Is '28 Weeks Later' worth watching?

[Orang Utan]

I'm asking about the Irish film I watched. That had Zombies in it and i wanted to know if it was worth the time.

must have been easy to film the extras - just point a camera at a pub at closing time

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's a ridiculously dumb action film that moves at about a hundred miles an hour and makes no sense if you stop to think about it for more than about half a second. .

Which bit didn't make sense? I'm not pulling you up on this it's just that I didn't give it a seconds thought when I watched it so maybe I can't remember.

I quite enjoyed it until it got going (if that makes sense). The opening bit and the quarantine was all cool. Like Sunshine, a nice film was ruined because it had to have crazy action bollocks slapped all over it.

Arrrh now I have remembered Sunshine. That could have been an amazing film but arrrhhhhh.

 

[Stoat Boy]

I prefer to think of the "28"'s as 'Ragers' as opposed to the classic Zombie.

Still its an enjoyable film and I rather enjoyed the ending which suggested that the implied anti-American message of the Yanks being over the top in their idea of just wiping everybody out once the 'rage' broke out again was actually, all things considered, the best thing to do.

I have some great ideas for '28 months later' if anybody has a spare £20,000,000 quid to invest.

But if you are a fan then this is worth looking at...

 

[8den]

It's worth watching though. It's a sort of closure thing. It ain't too bad apart from the bloody Yanks.

I recorded an Irish Zombie flick the other night, but I can't remember the name. The bits I saw of it before recording it all were weird as fuck. Anyone know the name of it and if it's worth watching proper like?

Boy Eats Girl? It's utter shit whatsherface Samantha Mumba is in it.

 

[8den]

the infected ARE zombies - d'uh!

No they're not. Zombies are slow moving, undead, flesh eating killers who can only be killed through fire, or decapitation.

The virus victims in 28 days/weeks are human, infected, flesh eating killers, who can be killed using conventional weapons, and can die of starvation, or through chemical and biological weapons.

It's a pretty easy and simple difference.

must have been easy to film the extras - just point a camera at a pub at closing time

Oh aren't you hilarious, yeah because English people slagging off Irish people's drinking habits is just a rich vein of comedy and hypocrisy.

Does Jim Davison write this stuff for you, or do you come up with it all by yourself?

 

[Orang Utan]

there are lots of fast zombies in films.
zombie lore is much more wide ranging than your rather narrow 70s definition

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh aren't you hilarious, yeah because English people slagging off Irish people's drinking habits is just a rich vein of comedy and hypocrisy.

Does Jim Davison write this stuff for you, or do you come up with it all by yourself?

 

[8den]

there are lots of fast zombies in films.
zombie lore is much more wide ranging than your rather narrow 70s definition

Aside from Zombie (1979) and Nightmare City (1980) the vast majority of Zombies are the slow shuffling type.

I leave it to the master

Well, I took a big swipe at them in this film: There’s a running gag in the movie that dead things don’t move fast. Partially, it’s a matter of taste. I remember Christopher Lee’s mummy movies where there was this big old lumbering thing that was just walking towards you and you could blow it full of holes but it would keep coming. And in the original Halloween, Michael Meyers never ran, he just sort of calmly walked across the lawn or across the room. To me, that’s scarier: this inexorable thing coming at you and you can’t figure out how to stop it. Aside from that, I do have rules in my head of what’s logical and what’s not. I don’t think zombies can run. Their ankles would snap! And they haven’t yet taken out memberships to Curves.

Source

Here's an easier rule of thumb.

Do you have pulse? Y/N

If the answer is Yes. You are not a zombie.

if the answer is No. You are a zombie/Vampire/Member of the Undead or Vanessa Feltz.

 

[Orang Utan]

did you get bitten and turn into a mindless psychopath?
if yes, you're a zombie

 

[andy2002]

Anyone seen the 28 Days Later comic? It's set between the two films and is pretty good...

www.boom-studios.net/28-days-later-1-cover-b.html

 

[Stobart Stopper]

28 days is ok, but I prefer Tremors.

 

[_angel_]

It was rubbish and I got bored very soon.

 

[8den]

did you get bitten and turn into a mindless psychopath?
if yes, you're a zombie

No if you get bitten do you get sick, die, and reanimate with a craving for human flesh. You're a zombie.

If you get bitten, and you become a crazed psychopath, who can still be killed by conventional means, you're a rage infected virus victim.

 

[kabbes]

I thought zombies were made in the Vodoun religion by feeding people a drug that effectively removed their conscious awareness?

 

[Pseudopsycho]

I thought zombies were made in the Vodoun religion by feeding people a drug that effectively removed their conscious awareness?

Yes, probably made with some pufferfish tetrodotoxin variant. More people need to see The Serpent and The Rainbow

undead beaties what feast on flesh and cause victims to be diseased/cursed are technically ghouls iirc

/zombie pedant, cries in shame

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Which bit didn't make sense? I'm not pulling you up on this it's just that I didn't give it a seconds thought when I watched it so maybe I can't remember.

