28 Days Later

i thought we're not going to talk about it until the 28th?

and no..more people thought it was the sequel to resident evil...they shoudl be bagged and beaten

I downloaded it a few months ago, but have only watched just past the God Speed song. Its seems sacriligous to watch a zombie film in shitty resolution.
But when it finally gets released in NZ I'll be there with bells on!!!!

I downloaded it, but the resolution is amazingly high. It look really, really good, especially for a downloaded film. Just below DVD-quality.

no way

where from???

Man, it was amazing. I can't wait for it to come out... It's great, they play so much of East Hastings, and just let it build and build and build... Oh...... How beautiful.

i havnt seen this movie and i love it!!!!!!!! it inspired me for a [B]kickass[/B] script idea

i still havta watch it, maybe today after my exam

It passed Resident Evil by a kazillion million jillion times. I saw Hulk it sucked anus. And for a high-quality version of 28 Days Later, you'll need BitTorrent and to go to [url]http://www.Suprnova.org[/url]

and here's a direct link for the lazy [url]http://www.torrentfiles.com/torrents/28.days.late.xvid.dvdrip-avi.torrent[/url]

No. No it did not. Yes. Yes I stole it.

I want to see this so bad. I haven't seen any preview except the really short one, I covered my ears and closed my eyes when they showed the longer preview before wrong turn (yes I knew i shouldn't have gone to see it and waste my money, but i made the mistake of hoping...worse than I could even imagine.)

I seen it last year in the cinema and it was really bloody good. Just bought it on DVD yesterday and watched it again...one of the best zombie films ever!

Does anyting happen if you wear a red shirt? I of course know the whole film is fantasy bt I wondering if theaters play along.

i just saw this last night.

it was sooooooooooooo good.

it is out in the states now, btw.

and the main actor, cillian murphy (the guy who plays jim) is white hot.

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Cillian Murphy, "White Hot" be Thy name.

i am in love with him.

you know what i fucking hate?

inexperienced movie goers who keep on comparing this movie to resident evil!
fuck they go on and on about how this movie stole all the ideas off of resident evil, without even realising (probably due to the ignorance of never openning their eyes to an actual good zombie movie) that every single zombie movie is a rip of NoTLD. now im not saying a direct rip off, but Night is about a bunch of survivors surrounded by a bunch of zombies. now im not plugging Night here, but if your gonna say 28 Days (which is a fucking awesome movie) is a rip off of something, give romero some respect and say its a rip off of his original night of the living dead.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by twosmokingbarre [/i]Last Six Films Seen(out of five stars):
28 Days Later(2003) - 8.5[/QUOTE]

I just think it's great that twosmokingbarrels gives 28 days later an 8.5 out of five stars... that's some math for ya...

I liked the film, but it wasn't all that exciting. I mean the music was great and the cast was cool, and some of the shots were amazing like near the beginning, but overall it reminded me of Dog Soldiers... another british-ey blurry-fast cam-evil beings film... 'cept with werewolves... still the soldier stuff was very similar and interestingly enough, Dog Soldiers had Tommy from Trainspotting which was of course by 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle who also directed The Beach with Leo DiCaprio who was in The Basketball Diaries with Mark Wahlberg who was in Three Kings with George Clooney who was in Oceans 11 with Brad Pitt who was in Fight Club which was based on Fight Club the novel by Chuck Palahniuk of whom this site is based upon and I am posting on said site... therefore I must be related to Christopher Eccleston aka Major Henry West...

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i didnt think the movie was
"scary as hell!"
and i didnt think it revolutionalised horror movies or was anythign new. it was just a great flick, and a great zombie movie. i love the fact that they used digital cameras lol but i guess it worked since i couldnt tell the difference

and im sorry brock, but id ont really see the og soldiers connection. except for being in the house defending off the creatures. dog soldiers was still an awesome flick tho, i recognized the elader of the group (he got his intestines ripped out) i think he was in equillibream, know of any other flicks he was in?

Dog Soldiers. Sucked.

it was ok, nothing special. i mean for a b-movie it hought it was pretty good, iwouldnt buy it or anything tho

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by knoxville [/i]
[B]and im sorry brock, but id ont really see the og soldiers connection. except for being in the house defending off the creatures. dog soldiers was still an awesome flick tho, i recognized the elader of the group (he got his intestines ripped out) i think he was in equillibream, know of any other flicks he was in? [/B][/QUOTE]

I was comparing the way in which the monsters were shot... most of the time it's all jitter-cam and flashes of faces... and about the only rage-monster/zombie that we can make out clearly is the black one they chained up in the military barracks/house-yard...

Also the military aspect, with the gunfights... and the digital photography... and the cast of british folk that while I know who they are, most americans have no idea who Brendan Gleeson is or whatever...

oooooooookay. yeah i can dig it

my biggest question is the digital cameras they used, what kind were they?

