Posted on 12/20/2004 9:42:44 AM PST by Warhead W-88
Great stuff. Thanks for adding a political angle!
I blogged your pic & caption on my site.
I thought "28 Days later" was really weak and derivative. In the very beginning the hero wakes up in a hospital to general devastation. This conceit was was lifted whole from a 60's cult film "Night of The Triffids". The rogue soldiers were cliched beyond belief - are we to beleive that the rest of the world is functioning outside the British Isles but not talking to anybody on the radio? 28 days is a short time for military discipline to fall apart, especially when it was obvious that these creatures were going to run out of steam eventually all on their own. Which they did.
All "28 Days later" did for me was conjure up images of the better movies they stole their ideas from and make me wish I was watching THEM instead.
Was that the one with the trailers that ended "We are going to EAT you!" ??
That trailer still scares me.
Fair Play for the Metabolically Challenged!
Zombies may be the perfect metaphor for shambling politically-correct group-thinking Liberals, but unlike Liberals, they are not actually a waste of oxygen.
Oh, all right then.
if you geta chance you absolutley haveto see shaun of the dead a spoof on the genre it is hilarous
Technically in 28 Days Later they aren't zombies they're sick but alive, though genrewise the movie fits best in the zombie apocalypse crowd (has more zombie movie flourishes than pandemic movie stuff, though the line between the two has always been pretty thin).
But that whole movie is made by the first 20 minutes, that whole "dead London" sequence is amazing.
It creeped me out, that's for sure. Reminded me of "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston, which had me really creeped out as a kid.
Definitely. All around one of my favorite movies in years. Creative and interesting and very well acted.
Running zombies...
That is the part of the movie that made it even freakier. I can deal with slow moving zombies, but fast ones freak my sh!t out. ;-)
The section with the soldiers seemed needlessly tacked on. And you're right about the whole radio thing. I think that had to do with the fact that they filmmakers hadn't really figured out what the ending was going to be. Originally, it was much darker, with no happy ending, but audiences hated that.
The remake of Dawn of the Dead this last summer was pretty good. And the bad girl who get chainsawed by accident was really hot, IMHO.
Err...wha? <------ why post gibberish?
Well I generally enjoyed 28 days later,it struck me as odd that it took about a month for a bunch of Military guys to become sadistic rapists.
Also 28 days later was a very weird sequel to that Sandra Bullock movie 28 days.
I saw Shaun of the Dead this weekend and it was really a lot of fun. The makers of that film totally understood the rules of zombie movies.
LOL!
I always prefered walking zombies to running zombies it reminds me more of a nightmare. In a nightmare when someone is chasing you no matter how fast you run and no matter how slow they are , they are always right behind you. You can't escape them.
Hillary!, McCain, Kennedy...
I believe so. It did have the only Zombie vs Shark fight sequence ever.
Those Italian horror movies still give me the creeps.
Yikes!
Now that is one hideous zombie.
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