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..tried to find an old topic about this film, proved to be hard. so here's a new one. just watched this last night - bought the dvd solely based on reviews I had read, on here and elsewhere. I must say I was presently surprised - very interesting script, with only small snags - most of the character's actions seem pretty realistic. interestingly shot, very stylish. pretty good acting. not so much scary, more continually tense, and at times VERY claustrophobic. **SPOILERS COMING UP** I did think the "Britain has been quarantined" idea was a bit unbelievable. if this virus is so incredibly effective, with the infected being able to spit blood as to spread infection, I think it would be almost impossible to contain. I absolutely loved the part where Jim wants to go to see what happened to his parents - this seems like a pretty believable thing to do in a situation like this. I thought when he found his dead parents with a childhood photograph of himself in their hands was very poignant. |
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i love this movie very different from your average horror flick, and shot VERY well i LOVED the use of cameras, and filters in this (or should i say lack of filters!) to me it looks like he used the same film and camera grade that is used for TV shows or documentaries - not usually the kind of film you use for a movie. i think the storyline is spot on, i think the acting is great.....everything is great about this film :) |
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except for danny boyle |
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I agree! :) love the camera effect when the infected attack. nice. for me this also seemed one of the few horrorfilms that has geniune emotional content, as in I can relate directly to it. and because of this film I bought the Grandaddy cd they took that song that is played under the supermarket sequence off. :) |
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Disappointing. I absolutely loathe the ending: when I first saw it at the cinema I thought "sweet, the plane is gonna nuke England". Then they just rescued them. Shit. |
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i heard on the dvd theres a storyboarded ending that the main dude and the director read and supposedly its an AWESOME ending, but the director kinda knew hed get crap for it, so he changed it.... but it sounded AWESOME |
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the beginning is so cool the way he just wakes up in the hospital.... vanilla sky gone wrong |
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vanilla sky can eat me that movie WISHed it could go nuts |
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no, it wasn't. as he says on the commentary while reading that alternative ending, it would be completely unbelievable. it involved taking the soldiers out of the story completely. so when Frank, the big father gets infected, they now tie him up and take him along. they then stumble upon the original research facility, from the first scene. some guy hoaled up inside says he has the answer to cure Frank - ALL his blood needs to be replaced with a healthy person's blood. Jim then agrees to do this - Frank survives and now the film ends with Jim sitting strapped on the same table the chimp in the beginning of the film is strapped to, completely enraged, with the same monitors showing random violence. this wouldn't work, because Boyle wants you to believe earlier in the film that this virus is so incredibly volatile it will infect people within a minute when falling in their eye - so if you're going to remove this blood from a body, how are you going to clean out EVERY LITTLE DROP from the smallest arteries, etc. |
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hummm i always thought it would be rratherr shite to be honest. i'll tape it when it's on telly. |
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yeah, i know what the set-up was... was trying not to ruin it for someone who maybe wanted to watch it and see themselves. and i thik it wouldve been a way more intense ending. more symbolic. sometimes you gotta say screw the science for art. since the whole science of zombies is COMPLETELY flawed and badly worked out to begin with. |
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I did think something similar was going to happen. actually, I thought it would end after Jim goes nuts and kills the soldier - that Selina would hack him to pieces thinking he has been infected. on the other hand, it was a nice switch that this DIDN'T happen. :) |
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its better that way, the soldier idea dragged out WAY too much |
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meh. I wouldn't have liked it. |
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i thought it would have been a good idea because it feels quite sinister (at least i think so) but it wouldn't have worked because of the reason you say :) |
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they're not zombies though they're infected by a virus which (i assume) releases too many of the chemicals that are attributed to rage |
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I thought the part where Jim goes beserk is FAR more sinister - shows how the rage is part of humanity. |
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ohhhhh of courrse, of courrse. |
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the technical definition of zombie applies. zombies dont HAVE to be undead. ive watched a whole thing on voodoo before. they can be simply tranced souls. |
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just beign controlled by a force outside of your own will. i guess ENTRANCED is what i meant. charmed. |
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this was shot digitally, no film at all i think. . |
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what is the technical definition of zombies then? |
