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joshaube

10-26-2007, 07:13 PM

It's the better choice in theatres now, if you want something horror oriented. I enjoyed it. Got bored a little, and it's not the best movie ever, but it's okay. Some great gore, excellent atmosphere and great visuals. I'm a fan of David Slade, but much prefer Hard Candy.

unspeakablemag

10-27-2007, 08:19 PM

i dug the hell out of this flick..

balls out flick....numerous reasons why i believe this to be the best vampire film ever created....one the style..Steve Niles' rendition of vamps reminisces much of the nightmare demon from American Werewolf in London...i dug how they spoke their native language the whole film. the little girl...and the ending......This was just a balls out flick..I'll have a full review asap.....

go see it people....intensely scary till the end!!!

the_real_linda

10-28-2007, 12:51 PM

aweful :mad:

then i saw the trailer and it almost convinced me to watch it again..... then i rembered watching it the first time and how bored i was and how i had to watch south park imagination land part2 in the middle of it to keep myself awake

joshaube

10-28-2007, 01:04 PM

We were watching the same movie? Is it out on DVD in the UK now (the fact that you paused it?) It wasn't on-the-edge good, but it wasn't horrifically boring - in my opinion. A lot of people seem to think this is part of the 28 days/week franchise XD My friends are like "I haven't seen any of them!" "Huh?" "Y'know... 28 days la..." "HAHAHAHAHA!!!" "What?"

the_real_linda

10-28-2007, 01:11 PM

dvd yeah....... nope.... how'd ya think i watch them.... i do spend a lot at the cinema... so much time there actually that all the staff no who i am, im there more than once a week but i wasnt waiting for 30 days of night as i really thought it would be good and if it was i would have went to the cinema to see it aswell but it wasnt... just like the new resident evil was pants so i didnt bother going to the cinema....

the wonder of computers.... bless the internet :)

Disease

10-29-2007, 10:06 AM

So not reccomended then?

Maybe I will sneak into it after I see Dracula on Wendesday, they are playing the 1958 version here for Halloween, I might catch the afternoon screening..

the_real_linda

10-29-2007, 10:22 AM

i think people should see it... its not that bad i just expected waaaay too much from it

Disease

10-29-2007, 10:23 AM

i think people should see it... its not that bad i just expected waaaay too much from it

Sounds like a sneak in job for me....

I feel better if my tickets reads the title of something I liked.

PhilnEdee

10-29-2007, 03:44 PM

Something fishy about this review...and this paused thing? :confused:
I thought this movie was pretty darn good actually, especially for Halloween time!:D

the_real_linda

10-30-2007, 11:33 AM

well i watched it on my computer and got bored, so i watched south park to break it up got a cup of coffee and a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes to perk me up... i like josh hartnett and mellisa george, and i like them in it but it just didnt feel like the comic to me...and obviously they released it for this time of year... like it seems most horrors are, cause they cant compete with summer blockbusters or the christmas family films

VampiricClown

10-30-2007, 12:50 PM

I personally thought it was great, though my expectations weren't too high.

arviladze

11-04-2007, 03:09 PM

thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

tarcher80

11-08-2007, 07:48 AM

finally got enough free time to catch it and i have to say i was not impressed... although it wasn't crap either. good cinematography/fx, but the pacing was a bit off. still a fun ride, decent adaptation of the graphic novel.

Phalanx

11-08-2007, 03:53 PM

Repost:

Having read the original limited series/graphic novel I was apprehensive, however good the trailers looked.
One thing about this film, is that the acting is not brilliant...but that makes for little issue in a film of this type - it wasn't appalling, just not award winning stuff.
The rest of the movie however, was pretty well done I thought.
Of course, it seems that having someone on board with first hand experience in the creative process of the original comic series served well again, as per sin city, the atmosphere of the comic story came alive.
The vampires were a different breed than what we're used to seeing, similar to the comic, and the events, while somewhat altered in parts actually fit together into what I'd call a pretty good adaptation.

I've just recently seen Daywatch, and where I love it for it's differences and weirdness, I think that out of the two vampire films I've seen lately, 30D.O.N I enjoyed more

ChronoGrl

11-08-2007, 08:04 PM

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who found 30 Days slightly boring... It took me a while to actually get into the film (then again, I have a difficult time standing still anyway)... And the scenes that should have been nail-biting... well... just fell short. Not to mention the final showdown/payoff was so incredibly disappointingly lame... I can barely express myself.

HOWEVER...

The depiction of the vampires themselves was pretty damn impressive. I feel as though vampires have been too anthropomorphized over the years (Buffy, Angel, Moonlight) that they've lost sight of the original monster (Nosferatu). The vampires in 30 Days of Night were the most horrifying vampires that I have ever seen... The vision of these shark-like creatures hulking over their prey, blood unabashedly dribbling down their fronts... That is definitely more threatening than a clean-cut sharp-toothed Tom Cruise (though I do concede that Rice's purpose was to explore sex and vampires, so it might not be an apt comparison).

The vampire scenes were spectacular. The monsters were horrifying.

