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| Daybreakers. Directed and writen by The Spierig Brothers. With: Ethan Hawke, Williem Dafoe, Harriet Minto-Day. Australia/US, 2009, 98 min., DTS/SDDS/Dolby Digital, Color (DVD). |
Searching about Predestination, the movie on day forty, I found a vampire movie by the same director, The Spiereg Brothers, also with Ethan Hawke. Well, I like EH, and usually there isn't a vampire film that passes unnoticed by me... but that one has, and I chose to see it on Friday night.
I'm not sure about Daybreakers, except that I thought it was really bad. But there is a lot of positive comments at imdb.com, so maybe it is just me. The film, for me, was pretty irregular. Sometimes it is a noir film, others is a Horror B movie or it goes into SciFi mode... Even if I'm not usually focused on this sort of classifications about a movie, it is pretty confusing and irregular actually. The characters don't click with each other, despite the good cast, an interesting plot and two innovative directors. Well, as occurs in life, sometimes we have a so so day at the movies too. And that was one of those, unfortunately.
Well, I'm going to give this a pass then, but mostly because vampire films don't usually excite me that much. I've been trying to get myself to watch Francis Coppola's Dracula for over a year now, it's been sitting in my movies folder waiting to be watched.
ReplyDeleteBut I will give The Spiereg Brothers the benefit of the doubt, after all they did an outstanding job with Predestination, I still can't get over it. Maybe they'll do better next time :)
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Only Lovers Left Alive, by Jim Jarmusch, I think you would like. Let The Righy One In is wow. The U.S. Remake is not bad, but the Swedish has a masterful scene at the end.
DeleteBram Stoker's Dracula had me in tears and amazement at the end, so much that I wrote my final project at college from it. Give it a chance, maybe some bloodsucker creatures will be able to amaze you too.
Unfortunately, I tried watching "Only lovers left alive" and could not stand it, I gave up after 30 minutes and deleted the file. But I'll definitely watch Dracula soon.
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I'm so in love with this movie that it hurts. Really.
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