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"28 Days"

(sorry if there's a 28 days thread i missed)

has anyone else caught this movie yet??

i saw it last night and... WOW!!!!
it was all i could manage not to march straight back to the video store and demand my money back. what a disappointment.

for all the hype of it being the "best british horror for 20 years" (no others spring to mind but that's prolly just my memory :) ) i found it dull, slow and derivative.
The shopping scene was lifted from "Dawn of the Dead", right down to the semi-comedy music playing as it happens. when they stop for fuel one of them wanders off and is accosted by zombie kid, which he kills, this is straight out of "dawn..." as well.

it took a lifetime to get going (the last 20 minutes were ok) and no amount of imaginitive camera shots (i have to say that some of the cinematography was really good) can disguise the fact that this is passable at best and not in any way deserving of the hype.

is there an underlying greatness in this movie that i'm missing (like the Matrix, which i still think is simply "alright") or is it actually bad?

any thoughts?

I didn't much care for 28 Days Later. It had it's moments, which were few and far between, but I think it's a tad overrated. Give me the Romero trilogy any day of the week.

Goatboy wrote:
> I thought 28 Days Later was superb.
> Yes, those two scenes were lifted from Dawn of The Dead. As was the
> "pet" zombie/infected from Day of The Dead.
> Commentary with Alex Garland, the writer, explains how he loved those
> movies and wanted to include a couple of nods to Romero's movies.

ahhhhh, ok...
i got the video so didn't get the extra commentaries and stuff...
i'm all for references to other movies and stuff but i still don't like 28 days :)

Kyz22 wrote:
> If a pensioner looked exactly like J'lo, would it be wrong then?

No bloody way. But it's a matter of whether her Menstrual cycle is still working :D

28 Days Later isn't that bad. Although I couldn't watch it over and over again like other movies I like. But it's pretty good.
Creepy too.. I hate the way they run.. Ewwww

32 isn’t that old. Jennifer Aniston is older then that and I wouldn’t say no to her.

If a pensioner looked exactly like J'lo, would it be wrong then?

Old as in pensioner

Goatboy wrote:
> Actually, I spent last night (unplanned) with a lady of 32. Now you
> may go "Ewwwwwww", but hell that's only a couple years older
> than I.
> And she was goddamn fit.
>
> But I dont like old-love.

Why would anyone have a problem with being with an older woman providing she doesn't sag or doesn't have kids and looks decent.

*shrugs*

Yeah. It's frightening, and the tv moves too quick and I dont understand what kids say anymore.

In my day, "bad" was good, "ill" was fit and "wicked" meant brilliantly good.
And you could buy 20 Bensons for £2.45
*sobs*

Where's my dinner?

Aren't you getting to that age now when you worry about dying alone, and when meals on wheels is coming round?