28 Days Later

[Jedi Killer]

Go check out the trailer for 28 Days Later at www.apple.com/trailers

it looks weird and freaky. and I love zombie movies so it should be decent. might be alittle too British for my liking though.

anyone else here heard of this movie? It opens on the 27th of June

[Darth Badly]

IMHO it's a good idea, and the first twenty minutes are pretty cool. But then it falls apart bit by bit.

If you're gonna do a horror / creature movie then you have to let the audience know what the rules are. ie Vampires don't like sunlight etc. Here the rules seem to shift from scene to scene and the background world makes little sense.

I was very dissappointed when I saw it in the cinema over here last year.

[Jedi Killer]

is it a good zombie flick though?

we need George Romero back

[Justin]

I'll rent it when it comes out on DVD, but I'll skip it in the theater.

[Jedi Killer]

agree. even the matinee for $5 is too much for a bad movie. rather rent a bad dvd for $4.

hell, maybe ill just download the bootleg of 28 Days Later from Kazaa. I need to do that for Dumb and Dumberer

[Leia]

no

[Mann]

Originally posted by Jedi Killer@Jun 21 2003, 05:56 PM
agree. even the matinee for $5 is too much for a bad movie. rather rent a bad dvd for $4.

hell, maybe ill just download the bootleg of 28 Days Later from Kazaa. I need to do that for Dumb and Dumberer
there you go AGAIN judging other movies before you see them. I don't want to hear you saying that about us PT "haters" and Episode III.

Anyway, I saw the first 6 minutes on a preview and it was freaky. I'd like to see the movie in theaters, cause at home you are alone and it's ten times as scary (THE RINGS!)

Night of the Living Dead is classic bad zombie movie. It's become a favorite of mine, just because its fun to watch and at times scary (the little girl scene gives me nightmares), but come on guys, zombies coming to life because of a gas from venus switching on their brains to cannibalistic? Give me a break.

This concept about blood turning people is funny. I guess they become more monkey like and less undead.

Can anyone give me a link to this movie and star wars? come on you movie buffs should know.

[Jedi Killer]

Originally posted by Mann+Jun 21 2003, 01:28 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mann @ Jun 21 2003, 01:28 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'> <!--QuoteBegin-Jedi Killer@Jun 21 2003, 05:56 PM
agree. even the matinee for $5 is too much for a bad movie. rather rent a bad dvd for $4.

hell, maybe ill just download the bootleg of 28 Days Later from Kazaa. I need to do that for Dumb and Dumberer
there you go AGAIN judging other movies before you see them. I don't want to hear you saying that about us PT "haters" and Episode III.

[/b][/quote]
dude, get off my back about judging movies, mann-eater. I never judged this movie to begin with if you would just read my post. i was going with a review of what someone else said that already SAW it. plus, i was saying that its unfair for people to judge EP3 now becuase its part of a trilogy and is all done by the same guy who did the previous ones. It's all his own idea. so its basically one movie. just like i havent judged Matrix Reloaded now cause I need to see the 3rd one to know how i feel. Now if you would actually read what I wrote before, I CAN and WILL judge T3 because its someone elses own writing and directing. Its a trilogy as of now but its 2 different peoples ideas on the story. If cameron had any input on this movie, i wouldnt say anything. Movie sequels done by someone else and written by someone else take weird turns. I think everyone would have their doubts if The Hobbit was filmed in a few years but the big man, Peter Jackson had NOTHING to do with the film.

[Handothrawn]

We really do need George Romero to pop "Dead Reckoning", his fourth dead film, into high gear. He was a man that knew how to make a zombie movie. The rules never changed, they die, they get up, blow their head off they die, and stay dead. He knew how to scare the bejesus out of me, no other zombie director has been able to do that to me. Something about the slow, shambling, undead that really got under my skin, especially in Dawn of the Dead, the first sequel to NOTLD, just the hundreds of zombies wandering the Mall's parking lot, for no apparent reason, spooky.

I'll probably go see 28 Days, but I probably won't be all that impressed with it, but it does look kinda cool.