Well off the top of my head without checking - the woman who gets caught in a room full of the infected and is presumed dead turns up later with barely a scratch on her - wouldn't they have killed her seeing as she didn't develop the virus? Then the US Army, who have set up this heavily guarded facility and a backup plan that involves killing everyone, seem to have given Robert Carlyle a job as basically a caretaker, which seemingly allows him to wander around where he likes, including the laboratories where she's quarantined. Then as one of the infected he keeps turning up - is he after them specifically or is it just meant to be coincidence?

Sure there's others but tbh it doesn't really matter because it isn't really the point of the film.

 

[El Jefe]

the infected ARE zombies - d'uh!

nothing about the baddies in the 28.. movies makes them zombies, they're not zombies, that's that.

 

[kabbes]

The movie really jumps off into the deep end of breaking its own internal logic when Robert Carlysle starts stalking his family. The whole point of the Rage virus from the very beginning was that it removed all rationality. That's it, full stop, no arguments. It's what the first movie and the first half of the second movie were based on. You get the Rage, you become a mindless drone that charges at people. By those rules, you can't have a sufferer -- just one sufferer out of all the sufferers, mind you -- planning ahead. It makes no sense. Worse, it renders everything else questionable.

 

[stupid dogbot]

I thought the first one was ok, but the 2nd one was utterly fucking dull, and only sat through it because... well, rewards.

 

[Grandma Death]

It's clearly not a zombie film, because the infected aren't zombies. OU knows he is wrong on this, but just won't admit it

Its a zombie film. Zombies eat flesh and the opening 20 minutes of the sequel IIRC states that the zombies had been contained and had starved to death. A virus doesn't make you want eat flesh....being a zombie on the other hand does.

The makers of both films were just being smart arses when they said it was a virus....clearly its about zombies.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Well off the top of my head without checking - the woman who gets caught in a room full of the infected and is presumed dead turns up later with barely a scratch on her - wouldn't they have killed her seeing as she didn't develop the virus? Then the US Army, who have set up this heavily guarded facility and a backup plan that involves killing everyone, seem to have given Robert Carlyle a job as basically a caretaker, which seemingly allows him to wander around where he likes, including the laboratories where she's quarantined. Then as one of the infected he keeps turning up - is he after them specifically or is it just meant to be coincidence?

Sure there's others but tbh it doesn't really matter because it isn't really the point of the film.

Oh yeah, tee hee.

It stopped being any sort of decent film after they found the mum anyway, though I did like the idea of Rob having to squirm because he abandoned his wife and had lied to his kids.
They didn't really follow that far enough. I guess I like a different sorts of films to the one they made. It was a cheap zombie flick after all.

 

[andy2002]

It stopped being any sort of decent film after they found the mum anyway, though I did like the idea of Rob having to squirm because he abandoned his wife and had lied to his kids.
They didn't really follow that far enough.

I thought the mother catching up with Robert Carlyle's character and trying to exact some sort of revenge was going to be the main plot thread and was really disappointed when they didn't follow it as an angle. I thought it was a poor film actually and not a patch on the first one.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I turned off when the kids jumped the fence to find their home.

I knew what was coming and was scared.

I am a 6ft+ 17 stone ex bouncer .

 

[Jon-of-arc]

I liked it, as well. My girl friend loves the sequal as much as the original. She is wrong, but then she is a grotesquely ugly freak.

F (m)Y I, she loves the sequal more. Apparently...

 

[Jon-of-arc]

I am a 6ft+ 17 stone ex bouncer .

Who isnt, round here?

 

[T & P]

I thought the first one was ok, but the 2nd one was utterly fucking dull, and only sat through it because... well, rewards.

The first one certainly was fucking brilliant up to the point where they come in contact with the soldiers... the whole concept of a deserted city, abandoned cars, 'missing' posters everywhere... just brilliant. The scene in the tunnel was good too.

It fizzed out when they were picked up by the squaddies but overall it's still highy watchable.

The second one is definitely inferior but the Underground scene was fucking ace IMO.

 

[Sadken]

the infected ARE zombies - d'uh!

ridiculous.

 

[bhamgeezer]

I prefer to think of the "28"'s as 'Ragers' as opposed to the classic Zombie.

Still its an enjoyable film and I rather enjoyed the ending which suggested that the implied anti-American message of the Yanks being over the top in their idea of just wiping everybody out once the 'rage' broke out again was actually, all things considered, the best thing to do.

I have some great ideas for '28 months later' if anybody has a spare £20,000,000 quid to invest.

But if you are a fan then this is worth looking at...

Wow what a great video!

 

[Orang Utan]

even if you don't believe the infected are technically zombies, you must concede the film is within the zombie genre, surely?
http://zombiemovies.org/28-days-later.html
anyway, check this out, it looks fun: