Daybreakers was too good for its own good, which isn't to say it was a good movie. It was a terrible movie. It would be impossible for it to be a good movie. But it could have been a very good bad movie if only it had been a little bit worse. Its production values were just barely high enough to make it terrible rather than fun. With $10 million less in the budget, I would've loved it. Anyway. It is set in a future in which pretty much everybody is a vampire. And the few humans left get hooked up to the Matrix and the vampires suck their blood. That's the setup. Got it? But they're running out of hyooooomanns! Will Ethan Hawke find the blood substitute in time? Or will they all starve into monsters? (Starving turns you into monsters!) Fortunately for HVIC (Head Vampire In Charge), Sam Neill, and for the writers/producers/directors AKA visionaries of this movie, Stephen Spielberg's Brothers, I have constructed this simple mathematical formula through which one can solve all the problems of vampirekind:
To which I have appended this basic corollary:
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Plot Holes With Pictures: Daybreakers
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"But it good have"
quick fix there brotha.
Not the blood libel again.
I wonder if he be to fix the cable.
don't be fatuous jeffrey
& I was asking myself just the other day, "Whatever did they do w/Ethan Hawke?"
Actually the movie DID suggest that farming was at one time used for humans. Unfortunately the human farms couldn't produce enough because most of the human population had already "crossed over".
Re: Human Farming
And this is wrong ... How/Why?
The Christians
nice post. thanks.
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