Jedi Killer, if you're a fan of GAR, then you'll be happy to know that Day of the Dead is being rereleased on a 3-DVD set in August, and Dawn of the Dead is being rereleased on a 4-disc set in February. Maybe if these sell well enough maybe FOX will let him make the movie he wants(SCREW THE MPAA)

[Jedi Killer]

yea cause those DVDs on ebay are rare and very expensive. I dont know if id watch a 4 disc set though. But Dawn of the Dead would be nice to have, i didnt care for the storyline of Day of Dead. But the gore was amazing.

yea i agree, Zombie movies are the only things (and the movies Alien) can scare the crap out of me. I wish Romero didnt call his new movie "Dead Reckoning" and it should "Dusk of the Dead." whatever, it doesnt matter.

Hando, have you seen Resident Evil? I thought it was just average. Not scary or realistic enough as Romeros versions. But the sequel could be sweet where they are in a deserted city. I wanted to see more in Day of the Dead where they went into that city with the zombies, but they didnt.

[Handothrawn]

Yea, i saw Resident Evil, I didn't much care for it. But the ending was pretty cool, when Alice or whatever her name was, wakes up, leaves the hospital, and the city is in ruins, cars are wrecked, fires burning in the streets, and not a sound.

THats what I thought 28 Days was gonna be like, the guy would wake up in the hospital, and everyone would be dead, and then we'd have a good ol' fashioned zombie movie, but I'll still go see it, despite the changes they've made to the zombie concept.

BTW, I do agree, Dead Reckoning, just doesn't flow with the first three titles Dusk, Twilight, or Nightfall would have been better IMHO. But the script is very, very cool, especially the ending where after everything falls apart, like it always does, the film is supposed to pull back into the night fade to black, pull past an old missile silo, pull back and fade, fade into a parking lot, pull back and pause on the Monroeville Mall, fade, fade into a cemetary, pull back, pull past a car wrecked on a tree, pull back over a field, pull back to an old farmhouse, with a little girl zombie's face to fill the screen until the credits roll.

You used to be able to read the script here: www.allthingszombie.com
www.homepageofthedead.com

but FOX made them take it down.

[Jedi Killer]

Where you just decribing the ending there? I dont get it. And whats the basis of the plot for this new Romero movie and I havent heard a start date yet, have you?

And how does 28 Days Later re-invent the rules to zombies? so did Return of the Living Dead, did you ever see that trilogy? probably, what were your thoughts Hando

[bodhisattva yoda]

i'm definitely going to see this.

mann, star wars link: ewan mcgregor in trainspotting directed by danny boyle. yeah?

[Mann]

Originally posted by bodhisattva yoda@Jun 23 2003, 05:35 PM
i'm definitely going to see this.

mann, star wars link: ewan mcgregor in trainspotting directed by danny boyle. yeah?
Bingo, good job.

Danny Boyle is really good at quiky comedies. This movie will be interesting to see him do.

[Mann]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>dude, get off my back about judging movies, mann-eater. I never judged this movie to begin with if you would just read my post. [/b][/quote]

I think you called it a bad movie first DUDE. you said :<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>agree. even the matinee for $5 is too much for a bad movie[/b][/quote]

[Jedi Killer]

when you quote me next time, make sure you READ what i write, DUDE. I said that $5 isnt worth it for a bad movie. i never stated that 28 Days Later was that bad movie. I was commenting that bad movies in general arent worth that money (such as dumb and dumberer)

[Mann]

Originally posted by Jedi Killer@Jun 23 2003, 06:42 PM
when you quote me next time, make sure you READ what i write, DUDE. I said that $5 isnt worth it for a bad movie. i never stated that 28 Days Later was that bad movie. I was commenting that bad movies in general arent worth that money (such as dumb and dumberer)
alright let's back up JK

justin said:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>I'll rent it when it comes out on DVD, but I'll skip it in the theater.
[/b][/quote]

you then said:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>agree. even the matinee for $5 is too much for a bad movie. rather rent a bad dvd for $4.[/b][/quote]

which basically is saying you agree with justin that you'll rent the movie because it is a bad movie.

