Daybreakers

[annwfyn]

So, how did the sunlight come in a straight line through the holes? Sunlight doesn't work like that

I've been banned from ranting about this anymore. Suffice it to say that Daybreakers was maybe not the deep, intelligent, moving vampire film one might have hoped for. And that I had issues in how sunlight worked.

In other news, we had a rather exciting experience getting out of the cinema. I got into the car, I accelerated, I got about a foot forward and then I lost all traction. The wheels spun, I put my foot down and the car didn't move. At all.

Some panicking later, pierot and anysbryd got out and pushed. Nothing happened. I managed to reverse a bit, so I had my wheels on snow instead of ice, and then accelerated, hard, again, whilst they pushed. We lurched forward, I spun out of control, Matt and jez managed to shove me around the corner. I slid forward until I hit concrete again.

ksirafai suggested we avoid driving to the cinema for the foreseeable future.

Daybreakers, in the meantime, made remarkably little sense. Willem Dafoe chewed up the scenery, Ethan Hawke looked a little too serious all the time, and Sam Neill was villainous in a manner normally only seen in a John Travolta scene. If he'd seen a puppy, he'd have kicked it.

Argh! It's snowing again outside now. I want it to stop! I have to drive into central London tomorrow!

Comments

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I looked outside and can't see anything. I'm guessing it's on its way.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

In snow or ice, the best way to keep traction is to pull away in second and then stay in as high a gear as you can for the rest of the drive.

(The reason is that the lower gears provide a higher torque to the wheels, meaning that if there isn't much traction they'll just spin.)

You should see the street outside my house :) It's been pure white snow and ice for days...

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

(I am coming to understand that I am a wrong, wrong person. I like driving in snow and ice. What kind of weird alien lifeform does that make me?)

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

Yes it Daybreakers has all those issues it is true and is hilarious in many unintentional ways.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Oh, go on. Tell me how terrible and bad and wrong it was, in great detail. If you do it online, Jez and Ginnie won't be able to hear you...

*grin*

[malakite.livejournal.com]

It was snowing? Didn't see any of it over here.

[oddnumbereven.livejournal.com]

Just saw Daybreakers this afternoon - hilarious twaddle, wasn't it? Epic logic fail, vamps.