I rarely do that, but i did once with 28 Weeks Later where the army when they found out someone is infected inside the colony, just made everyone come out of their own room that is safe and isolated, and wait inside a huge room, which inevitably caused everyone to just get nibbled and infected. They also ordered personel to station at the place where they’re unprotected from sprinter, and inevitably got nibbled and turned. I just give up. The series never recovered after that from what i’ve heard.
28 Weeks Later is such an incredibly stupid, and also unnecessary, sequel.
The sequel turned the infected into regular zombies. The 28 Days Later, nobody was a zombie. They could actually die from getting shot, needed to eat to survive, and by the end they all starved to death.
None of the characters were monumentally stupid either. So many incredibly fucking stupid characters in 28 Weeks Later. I watched it once when I was a teenager and I remember essentially asking “Why would he do that!?” every 5 or 10 minutes.
I have not seen that one, but people taking a bad situation an making it much worse for the dumbest reasons possible actually sounds painfully realistic.
I saw 28 Years Later on a plane. I could have just slept instead. It wasn’t terrible, but it was certainly more artistic than I expected. Soooooo close to morbidly charming, but ended up just short of the line.
Keep in mind that I saw it when it came out and it was my introduction to fast zombies. They were not popular before that movie, although DDG says a movie in 1980 had fast undead. Also it was artistic in a time when all movies were leaning toward “independent film” asthetics, despite being big budget films. And the opening with the Godspeed You Black Emperor song playing was freaking great.
I don’t know how the movie will come across having decades of films in between. Will it still seem fantastic to an early 20s kid? No clue. But I thought it was fantastic back then.
It’s honestly still pretty good, they were the first fast zombies I remember as well. Good tone throughout, good pacing, good sound I don’t know much more you could ask for in a zombie movie.
It was shot on an old Motorola phone, but there are some shots that are really awesome and it works well. It’s been pretty emulated, so it may not have that novelty anymore. It’s still one of my favorites.
I can’t find anything about the Motorola Phone stuff. Do you have a source?
Here’s what Wikipedia says, “The majority of the film (except for the final sequence when the military plane finds Jim, Selena, and Hannah, which was shot on 35mm film) was shot on Canon XL1 digital video (DV) cameras,[24][9] which were smaller and more manoeuvrable than traditional film cameras, which would have been impractical on such brief shoots. Boyle said the early London sequences avoided “litter[ing] the world with corpses”, instead emphasising a more symbolic emptiness and atmosphere.[25] The scenes of the empty M1 motorway were also filmed within limited periods; Boyle said police created a “rolling block” in both directions to produce a temporary corridor of empty road, giving the crew seven or eight minutes to shoot using multiple cameras.[26]”
Those opening scenes in an empty London were amazing. It’s a zombie movie, and if I try I can remember scenes with zombies. But, I mostly remember the opening, the buckets on the roof, travelling in the cab, etc.
Like all good zombie movies, it’s really about how people cope with the changes to the world.
That’s not “stupidly unrealistic though”. Because the unrealistic part (everybody waiting together in the waiting room) actually plays a huge part in the plot moving forward. That’s just bad writing.
Going the the post office on a sunday is something that can be easily tweaked without changing the rest of the plot.
I’m saying that OP’s post is about unrealistic movie details that don’t really affect the plot. Whereas root comment’s example does significantly affect the plot.
But it’s still stupidly unbelievable though, whether or not the plot hinge on this shouldn’t matter imo. But i guess it’s not minute enough in this case.
I rarely do that, but i did once with 28 Weeks Later where the army when they found out someone is infected inside the colony, just made everyone come out of their own room that is safe and isolated, and wait inside a huge room, which inevitably caused everyone to just get nibbled and infected. They also ordered personel to station at the place where they’re unprotected from sprinter, and inevitably got nibbled and turned. I just give up. The series never recovered after that from what i’ve heard.
