Movie Review: "28 Days Later" (Gun Related)

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I saw this movie a couple of weeks ago and I really liked it. Excellent cinematography, excellent acting, very creepy atmosphere. It got a bit weird after they met up with the soldiers, but I felt pretty satisfied how it all turned out.

The soldiers had the right idea mining the yard and just mowing the infected down with machine guns. Personally I would prefer a semi-auto 12guage with slugs or 00 buck instead of a machette or baseball bat! A big*** rifle would be nice too.

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The whole time I was watching this movie I was thinking to myself "There is a reason this movie is set in England."

That reason is because if it were set in the United States, it would be all of ten minutes long!:D
 
I thought this movie was not only one of the best horror movies made, but also one of the better movies ever made. At first, I thought to myself "monkeys causing widespread disease, a few people try to save the world"....a 12 Monkeys rip off....but it wasn't when I got to really thinking about it. The movie had no guns in it because it would have made it damn dumb, and I think we all know that. How fun is it to watch people blow up bad guys for 2 hours? I think we all remember "starship troopers"...now THAT was a bad movie.

Danny Boyle is the director of this film, and if you watch trainspotting (one of the most brilliant films EVER made) then you will understand him quite a bit more.
 
It had some good parts.. But there were some serious problems.

They had molitov cocktails in the beginning, why didnt they stick with that?!

Fred had riot gear and a shield that protected him from the infected when he bashed two up, why did he leave them behind?!

It's ENGLAND for gods sake, get a sword and shield!

30 days and the military guys are turning into rapests?! I've gone longer than that; married!!

The Military guys just spray from the hip? Did this movie smack you as anti-gun and anti-military?

So the skinny main character clubs one kid with a basball bat and now hes rambo? WTH?
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That WAS a cool scene in the end where he sticks his thumbs in that guys eyes, very realistic.

I kept hearing "SCARY AS HELL!". It had some suspence, but it was a long shot from 'scary'. I think it would be a streach to even call it 'creepy'.

Oh well, worth the $3 to see it i guess. :rolleyes:
 
$3.00 :what:

Movies must be cheap up there. The matinee here is ~$6.00 and after 6 PM they are $8.50.

Anyone go this weekend to see the "alternate" ending after the credits? Just wondering what they did different.

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yeah, I saw the alternate ending before i saw the movie. They were having problems, so by the time they showed it lots of us had already arrived for the next showing.

Ill post what happens below: skip down if you want it to be a suprise.









































When the guy gets shot in the gut by the last army guy, they rush him to the hospital. And he dies. It ends with the black chick saying "We have to keep moving". And thats it, they leave.
 
Unless I am mistaken, in the last scene when they are in the farmhouse, there was a SA-80 leaning up on the windowsill. So they did take some with them after the military guys.

/Arcli9ht
 
You guys ever see "Dog Soldiers?" British SAS troops vs Werewolves in the English woods? Being heavily armed really didn't matter much.

Very silly in some spots. But come on, it's a monster movie.

And hey even Dawn of the Dead featured zombies getting splattered with chainsaws, helicotper blades, machetes etc.
 
Ultimate zombie splatter movie: Dead Alive, NOT RATED version. The R version is a waste of time.

Four words, lawnmower on a shoulder sling.
 
excellent movie with a few problems

the millitary guys were taken from the novel "day of the triffids"
the book is much better then the movie.
can't remember the name of the author but the same thing happens
; hero uses triffids to trap kill their captors.
I think most English I've met would try to talk to the zombies before
losing the fight.
except for their millitary, who wouldn't have a problem shooting zombies,
a British sniper shot an Iraqi officer at more then 1000 yrds
during the conflict:cool:
 
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28 Days Later is a tremendous movie in the zombie horror genre. It's one of the most realistic I've seen, if not the most realistic I've seen. It has a good premise, and a possible (if fantastic) cause and effect. Remember, he didn't pick up a gun at the end because he really didn't have time, he was trying the get the heck out of that house, and then he was gutshot. The black girl did have a chance to pick up a gun, and she did. Even the teenage girl picked up a gun. I don't think the movie was "anti-gun" at all, I just think it was realistic considering how British society is, and the poor availability of firearms in that country. I think that Jim (the main male character) didn't have a machete or sword because he couldn't find one, I doubt that they are that common in England. So, he grabbed what was available...a baseball bat. He did have the common sense to grab something, and the will to protect himself and others. I think this movie is pretty pro-self defense, and not anti gun in the slightest.
 
28 Days Later was a bad zombie movie, as the people were not really zombies at all. They were infected with a virus, that caused them to hemorrage and go crazy wanting to kill.

In order for it to be a zombie movie the person infected would have to die and be re-animated.

So, in that respect, I don't even classify it as a zombie movie as to me it technically is not one. There were however a bunch of similarities to Romeros movies, which didn't help it either. I understood the lack of guns part because of the location, and even the car thing I understand initially. None of them probably knew how to hotwire a car, and unles someone died in their car, then I doubt the keys would be there for them to grab. I would have made a conscious effort to find something better, but that's me.

