28 Years Later Trilogy
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I seem to recall the lighting was intentionally to cover up the fact he'd put on a huge amount of weight and become an unbuff lard arse.
I've never watched any of these, kind of missed the boat...
I've watched 3 seasons of TWD and didn't mind it but it did get a bit samey, I liked Dawn Of The Dead, Braindead, I Am Legend, love TLOU and Resi...
Are these still worth a watch if I'm so late to the party?
I've watched 3 seasons of TWD and didn't mind it but it did get a bit samey, I liked Dawn Of The Dead, Braindead, I Am Legend, love TLOU and Resi...
Are these still worth a watch if I'm so late to the party?
I mean…
For me the ending was much more about how it’s a generation raised on TV and whilst yes, the Saville look was something for sure (and I’ve seen it plays heavily into the next film), it was much more like they were psycho ninja teletubby wannabes, was absolutely mental.
Yes, they are fantastic films in their own right and then influence of them can be clearly seen in TWD/TLOU
It's amazing imo. Modernised the zombie genre. Highly recommended.
One movie you might want to watch is Train to Busan. Probably of one of, if not the best from Asia.
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Nice, I shall check them out at some point then! Yeah I was pretty sure that the first one came before TWD.
I'll be sure to watch them, or at least the first one. Cool, I'll look into that, thanks
Watched it this morning, was surprised how they got around the age rating with the violence and freeze framing it but the amount of 'hung dong' didn't force them to a 18.
Glad it didn't go the 'modern' way of zombie films and still felt grounded with a smaller story and not fighting 'hordes' of zombies off.
Props to the visual team making some of them look disgusting in a good way.
Glad it didn't go the 'modern' way of zombie films and still felt grounded with a smaller story and not fighting 'hordes' of zombies off.
Props to the visual team making some of them look disgusting in a good way.
I saw it last night and thought it was absolute dog ****. The script was dreadful, everyone was doing a drama school northern accent, and I couldn’t stop counting how many times ATJ said “good lad” because presumably they hadn’t written anything else for him to say. People were laughing at some of the lines…
It looked pants (thanks iPhones…), sounded pants, and the score sounded like it was downloaded from a trial of AudioNetworks (sorry, Young Fathers).
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.
It looked pants (thanks iPhones…), sounded pants, and the score sounded like it was downloaded from a trial of AudioNetworks (sorry, Young Fathers).
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.
The Alpha thing was ridiculous. So they’re now sentient monsters that stop to open train doors and enjoy popping people’s heads off? The virus is called RAGE ffs. And don’t even start me on that ending. We doing Guy Ritchie now?
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I watched all three over the last week.
*****
28 Days Later
The film ‘looks’ atrocious - as if was filmed on the lowest possible digital camera availible at the time. It doesn’t look gritty or timeless though. It just looks amateur and bad.
After adjusting to that, the film is ok but nothing remarkable. The character development is almost non-existent and what’s there is wafer thin, so it never really gets better than its premise and novelty of being British, which in fairness is pretty good. It’ll remain culturally relevant because of its ‘eerie’ shots of London but nothing else stands out.
6.5/10
*****
28 Weeks Later
A much slicker looking affair with a decent performance by Robert Carlisle, but the others are all forgettable.
It’s peppered with some memorable moments (helicopter, eye gouge) but it’s blighted by some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen. Some of the most absurd character decisions and choices ever… let alone the jarring teleporting super zombie!
5/10
*****
28 Years Later
I’m surprised to say that this is the best of the bunch and I enjoyed it.
Good set-up and story of the lead boy, not clear where it was going. Interesting / different resolution to the main story… and then a completely wacky final scene that was tonally jarring and probably made a lot of people say ‘wtf’ - me included! But I liked it.
Bonus point for the unexpected feels… and the comically enormous penis. I mean, damn! Hung like a horse! What a specimen.
7.5/10 - probably not much rewatch factor though.
*****
28 Days Later
The film ‘looks’ atrocious - as if was filmed on the lowest possible digital camera availible at the time. It doesn’t look gritty or timeless though. It just looks amateur and bad.
