28 Weeks Later is better than 28 Days later. Discuss.

[El Jefe]

wrong.

You really are an objectionable little whelp, aren't you?

 

[electrogirl]

what are the big plot problems in the 2nd one everyone keeps talking about?

 

[El Jefe]

because?

because we had the audacity to disagree with his Holiness Awesome Wells - he seems to be making it his posting MO across the boards at the moment

 

[Belushi]

Is Awesome Wells still upset because someone said something he disliked on the LOTR thread?

 

[El Jefe]

Is Awesome Wells still upset because someone said something he disliked on the LOTR thread?

Yeh, he's over about 3 movie threads calling everyone a pretentious twat now. It's mildly amusing

 

[electrogirl]

I think the second one is much better, genuinely exciting in places, even if the plot is pony. The 1st started well and then turned into a bad Dr Who episode.

can you tell me what the problems with the plot are?

 

[El Jefe]

can you tell me what the problems with the plot are?

You're obsessed

jesus, i honestly don't remember, it's not the kind of film where the plot matters overly much. I think some of the stuff to do with the mother in the isolation ward just didn't stack up, among other things, but i haven't seen it in, what, 2 years?

 

[Iam]

Simple answer:

It was shit.

 

[Flashman]

Like a lot of folks, liked the first half of the first film but it all went tits up when Ecclestone arrived.

 

[electrogirl]

You're obsessed

jesus, i honestly don't remember, it's not the kind of film where the plot matters overly much. I think some of the stuff to do with the mother in the isolation ward just didn't stack up, among other things, but i haven't seen it in, what, 2 years?

i know! i'm not even trying to be provocative i just really want to know what they are because i didn't spot any!

 

[El Jefe]

i know! i'm not even trying to be provocative i just really want to know what they are because i didn't spot any!

There were loads, honestly, but it really doesn't matter. It was a zombie* movie, not a Hitchcock.


*they're not zombies, blah blah blah

 

[electrogirl]

i just think it's a really scary, engaging, zombie film.

and i really like the bleakness.

the first one wasn't bleak anough at all. and it tried to be 2 films in one.

 

[Flashman]

They're not zombies

 

[Spandex]

I think some of the stuff to do with the mother in the isolation ward just didn't stack up

They've found someone who holds a cure to a virus that easily has the potential to kill everyone in the world. She is probably the most important person in the world at that moment. So they leave her on her own, unattended in an empty complex, while her husband, who happens to be a janitor with access to all the most secure areas that the army has, just wanders in to see her. And, oh gosh, she attacks him and he catches the virus and becomes a (not) zombie.

But then again, one of the themes of the film is the incompetence of the army, so it's not necissarily a plot hole, just convienient to the plot. And Robert Carlise running around as a killer zombie was cool, so it's good that it happened like that, plot hole or not.

 

[electrogirl]

They're not zombies

f off.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I haven't seen the second one, but even so I know it just HAS to be better than the first.

 

[Awesome Wells]

You really are an objectionable little whelp, aren't you?

rubber and glue, baby.

 

[Awesome Wells]

because?

I have no idea why you talk bollocks.

 

[Iam]

 

[Pingu]

only seen the second one

i kept waiting for Dr Who to turn up.


thought it was ok though tbh, nowt really in depth but was ok



a good modern film of day of the trifids though would be cool

 

[El Jefe]

I have no idea why you talk bollocks.

Positively Wildean, well done

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

I think so.

no.

 

[electrogirl]

They've found someone who holds a cure to a virus that easily has the potential to kill everyone in the world. She is probably the most important person in the world at that moment. So they leave her on her own, unattended in an empty complex, while her husband, who happens to be a janitor with access to all the most secure areas that the army has, just wanders in to see her. And, oh gosh, she attacks him and he catches the virus and becomes a (not) zombie.

But then again, one of the themes of the film is the incompetence of the army, so it's not necissarily a plot hole, just convienient to the plot. And Robert Carlise running around as a killer zombie was cool, so it's good that it happened like that, plot hole or not.

come to think of it, it was a bit weird hwo he recognised his kid and didn't kill him though wasn't it? or at least battling the want to kill him.

and yeah they were a bit cavalier with the woman with the cure. didn't stop it being an immense ZOMBIE film though.

 

[STFC]

'Days' had potential but went downhill rapidly. I liked 'Weeks' more, but that might be something to do with seeing where I live getting bombed by American planes.

 

[clandestino]

The empty London scene is good, but that's partly cos you don't see scenes like that in London, cos councils don't normally allow such large parts of the city to be closed off, so the novelty of the scene added to the tension. When they leave London it turns from quite enjoyable to utter rubbish. The acting was wooden, the look of it was like an early 80s TV drama, the whole 'we need to breed with women, so we'll rape this girl' bit was embarrasing rather than tense. Proper rubbish.

Absolutely spot on.