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what an all star cast.
Hot Chick #1
Handsome Guy #1
Paperbag831 as a 15 year old
Michael from LOST.
It has its ups and downs.
Basically, it's 28 months later and they've supposedly cleared Britian from infection and are starting to put civilians back in. However, there is a huge military presense with machine guns at street corners and snipers on the roof in the event of a second outbreak. And of course, there is.
My gripes with the movie first:
-The kids. Why add kids? Kids are always stupid jerk offs who wander away from the group and "investigate the noise." Yeah, everyone in a horror movie does it regardless of age, but when a kid does it, it's just worse, it's a law of watching horror movies: "it's always the kids fault." However, as the film went on, i enjoyed them more and more as siblings and not as children. When they decide to go into the infection zone, i was like "OH COME THE FUCK ON"
-The zombie father. fuck the fact that the zombie father just happens to be the Nemesis (resident evil) of this film. What a stupid angle.
-the rock riff. Yeah, it's cool the first time. But playing it 7 times during the film is annoying. (not nearly annoying as the riff used in The Fountain everytime wolverine looked toward the sky)
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Doyle didn't wink at the kids when he was pushing the car (as he did in the trailer)
my not-gripes (praises)of the fim:
-Paperbag
-It's one of the few (probably the only one in my memory right now) sequels that adds to the film with the inclusion of the military. The outbreak from the civilian center was amazing. The snipers are panicking like fucks trying to decide who is civilian and who is infected. Then they get the order to kill everyone and some of them start breaking down. When Doyle looks through his scope and sees his fellow soldier being ravaged, he shoots the soldier, it was like Last of the Mohicans.
-The film didn't seem to devulge into depravity and OVER-excessive gore, like some other 2-bits (Eli Roth's shit and The Hills Have Eyes Franchise). Yeah, the film was gorey as fuck (the helicopter scene, lol), but it was horror gore, not shock gore (the crucifixtion scene of Hills Have Eyes)
-The night vision scope scene in the subway was fucking amazing, like jesus amazing.
-Exec Code:red, where the entire district is set ablaze by rocket fire. visually appealing 
3 out of 5
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| Originally posted by RJT 28 Days Later was a bit of a bore for me - I mean, the first half of the movie is essentially just a guy walking around. |
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| Originally posted by SuspicionVandit |
it's like a rollercoaster in terms of cliche horror cheese VS amazing atmosphere. For the most part, the scenes and direction are done really well to capture the calamity and alert state of the situation. The thing that brought it down for me was that damn zombie father, showing up at the right place and right time every 5 minutes to hunt his kids
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| Originally posted by bas Tip of the hat. I'm stoked, but my main concern is that this movie will go the way of The Fast and The Furious. The first one was underground and indie-ish and the 2nd one blew goats when it got a bigger budget. |
okay so i just saw 28 weeks later and wow............amazing movie.....I loved absolutely loved 28days later .....one of the greatewst tunes ever is on that movie too....Brian eno- an ending although I like leama & moor rmx much better......but anyways back to the movie.....28 weeks later is > 28 days later......such a great story line and it is getting great reviews.....one problem though.....I was hoping for brian eno again in this movie.....and the overall music in this film was horrible that is the only downside....like, only one track being played during every other scene....could use better music ....
Movie was too short. Plot was not that good. I don't understand if this one person(mom) was soooo important to the well being of everyone and maybe had the cure for the disease, how could no one watch her for quite some time for her husband to see her and then you know what 
Did anyone notice the black girl was in the dinning hall scene for a second and she was from the last one(28 days later). I don't want to say I am 100% but I am pretty sure I saw her.
This movie was excellent! If you liked the first one, don't be afraid to go and see this one.
Some comments... *spoilers*?
- The music was really, really well done - as was the sound editing - the parts that needed to be loud were loud and the parts that needed to build tension through silence were done well, too. It's amazing how many movies just outright suck at this anymore. I love the sort of 'main theme' music that recurs throughout the movie, but as someone already mentioned, they re-use it a bit too much. Great riff, but be a little more discrete with it...
- This is one of the most brutal movies I have seen in some time. I think one review I read on it said something to the effect of "throughout most horror movies, you are wondering throughout whether or not humanity will be lost at the end of the movie. In this one, you are wondering how much of *your* humanity has been lost". I think that was supposed to be a negative comment towards the movie(?) but I think that the capability for a piece of film to affect somebody on an emotional level (for good or for bad) says a lot about not only its content, but its execution. Ultimately, gore horror movies show a person being killed, sometimes by other people, sometimes by something different, and in the end, there is little to differentiate death sequences but mere method. That being said, the great sound and lighting make some of the grisly images even more hard to bear, especially considering just how realistic many of the situations play out. Not only that, but in much of the death of this movie, there is a strong sense of social irony; for example, to stop the spread of the viral outbreak, the military is forced to gun down civilians as well due to the alacrity of its infection. In the beginning sequence, a man is torn between his screaming, trapped wife and a ready escape route. Obviously if the outcome of his choice is of interest, he abandons his wife and leaves her there to die as he runs for his life, contemplating his decision. But his expression invites pity and I think that most people who thought about it would really ask themselves if they would do the same thing or not.
As with many horror movies (particularly Romero and Fulci zombie movies), there is a prevalent theme in the good ones that can lead us to conclude that true horror rests within the every decision that people make in a state of panic - this movie, I think, succeeds on this level because it brings us through a dizzying, blaring ride through an infectious Hell where our true enemies are one another, whether we like it or not.
But that's not to say that this movie was intentionally allegorical or anything - in the end, it's just a zombie movie, but it seems to me that almost every zombie outbreak in movies is the direct result of human testing/pollution/decadence/whatever, and that peoples actions being completely out of their control is something everyone sees pretty much every day of their life. Maybe that's what's really scary - that holocausts are always completely within human control, yet are never wholly the responsibility of any single individual.
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On |
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| Originally posted by bas While I'd love to take your commentary seriously, you didn't approve my friend request on MySpace. So you sir, are an asshole |
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Oh, sorry, I thought that 'bas' was some new type of natural male enhancement I was being advertised with. Also, I haven't checked my myspace in like...2 months. :0 Aprewvd. |
You know, I think that I really like horror movies because they make me feel on an ecological level; the good ones can pull you in and make you realize what it's like to be a part of the food chain once more. 
28 months later anyone?(paris)
btw
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| Danny Boyle directed some of the second unit filming. |
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