Did no one pick up on a similarity between the second half of this movie and "Lord of the Flies?" And did no one here spot the 90-year-old geezer walk into scene during one of the long shots of London proper?

Alright, if you're tired of being asked stuff and just like being TOLD stuff, then hear this: if you're into apocalypse movies, one of the best of all time was an NBC made-for-TV flick called "The Day After" (1983). The greatest nuclear holocaust film ever. It stars a very young Steve Guttenburg, so if you can get over your media-fed hatred of the man, you will thank yourself. Better independant video stores carry it on VHS.

I correct myself: "The Day After" was ABC, not NBC. To their credit, this movie was so graphic and throughly disturbing (for any-time viewing let alone primetime) that the sponsors all yanked and they ended up playing it anyways. Commercial free.

Oh, and incase Steve Guttenberg isn't your thing, I should have mentioned that Jason Robard and John Lithgow also star. Cast of thousands.

Brock, I already pointed out the 8.5 outta 5 thing. So there. I beat you too it. In a different thread.

HAH!

question: how can the gutte NOT be your thing???

It must have cost a lot of money to stop all the traffic around that area of London; but then again, the council love it when people ask to show snippets of the area-brings the tourists in!

I'm so glad I work at a movie theatre. I've been waiting for ever for something decent to come out so I can say that it's actually worth all of the shit hours and the shit pay and the shit work, with the shit customers to deal with. But now, finally I have some kind of retribution. I go see it every break I get. I love the end scenes where you can't really tell who the real monster is... jim or the zombies. It's so fucking good.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by SnowWhite [/i]
[B]It must have cost a lot of money to stop all the traffic around that area of London; but then again, the council love it when people ask to show snippets of the area-brings the tourists in! [/B][/QUOTE]

yeah i thought that too, but at the times when it wasnt just naturally empty (like gooch explains) they just shut it down for a few minutes, no ground breaking time that could set back economic stuff

heres a good thought:
which species is better?
yeah the infected are tearing up humans left right and centre, but at least theyre not offing their own kind.

Alex Garland, who wrote this movie, is amazing. If there's any book you should read, it's The Beach also by Alex Garland, also adapted by Danny Boyle, but the film is scripted awfully.

The book is amazing. Read it.

****POSSIBLE SPOILERS, I GUESS******

28 Days Later was awesome, reminds me of I Am Legend/The Omega Man the first half and Lord of the Flies the second half but with some zombies thrown in for good measure. The choppy editing and digital camera work actually worked out really great giving the movie a grimer and grittier feel to it. I have been meaning to read Garland for awhile now, I am waiting until the Teseract(SP?) comes out to the half-price book store. Anyways the only thing I didn't like about it was the ending, seemed too cliched, I wish it would have ended 5 minutes before it actually did.

The Tesseract isn't that great. Smart book, good premise, a bit overdone, though. The Beach is much better book, a classic I might even say.

is the beach worth it leonard? (im so not use to calling others that)
i wasthinking about putting it on my to get list but wasnt to sure

The book is, yeah, definitely, but not the movie.

i ofudn the movie mildly interesting

The thing is, one of the most interesting characters from the book is left out of the film adaptation. And Richard never fucks Sal and steals Francoise from Etienne what the fuck was that too. And what happened to the uber-gory ending? So much awesome-er than the blah ending of the film.

I read the book first and was like "How can they possibly screw it up, really?" And then I was like, "SHIT...They did."

what's the ultra gory ending of the book?

Well....

SPOILERS-

In the book, the Thai militants bring the bodies of the dumb group of German kids and drop them right in the middle of the Tet celebration as the Beach-dwellers are partying. They also give them the map, drawn by Richard (Leo's character) and given to that dumb group (he met two of them, Americans, during a routine trip to the mainland with Jed, the character left out of the movie). The group leaders suddenly get ultra pissed and start going psychotic as the militants leave them (if I remember correctly, I haven't read it again in over a year). One of the Beach-dwellers climbs atop one of the dead bodies and starts ripping it apart. Many join in with the rest of the bodies, as Richard stands there, struck, having no idea what to do. Suddenly, they all start attacking him, all of them covered completely with blood and unrecognizable. They slash him all over his body, throw intestines on and around him, as he screams the names of his only real friends on the island (who happen to be Etienne, Keaty, Jed, and Francoise, and I believe that's it). Suddenly he is met in hallucination by Daffy, the guy who slits his wrists and gives Richard the map in the beginning. The pain dissappears as he talks to Daffy, while still being slashed and attacked, and now suddenly he sees some of the attackers being speared and impaled. He turns around to find his friends, defending him. They leave the island and the rest of them to die, return to England yada yada yada. It's much better than it sounds, but I'm too lazy to go on.

