Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
FridgeMagnet said:
Indeed.
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PacificOcean
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How did they film those scenes in London all deserted? I know it was obviously really early in the morning, but even then loads of people are about and Whitehall (where the bus was on it's side) is the main route for night buses going south.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
It's one of those films that you keep watching, thinking there must be some clever twist coming up soon, but it never does. It just trails off into complete drivel. What a bag of shite. 
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
A good film, but et down by a lack of resolution at the end, imo. I mean, what was the situation? Britain seemed to be quarrantined, but were the survivors (with the HELLO sign) going to be rescued or were they being deliberately ignored? Was the UK going to be nuked (I imagine the UN would reach that conclusion sooner or later)?
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Westmister Council events department, who deal with film shoots in the area, was (unusually) really helpful to the film crew. The crew only needed to 'hold' passers by out of shot while the cameras ran, but it was quite a big deal to the council.PacificOcean said:
Shame the film turned to shit after the wandering-about-in-London bit, when it looks like an '80s made-for-TV drama with a plot derivded equally from Day of the Dead and Day of the Triffids.
Reno
The In Kraut
poster342002 said:A good film, but et down by a lack of resolution at the end, imo. I mean, what was the situation? Britain seemed to be quarrantined, but were the survivors (with the HELLO sign) going to be rescued or were they being deliberately ignored? Was the UK going to be nuked (I imagine the UN would reach that conclusion sooner or later)?
But there was a resolution. Turns out that the infected eventually die from burn out and starvation, the crisis appears to come to an end and the fact that there are planes in the sky at all means the survivors aren't alone. Because the infection spreads so fast it also can't sustain it'self and stays contained. That is the reason we all haven't died from Ebola yet. It's highly contagious, but the incubation period is so short that any epidemic ends as quickly as it starts.
I agree with the general consensus on the film. It's great until they make it to the army base, when it all goes down the drain.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Yep, that just about sums it up. It's been ages since I saw it - and I refuse to ever see it again - but from what I remember I thought this was one of the biggest pieces of crap I've ever been duped into watching. Ok, the early scenes in London are alright, but apart from that it was pathetic. Danny Boyle was even given a film council lottery grant to fund it (see the product placement National Lottery signs in some early scenes) and he goes and wastes it by making this stinker. He should've been made to pay it back!goldenecitrone said:It's one of those films that you keep watching, thinking there must be some clever twist coming up soon, but it never does. It just trails off into complete drivel. What a bag of shite.
the main character's story arc is about the most stupid i've ever seen in a film, it makes Beastmaster 11 look like fucking Dosteovsky,.
Total missed opportunity, bag o wank
Total missed opportunity, bag o wank
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Yeah, from bike courier to ninja warrior!Dubversion said:the main character's story arc is about the most stupid i've ever seen in a film, it makes Beastmaster 11 look like fucking Dosteovsky,.
Total missed opportunity, bag o wank
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
I thought it was pretty good, and pretty scary.
There are of course a few questions - what were the "zombies" actually eating?
The black guy they had tied up at the base hadn't eaten for days - yet when he found himself unshackled he barely even nibbled at his first victim - you would think he'd have feasted mightily having been deliberately starved.
There are of course a few questions - what were the "zombies" actually eating?
The black guy they had tied up at the base hadn't eaten for days - yet when he found himself unshackled he barely even nibbled at his first victim - you would think he'd have feasted mightily having been deliberately starved.
lostexpectation
New Member
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anybody see Stephen Fry on Parkinson talking about shooting for V for Vendetta beside parliament complete with ranks of troops and tanks!
he was wondering how the hell the got away with it till he saw Ewan Blair being taken on a tour....
! excellent idea to form a coup.
Spandex said:
anybody see Stephen Fry on Parkinson talking about shooting for V for Vendetta beside parliament complete with ranks of troops and tanks!
he was wondering how the hell the got away with it till he saw Ewan Blair being taken on a tour....
! excellent idea to form a coup.
Reno
The In Kraut
pk said:
Now all together: "They weren't zombies !"
Not the voodoo kind, not the Romero kind.
They didn't eat. They were so consumed by the Rage virus that they didn't do anything apart from "raging". That's why they are all dying at the end. They are starving to death.
The film itself is strongly indebted to Romero's films, most of all The Crazies, which also is about a virus that gets released by mistake and turns people into murderous psychopaths. No zombies in that one either, but it is very similar to his zombie films.
lostexpectation
New Member
And!
it doesn't depict animal rights protestors very well either!
it doesn't depict animal rights protestors very well either!
Best way to be.
Reno
The In Kraut
P3D2E-K47 said:
They only ever get speculate about it (radioactivity from a probe that came back from Jupiter or something), but we never find out for sure.
"When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth" from Dawn of the Dead will do nicely for me as an explanation.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
TheLostProphet said:
I thought it painted the research scientests in a worse light. What the fuck were they doing formulating "Rage"?
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
My guess is that it was intended to be some kind of biological warfare weapon.PacificOcean said:
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
milesy said:
But what pratical benefits would it have though?
poster342002
PROPER leftwing socialist
So why does the fighter plane ignore the non-infected survivors at the end? I sort of got the impression they'd been putting out their "HELLO" sign on several occasions whenever the jets overflew - only to be ignored. Or am I missing something?Reno said:
Reno
The In Kraut
poster342002 said:
It would have been a very different film if the monkey would have been infected by this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4174519.stm
Reno
The In Kraut
poster342002 said:So why does the fighter plane ignore the non-infected survivors at the end? I sort of got the impression they'd been putting out their "HELLO" sign on several occasions whenever the jets overflew - only to be ignored. Or am I missing something?
Who says they ignored them ? We never find out because the film ends soon after the plane appears and we see that all the Rage victims are dying. It's not like a fighter plane can land in the middle of a field, so the pilot might have called for help.
The point you are missing is that the film ends on a positive note.
T & P
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That has to be a fucking wind upReno said:It would have been a very different film if the monkey would have been infected by this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4174519.stm
Reno said:
Iirc, we actually hear the pilot of the fighter jet readiong back to his base when he flies over the survovivors. Combines with the upbeat music/fell of the ending I would imagine they do get rescued.
ETA: I quite liked 28 Days Later, though largely as a mindless-brain-numbeing-time-filler-for-when-you-have-nithing-better-to-do-and can't-be-bothered-actually-thinking-about-anything sort of a way. In any other capacity it's shite.
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