30 days of night for me is neither as good as and not as bad as some are saying, literally both sides are right at some point. Its an interesting and actually a good to watch vampire slasher styled movie (at least in my eyes). The best description of how it feels like is: "undercooked but tasty". Why is that?
Firstly, this is a movie about a residentals of small town in Alasca trying to survive a whole sunless month while being trapped with a band of blood craving vampires, thats it, simple and entertaining plot with addon of some little side threads that do not bother in watching film at all. (and i like it).
Simplicity is great,but not always, in terms of characters, 30 nights fails at bringing on screen memorable protagonist or at least villain, that are basicly doing nothing aside of the fact one is good and second is evil. This is a type of movie that actually needs a memorable characters that are more than "i am a bad vampire, and this is a good human", thats one of the mistakes that makes this movie not scary at all, and a bit souless, just climatic and gory (and i am an easy to scare guy).
Acting is not bad, its just acceptable, but its not enough at least for 1-2 major characters to be great.
Other major problems are weird and bloody action sequences that sometimes are just w-e-i-r-d and feel not the right way (not always), but you just need to see it yourself to maybe understand my point.
And music... Its a kind of movie that is desperately trying to bring memorable soundtrack and it does have problems with it. Sometimes there is to much of music or to much of silence, and when there is music, then its about to being forgotten instantly, basicly only a one of ending tracks is really fitting and just nice, no more.
But the really best part of this movie is this one: its CLIMATE, it managed to be a really climatic and is quite memorable with its looks, it feels like an actuall isolated for whole month and covered in snow town in what something did happened, place seems very real, detailed, and the feeling of loneliness is present, costumes and makeups are also great, i would say that whole situation presented in the movie is veeeeery convincing.
... A type of movie that at the same time disappoints you and overcomes your expectations, weird.
I think you could give it a shot, i've enjoyed it.
Firstly, this is a movie about a residentals of small town in Alasca trying to survive a whole sunless month while being trapped with a band of blood craving vampires, thats it, simple and entertaining plot with addon of some little side threads that do not bother in watching film at all. (and i like it).
Simplicity is great,but not always, in terms of characters, 30 nights fails at bringing on screen memorable protagonist or at least villain, that are basicly doing nothing aside of the fact one is good and second is evil. This is a type of movie that actually needs a memorable characters that are more than "i am a bad vampire, and this is a good human", thats one of the mistakes that makes this movie not scary at all, and a bit souless, just climatic and gory (and i am an easy to scare guy).
Acting is not bad, its just acceptable, but its not enough at least for 1-2 major characters to be great.
Other major problems are weird and bloody action sequences that sometimes are just w-e-i-r-d and feel not the right way (not always), but you just need to see it yourself to maybe understand my point.
And music... Its a kind of movie that is desperately trying to bring memorable soundtrack and it does have problems with it. Sometimes there is to much of music or to much of silence, and when there is music, then its about to being forgotten instantly, basicly only a one of ending tracks is really fitting and just nice, no more.
But the really best part of this movie is this one: its CLIMATE, it managed to be a really climatic and is quite memorable with its looks, it feels like an actuall isolated for whole month and covered in snow town in what something did happened, place seems very real, detailed, and the feeling of loneliness is present, costumes and makeups are also great, i would say that whole situation presented in the movie is veeeeery convincing.
... A type of movie that at the same time disappoints you and overcomes your expectations, weird.
I think you could give it a shot, i've enjoyed it.