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Internet War Criminal said:
godspeed you! black emperor is fucking based, and using them over fucking empty and ruined london was one of the most iconic horror shot for over like 20 years.

How the fuck can you not think this is perfect?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eCdRFMp8Xwohttps://youtube.com/watch?v=nSHXpNPZXCM
Fucking millenials/zoomers don't know shit.
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In the House, In a Heartbeat is a brilliant track as well


The scenes of him walking around a deserted London are brilliantly done, the second act is also solid but it does feel as if the film doesn't really know how to end. The cast are generally good, aside from the daughter who is utterly terrible, but the big issue with it being filmed on early 2000's digital cameras is that it has the picture quality of early 2000's digital cameras. Trying to watch the blu ray on a 50 inch screen and the flaws are all too obvious.

I haven't seen it in a while, but I do remember enjoying 28 Weeks as well, which had another great opening scene and was still enjoyable even if it couldn't maintain that momentum.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I prefer 28 Weeks Later. 28 Days is good all the way up until the 3rd act. 28 Weeks is consistently better aside from going full schlock with the helicopter blades cutting up zombies which eerily mirrors the same scene from the same year from Planet Terror. Coincidence or was some studio executive like "We gotta' have more scenes of zombies being cut apart by helicopter blades!"
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28DL is a better movie (until the military base), but yes 28WL is more consistent and has definitely aged better.

talk sh1t said:
That's gy!be?? I remembered them being much more intense and heavy from the couple quick listens I've had of them. I'm just very very picky about music as soon as the bpm is a bit low and the tone gets slightly melancholic.
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You really don't get gy!be if you think that's a 'quick listen' band

The Penultimate Warrior said:
In the House, In a Heartbeat is a brilliant track as well
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Oh yeah it's fucking great too. I don't think the movie (or at least the first two thirds) would be nearly as good if it wasn't for the music.

talk sh1t said:
Yes, that is true (apart from the emo music lol).
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oh just fuck right off
 
28 Days Later is one of the few movies where I watched almost all the special features on the dvd.

One thing that was interesting was it revealed the original ending, it was going to be much darker, with Jim sacrificing his life to save the dad's life by undergoing a blood transfusion to remove the infection from the dad and into Jim, the last shot, seen via storyboard, was of Jim writhing angrily, tied up in a hospital bed.

They scrapped it when they realized though that since the infection can spread from a single drop of blood there would be no way to remove all the blood from a person and save them that way, smart choice even if that would have been a wonderfully creepy final shot.

Another cool thing was this storyboard trailer, depicting scenes that I'm assuming were originally meant to be in the movie but weren't for budget reasons, (they didn't even have the budget for a shot of a highway clogged with abandoned cars)


I definitely had this on the brain last year when shit was first going down with Covid.


talk sh1t said:
lol all this time I thought you were a zoomer.
That's gy!be?? I remembered them being much more intense and heavy from the couple quick listens I've had of them. I'm just very very picky about music as soon as the bpm is a bit low and the tone gets slightly melancholic.


Right, I forgot about that. Don't get me wrong, I loved the idea and thought it all made sense, and I loved the plot twist of him finding out, from the story-telling perspective it's all good. My only issue is that he should've found out in some other way than spotting a plane flying overhead, because it's just inplausible that during the previous couple weeks not a single survivor had seen one. Well ok, maybe people had been regularly spotting planes in the sky but everyone is so isolated and ends up infected before they can spread the word, I dunno. I know it's one of those technical movie nit-picks that only autists over-analyse, because it's not an actual plot hole, they just chose the wrong device to make the twist happen.


You mean when they reach the army hold-out? Yeah the whole thing was pretty ham-fisted tbqh.
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It wasn't just any plane though, it was a military plane meant to scout out the location and see what was going on, if there were any survivors, prior to that there had not been any planes seen overhead.

The Penultimate Warrior said:
In the House, In a Heartbeat is a brilliant track as well

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA
The scenes of him walking around a deserted London are brilliantly done, the second act is also solid but it does feel as if the film doesn't really know how to end. The cast are generally good, aside from the daughter who is utterly terrible, but the big issue with it being filmed on early 2000's digital cameras is that it has the picture quality of early 2000's digital cameras. Trying to watch the blu ray on a 50 inch screen and the flaws are all too obvious.

I haven't seen it in a while, but I do remember enjoying 28 Weeks as well, which had another great opening scene and was still enjoyable even if it couldn't maintain that momentum.
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That's definitely one issue with the first movie, the digital cinematography, it was less noticeable on dvd but really stood out on blu ray, I wonder what it looked like in theaters?

I think they were going for a documentary style realism but it does make me wish they just shot on film.
 
talk sh1t said:
How did they get the shot of the empty London bridge? That must've been pretty expensive as well, no?
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Since I listened to the director's commentary on the dvd, how they did it was by simply filming very early in the morning when no cars were around, Danny Boyle talks a lot in fact about how they had to be clever to make London seem like it was abandoned.

I think for some shots they closed the streets, but London bridge was filmed guerilla style iirc.

Danny Boyle joked though about the producer for the movie is convinced that somewhere in the background you can see a car.

talk sh1t said:
How am I supposed to know that from a 2-second shot of a high-up plane tho...
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It's pretty clearly a military plane, it's been a long time since I've watched the movie and even I remember that.
 
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I like the Cannibal Ferox commentary.