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what i just said. |
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small bit of film used for the filming of the landscape shots from the plane at the end. the rest is digital, yes. |
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at least in voodoo, which is where the term stems. |
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4 entries found for zombie. zom·bie also zom·bi ( P ) Pronunciation Key (zmb) n. pl. zom·bies, also zom·bis A snake god of voodoo cults in West Africa, Haiti, and the southern United States. A supernatural power or spell that according to voodoo belief can enter into and reanimate a corpse. A corpse revived in this way. One who looks or behaves like an automaton. A tall mixed drink made of various rums, liqueur, and fruit juice. |
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Main Entry: zom·bie Variant(s): also zom·bi /'zäm-bE/ 1 usually zombi a : the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body b : a will-less and speechless human in the West Indies capable only of automatic movement who is held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated |
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bahaha |
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i refer you to "now i'm feeling zombified" by alien sex fiend. that gives a rundown of zombification, from the perspective of the zombified. |
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I don't think that works - zombies are mostly not "controlled". in the case of "28 days later" a base impulse takes over and is taken to it's extreme - agression, which is vented against living creatures. |
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well, on this thign i was watching, these priestesses said you could make a zombie form a living body. they flat out said it. arghhhhhhhh proof, why must you fail me?!?!!?! |
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but rreally... who gives a fuck what a zombie is orr is not? |
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yes, but this hardly seems the same. the infected are simply not zombies. |
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cuz the whole thing they were sayign is that zombies were used as slaves by a witch. ARGHHHHHHH i didnt make this up.... something please corroborate! *pulls hair out* |
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well the whole thign started because of the alternate ending. i quit |
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didn't Jeffery Dahmer claim to have actually made zombies from his victims? |
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tibbar, why must you make everrything an arrgument? |
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oh I know about zombies and voodoo, I know where the concept of zombies comes from, but that has little to do with the situation in "28 days later". |
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its the media hype that caused the whole "zombie" thing because they're fuckheads, they just decided that they were zombies, and now everyone else does because that's what the media said about the film!! |
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well... Danny Boyle and Alex Garland do conciously link it to zombie-films too - they say so on the commentary track, saying how Garland wanted the openingscene to be a very zombie-film-like scene, then veering away from the genre more and more while the film progresses. they also attribute certain scenes to be tributes to "dawn of the dead". so it's not coming from nowhere. |
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perhaps you should watch the documentary "the serpent and the rainbow" for more zombie facts. |
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deltoid: yes he did. anus: i dont make everythign an argument, unless you call having an alternate viewpoint an argument, which i suppose you could. |
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ahhh i stand corrected :) |
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the ending was dissapointing. |
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...a lot of people call this a zombie movie. There are no zombies just infected/sick people. Zombies are the dead brought back to life...possibly infected or resserected by something, but dead to begin with. endings are always going to suck. The last really good ending i've seen to a movie was at the end of the 'night of the living dead' at least thats the only one i can think of at the moment. movies always end with an open ended situation to make a sequal, or everyone lives and rides off in the sunset...fucking hollywood. |
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i saw this before the dod remake, bought it the day after seeing the dod remake, and god damn does the DAWN OF THE DEAD REMAKE WAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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I fort it woz rubbish |
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I thought they were more like braindead vampires more than anything, and the infection made them really angry wich I don't think happens to "zombies" Did you know that the only thing the infected say throught the whole film is "I HATE YOU! " *SPOILER* I love the bit when they're in the tunnel, and the rats all start running away from the infected =oD *END OF SPOILER* |
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i thought the rats were infected at first...and when the daughter was driving the car when they got gas she had become infected and was going to plow everyone down... oh shit... is that a spoiler? |
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I like how it could happen. Its scientific, not otherworldly. The ending seemed a little rushed to me, thats all. It's like the last 30 minutes of the film turned into a made for tv movie. In other films, I have been wanting to see evil dead 2. It's been a long time |
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