But I wouldn't necessarily recommend the flick to horror fans, let alone vampire movie buffs.

Roderick Usher

11-08-2007, 08:26 PM

well i watched it on my computer and got bored

please stop stealing films

it is theft that you're doing

justify it however you wish, but you are stealing

Freak

11-08-2007, 09:16 PM

please stop stealing films

it is theft that you're doing

justify it however you wish, but you are stealing

I agree that it's stealing but it beats paying 12 bucks to go see it a theater with a bunch on idiots talking on thier cellphones the whole time giving there friends a play by play of the movie as it's going on.I mean we've all downloaded music illegal before haven't we?

Phalanx

11-08-2007, 09:32 PM

please stop stealing films

it is theft that you're doing

justify it however you wish, but you are stealing
I download/steal (whichever) films occasionally, more often if I've missed them at the cinema...usually if I like those that I DO obtain for free, I'll buy them when they become available.
Hell, sometimes I just download films, full stop.
But...I have to admit it bothers me when people do nothing BUT download films, huge collections of movies on burnt dvds...the ones that get ever film they can just to have it. Those people annoy me (not saying that of anyone here, I don't know or care about each individuals downloading patterns).

I can see where you're coming from Rod, you especially...but...you know any request of this nature won't really change anything right? Beyond any excuses made, people know what they're doing.

Roderick Usher

11-08-2007, 09:57 PM

.I mean we've all downloaded music illegal before haven't we?
No not all of us

It is easy to say "everyone is doing it", but that doesn't make it right.

It is the lesson I reinforce to my kids constantly. Do the right thing BECAUSE it is right, not because it's convenient or easy or someone is watching.

Please stop this practice. You aren't "sticking it to the man" you're stealing from the pockets of my friends and associates. You are damaging the system that creates the art you love.

It is a symptom of our selfish age to not care from whom we steal. But I wouldn't be serving my conscience if I didn't at least state the truth and try to force all of you illegal down-loaders into a crisis of conscience. Please stop.

Do what's right BECAUSE it's right.

Roderick Usher

11-08-2007, 10:03 PM

I can see where you're coming from Rod, you especially...but...you know any request of this nature won't really change anything right? Beyond any excuses made, people know what they're doing.

I do believe I can help change this mentality. If I can convince someone that what they are doing HURTS me and my friends, then that person might just spread the word.

I challenge the members of this site to spread the word against downloading films. It is easy. It seems painless. But it isn't. It hurts me directly and endangers my ability to place food on the table for my children.

Can you understand this?

Stealing movies is morally wrong and socially wrong. The only benefit is your immediate gratification, which boils down to harming others so you can be either lazy or cheap - either way, it's a selfish, shameful thing to do.

Phalanx

11-08-2007, 10:28 PM

I do believe I can help change this mentality. If I can convince someone that what they are doing HURTS me and my friends, then that person might just spread the word.
I buy most movies I enjoy, so whatever margin of profits goes towards the makers of the films, gets there in the end.
Only time I don't buy a film is if I didn't enjoy it and don't feel its served it's purpose...I like the ability to evaluate yet it's hard to do so on faith and a trailer alone - If I buy a terrible film up front...I'm at risk of losing my money to folks that don't have it coming.
Going to the movies to see new films I do already, no less than 75% of the films I really want to see, I'll go pay admission for, unless as I said I miss them and want to have a look prior to shelling out for the dvd.

Can you understand this?
Yeah, for sure.
But then, I'm not really one of the people who really needs to be convinced.
Absolute pirates, and those that stand by it, getting everything for free just because "they can"...I think are more of a problem.

GorePhobia

11-08-2007, 10:30 PM

It is super wrong to download flicks off of the internet. If I really wanna see a movie or intend to I save up the money to see it in the theatre. Sometimes I see it a lot. Like Freddy vs. Jason I saw thirteen times in the theatre.

Freak

11-08-2007, 11:53 PM

I'm not saying that I download tons of movies becsue I don't just ones I didn't catch at the theaters.Like Cheebs said if I enjoy I will buy it on dvd and I do go to the theaters about 3 times a month.In the past 2 months I've maybe downloaded 5 movies that's about it, and I plan to buy 4 of those when they come out on dvd.

As far a music goes I do download alot of music as well as buy cd's but I refuse to pay 20 bucks for a cd with 12 or 13 songs on it.Putting that little amount of songs on it and then charging that much is wrong.

BloodRedFlower

11-09-2007, 08:39 AM

I saw the movie yesterday and just LOVED it. Don't know why so many people said it was boring. Good acting, good special effects, beautiful scenes (blood and snow are a nice mix) ,amazingly creepy and dark mood, the story was pretty convincing and has an acceptable ending. The fact they weren't scared to mix children with horrific scenes was also good.

Very entertaining, go see it.

Disease

11-11-2007, 07:04 AM

I do believe I can help change this mentality. If I can convince someone that what they are doing HURTS me and my friends, then that person might just spread the word.

I challenge the members of this site to spread the word against downloading films. It is easy. It seems painless. But it isn't. It hurts me directly and endangers my ability to place food on the table for my children.

