28 Days Later was good.. 28 Weeks Later will be better
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bouncer_the_dog
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Dubversion said:
OMG You liked it!
I just got back I thought it was wicked!!
Rather creepily we got to a really scary bit where they were herding people around and then the screen went blank and a tannoy went 'bing bong due to an unforseen event we request you leave the building immediately'.. The whole audience thought it was part of the film - personally I was hoping it would be interactive cinema and someone covered in blood would burst out of the fire exit. So I then had the experience of being herded around, having just watched it in a horror film. It was an out of town cinema complex a bit like the Mall in DoD - which freaked me out when I was leaving from that film. But now I've seen it industrial resident evil style fire escapes too.. Anyway they let us back in and gave us free tickets..
Anyway the Helicopter bit was wicked.. i was jumping up and down in my seat. The rest of it was just what I like in a film, action packed, tense and cool looking - and clever too.
Oh yeah and the 6Music film reviewer who blurted out the plot in the opening sentence of his review before I could turn the radio off thereby naffing it up is a cunt. If anyone tries to explain what happens in it just stick your fingers in your ears and go 'ner ner ner ner' until they leave !!
i loved 28 dayus later. one of the films of the decade for me. can't believe it's come in for so much stick here. curiously, it'S also one of the few UK films that i find north americans can appreciate.
entire plot? - well it's a zombie film set on a plane.... what sort of plot development were you expecting?
I do have problems with the trailer, which tries to portray it as a scary zombie film, when it isn't really. It's just hugely enjoyable, quite camp at times and takes the piss out of the whole zombie/disaster movie thing. (in the same way that Dusk till Dawn took the piss out of vampire movies, maybe)
I do have problems with the trailer, which tries to portray it as a scary zombie film, when it isn't really. It's just hugely enjoyable, quite camp at times and takes the piss out of the whole zombie/disaster movie thing. (in the same way that Dusk till Dawn took the piss out of vampire movies, maybe)
FiFi
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RenegadeDog said:
I find a lot of Hollywood films seem to be geared to the "adolesecent boy" market.
I'll take your comment as a recommendation NOT to go and see either of these.
Anyway I like my Zombies slow-moving.
"Waking like a Zombie" scene in Sean of the Dead springs to mind!
Reno
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FiFi said:I find a lot of Hollywood films seem to be geared to the "adolesecent boy" market.
I'll take your comment as a recommendation NOT to go and see either of these.
Anyway I like my Zombies slow-moving.
"Waking like a Zombie" scene in Sean of the Dead springs to mind!
Depite its flaws I think 28 Days Later is well worth seeing and it certainly wasn't geared towards the "Hollywood adolescent boy market".
The "28" films aren't actually about zombies, so there is no reason why the monsters in it should have to shuffle.
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
i saw it last night - stoned off my noggin and really enjoyed it. The part with the nightvision rifle towards the end was reminicent of Blair Witch/Aliens in the way it was done.
Lots of subtext i thought - Iraq? US troops shooting people in the street etc... ?
Lots of subtext i thought - Iraq? US troops shooting people in the street etc... ?
Kid_Eternity
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Marius said:
Now THAT is something I didn't know! Intacto was a good film.
jonnyd1978
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Barking_Mad said:
The bit when they herded the people into that big room then locked them in and the lights went out. I thought it was a bit like a holocaust reference but didn't really get it?
Enjoyed the film though. Not a big fan of the shaky camera stuff though.
foo
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milesy said:i've got a stiffy!! i want to see it NOW!!
me too (not the stiffy bit, but almost)
i LOVE zombies!
28 Days Later cracked me up. can't wait to see this one. Dub that Kermode chap didn't seem to think it was just zombie fun - he was saying that there's loads of subtexts. Iraq etc.
unless he was talking about anther film (quite possible)
Barking_Mad
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DJWrongspeed
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Kizmet said:Robert Carlyle was absolutely awesome.
The film was absolutely awesome.
Carlyle didn't really have to do much? thought this was a right larf, the first zombie attack made the entire audience just out of their seats 
i like the global political analogies i.e. US in Iraq and how they fuk it up by being stupid. But the plot gets really screwed up after about 20 mins when the kids run off, it just becomes a bit farcical. Anyone who knows their London geography knows that the ending is impossible.
oh come on, it's a tradition of London-based movies that Wembley, Regents Park, the Isle of Dogs and Croydon be within 2 minutes walking distance of each other. It's really not the point
DJWrongspeed said:
Except exert a brooding menace and danger throughout the film... and genuinely terrify you when he's locked in the room with his wife.