[Jedi Killer]

so when I said that I rather just rent this movie on DVD then goto the movies is ME saying its gonna be a bad and terrible movie? hmmmm, right right. you are so right! I didnt pay to see both X-Men movies, but I never said they sucked. I just rather not goto the theater to see them. Rather rent them and see how they are. You dont have to see everything in the theaters. So if you would actually read more carefully Mann, you will notice that i never said 28 Days Later is bound to suck and that its sooo bad that I wont see it. Graduate from high school and then maybe you will understand english better

[Mann]

Originally posted by Jedi Killer@Jun 23 2003, 08:08 PM
so when I said that I rather just rent this movie on DVD then goto the movies is ME saying its gonna be a bad and terrible movie? hmmmm, right right. you are so right! I didnt pay to see both X-Men movies, but I never said they sucked. I just rather not goto the theater to see them. Rather rent them and see how they are. You dont have to see everything in the theaters. So if you would actually read more carefully Mann, you will notice that i never said 28 Days Later is bound to suck and that its sooo bad that I wont see it. Graduate from high school and then maybe you will understand english better
you do realize it costs about to same to rent a movie than see a matinee.

JK, you get so worked up. You agreed with Justin that you would rent it on video, stating bad movies should be rented. so you said this movie will be bad. so i'm sorry i can't read your mind. maybe you should learn proper speaking.

[Jedi Killer]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>you do realize it costs about to same to rent a movie than see a matinee.[/b][/quote]

renting a movie from Blockbuster is about $4 on DVD, going to see a matinee is $5 and seeing it at night is $7 or 8. i dont know where your from dude


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>You agreed with Justin that you would rent it on video, stating bad movies should be rented. so you said this movie will be bad. [/b][/quote]

Yea i agreed that i would rather rent it, then goto the movies to see it. theres tons of movies like that out here. Like Bad Boys II looks pretty decent, but I dont care to see it in the theaters, ill wait to one of my friends gets it on DVD or if i wanna rent it.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>maybe you should learn proper speaking. [/b][/quote] right, cause this is a forum and we dont talk, we type. good come-back.

Look, i know what exactly what you're getting at. You wanna prove to yourself that your soooo smart cause you out-smarted me by showing that I think some movies arent good but YOU cant do the same with EP3. And your wrong. I dont judge most movies before knowing anything about them cause i dont feel like wasting my time thinking about it. BUT, i can judge 28 Days Later because I have read reviews, seen the trailer and the first 6 mins of the movie. So i kinda got a grasp of the movie's feel. Whereas you and Badly and Ferris and wook all are judging EP3 saying its gonna suck. No one here knows ANYTHING about this movie. We havent even see a shot of it yet or know much about it. So you cant even compare the two scenarios here Mann

[Mann]

Originally posted by Jedi Killer@Jun 23 2003, 08:27 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>you do realize it costs about to same to rent a movie than see a matinee.

renting a movie from Blockbuster is about $4 on DVD, going to see a matinee is $5 and seeing it at night is $7 or 8. i dont know where your from dude
[/b][/quote]
I said Matinee, the difference between $4 (DVD) and $5 is ...a dollar! would you say that is about the same? I would and I did!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>right, cause this is a forum and we dont talk, we type. good come-back.[/b][/quote]

Last time a checked, forum is also in reference to public speaking, so they do SPEAK at forums. but you are right, you don't type here any better.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>You wanna prove to yourself that your soooo smart cause you out-smarted me by showing that I think some movies arent good but YOU cant do the same with EP3. [/b][/quote]

for the last time Jk, I've never said Episoe III will suck, you've just made that up. I've never seen anyone say it will suck. they just think that with these two movies it doesn't look so hot. I haven't said anything about it.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>BUT, i can judge 28 Days Later because I have read reviews, seen the trailer and the first 6 mins of the movie. So i kinda got a grasp of the movie's feel. [/b][/quote]

that basically is the big hypocritical statement you've made. You just disregarded everything you've just said.