After adjusting to that, the film is ok but nothing remarkable. The character development is almost non-existent and what’s there is wafer thin, so it never really gets better than its premise and novelty of being British, which in fairness is pretty good. It’ll remain culturally relevant because of its ‘eerie’ shots of London but nothing else stands out.
6.5/10
*****
28 Weeks Later
A much slicker looking affair with a decent performance by Robert Carlisle, but the others are all forgettable.
It’s peppered with some memorable moments (helicopter, eye gouge) but it’s blighted by some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen. Some of the most absurd character decisions and choices ever… let alone the jarring teleporting super zombie!
5/10
*****
28 Years Later
I’m surprised to say that this is the best of the bunch and I enjoyed it.
Good set-up and story of the lead boy, not clear where it was going. Interesting / different resolution to the main story… and then a completely wacky final scene that was tonally jarring and probably made a lot of people say ‘wtf’ - me included! But I liked it.
Bonus point for the unexpected feels… and the comically enormous penis. I mean, damn! Hung like a horse! What a specimen.
7.5/10 - probably not much rewatch factor though.
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I’m sure I saw it the other day unless I’m mixing it up with one of the old ones
Thanks for saving me the ticket!
It's a cinema only release currently.
Not a fan of the series and how I rate them so far:
28 days 5/10 (goes down after meeting soldiers)
28 months 4/10 ( beening generous with the score)
28 years 4/10
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I honestly have zero idea how you can say 28YL is the best of the bunch. 28DL is a classic for a good reason, it was a new twist on the zombie genre and had a powerful story that was coherent from beginning to end. 28WL was not quite as good, but still decent although it had its stupid moments with how everyone got reinfected.
In comparison to the first two, 28YL is shockingly bad, awfully written.
The first half of the movie was really decent with portraying life in the island settlement and father and son going out on his first 'hunt'. The boy seeing the fire and combined with the trailer it gave a strong impression that we were going to find out the infected had started to develop their own rudimentary culture and religion with the bone towers etc. But no, we were treated to an absolute garbage story about a woman losing her mind who has cancer and a son so terminally stupid that he breaks every rule he has ever known, rejects and threatens the father who has been his guide and mentor, and puts his settlement at risk by starting a fire and openiig the gate to go and take her to a doctor he was told was BS. What. The. F.
The actress who plays that woman is not the worst, but her character got FAR too much screen time and was written in a way that just left you scratching your head wondering why. She should never have been a focal point of this story.
The swedish army guy was beyond awful. Terrible actor, terrible script, the guy looked and sounded like an amateur who had been drafted in from the street and been asked to write his own script. Not only did he look way too young, but his acting was completely unconvincing. Why did they not make this character French, as they were the ones patrolling the island? Did Danny Boyle know the guys family and promised to do him a favour by putting him in the movie?
This wacko doctor turns out to be a vera sane and empathetic guy who has studied the infected and lived among them for years, then somehow very quickly his supposedly secure cage is broken into by the alpha. There is no way his entire place would not have been wrecked every day by the infected with those noiceable fires he built The whole scene where he diagnoses her and then take her away to kill her and then asks the son to put her bleached skull on the tower is possible one of the most laughable scenes I have ever seen.
The actress who plays that woman is not the worst, but her character got FAR too much screen time and was written in a way that just left you scratching your head wondering why. She should never have been a focal point of this story.
The swedish army guy was beyond awful. Terrible actor, terrible script, the guy looked and sounded like an amateur who had been drafted in from the street and been asked to write his own script. Not only did he look way too young, but his acting was completely unconvincing. Why did they not make this character French, as they were the ones patrolling the island? Did Danny Boyle know the guys family and promised to do him a favour by putting him in the movie?
This wacko doctor turns out to be a vera sane and empathetic guy who has studied the infected and lived among them for years, then somehow very quickly his supposedly secure cage is broken into by the alpha. There is no way his entire place would not have been wrecked every day by the infected with those noiceable fires he built The whole scene where he diagnoses her and then take her away to kill her and then asks the son to put her bleached skull on the tower is possible one of the most laughable scenes I have ever seen.
