NEWS: "30 Days of Night" ... 29 Too Many?

CELEB: "30 Days of Night" ... 29 Too Many?

I like vampires. A lot. I'll watch anything with a vampire in it. Movies, TV shows, radio plays, a Senate hearing (it was covered up), anything. As those of you with taste and intelligence can imagine, this often leads to me seeing a ton of garbage.



For every Buffy the Vampire Slayer there's a Moonlight. For every Blade, there's a Blade 3. You get the idea.



For filmmakers, I think the solution is, watch some Buffy and Angel, and if you can't top that, maybe you do a werewolf film. Or a wendigo. Or some fucking alien-griffin-centaur hybrid thing that's fueled by our femur bones and vulnerable only to ice-cream (rocky road?) Some sort of new, never before seen, thing.



Or, if you're determined to go through with it, do something awesome.







The twist here is, vampires, in an Alaskan city that's dark for 30 days. That sounds awesome at first, but, is it? Were the time constraints really what was fucking up all those vamps? Sure, you'd often see a vamp about to tear into some dude's neck only to get zapped in the hand by sunlight before running back to his crypt. But, it's not like the almost-dead dude then moved out of town and lived happily ever after. The vamp came back in twelve hours and they picked up where they left off... I guess I'm on the fence. It was an awesome enough premise for me to buy the comic book the film is based on, but the more I thought about it the more it sounded half-assed.



Blade was half-vamp, half-human (his left side), Angel was a vampire with a soul who always felt like a dick shortly after any vamp-type maneuvers, John Carpenter's Vampires (not a great movie, I know) had modern day mercenaries using technology to fight vampires. And James Woods smoked cigars and made a lot of jokes that made human and vampire alike feel awful... I'm not sure this twist is up there with those guys. This twist belongs with "Vamp who attacks during a lunar eclipse," or "Vampire-hunting priest on a boat, and the ocean is holy water."



More importantly, who wants to watch a movie made up entirely of fog-filled, hard to make out scenes that all take place at night?



Do you need a spoiler alert to announce that the good guy wins in the end? Cause that's what happens in the comic. I think the ending is what ruined it for me. The art was amazing, the story was interesting... Humans vs. vamps, all building up to the ending, where a guy faces off against the head vamp, who's been built up as this super formidable vamp who's wiser, faster, and more experienced than any other. The human injects himself with a vamp's blood (awesome!), gains its powers (woo!) and then quickly beats the head vamp (huh?). The vamp is killed in minutes by the inexperienced half-human guy, even though, I think, earlier he'd killed other more experienced vamps with no problems...



Hopefully they've fixed that part for the movie. Either way, I'll be there on opening day to find out. Good or bad, shitty or fun, I'm in... It is my curse. (Cue wolf howl and dry ice machine.)













TheCoolerKing plans on making "30 Days of Light", an Alaskan set vampire moving featuring absolutely no vampires, focusing mainly on very happy townspeople making elaborate vacation plans for the following month.

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Uhm. excuse me. i do believe by "comic book" you meant "graphic novel" thank you very much!

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I am looking forward to it, i love all zombie, vampire and other type movies.

I'm counting down the days.....the whole series of graphic novels rock...

this movie does look bad ass.. wow. vampires with brains. instead of just a flock of vampires that get their butts kicked for no reason.

yeah, but are the Coreys in it?

That movie won't be shit without the Frog brothers or Corey Haim singing in the bathtub.

I don't think the good guy wins at all in the end. I mean, they're all kinda fucked in the end. At least in the novel. Maybe they made some changes in the mooooovie. Anywhozits...Can't wait to see it!

Frog brothers were pretty great. And Edward Herrmann smooth talking his way into the house...

Fuck I should've written this about the Lost Boys!

What's wrong with the term comic book?

The series is decent; Niles actually autographed one of my trades. This could be good film, I just hope they take it easy on the sequels.

It was originally serialized, disqualifying it from the category "graphic novel," lol.

I don't know about the movie, but I loved the comic and how it all played out. The last scene- the showdown mentioned above- could potentially make a lot of sense based on things in the particular mythology that I don't think were ever expounded on in the comics.

Think about how Lestat became a vampire in the Rice novels; he was created by a very powerful vampire and thus was inordinately powerful as a neophyte- one of the reasons the vampire "establishment" always hated him. Just some food for thought I guess.

the first time i saw the trailer, knowing nothing about it, i was really diggin it... until it was revealed that the monsters were vampires.

dont get me wrong, it still looks good. but i, too, was hoping somebody invented a new type of monster, rather than using a familiar (cliche?) one.

So as someone who is really excited for 'I Am Legend' having read the short story a gazillion times, I gotta say, why don't these people pull a Robert Neville and hunt those vamps down during the time before the 30 days of night? I mean I'm sure that'll all be explained in the movie and is in the graphic novel as well (I haven't read it so don't jump down my throat here), but come on, logically unless those fuckers are burrowing into the permafrost, they could find them right?

I am extremely excited for 'I am Legend' and hope the extremely fucking terrible rumors surrounding how they plan on ending the movie aren't true.

Dear Hollywood, Matheson could write an awesome horror story. You cannot. Please leave his ending untainted.
Love, Lincoln

I didn't like the comic.

However, the movie does look pretty cool. I remember thinking "This would make a better movie than a comic book" upon finishing it.

Sadly, I'm way more excited for that one. Unless they fuck up the ending like I've been told they are going to.

I cringe at the thought of this.

the graphic novels rules and the funny thing is I was thinking "hey this would make a great vampire movie".

I want to make a film called 30 Days of Mid-Afternoon.

NERD SHAME!

I would much rather go see Harold and Kumar II
or how about a movie starring Jesus where he turns into an undead zombie for 3 days before rising from the dead?

On a personal note, he is one hell of a douche bag.

Re: your comment about the point of it being 30 days of darkness... It's not so much about the vampires not having to worry about "time constraints" but more about the fact that because the sun never comes, the humans in the story have no respite or rest from the vampire assault. So, when you look at it that way, from the viewpoint of a bunch of poor mortals who have to be wary of every nook and cranny for 30 days straight, it's a pretty harrowing story.

Also, I thought "Moonlight" was decent. A pretty blatant ripoff, and stumbling a little, but the two male leads are two of my favorite actors, so I have some hope the show will start to shape up. Pretty much all new shows have that initial floundering period where they have to set up character traits and backstory and all that, and it gets contrived sometimes. But once your audience knows these things, that's when you get to have fun with the stories.