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October 22 '30 Days' Takes The Weekend
Audiences yearning for blood sucking scares (and probably getting few of them-- are vampires ever that scary anymore?) flocked to "30 Days of Night" over the weekend.
The picture received mixed reviews -- some critics hailed the horror movie as scary as "The Descent" (I say, no way) and some were simply bored by it all. Others, like Brian Tallerico of UGO, issued a warning for potential viewers. He wrote: " Your enjoyment of Hollywood's latest vampire flick, '30 Days of Night,' is largely going to depend on how forgiving you are towards the flaws of the 'Underworld' movies."
For screwing up vampires vs. werewolves, I am not so forgiving. Nevertheless, I'm still catching a decidedly unfrightening matinee this week to see if the concept of eternal life, endless days of sleeping in and speaking with a Romanian lilt is at all scary to me. Though to be fair, "30 Days of Night" looks more like a zombie picture, and zombies are scary.
And don't get me wrong, I love great vampire pictures like "Dracula" (both Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman) and "Interview with a Vampire," and F.W. Murnau's masterpiece "Nosferatu" actually frightens me. But a campy Stuart Townsend in a puffy shirt? Not so much. Maybe it's just me, but if I was going to walk the earth forever, I wouldn't buy all of my clothes at Hot Topic.
 Here's the top five movies over the weekend:
1. "30 Days of Night"-- $16M
2. "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?"-- $12.1M
3. "The Game Plan" -- $8.1M
4. "Michael Clayton" -- $7.1M
5. "Gone Baby Gone" -- $6M
--posted by Kim Comments (3)
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