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Oct. 28th, 2007 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oLast night we saw 30 Days of Night, and it was awesome, seriously AWESOME.
Some high points:
>> It's a very unsupernatural vampire movie; there's no woo-woo spookiness, it's very reality-based -- and all the more terrifying for it.
>> Y'know that moment in every single horror movie when the hero/heroine does something really dumb? The 'let's see what made that noise in the basement" moment? There is not one moment like that in this film. Oh, the characters do things that put them in danger -- but every single time it's believably their best option.
>> The acting is absolutely solid, across the board. Most of the actors (with precisely three exceptions) were unfamiliar to me, which was actually kinda cool -- no one played to type, because they weren't well-known enough to *have* a type.
>> There was also a really nice, believable diversity -- diversity of age, and gender, and ethnicity; it felt like an actual community.
>> I loved -- LOVED -- the ending.
>> I liked the relationship between Josh Hartnett's character and his (ex?) wife; there's tension, to be sure, but there's also evident respect.
>> I loved Josh Hartnett's character, period. I loved the character's choices, and I loved the choices Hartnett made as an actor to convey the character's emotional state.
>>The vampires are so freakin' scary. Forget Spike, Angel, Harmony, etc.: These aren't super-charismatic people with fangs; they're *monsters*, and their speech and gestures convey that very effectively. (Y'know how the aliens in Galaxyquest were just so freakishly *alien*? Like that, except scary as sh*t.)
Also, Todd tagged me with the "seven random things" meme, so here goes:
1) I don't eat it very often -- even when it's on the menu, a lot of restaurants don't keep it in stock -- but I like sea urchin.
2) I took golf lessons when I was 12 and sucked at it.
3) I'm an OK cook, but I can't improvise at all.
4) I'm sufficiently introverted that most of the time if I see someone I know on the Metro, my instinct is to face the other direction and pretend I don't see them so I won't have to make small talk.
5) I've had a quiet passion for Alan Arkin ever since I saw The Russians Are Coming.
6) For several months when I was 9 years old, I slept with the sleeve of Shaun Cassidy's eponymous debut album under my pillow.
7) I think chocolate frosted Pop-Tarts taste extra yummy with a little butter melted on top.
Some high points:
>> It's a very unsupernatural vampire movie; there's no woo-woo spookiness, it's very reality-based -- and all the more terrifying for it.
>> Y'know that moment in every single horror movie when the hero/heroine does something really dumb? The 'let's see what made that noise in the basement" moment? There is not one moment like that in this film. Oh, the characters do things that put them in danger -- but every single time it's believably their best option.
>> The acting is absolutely solid, across the board. Most of the actors (with precisely three exceptions) were unfamiliar to me, which was actually kinda cool -- no one played to type, because they weren't well-known enough to *have* a type.
>> There was also a really nice, believable diversity -- diversity of age, and gender, and ethnicity; it felt like an actual community.
>> I loved -- LOVED -- the ending.
>> I liked the relationship between Josh Hartnett's character and his (ex?) wife; there's tension, to be sure, but there's also evident respect.
>> I loved Josh Hartnett's character, period. I loved the character's choices, and I loved the choices Hartnett made as an actor to convey the character's emotional state.
>>The vampires are so freakin' scary. Forget Spike, Angel, Harmony, etc.: These aren't super-charismatic people with fangs; they're *monsters*, and their speech and gestures convey that very effectively. (Y'know how the aliens in Galaxyquest were just so freakishly *alien*? Like that, except scary as sh*t.)
Also, Todd tagged me with the "seven random things" meme, so here goes:
1) I don't eat it very often -- even when it's on the menu, a lot of restaurants don't keep it in stock -- but I like sea urchin.
2) I took golf lessons when I was 12 and sucked at it.
3) I'm an OK cook, but I can't improvise at all.
4) I'm sufficiently introverted that most of the time if I see someone I know on the Metro, my instinct is to face the other direction and pretend I don't see them so I won't have to make small talk.
5) I've had a quiet passion for Alan Arkin ever since I saw The Russians Are Coming.
6) For several months when I was 9 years old, I slept with the sleeve of Shaun Cassidy's eponymous debut album under my pillow.
7) I think chocolate frosted Pop-Tarts taste extra yummy with a little butter melted on top.