28 Days Later...

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Mucho ado about nothing. The film critics liked it because a) it was
shot on video for a "low budget" (not that low really) and b) much of
it was played out in a "firearms-free zone." Dramatically the story
was slack and the underlying concept lacked any real originality. Night
of the Living Dead still rules this genre.
 
I'm with longeyes. We watched the DVD last night. It had it's moments, but for the most part it lacked any real excitement.

Also, it bugs the heck out of me when characters in horror flicks do stuff that you know no one would ever do in reality. i.e. in this movie why did they insist on campfires, flashlights and the like after a candle attracted infected people earlier.

And would YOU have gone into that diner at the gas stop and explored? :rolleyes:

Cheers,
ChickenHawk
 
I watched the movie over the 4th of July when it was still in the theaters. I went with my wife and a lady friend. I enjoyed the movie, but the ladies were a little speechless afterward. My wife doesn't like the "low-buck" look of the movie, and the other actually enjoyed it. It was either 28 Days Later or some chick-flick, and somehow I won....I think it's safe to say that it won't happen again though.:uhoh:
 
Didn't come to local theaters so last night was my first chance to watch it...Big thumbs up!:D Maybe the last horror film I was really looking forward to seeing being the horrid "House of a 1,000 Corpeses":barf: made me view it in a kinder gentler light though.

It's not Citizen Kane or anything but the main criticisims didn't bother me a bit...

Gun thing: It's England, and starts 4 weeks after the few goodies even there nowdays would have been swooped up.

Characters doing dumb stuff: Takes mega-talent to do good horror films without this. "Ah zombies on the rampage.. down to my fully stocked secure shelter to lay low for 60 days till they starve" would make for a pretty boring film. Besides lets be honest. We have "DO NOT EAT" written on silica gel packs used for shipping for a reason. On average 7 people a year accidently swallow thier toothbrush. After the Los Angeles earthquake during the World Series people were trying to "jump" sections of fallen freeway in thier cars so they would not be late. Now tell me how "unrealistic" the people in the films actions were ;)
 
it could very well happen but not jump contenants. the infection takes hold far too fast. i think even here in gun crazed america i think we would be looking at being down to a few hundred thousand left. mostly the people in easily defenseable and sparsly populated areas.
 
In France, the Zombies would just ignore you out of self-righteous indignation... just as long as you don't touch their cheese.
Then they would just surrender.


I just watched this flick. I liked it. It's pretty good. But it did leave a lot to be desired.
I liked a lot of the direction and imagery. But it was the script that I didn't like. The whole thing with the military being the badguys... I've seen that way too often in B movies to appreciate it.
"Oh, I got a great idea for the movie! Let's have an army guy with a hand full of troops - and they are mad as hatters!"
I'm sure this may have been a chilling concept in England... but it's been played out to death here in the US.

I like The Stand a lot better. I wish they made that into a movie - let me restate that - I wish they remade that crappy campy made for TV mini series into a real movie.

Wait a second. No... I'm changing that. I wish Hollywood and all the movie makers around the world would STOP remaking what as already been done before - and come up with some thing ORIGINAL.
There are SO MANY good books out there that would make FANTASTIC movies - so there is no use recycling the 10 dozen worn out scripts.
Stephen King's The Gunslinger would make a great flick.

I'd like to see a movie on Dean Coontz "Seize The Night"... that would be awesome. Let's try other writers besides King. Stephen King really isn't that good. He is prolific and has a lot of great ideas, but I have yet to read one other than Green Mile that the guy actually writes a decent ending for. His ending are universally pathetic after he has taken the time to create an interesting premis and characters you can get into. Case in point: Dreamcatcher. Rent it if you want - but don't say I didn't warn you.

I love a good horror flick... and this one was pretty good... but there are much better posibilities.

HP Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness would make a killer movie.
 
Seize the night and Fear Nothing are my two favorite Koontz Books. I have them all. I like king, but he's the sort of horror writer, where the good guy is allways incompetent, and more likely to shoot himself than the monster. The Koontz Books would be hard to translate into movies. Talking about a lot of internal diolog that is very important to the plot. You want to see a truly bad Zombie flick, go see House of the Dead. Even if you hated 28 days; you will appreciate it after House.:cuss:
 
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