gets killed off too quickly."
"The vampires scream like the pod people in Phil Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake and all the kills are done at an
earsplitting level. Movie makers these days seem determined to pierce the eardrums of movie goers."
"Why doesn't anyone besides Josh H. have an ax to go after the vampires? Oh, duh, he's the hero."
"Danny Huston is the elegant looking head of the vampires. In a nice touch, they speak in their own made up language - like Jodie
Foster as Nell - but with big fangs."
"One could 'intellectualize' the movie with a weighty metaphor suggesting the vampires are meant to represent Nazis and the town
folk in hiding in the attic as the Franks and the Van Dams in The Diary of Anne Frank. Or not."
"Josh Hartnett bests Danny Huston in a fistfight?! NO!"
"I smell at least three sequels maybe more."
"Watch out Sweden! You're next!"
THAT ABOUT SAYS IT ALL FOR ME...
"This movie has a great premise - I hope it's as wonderful as it promises to be"
Here's what I wrote at the credits:
"It wasn't"
In-between:
"The granny says, 'We'll be alright. We got walkie talkies.' This, naturally, is a sure sign that she's going to be killed minutes later."
"Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma and X Men: The Last Stand plays the Renfield/vampire familiar character with lots of twitches and white
spittle but still gets killed off too quickly."
"The vampires scream like the pod people in Phil Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake and all the kills are done at an
earsplitting level. Movie makers these days seem determined to pierce the eardrums of movie goers."
"Why doesn't anyone besides Josh H. have an ax to go after the vampires? Oh, duh, he's the hero."
"Danny Huston is the elegant looking head of the vampires. In a nice touch, they speak in their own made up language - like Jodie
Foster as Nell - but with big fangs."
"One could 'intellectualize' the movie with a weighty metaphor suggesting the vampires are meant to represent Nazis and the town
folk in hiding in the attic as the Franks and the Van Dams in The Diary of Anne Frank. Or not."
"Josh Hartnett bests Danny Huston in a fistfight?! NO!"
"I smell at least three sequels maybe more."
"Watch out Sweden! You're next!"
THAT ABOUT SAYS IT ALL FOR ME...
