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2. 30 Days of Night
This might have been a mistake. Some comic book movies are great. Really great. This isn't one of them.
30 Days of Night is maybe the worst vampire movie I've ever seen. Its vampires are basically just 28 Days Later fast zombies. They don't turn into bats, they don't fly, they don't do anything fun. They just jump on people and bite their throats out in some terrible-looking creature effects.
If you needed evidence of how hard it is to sit through this film, the vampires speak in hisses that are subtitled. No one believed me when I told them that. They just laughed and said, "Sure, man, right."
The vampires attack during Barrow, Alaska's 30-day period of darkness. The townsfolk go into hiding and try to find a way to survive. And that's the whole movie. It's boring and overly long and just unpleasant. The vampire screeches made me worry for my sound bar's integrity.
How It Compares to the Comic: It's worse, but not by much. 30 Days of Night is a great high-concept premise that was turned into a boring, terribly executed story. The only difference between the comic and the movie is that reading through the comic didn't take two hours. So I guess it's a fine adaptation, but it clocks in at a"¦
