I just watched this and it was very good. Enjoyed it lots, quite tense.
I just watched this and it was very good. Enjoyed it lots, quite tense.
I was suprised myself. I was thinking it was going to be a gore-fest that used blood and guts to get it's shocks, but it had a very supenseful feel that most modern horror movies don't have. I'm not sure I liked how it ended, but over all I liked the movie. I will say it's a new take on an old idea that works! How odd huh?
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If you guys liked it, I'll go see it. I thought the comic was pretty good, even though I've grown to hate Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's work since.
Best vampire movie in years.
Very faithful.
Great visual style and creepy undead.
I enjoyed it myself but my wife thoroughly loathed it. In particular, she very much did not like the vampires' animalistic fangs and behavior. I think she just prefers the glam vampires we normally get. I liked the difference and found it refreshing.
I was really looking forward to the movie when it came out, but was pretty disappointed by it. It doesn't have a middle. It's like they lost a reel of the film or something. There's this pretty long, interesting but sorta' draggy beginning, then boom monsters are eating folks you don't really know or care about because they haven't been adequately introduced.
The end is ultimately pretty frustrating too, in that when it finally gears up for a big Dark City style retribution--it's not that exciting a fight. Just the hero and the main badguy.
Plus with a story like this, it's all about the mythology. What are vampires. Where did they come from and what is their shadow society like. You get precious few glimpses of that though, and while in itself that's just unfortunate--it really was a deathblow since the movie kind of fell through in other ways too.
Which, like I said, is tragic because I was so excited about this movie. I'd been waiting for months. Oh well...
I loved the comics and I loved the movie. To add to it I'm Alaskan, it's almost standard policy for us to hate anything set in Alaska as hollywood screws it up about 99.999% of the time (Men In Trees is a joke around here, Northern Exposure was a bit closer, and don't get me started on the movie Alaska itself). But Barrow looked like... well... Barrow (according to my friend who spent time up there, I've not yet been crazy enough to go that far beyond Fairbanks), they actually showed natives, and had some very Alaskan personalities. There were some inaccuracies but hey, they could be overlooked in favor of a great horror flick.
I liked it also. My wife seems to prefer the glam vampires as well and did n't go for it. I especially liked how they got them to move and the 'sharky' kind of feel they had. We are so used to seeing vampires in cities, it is nice to see what kinds of extremes in nature they can tolerate. Shows how tough they are. Cool idea overall. That said, I hope they don't make a sequel.
I enjoyed the arena in which it took place. It was a fun time.
I loved it, but I was heavily influenced by the scenery. I miss living in Alaska!
It was funny that they called it Barrow, but you could tell it was filmed in Bethel. Barrow's a stranger town -- looks a bit like a junkyard because where do you take the broke-down snowmachines?
And a funny unrealistic part was the beautiful, pure snow around the sled dog pens. Have you ever seen a sled dog pen? Insert yellow snow joke here, 'cos it's true!
I loved it, but I was heavily influenced by the scenery. I miss living in Alaska!
It was funny that they called it Barrow, but you could tell it was filmed in Bethel. Barrow's a stranger town -- looks a bit like a junkyard because where do you take the broke-down snowmachines?
And a funny unrealistic part was the beautiful, pure snow around the sled dog pens. Have you ever seen a sled dog pen? Insert yellow snow joke here, 'cos it's true!
Yah you don't have to live in Alaska to see that. One husky in my yard, a few days after a fresh snow and you got yellow spots everywhere.
Ben Foster, the dude who wants to be "taken".
Freaky.
The guy from the edge of town... Bo.
Trencher run.
Priceless.