Oh yeah, and the closing sentence is one of the best.

"I carry a [i]lot[/i] of scars."

-Spoilers over

It's not ultra-gory as in American Psycho-gory, but it's well beyond what happens in the film.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by SpacedOut_Fetus [/i]
[B]I am waiting until the Teseract(SP?) comes out to the half-price book store. [/B][/QUOTE]

I found mine for $2.95 in the bargain shelves of books-a-million. Woohoo. Fun. I'm waiting for the da vinci code to be there since it's a best seller now.

but anyway, back on topic (kind of) is the teseract (yeah, i dunno how to spell it either) as good as the beach?

Edit: yeah, i didn't read the post after the one i quoted, so nevermind.

So, I thought 28 Days Later was a decent flick. Some really great shots in it. Some of the faces the infected made, particularly the shocked monkey look, were somewhat laughable. I was wondering what type of film they used, because I actually really liked it, but I'm a little disappointed now that I know it was all digital. The first time an infected jumps through a window, the friend I went to go see it with freaked out. He seriously kicked at swung at the air as he leapt out of his seat. It was so damn funny. He even saw it coming. All in all, I'd say it was pretty good. Nothing over the top.

I'm still confused as to how the main character survives in a hospital with nobody caring for him, for 28 days. Or, if you want to get technical, 25, or some other number give or take 2 days.

My point being, that brother would have died of dehydration definetely, and starvation... not so much, but he would be alot worse for wear than he ends up being...

I figure the reason he woke up was probably hunger or thirst. They had him on IVs so he could have lasted maybe a day or two on those then give him another day or two to wake up depending on his injuries.

maybe an attendant or someone decided to stay for so long, and than just abandonend him (i.e. more than the 3 days, maybe a good chunk of the 28 days, parents maybe??????)

Maybe we should shut the fuck up and just watch the damn movie.

i did watch the fucking movie! so fwaaaaaaaaaaaa, im saying maybe before his parents took their own life, oh yeah spoilers there. that they took care of jim for as long as possible, and than decided it was useless and they bikity bam took their own life. i for one thought that mother was wearing way too sexy underwear, for a mother and all

Well, it's not like everyone went nuts and killed each other on day 2 or something. It took 28 days for it to get that way. Therefore, that hospital might have served as a last bastion for those who were able to avoid the horror and stay alive longer. My thought is that he was kept healthy enough and treated for like the first 3 and a half weeks, while the hospital held out. Then, a few days before he awakens, the last nurse or doctor is killed or flees. Then, he snaps out of his coma and finds nobody home.

I found it interesting how Jim didn't cuff his face from the acrid stench of a hundred or so dead bodies when he entered the church versus his actions when he entered his parents room. I didn't get to read the note his parents left due to a bad case of nearsightedness I haven't yet taken up with my eye doctor so there was a little hole left for me to fill in -- I was guessing it was just a plain ol' suicide letter?

Oh, and for god sakes, the timing couldn't have been any worse for this movie to come out. I had to deal with ignorant high school movie goers on summer break that had to blurt out stupid comments every 2 minutes as they tried to impress their friends. "OMG, HIS PENIS IS SO SMALL, HAHAHAH, I AM FUNNY". After a while, their comments become so clearly inept that I was able to just block it and enjoy the screening.

28 Days later is the best movie I have seen this year and it just goes to show it's not how much money you have that makes a movie great.

That's what's ruined movie going altogether. The VCR. People are so accustomed to watching flicks in their own homes they forget the nicities of social interaction. Half the reason theatres are so damed loud. What precisely is the point of asking some dupe to turn of his pager when he's going to yell everything he thinks thoughout the flick. During the real quiet scene at the KOA outside of Manchester, I waited for a really nice, quiet and inappropriate scene like the horses gaiting by and yelled out "NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! WOOO!" for Chatty Anderson and his stoogie henchmen sitting right behind me. The criticism was lost on them. Oh well, in Toronto they have these massive theatres that seat 3,200 people, sloping tiered seating, balconies, 55 THX Dolby 7.1 speakers on every wall and ceiling, screens 2 phathoms tall and now they have lasers that project subtitles into the corneas of deaf people. They give these places names like COLOSSUS and COLISEUM and PARTHANON-64. My point: when in Rome...

i ofund myself talking during house of 1000 corpses, but not to the whole theatre. i kept on whisperring to my cuz
"pssst, dude i just farted again" and than id cup the fart and throw it his way. halfway thru the movie when i began to reposition my in my seat (he thought i was farting) he punched me in the face.
lesson learned
dont talk in the movies with your friends, cause your friends have no second thoughts about hitting you cause they know you