Daybreakers (2009)

Wow, dystopian futures are really popular these days, huh. I’ll agree, at first glance the premise of this trailer sounds kind of cool.  A future where humans are going extinct and everyone is a vampire, then when you send the clip of the human harvesting fields at :39 and realize this is just The Matrix but with vampires novelty seems a lot less novel.  Sure, vampires are cool but what is this movie offering that the Blade series hasn’t already? Yes, Ethan Hawke & Willem Dafoe are in it, but those guys haven’t been cool since Gattaca and…Spider…uh…since, was okay, I need someone to name one for me, was Dafoe ever cool?

Any way, my major concern with this movie is that it’s all playing off of the big Twilight fanfare and creating a vampire movie fit for the fanboys to rave about. Furthermore the trailer makes it out to be like for vampires what Sin City was for the superhero genre. Not that such is a bad thing, just you run into similar stylistics.

I’ll give this piece something though, it’s captivating. I want to know if the humans are going to take back their dominance of if we’re better off just being vampires. This movie also appears to offer some undertones of class systems as suggested by 1:06 “There will always be those who are willing to pay extra for the real thing.”

Of course, the later part of the trailer features a overbearing tune which calls to recollection many trailers which have attempted to do similar (Sin City, Watchmen) by apposing suspiciously eerie, unsettling and unfitting music with action shots in an attempt to seem artistic. Plus they throw in some explosions and crossbows for good measure.

Bottom line:

I’d watch this bitch, but no way I’m paying for it.

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