28 years Later

It seems like a commentary on nostalgia and atavism. I think the ending with a cult of Jimmy Savilles is brilliant. It seems like most people hated the ending.

All the scruffy-bearded American geek bros on You Tube hate it. The Seville ending was lost on them.

Saville ^

I think a lot of bro types dislike the film because it baits and switches you. The first half makes you think it’s a celebration of conventional manly films. Then the apparent hero/father figure is revealed to be a bit of a phony In multiple ways and it becomes a story about finding real courage and heroism beyond the optics of performative masculinity

It is probably the best movie ever made. I think they will have to close the theaters after this one, because it will never be outdone. Truly a stunning achievement.

For those that don’t understand what R2 is talking about, see the attached.

To me, that ending is a giant question mark. It either sets up some genius options of where this story goes in a moralizing sense, or is the stupidest thing ever. We won’t know till January, but it’s a huge gamble for the franchise.

What happens in January?

The next film comes out.

Masturbatory waste of time. It included none of the tension or realism that made 28 Days Later such an effective horror film. I felt more on edge watching the trailer with the Rudyard Kipling poem than I did during the actual movie.

I think Danny Boyle is a hack who occasionally gets lucky.

zombie dick pics plz

R5 it really irks you to see anyone be enthusiastic about liking something, doesn’t it? You consider it a mark of a fool. A truly intelligent and discerning person would never succumb to happiness, never let emotions cloud their response to a piece of entertainment. And you see it as your duty to walk around with a big needle, bursting bubbles and shaming people who like things and dare to move through this shitty world with a shed of happiness that you can never have because you are, what? Dead inside.

R9 I think this is trying to be a movie about England, not a zombie horror

Please R9 that chase across the causeway was spectacular

Yes and that's the problem, r12. He wanted to make a completely different type of movie but decided to ride 28DL's coattails for financial reasons. He should have made a standalone movie if he wanted to tell some lame story about England, finding one's own way in the world, the nature of death etc. It like he doesn't know or care why people liked the 2002 movie so much.

It was okay, r13. I don't think it reached the level of the tire change scene in 28DL. It was also 3 minutes of a 120 minute long movie. There was a TON of stuff in 28 Years that wasn't remotely scary.

So why did you like the 2002 movie so much? R14? What was it doing so well that this film did not?

The major job of the first movie in a franchise is to build a world and establish the rules of that world. Much of the pleasure of the original 28days later is learning about that world through the eyes of the characters. You cannot duplicate that audience experience in a sequel because the world and the rules have already been established.

With a sequel you have 2 options. You can remake the first movie with new characters, like the final destination films. But that approach is schlocky and uninspiring. Or you can tell a new story in that world, expand on the understanding of it and use its rules to investigate new themes, which is what 28 years later did. I think it did it well. I think it will stand the test of time as being a far superior sequel to the second one, which was, frankly, much more of a cash grab than this one

It was very scary, r15. The characters barely had a plan and were always reacting to something unexpected. The encounters with the infected always happened suddenly and were filmed in a way that felt really frenetic, ugly and violent. The grocery store and wild horses scenes were such a breath of fresh air because the rest of them movie was so tense. It also had a wonderful soundtrack and ended in a way that was optimistic but not cheesy. Great cast.

28YL felt very low stakes by comparison. I never really felt like the boy was in danger of getting killed, even during the causeway scene early in the movie. By the end of the movie he practically has Walking Dead plot armor. The infected were given a lot of screen time, shot clearly and in good light. You saw too much of them and that made them more familiar and less threatening. I also felt like 28YL abandoned the realism of 28DL, especially with the Alphas. As much as I love a giant uncut dick, they were too close to Resident Evil style zombies for my liking. I like the idea of a Jimmy Saville gang but they were introduced in a way that felt really silly and dumb, like something you'd see at the end of a PG-13 superhero movie.

I could go on but that's my short version of why I liked 28DL but not the new film.

I liked it for the most part. The chase across the water was A+, a real nail biter. Though, why the fuck were they being so loud? Idiots. Aaron Taylor Johnson was hot, too.

Then it was like a family drama. Eh, didn’t love it. There was no urgency. They had time for a nice little picnic in the grass. The kid was okay. I got a little tired of his scrunched up, confused face, but whatever.

Why didn’t Ralph Fiennes just kill Samson? What’s the point of keeping him alive just so he could kill more people? Stupid. And why didn’t ATJ wait so long to go after his son? He knew he was curious about the doctor and wanted to help his mom, so obviously he would go there. ATJ should’ve already been there when the kid and his mom arrived.

Loved the ending. I was waiting to see jimmy the whole movie and felt it was a great payoff. He is super deranged. Him and his little band of Teletubbies.

Flopping Zombie Dicks - that title would sell a LOT of tickets.

It's kind of like Last Call at the local wrinkle bar.

All of the flopping dicks were prosthetics.

I want to see real dicks, but I understand that for legal reasons actors can’t expose their real penises to a minor on a film set.

I thought the chav ninjas were sexy af, sue me.

R11, I did see the movie in the theater. I enjoyed the seat and the A/C. It seemed like they wrote a TV show and then repurposed it as a movie. It would have been better as an Amazon series. The clumsy Jimmy Savile Power Rangers ending was off. I did enjoy the rubber dicks.