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Post by **hierachy** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:26 pm

ok, who liked this film? Personally I thought it was excelent and not just another zombie film. I especially like the bit with the soldiers where he goes kinda nuts. But it does have it's weaknesses; the ending was particularly bad compared to the rest of the film IMHO.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:31 pm

I watched 28 days later directly after watching Beowulf. The contrast was so stark that a soup commercial would have seemed like Citizen Kane. Having said that I thought the film was very good. I have always like the "last man on earth" concept and though that sentiment went by the wayside in the first few frames the gloom of the extinction of mankind was looming in the background throughout. It was icky and sticky in places but all in all rather tame considering some of the other zombie films I've seen. Very well done.

Post by **Roland of Gilead** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:34 pm

I think I went into it with too high of expectations, after the glowing reviews I'd heard. I thought the story was pretty good, but the action was filmed in that very annoying herky-jerky style.

And as already mentioned, the ending was fairly lame.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:45 pm

Hated this movie, stopped watching after about 20 minutes - my wife finished it, though, and said the same thing about the ending.

Post by **hierachy** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:19 am

you stopped after 20 mins??!!

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:50 am

I thought the film was brilliant. Best zombie film I've seen in a long time.

Post by **Landwaster** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:53 am

i haven't seen it, nor have i seen '28 days' ... am i to guess that the two are entirely unrelated?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 9:58 am

28 Days is drama (i think), 28 Days Later is horror....

Great film. I loved the scene when he came out of the hospital at the start, I thought they did it really well, with the music and the atmosphere of the scene.... Good film, although you're right about the ending - it was a little weak....

Post by **hierachy** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:36 pm

Yes, the beggining was really cool. I think they did the infected really well. They weren't like the lame normal zombies that come towards you dragging their feet across the ground and groaning, going just about fast enough to catch snail as long as the snail doesn't see it coming. I just loved the speed of the infected, no hesitation, they were like rabid animals it was great.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:41 pm

That film gave me nightmares! good stuff! The intro reminded me of day of the triffids. I didnt mind the ending, but what I'd like to know was the rest of the world infected? The military guys said infections were detected in France and America . . . so was the rest of the world taken out?

Post by **hierachy** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:57 pm

I think it's safe tp assume that some of the world got infected, but maybe cos they new what it was by that time they acted quickly enough to stop the spread.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:26 pm

I think that the film said it was isolated by closing off the British Isles - the ending of the film was when the military returned to check out the situation and look for survivors....

Post by **hierachy** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:55 pm

One of them says that on the last day before the radio's stopped broadcasring their were reporst of infection in Ney york and France.

Post by **The Leper Fairy** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 6:46 am

I really liked this movie! I hated it when the blood landed in that guy's eye... soo sad

Very good though

Post by **hierachy** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 11:37 am

yeah, that was unlucky. But then again it'll teach him about the futility of getting mad at crows...

Post by **kastenessen** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:47 pm

I liked the movie. The scene in the tunnel, when you hear the zombies coming is really scary. And the use of video and handheld camera hightens the feeling of reality. The concept is quite good that it is such a subjective movie told from the main character*s view. Not until the movie ends we actually know what has happened and the meaning of the title...

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:17 pm

We don't know what happened until the end? What about the first scene, the break-in at the lab where they created Rage?

Post by **hierachy** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 10:05 pm

Yes, that was a bit of a giveaway. And then about 10 minutes later when he met those 2 people and they told him what was going on.

Post by **kastenessen** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 1:03 am

Well I believe I was thinking of the title of the film. The virus or whatever that creates the disease has a lifespan of 28 days, that information isn't given until the epilogue, or am I still wrong. Was awhile since I saw it...

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 1:08 am

No it's called 28 days later because 28 days after the virus is released the guy wakes up in hospital. Further, the virus lasts forever because

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at the end of the film, which was months after the start, the zombies were starving; they were still around, just dying of starvation.

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