Overall, I'd say it would have been better for me as a rental, rather than spending $8 on a theatre ticket.
 
the 'feelgood' ending is open to objections as well. Why would the rest of the world risk infection spreading outside the British mainland to help this small number of survivors? It's a few lives against millions. How do we know those flocks of sheep running over the hills aren't a reservoir of infection? We already know it can jump the species barrier.
The most sensible course would be to drop several neutron bombs on the country and kill every living thing. No fallout, and after a few years you can recolonise it
 
Of course the movie wasnt perfect but I saw it with my gf. We though it was pretty good. Not sure I can remember a "zombie" film where they sprinted after you. The scene in the tunnel creeped me out a bit. The church scene bugged me also.

I know one thing I would have done different. Upon waking up in a hospital and seeing conditions like that I certainly would not be yelling HELLO until I figured out what was up and had something substantial to defend myself with.


Mark
 
The British make this kind of movie SO much better than Hollywood.

Dog Soldiers was absolutely superb, the fire and movement scenes were very realistic with calls of "Target", "Stoppage", "Stand to" etc 28 Days was a low budget, high grossing movie that put an interesting twist on an old theme and made a lot of money.

Cops in Britain don't carry guns, so a dead cop would be even less use than the average breathing variety. The main character acquired an SA80A2 as soon as one became available from the troops.

As for the SA80A2, the laughing is quickly becoming an embarassed silence. That rifle is now so improved that British special forces experience in the Gulf showed that the M-16 performed no better in the sand, there are reports that the SAS/SBS/Royal Marine Commandos etc are seriously considering a switch back to this weapon, currently they have the option to use non-standard weapons and choose the M16/HK53/FAL etc - watch this space.
 
TarpleyG: Are the Brits really that brainwashed to believe that only the police and military needs firearms even in the face of total human annihilation?
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You Hit the nail on the head!
 
Lictalon,

Your description of Brit subject vs USA Citizen was FREAKING HILLARIOUS!!!!!!:D :D :D :D

Thanks for the laughter.:D :D :D
 
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In the original release of the film (european) there was no feel good ending. That was added for the American audience. I woudlnt blame the filmmakers for that. And it makes sense that noone but the soldiers had guns cause the fact is that in england pretty much noone but soldiers have guns. And remember its not like these people had time to prepare. The whole country basically got screwed in a matter of days. The only people who were still alive were the ones who holed up and hid. Id imagine that the folks who went out looking for stuff like guns etc. wound up dead in pretty short order. You noticed that the "zombies" didnt give up till they were dead. So, its pretty much a matter of if your seen your a corpse if you arent armed. Personally i liked the idea about hiding untill they starved to death.
 
About the no electricity to run the gas pumps, the gas pumps in America (mostly) have a crank on the inside for emergency use. I don't know about "over there" but I don't see why not. Also I don't know if that varies by brand of gas pump. Are there different brands?(of manufacture, not gas).
 
Ok let me just say that REALISM has absolutly NO place in a zombie movie. The only gauge of its quality should be how much you ENJOYED it. If you liked it was good. If not then it wasnt. And i wouldnt know to look for a crank to pump the gas. Id imagine that your average london dweller has even less mechanical aptitude than me.
 
Eh, I appreciate realism in a zombie movie. Helps me to "suspend disbelief", which is usually prett difficult in zombie movies (even though they are very entertaining). Regardless, I enjoyed 28 Days Later, I thought it was a great movie,. Of course, I play All Flesh Must Be Eaten on a regular basis, and am a zombie movie fan in general, so, it's likely that I would enjoy it :).
 
Finally got around to seeing Dawn of the Dead the other day. I don't know if it's just the gunowner SHTF thing in me or what but that movie rocked. Cheesy acting etc, sure, but it was great. That's how you make a damn zombie movie, stupid British... Time for a remake.
 
The no gun thing was painful, our hero uses a rifle quite adeptly in an anti-material role to shoot a chain in two and then runs around sticking folks with a bayonet, gouging eyes and such. You'd think Richard Dean Anderson wrote the script. I liked the movie, but it was obviously Brit. Big ol trucks everywhere and they got to ride a chintzy little taxi.

They missed some Hitchcock chances. Why weren't the rats in the tunnel infected? Of course that would have ended the movie too quick, but I was just waiting for the girl to get her head chewed off by them. What about the crow at the barricade? He was most likely nibbling on the dead guy, a infected bird or three would have been great, could have even added a little comic value with the baseball bat.

Hmm, what can I get that will spatter the max amount of blood everywhere? Hey, I know a machete!

the 'feelgood' ending is open to objections as well. Why would the rest of the world risk infection spreading outside the British mainland to help this small number of survivors? It's a few lives against millions. How do we know those flocks of sheep running over the hills aren't a reservoir of infection? We already know it can jump the species barrier.
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I think we are left to assume that the rest of the world has its own problems which is most likely considering how disease spreads these days. The plane at the end is a BAC Lightning II flying british colors so it's safe to assume that Britian is helping itself.

The untold good news? The Chunnel. Surely some infected got through to the other side and cleaned house.
 
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