28 Weeks Later is such an incredibly stupid, and also unnecessary, sequel.
The sequel turned the infected into regular zombies. The 28 Days Later, nobody was a zombie. They could actually die from getting shot, needed to eat to survive, and by the end they all starved to death.
None of the characters were monumentally stupid either. So many incredibly fucking stupid characters in 28 Weeks Later. I watched it once when I was a teenager and I remember essentially asking “Why would he do that!?” every 5 or 10 minutes.
I have not seen that one, but people taking a bad situation an making it much worse for the dumbest reasons possible actually sounds painfully realistic.
28 Days Later was fantastic. 28 Weeks Later was shit sandwich. I’ve not yet seen 28 Years Later.
28 Years Later isn’t nearly as good as 28 Days Later, but it’s way better than 28 Weeks Later. IMO
Honestly 28 Years a very different movie than the others, but it’s good.
28 Years Later felt like it was mostly a setup for The Bone Temple, which was a trip.
The ending broke me with how ridiculous it was. I should see bone Temple i suppose
So I still need to watch bone temple if I watched 28 years later?
Glad to hear it was better than 28 Weeks Later, but honestly it wouldn’t take that much.
I saw 28 Years Later on a plane. I could have just slept instead. It wasn’t terrible, but it was certainly more artistic than I expected. Soooooo close to morbidly charming, but ended up just short of the line.
That’s a better review than I would have given 28 weeks later.
I still haven’t watch 28 days later, currently not in the mood for horror. But definitely in my watchlist.
Keep in mind that I saw it when it came out and it was my introduction to fast zombies. They were not popular before that movie, although DDG says a movie in 1980 had fast undead. Also it was artistic in a time when all movies were leaning toward “independent film” asthetics, despite being big budget films. And the opening with the Godspeed You Black Emperor song playing was freaking great.
I don’t know how the movie will come across having decades of films in between. Will it still seem fantastic to an early 20s kid? No clue. But I thought it was fantastic back then.
It’s honestly still pretty good, they were the first fast zombies I remember as well. Good tone throughout, good pacing, good sound I don’t know much more you could ask for in a zombie movie.
It was shot on an old Motorola phone, but there are some shots that are really awesome and it works well. It’s been pretty emulated, so it may not have that novelty anymore. It’s still one of my favorites.
For sure. A great film.
I can’t find anything about the Motorola Phone stuff. Do you have a source?
Here’s what Wikipedia says, “The majority of the film (except for the final sequence when the military plane finds Jim, Selena, and Hannah, which was shot on 35mm film) was shot on Canon XL1 digital video (DV) cameras,[24][9] which were smaller and more manoeuvrable than traditional film cameras, which would have been impractical on such brief shoots. Boyle said the early London sequences avoided “litter[ing] the world with corpses”, instead emphasising a more symbolic emptiness and atmosphere.[25] The scenes of the empty M1 motorway were also filmed within limited periods; Boyle said police created a “rolling block” in both directions to produce a temporary corridor of empty road, giving the crew seven or eight minutes to shoot using multiple cameras.[26]”
Those opening scenes in an empty London were amazing. It’s a zombie movie, and if I try I can remember scenes with zombies. But, I mostly remember the opening, the buckets on the roof, travelling in the cab, etc.
Like all good zombie movies, it’s really about how people cope with the changes to the world.
That’s not “stupidly unrealistic though”. Because the unrealistic part (everybody waiting together in the waiting room) actually plays a huge part in the plot moving forward. That’s just bad writing.
Going the the post office on a sunday is something that can be easily tweaked without changing the rest of the plot.
Exactly right. If the plot depends on people making bad decisions that no one would ever make, its bad plot!
A shit plot is not better…?
I’m saying that OP’s post is about unrealistic movie details that don’t really affect the plot. Whereas root comment’s example does significantly affect the plot.
But it’s still stupidly unbelievable though, whether or not the plot hinge on this shouldn’t matter imo. But i guess it’s not minute enough in this case.