[Handothrawn]

I meant that 28 Days changed the zombies, they're aren't dead, they're just in a state of permanent homicidal insanity.

Nope, never seen Return of the Living Dead, I need to though, every other zombie fan I know says that they rock.


Yeah, what I described was in part of the Dead Reckoning script at the end. It talks about the camera pulling back past the places that were in the rest of the trilogy. Past the base, the mall, and back to the farmhouse and a zombie Karen. The story is basically this: Years and years after Day of the Dead, people have returned to a near normal life, barricaded inside small city complexes. The people are sheltered from the 'Walkers' outside by 15-foot tall brick and steel walls topped in electrified razor wire. The only way into the city is past gates protected by body-armored and heavily armed guards. It's pretty obvious from the script that people have somewhat forgotten how dangerous it is outside the Green, the Dead are ignored like the homeless are today. The story takes place around one of the city complexes, Fiddler's Green. Reily, the captain of the cargo delivery vehicle called 'Dead Reckoning', a giant 18-wheeler tank, with machine gun emplacements, tank-tread-covered-monster-truck-tires. Anyway, at Fiddler's Green Reily has a woman, the daughter of the mayor of Fiddler's Green, but seeing Reily as beneath his daughter, the Mayor has Reily framed and arrrested for murder. But when Cholo, a trigger-happy subordinate of Reily assumes command of Dead Reckoning, he take it out for a joyride, and attempts to take the Gree for himself. The Mayor offers Reily a deal, stop Dead Reckoning, and he can have an apartment at the Green, and his daughter's hand. But during the fight through Fiddler's Green Dead Reckoning blows down a section of the city walls, and the Dead get inside..."

Hmm, maybe it wasn't all that basic.

you can get more info on DR at ATZ (http://www.allthingszombie.com)

or Over Here (http://www.homepageofthedead.com)

[Jedi Killer]

Hando, ever see "Zombie"? i believe its a european movie.

You should see Return of the Living Dead part 1 and 2. they are kinda funny. but they zombies are different. you cant really kill them, but all well

wish we knew when Dead Reckoning is coming out

[bodhisattva yoda]

there's a return of the living dead part 2? part one is pretty funny. i like the bug-eyed zombie that looks like he's smiling like a muppet when he yells 'brains!!' like an excited man-child.

[Handothrawn]

Lucio Fulci's zombie? Yeah, I liked it, the zombies were disgusting in that one! Yeah, I guess I'll have to see ROTLD, I've avoided it because its losely based on a script and book by John Russo, the idiot from NOTLD 30th Anniversary(the one with the added and deleted scenes) and Children of the Living Dead(a rip off sequel to NOTLD) but since everyone thinks that they're good, I'll check em out. BTW, wasn't there a ROTLD 3, the goth chick one?

[Darth Badly]

Originally posted by Jedi Killer@Jun 23 2003, 09:27 PM
Whereas you and Badly and Ferris and wook all are judging EP3 saying its gonna suck.

Simply not true. (I challenge you to find any quote where I've said that.)

I hope that Ep III will be good. Even great. If it can turn the prequels around for me then I will take my hat off to Uncle George.

The signs based on the prequels so far are not to good that it will, but we live in hope and I will go into see it with an open mind.

[Darth Badly]

Originally posted by Jedi Killer@Jun 23 2003, 02:45 PM

And how does 28 Days Later re-invent the rules to zombies?

Well, they're not really zombies in the supernatural sense.

There's a virus which causes its victims to become flesh eating killing machines - but they're still alive and called "The Infected".

There's no supernatural element to the film.

Some of the scenes are quite well directed, but the rules for the zombies change minute by minute. Example - at one point a guy tells our hero that the Infected don't like light, and that they like the dark. OK, fair enough. A few scenes later our hero stupidly drives through the Blackwall Tunnel (a tunnel under the river Thames in London - actually very near me in real life). You're thinking that this is a pretty stupid move because the tunnel is dark and bound to be full of the Infected. But hey it's empty! Of course the car gets a flat and they have to change it and as they do so a whle load of the Infected run into the tunnel FROM THE LIGHT. What?!