 
A somewhat obscure number from 2005 - The Prodigy. Truman, a small-time gang enforcer discovers that a legendary underworld figure, the mysterious killer known as "Claude Rains" (a friend has to explain the Invisible Man reference to him) has taken an interest in him, has for a long time and sees Truman as his successor. Post-Seven/Saw killer suspense, ballistic action, and some brutal choreography ensues.


Director William Kaufman since went on to direct other modest-budgeted direct-to-video, mostly action thrillers. His 2016 film Daylight's End is a solid thriller starring Johnny Strong (who also starred in Kaufmann's solid 2010 New Orleans-based action film Sinners and Saints) as a drifter who helps a group of survivors holed up in a Dallas police station fend off the hordes of feral vampire-like creatures that have overrun the world - a movie that embraces the usual cliches to deliver solid action set-pieces and suspenseful tactical gunplay.

 
Doctor of Autism said:
Well another American remake of a foreign horror film (Train to Busan) will be in production, called Last Train to New York.
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Oh god, we really are in George W Bush era again. I haven't seen the second movie, I'm always a little shaky with sequels especially foreign. Has anyone else given it a watch?
 
Absurdist Laughter said:
Oh god, we really are in George W Bush era again. I haven't seen the second movie, I'm always a little shaky with sequels especially foreign. Has anyone else given it a watch?
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I need to watch it. I’ve only seen Train to Busan and the animated prequel, Seoul Station (which was shit).

But fuck this American Remake. Like Hollywood really is encouraging the laziness of Americans who can’t be bothered to read subtitles.
 
Absurdist Laughter said:
Oh god, we really are in George W Bush era again. I haven't seen the second movie, I'm always a little shaky with sequels especially foreign. Has anyone else given it a watch?
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It's way different than the first film. It's more of a heist film gone wrong with zombies. There's a dystopian tone due to the people still living in Korea being nomads. There's even human vs. zombie cage matches and a focus on kids that know how to drive and distract the zombie hordes. It's nothing like the first film, but an okay sequel that will let you down if you expect it to be the same film as Train to Busan.
 
Dom Cruise said:
I loved 28 Days Later when it first came out but a big part of it's appeal was seeing the return of the zombie genre done so well, now that's been almost 20 years later and the zombie genre has become well trodden I can see why it would have a lesser impact.

For me though I have a lot of nostalgia for 28 Days Later since I heavily associate it with the time and the age that I was when it came out on dvd.
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What made 28 Days Later appealing to me when I saw it in the theaters was that there were a lot of shitty teen slashers capitalizing on the Scream franchise and that film was a breath of fresh air at the time. I saw both films not too long ago and while they don't thrill me anymore they are decent enough.
 
Jerri's Kid said:
What made 28 Days Later appealing to me when I saw it in the theaters was that there were a lot of shitty teen slashers capitalizing on the Scream franchise and that film was a breath of fresh air at the time. I saw both films not too long ago and while they don't thrill me anymore they are decent enough.
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The beauty of lowered expectations.

 
Jerri's Kid said:
What made 28 Days Later appealing to me when I saw it in the theaters was that there were a lot of shitty teen slashers capitalizing on the Scream franchise and that film was a breath of fresh air at the time. I saw both films not too long ago and while they don't thrill me anymore they are decent enough.
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I love it's contrast of horror with surprising serenity and calmness, like the scene where this song plays.

In fact I can't think of another horror movie that takes that approach, 28 Days Later overall has a very unique atmosphere that in it's own way by way of the metaphor for rage virus zombies, captured the vibe of what it was like in the early days post 9/11, when things were frightening and you didn't know what might happen next, but you tried to make the best of it.

That atmosphere is one place where the sequel was lacking though, it was a more straight forward horror film.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I love it's contrast of horror with surprising serenity and calmness, like the scene where this song plays.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CZCXbn2MrRo, list: PL9BIRiZvlKSQ2nmeTc4dlH_f9GqurqUXy
In fact I can't think of another horror movie that takes that approach, 28 Days Later overall has a very unique atmosphere that in it's own way by way of the metaphor for rage virus zombies, captured the vibe of what it was like in the early day post 9/11, when things were frightening and you didn't know what might happen next, but you tried to make the best of it.

That atmosphere is one place where the sequel was lacking though, it was a more straight forward horror film.
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Plus, being a Brit, I always appreciate films that are set in our country and accurately portray it. Haunting of Bligh Manor for example was set in the UK, but clearly made by people who didn't live there, with half the cast dressing and speaking like it was the 1980's and the other like it was the 1950's. The lack of guns also makes any threat even greater, although admittedly being London there would be loads of machetes and knives left laying around to use.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Since I listened to the director's commentary on the dvd, how they did it was by simply filming very early in the morning when no cars were around, Danny Boyle talks a lot in fact about how they had to be clever to make London seem like it was abandoned.

I think for some shots they closed the streets, but London bridge was filmed guerilla style iirc.
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They pulled off a similar scene of an empty Los Angeles for Phantasm IV, also by filming in the early morning, for a scene in the near future where humanity lives in lockdown because of a flu-like plague. It makes you think!
 
Calandrino said:
They pulled off a similar scene of an empty Los Angeles for Phantasm IV, also by filming in the early morning, for a scene in the near future where humanity lives in lockdown because of a flu-like plague. It makes you think!
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Phantasm IV also ruined the Tall Man by explaining that he was a scientist who discovered time travel and once he used time travel he came back evil. The movie itself sucked as well.
 
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