Ancestral

It won't really mean anything to anyone but my fellow Screenwriting students, but last night I finished the 40th page of the 13th episode of Ancestral, which makes a complete first season. That's 520 pages of A4, forever ruined for having my scripts printed out upon them. You know... when I get round to printing them out. As Matt said, who wins here? The Printer Ink Company.

It'll be terrible, it is pretty terrible, but there are some decent ideas in there and when I come round to doing other drafts I reckon that there's some potential. Maybe. Ish. Anyway.

DAYBREAKERS.

These Vampires don't sparkle. I mean seriously, they don't sparkle. They're manly, they're viscious, they have red eyes, pointed ears, mutant bat-monster-like tendencies and they kill people.

In farms. Run by Sam Neil.

I love this movie. Serious.

It's not all that well thought out, the 'Sub-sider' plot kinda disappears into obscurity and the brother character kinda feels like he was brought in to make up the numbers, but on the whole it was a truly enjoyable film with plenty of rampant violence, Vampiric awesomeness, Willem Defoe kicking some serious Vampire backside and a pleasent undertone of mockery for the modern oil conundrum (just with humans as the resource instead).

It probably won't be all that memorable a movie, if it weren't for the way it ended. Now, obviously I'm not going to discuss that here, since I'm not one for spoilers (which is why I refuse to watch any kind of trailer for a film I might actually want to see, they give away the whole damn movie these days), but the 'bloody rebirth of humanity' is well worth the wait and the sheer amount of gore is a refreshing change after 'other' Vamp-flicks.

Yes, that means you Twilight.

I also noticed that it's the first of three films I went to see in a row that deal with a post-apocalyptic world. So, next time is 'The Book of Eli'. Mmmm... Denzel...