I could give you more examples but they'd involve spoilers. I've seen worse moves (TPM) but don't expect much and you won't be dissappointed.

[Jedi Killer]

Originally posted by Handothrawn@Jun 24 2003, 06:55 AM
John Russo, the idiot from NOTLD 30th Anniversary(the one with the added and deleted scenes) and Children of the Living Dead(a rip off sequel to NOTLD) but since everyone thinks that they're good, I'll check em out. BTW, wasn't there a ROTLD 3, the goth chick one?
What scenes were added and deleted? I cant remmeber. and yes, ROTLD 3 was with that goth chick. such a lame idea. the ROTLD series is corny but worth seeing cause the zombies are impossible to kill and its got some humor. but i prefer Romeros version cause its got more gore and its wayyy scarier

[Handothrawn]

Well, the driving to the cemetary scene in the begining was deleted and replaced with two rednecks driving Ben's truck down into the cemetary with the Cemetary ghoul thrown in the back. They talk about him being a kid killer, and chuck him out into a very shallow grave. Then a bucked tooth priest shows up, talks about some crap. Then the scene with Johnny and Barbra happens, Johnny dies, Barbra then is miraculusly at the house, without running. ANd then we're at the part where Ben drives up to the house. Everything happens the way it originally did for awhile, then Tom and Judy escape in the truck, leaving Ben and the others at the house. Then the zombies converge and start breaking into the house. Then it fades out and it says '1 year later' the preist is talking about how God saved him from a bite, and then he talks about how the world was promised to him by God. Gone is the trowling from Karen, and the shooting of Cooper, and the redneck hunting party. The soundtrack is changed. It is a God-awful evil piece of filth

[Handothrawn]

Russo cut out all the character development, and totally ruined Romero's film, Romero had nothing at all to do with the 30th Anniversary version.

[bodhisattva yoda]

okay. i saw 28 days later and it never changed 'the rules'... the woman simply advised that they travel by day. she never said that the zombies didn't like daylight.

[Darth Badly]

Originally posted by bodhisattva yoda@Jun 30 2003, 07:23 PM
okay. i saw 28 days later and it never changed 'the rules'... the woman simply advised that they travel by day. she never said that the zombies didn't like daylight.

The 'rules' change almost from scene to scene!

[Rob]

We saw this on Friday, and it rocked. Zombies, disease, crazy characters, and just the right amount of downtime between the gore.

They should make more movies like this, better than Jason versus Freddy versus Chucky versus the Teletubbies.

[bodhisattva yoda]

what rules? all we know is that there is a virus that is transmitted thru blood and saliva that turns people into raving homicidal lunatics. when is a 'rule' ever broken?

[Handothrawn]

Last night Encore was apparebtly having a Zombie fest type thing, they showed the remake of NOTLD, Dawn, and ROTLD 1 and 2. I actually thought that ROTLD was pretty funny, especially the scene where the legs are walking around by themselves. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif

[The Return]

yea i agree with Jedi Killer that those movies arent as good as Romeros version. ROTLD are too funny to be scary enough.

and i just saw 28 Days Later and i thought the alternate ending was lame as hell. but the movie is great to see (least the 1st half) and we WANT another Zombie movie by Romero. with the success of 28 Days Later, i bet they will let him make Dead Recogning

[Handothrawn]

I finally got to see 28 Days last night, and I thought it was great, best zombie movie to come out in a long time.

[Darth Vegas]

I agree, I rented it a week ago. It was a nice change of pace from the flicks I normally watch.

[Darth_Rageaholic]

I saw it with my girlfriend who loves horror movies and she thinks that it was a stupid excuse for a horror movie.

[bluemilk]

^ *lol* amen. It wasn't even scary style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif The first half was kind of cool but then once they got on the road to manchester, not so much

[STar war spUNK]

uh.... no one's talking about it anymore i guess but...

i thought 28 days later was really really weird. and kinda dumb. i understood it, but i didn't really like it. it also wasn't as scary as people said. kinda gory though.