The ending is basically just a complete troll and a 'F you' to the audience from Danny Boyle. 28YL is overall thanks to the second half a bad movie that squandered its potential and I am now just about done going to the cinema to watch anything.
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I can’t like or dislike a film for you, it’s all up to you.
There is nothing original to me about people grouping up and seeking sanctuary from zombies / outbreak. It’s the zombie story. Variations on that theme are fine, it doesn’t make it automatically bad. But it needs that extra juice for me in order to elevate it.
The ‘character arcs’ in 28DL can be summed up as ‘one tough survivor learns through others that there are better things than just surviving’. It’s fine, although the whole ‘huh I’m a tough survivor, stay out of my way’ types do generally annoy the crap out of me in any film / series.
Cillian Murphy doesn’t really do anything in 28DL. He’s just ‘there’ as someone for the others to bounce off, representing the audience I guess.
The two ‘curious’ bits of 28DL for me are the taxi somehow pulling off an impossible drive over other vehicles, and the army defending into ‘rape gang’ after, what, 7 weeks?! But I don’t let those things ruin it for me.
Cillian Murphy doesn’t really do anything in 28DL. He’s just ‘there’ as someone for the others to bounce off, representing the audience I guess.
The two ‘curious’ bits of 28DL for me are the taxi somehow pulling off an impossible drive over other vehicles, and the army defending into ‘rape gang’ after, what, 7 weeks?! But I don’t let those things ruin it for me.
I appreciate ‘other stories’ that are set in a ‘zombie universe’. If it’s the usual ‘bread and butter’ it needs to be really exceptional or have other themes for me to think it’s great, personally.
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Heh, 28 days later single handedly revived zombie stories and tv/film and games.
If you never saw it at the time you'll have been swamped by the media that followed it so it can't ever be the same viewing.
It was fresh and had a great soundtrack and having a scuffed image was just part of it.
If you never saw it at the time you'll have been swamped by the media that followed it so it can't ever be the same viewing.
It was fresh and had a great soundtrack and having a scuffed image was just part of it.
Not sure the extent that it’s aimed at me but I saw it myself around 2003/4 and again in the 2010s. I think it was video games that took over from films and put zombies into the minds of young people like myself at that time (Resident Evil etc. - games from 1996, the film of that was also 2002) but I won’t deny 28DL had a big and important impact, sure.
It being ‘important’ doesn’t impact my enjoyment of it. 28DL felt more flawed to me on this rewatch than before. As mentioned, the ‘rough and ready’ look simply looks terrible and distracting now. You can get over that, and the core of it is very watchable. But it wasn’t as good as I remembered due to weak characters (other than maybe Gleeson who was memorable).
That’s how I feel anyway - each to their own.
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@Richdog I didn’t address this bit:
I think 28DL is fine, but 28WL is pretty dire in this regard
The main offending bits being:
As for Sweden guy in 28YL, he was odd but he reminded me of a few nordics / baltics people that I work with… they can be a curious bunch
On 28YL doctor:
I think 28DL is fine, but 28WL is pretty dire in this regard
The main offending bits being:
Infected woman being left unguarded and not under close watch. Wut. Why?! My wife even sighed loudly in frustration at how stupid this was.
Absolutely nil outbreak control / perpetually nonsense military response - it felt like the zombie outbreak itself had plot armour. I mean, it has to happen but it just felt so ‘clumsy’.
Robert Carlisle teleporting - how tf did he get there at the end. Although, this was more funny than anything else, with little things like this I try not to let them bug me.
Absolutely nil outbreak control / perpetually nonsense military response - it felt like the zombie outbreak itself had plot armour. I mean, it has to happen but it just felt so ‘clumsy’.
Robert Carlisle teleporting - how tf did he get there at the end. Although, this was more funny than anything else, with little things like this I try not to let them bug me.
As for Sweden guy in 28YL, he was odd but he reminded me of a few nordics / baltics people that I work with… they can be a curious bunch
On 28YL doctor:
I think you inferred that he died but I don’t think he died? He just encourages the boy to move on.