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verushka70Fuck, my wrists hurt but I am almost done with a new DS/6degrees F/K, F/othermale non-consummated nearsex deathfic that I pulled out of nothing in the last week. Well, not nothing -- but little more than drabbly nearsex pwps, semi-erotic for what doesn't quite happen in them. It's not in my nature to be so stingy with the smut, but sometimes the tension must be drawn out excruciatingly. Because if you always get what you want, whenever you want it, it's ...kinda boring, after while.
Saw 30 Days Of Night last night w/the bf at a 10:55pm show way out in the burbs. My bf was all pissy, like, "It just opened last week, it's gonna be packed." Yeah. Right. I think there were 6 couples in the whole theater.
Short review with SPOILERS (and with a caveat: never read the graphic novel/comic): I liked it. A slightly different twist on things. Aspects of it harkened back to a mixture of Alien and John Carpenter's remake of The Thing, I felt -- up until the vampires are revealed. That was actually kind of disappointing; I felt things were scarier and more suspenseful up until they showed them. But, after they revealed them, despite the disappointment of both their reveal and the type of vamps they are (worse than "the lumpies" on Buffy and Angel), I kind of got into the vamps' language and social organization; it seemed interesting and ancient, what little glimpse you get.
Of course, like all vampire stories, whether told from the vampires' POV or the humans', ultimately the drama is human drama -- and ultimately, in 30 Days of Night, the horror is also very human -- the horror of dealing with unbearably bad situations that aren't going to get any better (at least, not for 30 days). That kind of relentless horror can be depressing -- but, in this case, it was fascinating to me. Maybe it was because of the cast, or maybe because life has felt kind of relentless to me lately.
Personally, although I predicted a few key plot points in my mind (and in one case, to my bf) before they happened, I also enjoyed the new and original twists I felt this movie had in comparison with other "creature horror" flicks, especially towards the end. And I really liked the subversive subtexts. The grandmother who grows marijuana for her cancer, whose grow lights wind up showing those vamps a thing or two, and teach the humans something they needed to know; the cranky loner who lives on the outskirts of town who values his freedom and independence and despises the bureaucracy and revenue generation of organized government and law enforcement (and who winds up being a self-sacrificing hero in the end); the deliberate and knowing destruction of self the hero engages in so that he can save those he loves. Gotta love those libertarian Alaskans.
Pet peeves: the special effects of snow, ice, blizzards, ice bound oceans, etc. -- weren't so great. The CGI blizzards and model town were especially crappy. Also: I don't like the DV look of action sequences. I know that choppy look of fast action on digital video is very "in" at the moment, but I'll take the balletic fluidity of film action imagery any day over action stuff shot on digital video. I find it confusing, too: if video is 29.x frames per second, it should look more fluid and less choppy than film, which runs at 24 fps. But I don't know. Maybe there's something there going on that I don't know about. Very likely.
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Saw 30 Days Of Night last night w/the bf at a 10:55pm show way out in the burbs. My bf was all pissy, like, "It just opened last week, it's gonna be packed." Yeah. Right. I think there were 6 couples in the whole theater.
Short review with SPOILERS (and with a caveat: never read the graphic novel/comic): I liked it. A slightly different twist on things. Aspects of it harkened back to a mixture of Alien and John Carpenter's remake of The Thing, I felt -- up until the vampires are revealed. That was actually kind of disappointing; I felt things were scarier and more suspenseful up until they showed them. But, after they revealed them, despite the disappointment of both their reveal and the type of vamps they are (worse than "the lumpies" on Buffy and Angel), I kind of got into the vamps' language and social organization; it seemed interesting and ancient, what little glimpse you get.
Of course, like all vampire stories, whether told from the vampires' POV or the humans', ultimately the drama is human drama -- and ultimately, in 30 Days of Night, the horror is also very human -- the horror of dealing with unbearably bad situations that aren't going to get any better (at least, not for 30 days). That kind of relentless horror can be depressing -- but, in this case, it was fascinating to me. Maybe it was because of the cast, or maybe because life has felt kind of relentless to me lately.
Personally, although I predicted a few key plot points in my mind (and in one case, to my bf) before they happened, I also enjoyed the new and original twists I felt this movie had in comparison with other "creature horror" flicks, especially towards the end. And I really liked the subversive subtexts. The grandmother who grows marijuana for her cancer, whose grow lights wind up showing those vamps a thing or two, and teach the humans something they needed to know; the cranky loner who lives on the outskirts of town who values his freedom and independence and despises the bureaucracy and revenue generation of organized government and law enforcement (and who winds up being a self-sacrificing hero in the end); the deliberate and knowing destruction of self the hero engages in so that he can save those he loves. Gotta love those libertarian Alaskans.
Pet peeves: the special effects of snow, ice, blizzards, ice bound oceans, etc. -- weren't so great. The CGI blizzards and model town were especially crappy. Also: I don't like the DV look of action sequences. I know that choppy look of fast action on digital video is very "in" at the moment, but I'll take the balletic fluidity of film action imagery any day over action stuff shot on digital video. I find it confusing, too: if video is 29.x frames per second, it should look more fluid and less choppy than film, which runs at 24 fps. But I don't know. Maybe there's something there going on that I don't know about. Very likely.
Return to your regularly scheduled programs...