Can you understand this?

Stealing movies is morally wrong and socially wrong. The only benefit is your immediate gratification, which boils down to harming others so you can be either lazy or cheap - either way, it's a selfish, shameful thing to do.

I'm just curious, how do you feel about people buy second hand movies then...

the_real_linda

11-12-2007, 07:27 AM

I'm just curious, how do you feel about people buy second hand movies then...

aaah good one!!!!

i buy a lot of dvds.... well i think i do.... and i pay a lot to see a shit load of films at the cinema... everyone at our local at the gate, the empire, knows me and my mate.... wer regulars and so do the staff in hmv and whatever virgin megastores is changing its name too.

i only downloaded it cause i really couldnt wait to see it... ive got the comics.....

i dont try and justify... too much ;) why i download but mainly its tv shows id have no chance of seeing or seeing for a bloody long time.... and then i buy them when i can anyways....

plus with tv shows it builds up hype and has helped heroes.... if people can be arsed to record, encode and upload a tv show then its usually worth watching and ends up doing well cause of 'internet buzz'

and breathe :D

Sick_As_Fuck

11-14-2007, 05:15 PM

I finally saw this tonight. My only fear going in was Hartnett's zombie-like acting, but like someone else said in this thread that didn't really matter for the type of movie this was. Anyway...I loved it. Fucking dope movie. Maybe the best modern-day vampire film to date.

Falling_Away87

11-15-2007, 05:54 PM

I am hoping to see this movie this weekend. Hopefully it be good IMO

Despare

11-15-2007, 05:59 PM

Don't think I've ever downloaded a movie... but I have had a few people give me burned copies. Like 300. I didn't have any interest in seeing that in the theater and my friend gave me a burned copy. That made me not only want to check it out in the theater but buy the DVD. I collect DVDs... but I do TRY and not buy rubbish. So if I see a movie coming out, maybe I'd download it and check it out, if I liked it I'd go and buy it. Anyway...

I want to see 30 Days at the cinema, if I don't get a chance to I'll just Netflix it and see if it's worth the pickup.

knife_fight

11-15-2007, 06:45 PM

I was telling the wife the other day that with the immense recent popularity of pirates, it's probly not a good idea to show those public service announcements that declare that downloading movies is "pirating."

on that note, I own hundreds of dvds, all of which were bought and paid for with my manual-labor workmoney.

PR3SSUR3

11-15-2007, 06:55 PM

From Wikipedia - and the superb South Park episode 'Christian Rock Hard':-

"Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, seeking 'inspiration', decide to download music from the Internet (because CDs are too expensive) and they are charged by the FBI for illegal downloading. An FBI agent shows them how serious the consequences of downloading can be. In a scene reminiscent of A Christmas Carol, musicians like Lars Ulrich (drummer of metal band Metallica) and Britney Spears are so affected by loss of income from music piracy that they must substitute extremely luxurious purchases for slightly less luxurious ones (Lars wants to have a gold-plated shark tank bar installed next to his pool, but must now wait a few weeks, and Britney is not able to keep a Gulfstream IV, so she replaces it with a smaller Gulfstream III, which doesn't have a remote control for its surround sound DVD system)"

If you are still not convinced that the South Park team always manage to hit the nail right on the head, then that this episode also features the outburst "Oh fuck Jesus!" should sway it for you one way or another.

the_real_linda

11-16-2007, 12:15 AM

id never sell anything i download and i try and buy as much as i can that i have... and as far as tv shows goes, British tv is immensely boring compared to the shows the us produce. we have some good comedy shows and that is it. I dont buy copy dvd's.

knife_fight

11-16-2007, 05:33 AM

Disease

11-16-2007, 12:56 PM

Since the topic is up and about... How do you compare those bloodsucking freaks at video stores that rent out movies at ridiculous prices for years after they are released...?

They are the only ones making anything out of it!

Sick_As_Fuck

11-17-2007, 08:22 PM

great episode, and I agree that South Park could very well be the most clever show on television.

I wouldn't exactly call pushing their liberal beliefs "clever".

knife_fight

11-17-2007, 08:39 PM

I wouldn't exactly call pushing their liberal beliefs "clever".

:rolleyes:
a sense of humor is a terrible thing to waste.

wait. you have to have one to waste it.

Despare

11-20-2007, 06:34 PM

:rolleyes:
a sense of humor is a terrible thing to waste.

wait. you have to have one to waste it.

Now now, just because some people don't find the same things as you do funny doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humor. Some people just don't like their humor with a large (heaven forbid I say liberal ;) )dose of politics. Sooooo, are there any political undertones in 30 Days?

PR3SSUR3

11-21-2007, 06:19 AM

I would consider Parker and Stone's attitudes via South Park to be more displays of straightforward common sense (usually in the face of a recent public outrage) than 'pushing their liberal beliefs'.

This is despite the customary 'message' near the end of each episode, which merely puts things into perspective after 20 minutes of dealing with the hilarious extremities of hypocritical moralists, bonkers celebrities or degenerative politics.