ALthough there are obvious parallels.. I don't think it's the analogies we'll remember the film for - it doesn't really make a point about anything, does it? Just analogises.
I'll remember the film for offering that intense attack 'experience' that the first film made by having super-fast zombies and magnifying it by the super-fast cutting.
I don't think it would have worked so well without the memories of the first film to fill in the gaps for you.
Dunno if it was planned that way.. but worked a treat.
I didn't see much that was farcical... and I'm a londoner and I think I know my geography pretty well.. it made sense to me.. but then I wasn't thinking too hard about it.
As dub said... you just have to allow a little licence in representations of the city.
Kizmet said:
oh, it was VERY farcical. they ran from the Isle of Dogs to Wembley, pretty much, in a few minutes. And went from Regents Park to Whitehall to get to Wembley. It was bollocks - but it really doesn't matter
Dubversion said:
Aye. I edited to explain myself better.
I generally don't count things like geography as plot elements unless they are integral.. regents park was just an area of flatlands... wembley was just a local stadium... you know. Name dropping to create that 'london feeling'.
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I also heard Carlyle saying there were analogies with Iraq and the war on terror.Though I think that was done more convincely in Children of Men.
I liked the way the film looked.It also portrayed an empty fucked up London as well as CoM.The fast disorientating cutting gave one the feeling of terror the victims would of felt IMO.
The one analogy with now that did work well was the fact that the US for all its firepower and technology fuck things up.They solve any problem by bombing the shit out of everyone.In the film they literally lose "hearts and minds".Dont now how well that will go down with an American audience.Though in the present US anti Bush anti war climate it should be OK.
Though there were good sympathetic American characters who didnt obey orders.The scene in Regents Park with the helicopter did make me think there was a reference to the Ma Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Kind of felt it was scripted for a US and UK audience.The first film was very British based in its references and occasional humour(Ther Black Cab and Manchester in flames).
I liked the way the film looked.It also portrayed an empty fucked up London as well as CoM.The fast disorientating cutting gave one the feeling of terror the victims would of felt IMO.
The one analogy with now that did work well was the fact that the US for all its firepower and technology fuck things up.They solve any problem by bombing the shit out of everyone.In the film they literally lose "hearts and minds".Dont now how well that will go down with an American audience.Though in the present US anti Bush anti war climate it should be OK.
Though there were good sympathetic American characters who didnt obey orders.The scene in Regents Park with the helicopter did make me think there was a reference to the Ma Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Kind of felt it was scripted for a US and UK audience.The first film was very British based in its references and occasional humour(Ther Black Cab and Manchester in flames).
Dubversion said:
Still, that can't compare to Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, where Costner/Freeman managed to get from Dover to Hadrian's Wall in about 10 minutes...
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Just seen it this afternoon. It's a big stupid movie that really doesn't work if you think about it, but I enjoyed it. Definitely one to see in the cinema, I can't see it working nearly as well at home.
Not too sure about the political subtexts though really. There's plenty in there that could be seen as references to things like Iraq etc, but it really has nothing to say about them beyond that.
Not too sure about the political subtexts though really. There's plenty in there that could be seen as references to things like Iraq etc, but it really has nothing to say about them beyond that.
Thought it was a bit average really, it was certainly action packed and it had its cool moments (fire bombing, helicopter scene) but it didn't really deliver anything new. What can I except from a zombie flick I guess..
While the shakey camera shots during the action shots may have generated a sense of blind terror it made it fucking hard to see anything right when you wanted to.
It wasn't bad but I've seen better.
While the shakey camera shots during the action shots may have generated a sense of blind terror it made it fucking hard to see anything right when you wanted to.
It wasn't bad but I've seen better.
Saw it last night, thought it was the dog's dangly bits. It certainly builds up the tension, let's you relax then grabs you by the nads again. The bit where the outbreak really takes off (not wanting to give too much away) is truely frightening. Visually it's even better than 28 Days Later with more scenes of a derelict and deserted London.
It took me a good couple of hours to unwind after it.
Edit:
Not much for political comparison: I could understand why the orders got changed (again wanting to avoid giving to much away) given what was known about the infected, not much comparison to the attacks in Iraq or anywhere else. Could even compare the area of London outside District 1 to the Baghdad Green Zone, the risks didn't compare at the start of the film.
It took me a good couple of hours to unwind after it.
Edit:
Not much for political comparison: I could understand why the orders got changed (again wanting to avoid giving to much away) given what was known about the infected, not much comparison to the attacks in Iraq or anywhere else. Could even compare the area of London outside District 1 to the Baghdad Green Zone, the risks didn't compare at the start of the film.
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