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[Runs_With_Scissors]

Into the Wild and 30 Days of Night are the newest ones out of/based in the AK I think.

I just got back from 30 Days of Night, and I'm pretty scarred. High levels of gore and such. Also, I must say parts were insanely stupid. Did the producers not think that planes fly at night? So the reason everyone was stuck in Nome was because...? And the vampires didn't take out the snow machines or anything so...what exactly happened to those? Other than major technicalities the gore fest was pretty entertaining. Especially with screaming girls around you.

Into the Wild I haven't seen yet, but the story is pretty widely known here. If anyone has seen the movie please share a review. A lot of people here don't understand (including me) why there was a movie made about the guy...but maybe it appeals to other people.

[tomselleck69]

I didn't see any insane stupidity. A lot of things left underdeveloped and apparently lots of material from the comic that got left out, but no unreasonably* glaring plot holes.

1. When did planes being able to fly at night factor into anything in this movie?
2. Dunno! The movie was about people who were stuck Barrow. A fictionalized version of Barrow where they established that it was cut off from all outside roads.
3. Invisible vampire forcefields! I don't know about this one. All the snow-capable vehicles seemed like they were large and slow moving and anyone trying to escape in them would not have presented the vampires with much of a challenge.


* I feel like the fumes from the burning oil would've been an issue for the woman and little girl hiding under the truck, but when do movies ever take that kind of stuff into account.

[leave for no raisin]

I was wondering how the people were going for days at a time with no vampire attacks.  Like, something would happen on say...day 18 where they would barely escape by running into some building, and then it would cut to the next scene and say DAY 27.  Did the vampires have a hideout or something where they would go to for days at a time?  If so, why not use those vampire-free days to escape? 

But yeah, it was definitely a gore fest.

[Runs_With_Scissors]

1. When did planes being able to fly at night factor into anything in this movie?

I was tired when I posted. What I meant was: Why were there no planes going out of Barrow for 30 days? It's not like we don't fly when there is no sun... and if snow was a problem, pilots from Alaska are usually equipped to deal with the conditions (again...over thinking movies is BAD)

David Germain Associated Press (the sun actually goes into hiding in Barrow for about two months and change, but the title “60-Some-Odd Days of Night” doesn’t have that same zing).

I laughed at that.

[Lines]

Into the Wild I haven't seen yet, but the story is pretty widely known here. If anyone has seen the movie please share a review. A lot of people here don't understand (including me) why there was a movie made about the guy...but maybe it appeals to other people.

Considering just about every book that gets noticed is made into a movie, I have very little problem with it. They've actually been trying to make it into a movie for a while now, but the author and his family have a lot of control over it and they didn't want to do it until they found the right director, etc. And it's an interesting story, so why not? But I did hear that Alaskans don't really care for the story because of the "going out there to die" thing. Is that why you don't get it? (Just curious!)

I have yet to see both, as I'm completely broke, but I will do so when I become only slightly broke.

[Liz]

I really want to see Into the Wild, but the odds of it ever coming to Fargo seem slim to none. I will have to wait for it to come out on DVD, then hope some store here gets it.

[Runs_With_Scissors]

And it's an interesting story, so why not? But I did hear that Alaskans don't really care for the story because of the "going out there to die" thing. Is that why you don't get it? (Just curious!)

That's about it, yeah. There were some conversations in school about it, and a lot of people agreed that he was 'just an ill-prepared tourist'. I really have to read the book and do some other reading before I make a statement like that though.

[Lines]

Yeah, that's not what it was at all. The general idea was he didn't want to be around anyone anymore and wanted to live on his own - alone. He ended up in Alaska on his travels and stayed there and just so happened died there, as no one was around to help him and his diet basically sucked. He didn't go with the intention of "Hey, Alaska seems like a great place to die alone!"

[Mnementh]

There is a great little story about how a local hunter swore high and low that he didn't shoot a caribou like he claimed and that the bones found in his camp weren't caribou bones.  Then they got the bones DNA tested.  Seems that the locals don't know shit either (they were caribou bones.)

Regardless, read the book to understand the why of it.