28 Weeks Later
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retro_eidasAn entry NOT about Dr. Who for once! I amaze even myself.
In other words, leave your shit AT HOME KIDS!!
Loved the movie (of course I could be thinking that partly due to Spidey 3 being so abysmally ass, but not discussing that), but oh my GAWD.... I don't know if it was just my theater or it was directorial/creative decision, but the beginning and the very end? RINGING. EARS. So loud I could feel my organs shifting around with the concussive sonic blasts. So loud I thought some recessive, throwback portion of my DNA would awaken, I'd inexplicably expand ten times my size and go on a life energy draining rampage ((whovians giggle at dodgy skience)).
One part of the movie I snorted at the incompetence of the mighty protectors was the safe zone "for their protection" of the helpless rabblecattle by cramming them all in that garage... of which they didn't bother securing all the exits. So of course there's Robert Carlyle drooling on the other side of the unsecured far door. The exit that actually was guarded (by a flimsy chain) was broken through easily by the panicked horde. dohHOH!
Two nice, resourceful adults in a zombie movie? Yeah. They were so going to die. Only the resourceful, not-rapist assholes get to live in zombie movies... unless they're Cillian Murphy. But he did go on a bit of a psycho rampage at the end of 28DL, so not quite so nice, thus he gets to survive.
Hero sniper-boy Who Isn't That Guy From Final Destination (but frak, he looks like him) was quite sexy with all thecrispy self-sacrificing heroism. Although I couldn't remember for the life of me where I'd seen him from. ((runs to IMDB)) Heh. I've heard of some of those things he's been in but haven't watched any of them. Eh. Probably saw his face in trailers or something.
I wonder though.... is 28 Years Later going to be some grizzled middle-aged man with one brown eye & one green eye eatting spam and holed up in the mountains? Batting away the vicious, drooling baddies in his bathrobe like in I Am Legend or something? Fun times!! I'm sure the aliens will save him (unless they got their pointers from the Americans or they just want to rape some women... then all is eff'd).
Refugee British People: The Americans say we can go back to our country again?! YAY!!
Audience: But there could still be infected around? They can't have searched the whole country in 28 weeks.
American Soldierboys: Trust us! We're Americans!! And we will defend this country with every ounce of dirty jokes and voyeurism! Which we have TONS!!
Refugee British People: You see! Totally safe!!
((Americans FAIL. Then KILL. EVERYONE.))
Refugee British People: WTF?!?!?!?! DIE YANKS DIEGRRRO;DALGK;AKDJ;FLKSJ;DF...... BRAINS!!!!!!
In other words, leave your shit AT HOME KIDS!!
Loved the movie (of course I could be thinking that partly due to Spidey 3 being so abysmally ass, but not discussing that), but oh my GAWD.... I don't know if it was just my theater or it was directorial/creative decision, but the beginning and the very end? RINGING. EARS. So loud I could feel my organs shifting around with the concussive sonic blasts. So loud I thought some recessive, throwback portion of my DNA would awaken, I'd inexplicably expand ten times my size and go on a life energy draining rampage ((whovians giggle at dodgy skience)).
One part of the movie I snorted at the incompetence of the mighty protectors was the safe zone "for their protection" of the helpless rabble
Two nice, resourceful adults in a zombie movie? Yeah. They were so going to die. Only the resourceful, not-rapist assholes get to live in zombie movies... unless they're Cillian Murphy. But he did go on a bit of a psycho rampage at the end of 28DL, so not quite so nice, thus he gets to survive.
Hero sniper-boy Who Isn't That Guy From Final Destination (but frak, he looks like him) was quite sexy with all the
I wonder though.... is 28 Years Later going to be some grizzled middle-aged man with one brown eye & one green eye eatting spam and holed up in the mountains? Batting away the vicious, drooling baddies in his bathrobe like in I Am Legend or something? Fun times!! I'm sure the aliens will save him (unless they got their pointers from the Americans or they just want to rape some women... then all is eff'd).
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Date: 2007-05-20 01:35 am (UTC)Oh easy peasy. Fox Atomic absconded with the rights (kaCHING!). Also the same reason why they're making a 28 Months Later and if that makes the $$$$ too, then 28 Years Later. Danny Boyle gotta eat.
I loved 28 Days Later, even bought the dvd despite being the most pathetic sissy you have ever seen.
Heeee!! He kind of was a bit of a whiny bitch through a lot of the movie, wasn't he? Selina had to keep screaming at him to stop crying and pick up some blunt objects and do the killinating already!! He's so pocket-sized too. Hard to imagine him gouging anyone's eyes out
but he totally did.Looking at your review though, it seemed moderately entertaining so you know i'll have to check it out.
Erm... keep in mind I'm an American and Eddie Izzard says that sort of thing (explody, eatting-popcorn-to-it, loudness and melodrama) is, like, engrained in our
MY!DNA... so I may not be the most objective observer.I hate that Cillian isn't in it though
Frak man. If I'd been Jim I'd have headed straight to middle-of-nowheresville, Australian outback in a shack by a billabong or joined the Bedouins in a tent in the Saharan desert and not ever left it. He's probably there right now eatting spam, growing a nice long beard being stinky and primative and happily mad zombie free.