28 Weeks Later [R]

[Ghost]

First, it's a fun summer horror flick. And the more I think about what it's saying, the more I think it stands up. It's like this director Fresnadillo and Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) worked on the same project but came to different conclusions.


Much better than Spidey.

[servotron]

Really looking forward to this movie. I really enjoyed 28 Days Later, especially the first 1/2 hour which I found to be extremely interesting and visually powerful.

[Uppa 90]

I like 28 Days Later more every time i view it...

i am hoping that the absence of Danny Boyle doesn't take away anything... hoping to see this after a quick getaway from Mother's Day stuff... ;)

[MLS SupaStr3]

This was pretty good. You have to forgive a lot of idiotic things that people do though in order to believe it. I think the Code Red is the most likely of all situations that people would do if this really happened. That kid in the very beginning is a ********ing ass hole though. He restarted all this!

[SirManchester]

Apart from its exagerrated editing [via jump cuts] and the family's story at the center of the narrative, this is a killer sequel. I highly recommend it, just for the first fifteen minutes have to be seen.

[peledre]

I haven't seen it yet but I too loved 28 Days Later. Need to find time to go see it.

[art]

Finally saw this yesterday, liked it alot. It takes the series more toward the social commentary arena of zombie movies mastered by George Romero, though I'm sure the "purists" don't consider this a zombie movie, as the perps a) aren't dead, and b) run fast. The ending is very Romero-ish, there could easily now be a "28 Months Later". Some of the situations were a bit convenient but there's lots of cool scary stuff going on.

[Pints]

This was pretty good. You have to forgive a lot of idiotic things that people do though in order to believe it. I think the Code Red is the most likely of all situations that people would do if this really happened. That kid in the very beginning is a ********ing ass hole though. He restarted all this!

:confused:

The little kid who leads the infected to the safehouse? He didn't restart anything, that scene actually takes place in the time line prior to the first movie, when the outbreak is still happening at a fast rate. The movie then jumps well into the future (28 weeks later instead of only 28 days as the first one) and picks up when the re-inhabiting begins. One should look at the openeing scenes as running parallel in time to the first movie.

[MLS SupaStr3]

:confused:

The little kid who leads the infected to the safehouse? He didn't restart anything, that scene actually takes place in the time line prior to the first movie, when the outbreak is still happening at a fast rate. The movie then jumps well into the future (28 weeks later instead of only 28 days as the first one) and picks up when the re-inhabiting begins. One should look at the openeing scenes as running parallel in time to the first movie.
Well here's how I look at it: The mom and the dad were pretty much all responsible for infecting England and the world. If the mom never got infected, then the virus wouldn't have spread throughout England. The boy led the infected to where she was staying. If he never did that then we'd be all good. So it is that little bastard's fault.

[Pints]

Well here's how I look at it: The mom and the dad were pretty much all responsible for infecting England and the world. If the mom never got infected, then the virus wouldn't have spread throughout England. The boy led the infected to where she was staying. If he never did that then we'd be all good. So it is that little bastard's fault.

Ahh yes. I see that point. But in all actuality England was entirely infected when that kid showed up at their house.

The kid then got infected (cut out of the US release apparently) bit the lady, onyl for her to escape and realize she had the gene that wouldn't mutate but would simply use her as a carrier. IMO if the two bratty kids didn't steal away to their house and find her she would have died of starvation like the rest and none of this second infection would have happened.

[art]

The kid getting infected was cut out of the US version, there's never any indication who bit the mother, and it's not entirely clear that she knew she was infected when she kissed Mr Full Monty...which makes it an interesting and somewhat dissapointing edit IMHO.

And if the sister hadn't let her infected brother get on the helicopter, we might not be looking at 28 Months Later, which, apparently, is, perhaps, in the works by Mr Doyle himself, to be set in France:

http://www.joblo.com/28-months-later

[Pints]

The kid getting infected was cut out of the US version, there's never any indication who bit the mother, and it's not entirely clear that she knew she was infected when she kissed Mr Full Monty...which makes it an interesting and somewhat dissapointing edit IMHO.

And if the sister hadn't let her infected brother get on the helicopter, we might not be looking at 28 Months Later, which, apparently, is, perhaps, in the works by Mr Doyle himself, to be set in France:

http://www.joblo.com/28-months-later

Yeah they skipped the kid biting her but the US military doctor does state prior to the father kissing her that she is ifnected, also they show the kids teeth marks. if the next installament is made, I will pay to see it.

[Chicago1871]

The kid getting infected was cut out of the US version, there's never any indication who bit the mother, and it's not entirely clear that she knew she was infected when she kissed Mr Full Monty...which makes it an interesting and somewhat dissapointing edit IMHO.

And if the sister hadn't let her infected brother get on the helicopter, we might not be looking at 28 Months Later, which, apparently, is, perhaps, in the works by Mr Doyle himself, to be set in France:

http://www.joblo.com/28-months-later
Rumors are surfacing that there might even been a 28 Years Later. It would take place in a retirement home in Florida and it would all start when a shuffleboard game gets out of hand and somebody lets fly with a sharp set of dentures.

;)

[Ghost]

Just to be wanky, the important difference between 28 Weeks Later and Children of Men is that in the latter, the unborn child is seen and accepted unhesitatingly as the bearer of a hopeful future. In 28 Weeks Later, every time that a child shows up and an adult tries to protect it, it ends in disaster and the continuing of the infection. It takes the instinct to ascribe hope and innocence to children (the basis of Children of Men) and turns it on its head, suggesting metaphorically that the future is likely to be just as bad.

[art]

also they show the kids teeth marks..

...thats right, forgot that. She must have known she was infected when she kissed her husband who had betrayed her. Whew.

[Pints]

...thats right, forgot that. She must have known she was infected when she kissed her husband who had betrayed her. Whew.


That's what I thought too. What happens to her because of it is probably (IMO) one of the truly most disturbing scenes I have seen in quite awhile.

[JLZ286]

Did anyone pick up the DVD for this? I really liked the movie and was wondering if the DVD is worth getting or if its just like 1 or 2 deleted scenes and thats it.

[Belgian guy]

After seeing it, I don't understand why most people consider this to be superior to the original. I think the script is a bit of a mess, but the performance are all great, which probably saves the movie for a great part.

Oh, and Rose Byrne looks higly delectable in fatigues. :D