Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I saw 30 Days of Night yesterday.

I met the writer and artist years ago in my comic book dealings and it's a pretty original graphic novel, both in content and look. The film really tried to capture it, which I can really appreciate and it was a moderatly good film.

THe issue I had was really, really, REALLY bad editing where people would appear/dissapear and I totally found myself saying "What?" Example, our hero and the remaining folks are hold up in a house. The cut is to our hero OUTSIDE. WTF?

Then, a fairly prominate character at the beginning of the film -totally dissapears only to reapear to "assist" with the ending.

There are some fun special effects and the look is pretty cool especially blood on snow. It falls short due to bad editing and I would suspect directing to some effect, IMHO. The acting really wasn't deep or worth while by any means - it was Josh Hartnet. He was trying way too hard.

30 Days of Night gets 5 out of 10 Bornieos.