30 Days of Night

The wife and I watched this tonight. I have to admit I never read the graphic novel even though it was recommended to me long before it was announced as a movie. I think I will have to track down a copy now to compare it to the movie. So how did I like it? It was ok. There were some good scenes and overall it did a decent job of entertaining me. There were plot points I did not get though. Or should I say plot holes? And some of the characters were highly annoying which is true of most movies. Overall I did enjoy it. Would I recommend it to others though? Sure, just don't expect too much and you will be fine.

Now that I got that out of the way a couple of more points about the movie. Don't keep reading though if you don't want spoilers. Ok, still here I see. The Stella character really annoyed me. She was the one who fell asleep and let the old man get downstairs. Because of her both him and his son ended up dead. Then later she is the one who comes out of hiding to try and save the little girl. Two more people end up dead. Of course she makes it until the end and we see her with estranged husband, who sacrifices himself to save her, die with the sunrise. Hokey? Yes. Other characters pissed me off too. The deputy Billy killing his wife and two girls so they would not have to wait around to be killed by the vampires was a bit much to take. Worse was he was able to stay alive as long as he did after killing them. Which brings me to my other problem with the movie. Did the vampires not know about the 30 days of night? They seemed to know about it by coming to this town. Then why did they wait so long to make sure they had killed everyone? Very lame on their part. Especially waiting to the last day to burn down the town to make sure they got the last survivors. You would have thought they would have done that with at least a couple of days to spare before the sunrise. Yes, it is a movie but come on already. At least be consistent with the logic. Again I would say it is worth watching. Just be warned that it has a number of flaws.