Let's take the fat bearded guy. He has a perfectly good weapon (the mechanical chainsaw car thing), which did pretty well at killing the zombies. And he managed to get all the vampires off and got them chasing him. Does he turn it around to kill the vampires? No! He decides to crash it into a building! Which, of course, causes him to become disoriented and leads him to get out of the vehicle.
shareAnd, oh! We've got this lamp that can act like the sun and burn the vampires! Let's waste it to kill one vampire rather than actually making a trap.
shareOh, the sun's gonna be up in a few hours. Let me inject myself with vampire blood so I turn into a vampire rather than waiting it out!
Yes, I'm watching the movie as I make the replies.`
If u were paying attention, u would know that the reason he injected himself was to save his wife and the child.
shareThe reason is good, but his action was terrible. He pretty much put everyone'e life in jeopardy.(He could have just offered himself to be food.) How did he know he'd have control and that he wouldn't join the gang of the vampire zombies? Though that was worth for the final battle scene, where he finished out the leader.
sharebefore Eben injected himself, there was a discussion of how the other infected characters had behaved after they had been infected and before they had become dangerous. Eben made an educated guess that if he injected himself that he would have enough time with his own mind (and freewill, to a certain extent) to save his wife and the child before he truly "became" a vampire. I do believe the time between Eben killing the vampire leader and the sun coming up was still the amount of time it took the other guy who was bitten or scratched by the little girl to start to turn. So, this makes sense when watching Eben and his thought process when injecting himself with vampire blood. Plus, the guy (John, I think) who was found under the house by Eben, but he had been infected but still was part himself, but obviously was turning and dangerous at that point, but he said he had been under that house for a while ( I can't remember exactly, but it seemed like he said 2 weeks, which seems ridiculous since nobody could live in the snow under a house for that long, but maybe it was because he was mostly vampire at that point. Just some thoughts. I agree that most movies I like, especially horror movies, have gaping inconsistencies but for the most part, we just have to right those off to enjoy the movie. I would love, love, love for someone to recommend a few truly good horror movies that have no inconsistencies and everything makes sense and falls into place.
share1. No zombies in this film whatsoever.
2. He ment to distract and lure the vampires into the building so he could blow them up.
3.Those bulbs used for grandmas crops are made to mimic the same UV rays that the sun produces, so yea, that would *beep* up a vampires night.
4.Eben(Josh Hartnett)sacrafised himself to save the vampires from finding his ex-wife and keep them busy until the sun comes up.
Either way, it's a movie!! A pretty damn original vampire horror one if you ask me. How about you comment on some of the positives instead of rape the integrety of a good story.
Eben felt he had to do something to save his wife b/c the vampires had started burning the town down. His wife was under the broken down truck with the little girl and Eben didn't think he could wait until sunrise. But yeah I might have tried to tough it out a bit longer...
shareThanks for regurgitating my point.
shareJust watched this last night. So disappointed!
1. Not unless you count the townsfolk wandering aimlessly around while the vampires are killing everyone!
2. It might have sounded good to give him a heroic sacrifice as a redeeming feature (remember, Eben gave him a ticket to make him feel "part of the community".) but he could have taken out a few more of them first and probably set a better trap.
3. I couldn't believe they didn't throw the lamps and a generator in the back of whatever vehicle was still running and just drive away. Or chase the vampires around. Or ANYTHING.
4. Once again, it was all very heroic, but straight out of the "Big Book of Clichés".
This could have been a great story - the use of The Stranger or familiar to cut off communication was great. The scene with Carter Davies (I think that was his name - the guy who got bitten by the small girl) was heart-wrenchingly brilliant. It could have been better - he could have gone out and tried to take some of them down, or closer to turning when Eben killed him.
The make-up on some of the vampires was good, especially around the eyes.
Overall, this film missed so many opportunities to rise out of the genre that it is like a first year film student's attempt at a vampire flick. There were 1 or 2 good ideas (the unending night and the fear of turning once bitten) and the whole film was just duct-taped onto those.
Still a better love story than Twilight.
not to mention they were burning the village down and would have eventually found them
shareEven if this and that could've done better or differently, it's still a great horror flick and one of the best vampire flicks around.
sharestill too painfully stupid, i know you like your father but you don't go out in the middle of the street shouting. it's against the very basic instinct of survive, and he didn't seem to have alzheimer like his dad.
sharePerhaps the worst part of this atrocious movie is that there are so many that believe this is a great vampire flick. This movie is Shock. Nothing more, nothing less. The creatures could have been vampires, zombies, werewolves, barrow wights (which would have played on the Town's name), or a fairy creature set in Alaska...the point is as much a vampire movie as Zombieland is a zombie movie.
shareYes really, when that 2nd guy turned it was no surprise anymore and he wasn't attacking them, at least they should've asked if he wanted to try and help them, attacking and eating other vampires and then be put down, no he wants to go right away like a little pussy.
This movie was full of stupid.
Brad Pitt, you're on my s***list.
"Why were the characters so stupid?"
Jimminy your answer made me laugh so hard. So you're basically saying that stupid characters doing stupid stuff all over the movie should no longer be considered a plot hole, shouldn't even require suspension of disbelief (it is, however, still required for the vampires). Because your daily life is filled with proof that people really do act stupid. Regularly. Now, if all the characters were smart and made wise decisions, that might be a legitimate plot hole.
shareI live in a place where there are lots of incredibly stupid people, which is probably why I have this viewpoint. What amazes me most about the stupid people around here is the stupidest, most aggressive of them seem to think they're best equipped to boss everyone else around... and then the other stupid, less aggressive (but still basically stupid) people follow along, doing what they're told. It's a recipe for disaster. Usually, I kick back and observe without saying anything.
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