99 Minutes Later...
May. 15th, 2007 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewanWe went to see 28 Weeks Later tonight. What a piece of crap.
This movie seems to miss the point of its predecessor, 28 Days Later. The first movie was about how the small group of survivors struggled to escape the horrors of the Rage zombies. 28 Weeks is really just an excuse to show both zombies and non-zombies get shot, chopped, crushed, gassed, munched, trampled, burned, gouged, and all around mutilated. Days was gory of course, but it was used sparingly.
I have a growing distaste for realistic violence. I've hated war movies for a long time. Ray guns and alien monster, no problem. But human on human violence is too close to our current reality.
On top of all the violence, the characters in 28 Weeks are just plain STUPID! Our friend Don, who went to the movie with us tonight, is fond of saying "There wouldn't be a movie if they didn't go into the house." Right, they wouldn't be in this mess if they didn't do stupid things. I actually think they could have written this movie in such a way that they can do everything right and still have things go horribly wrong.
I'm sure there were plenty of other things wrong with this movie, like its lame attempt at recreating the quirky eeriness of the abandoned London from the first film, but I can't think of them all right now.
My advice... save your money. If you have to see it, wait for cable or Netflix.
I'm just afraid that now we're going to get "28 Years Later". The world was long ago over run by Rage zombies. All that's left now are the 1 percent of the population that is immune, yet carriers, and the continent of Australia, which managed to keep rage away from its southern shores. No one has seen a zombie in years, but the two populations, carriers and Australians, can never mix in fear of passing on the virus... until someone does! The world economy is shot. the world has gone all Mad Max, and the movie ends with a lone Australian "On The Beach" facing the extinction of all human kind.
At least now we have Resident Evil: Extinction to look forward to.
This movie seems to miss the point of its predecessor, 28 Days Later. The first movie was about how the small group of survivors struggled to escape the horrors of the Rage zombies. 28 Weeks is really just an excuse to show both zombies and non-zombies get shot, chopped, crushed, gassed, munched, trampled, burned, gouged, and all around mutilated. Days was gory of course, but it was used sparingly.
I have a growing distaste for realistic violence. I've hated war movies for a long time. Ray guns and alien monster, no problem. But human on human violence is too close to our current reality.
On top of all the violence, the characters in 28 Weeks are just plain STUPID! Our friend Don, who went to the movie with us tonight, is fond of saying "There wouldn't be a movie if they didn't go into the house." Right, they wouldn't be in this mess if they didn't do stupid things. I actually think they could have written this movie in such a way that they can do everything right and still have things go horribly wrong.
- Better security. How the hell could two kids get off the Isle of Dogs and into the city. That was some really shitty security.
- Who in their right minds would bring a potentially infected person into the quarantine zone? Couldn't they examine that women outside of the island?
- How the hell does this a civilian "building manager" have security access to the military medical trailer? The US military, no matter how stupid you might think they are, would not give a civilian access to such a potentially vulnerable place.
- Yeah, what guy would greet his freaky looking wife with a tongue down her throat?
- When did rage zombies get smart? It was just to convenient that "Dad" kept showing up at the wrong times.
- There is NO WAY IN HELL that France would let that helicopter anywhere near the mainland. They would have shot that copter down so fast while still over the English Channel.
I'm sure there were plenty of other things wrong with this movie, like its lame attempt at recreating the quirky eeriness of the abandoned London from the first film, but I can't think of them all right now.
My advice... save your money. If you have to see it, wait for cable or Netflix.
I'm just afraid that now we're going to get "28 Years Later". The world was long ago over run by Rage zombies. All that's left now are the 1 percent of the population that is immune, yet carriers, and the continent of Australia, which managed to keep rage away from its southern shores. No one has seen a zombie in years, but the two populations, carriers and Australians, can never mix in fear of passing on the virus... until someone does! The world economy is shot. the world has gone all Mad Max, and the movie ends with a lone Australian "On The Beach" facing the extinction of all human kind.
At least now we have Resident Evil: Extinction to look forward to.
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Date: 2007-05-16 01:20 pm (UTC)My 28 Years Later is when the aliens arrive, and the Rage virus becomes interstellar!
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Date: 2007-05-17 01:41 pm (UTC)I'm still wondering why "Rage zombies" don't attack their own.
The pre-show segments noted that the Rage virus grotesquely multiplies the aggressive instincts in humans and make them want to kill everything in sight. Well, that should include other infected folks, and yet they don't, except at the one point in the movie where it's most convenient that they do.
Yeah, this movie cheated much like Matrix III cheated, and a bit like Land Of The Dead did (OH NOES! ZOMBIES HAVE FEELINGS TOO!).