I just saw in on FX and thought it was the best movie ive seen in years.
it was smart and very clever, hard to see where it would end up.

what do y'all think?

3/14/2006 11:36:03 PM

omg

3/14/2006 11:44:24 PM

what do I think? Zombies that can run! That's what I think! First off their zombies, so that's scary enough, now they can outrun me in massive packs, come on! How can anyone survive that?

Awesome freaky running zombies.

They Can RUN!!! Fast

3/14/2006 11:45:35 PM

i lost interest in the movie after they left the city.

3/14/2006 11:45:57 PM

RAGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEE

3/14/2006 11:48:29 PM

i didnt lose interest, but thats where it did drop off a little for me as well.

3/14/2006 11:49:21 PM

I prefer the new dawn of the dead, but this was good too. and teh zombies can run DotD also.

3/14/2006 11:53:17 PM

They're supposedly making a sequel.

I'm looking forward to it (but i'm also a big post-apocalyptic movie fan).

3/15/2006 12:08:27 AM

28 weeks later or somethin like that.

3/15/2006 12:08:53 AM

I dunno, Shawn of the Dead was a better movie.

That said, 28 Days Later was awesome. But as far as these things go, it is far more plausible than the competing zombie movies. the people aren't actually dead, simply driven insane by a virus induced chemical imbalance. Kill them and they die. Hell, they die of starvation given a month or so.

Then again, not only is is more plausible, but it is scarier. If the Dead were zombified, you have only a few weeks before the maggots render the flesh bloated and unusable. Meanwhile, a living insane-guy could live for months given enough flesh to consume. Much more if he is smart enough to eat other things too, such as water and canned food.

http://www.deathonline.net/decomposition/decomposition/index.htm

3/15/2006 12:20:17 AM

They did a real good job with the scenery in that movie.
To me the epidemic on a massive level is very believable in that movie with the shear emptiness of the city and all the shit thrown out on the streets.
If the plot was a little better it could very well be the best zombie movie, but I haven't seen the latest dawn of the dead so I cant say that it is.

3/15/2006 12:22:30 AM

omg lord of the rings is so unrealistic, I mean there's no such thing as hobbits or magical rings

WTF.

3/15/2006 12:23:29 AM

3/15/2006 12:23:59 AM

u should check out the new DotD, it definately exceeded my expectations.

3/15/2006 12:25:01 AM

This is the best, most realistic zombie movie of all time.

3/15/2006 12:28:11 AM

I didn't like army of darkness as much as the first two... but everyone else seems to disagree w/ me.

3/15/2006 12:31:33 AM

Bow Down:

3/15/2006 1:07:23 AM

someone should make a yousendit of this movie. i haven't seen it in a while.

3/15/2006 1:23:19 AM

wow i was thinking if they ever made the sequal then the main point would be that the lead character was indeed infected but was able to hide it until he got off the island then he spread the rage

how's that for a sequal

3/15/2006 2:21:19 PM

3/15/2006 2:22:04 PM

Sandra Bullocks performance was dull and uninspired

wasnt a fan

3/15/2006 2:24:34 PM

i thought this movie was cheesy- but that's just cause i think zombies are cheezy in the first place cause they remind me of michael jackson. i didn't think this was a good movie.

3/15/2006 4:31:04 PM

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"1. When the guy left the hospital and went out into the streets they were empty. In real life, there should be hundreds of empty cars and huge traffic jams. Someone in the group I watched it with said they figured people tried to stay at home knowing that the infection was coming, however there are always cars parked on the streets and those cars should still be there. Furthermore, I suspect there would have been a mass exodus that would result in a giant traffic jam. People would probably be ripped from their cars and infected and the cars would just be left in the streets. 2. I might just need to go back and watch it again, but does anyone understand how/why the key to his locked hospital door was on the floor on the inside of the room? I'm assuming someone slid the key under the door, but I don't think that would ever happen in the real world if people were getting infected all aroud you. I think they would have just assumed he was going to die. Also, I don't think the door would really have a 2" gap at the bottom to slide the key under. 3. How did the black chick's original partner escape again? Something about climbing on a pedestal? Wouldn't the infected just climb up there too? This might be another thing that I need to watch the movie again to understand, but saying "I climbed onto a pedestal" doesn't really cut it IMO. 4. No way their car could literally drive over the other cars while they were in the tunnel. Sorry, not gonna happen. They should have turned around or died IMO. 5. You don't have to tighten all four lug nuts all the way down to drive your car. Especially when death is immanent if you don't leave soon. Tighten two lugnuts and get the fuck outta there next time. kkthx. 6. Don't stand in front of a dude that can spit blood on you and make you flip out (referring to the guy on the chain.) Seriously folks. If they were smart enough to survive I don't think they would be stupid enough to make that mistake. 7. What does strapping a monkey down and making it watch human violence have to do with developing a virus? At best, I think that would just make one pissed off monkey. 8. When humans got infected, they went all crazy, their eyes turned red, and they started spitting blood. None of those monkeys in the cages showed those symptoms. Its not like the activists would have released a red eyed, blood spitting, violent acting monkey in the first place; so I think they should have re-thought how the virus got released into the world."

3/15/2006 7:36:07 PM

Those seem like valid arguments, but I haven't seen it in a while. I watched it on FX for a split second then changed it because I tend to not watch movies i've already seen, unless I feel I missed something the first time or the movie was brilliant enough to be seen again.

I like the 28 days later zombies for their tenacity, but yes, I do feel there were some plot issues that needed to be resolved to make the movie flow a bit better.

Like I said before, "If the plot was a little better it could very well be the best zombie movie."

3/15/2006 7:51:01 PM

Party's over

3/15/2006 7:53:39 PM

i thought it was awesome, too

3/15/2006 9:00:22 PM

^^^^
That post is just dumb. You could make a list like that for 99.9% of movies that come out.

3/15/2006 9:18:15 PM

^^^^^

OH MY GOD, IN STAR WARS THERE ARE SHIPS FLYING AROUND IN SPACE SHOOTING EACH OTHER AND LIGHT SABERS AND DROIDS AND PEOPLE WITH MAGICAL "JEDI" POWERS, THAT MOVIE FUCKING SUCKS.

3/15/2006 9:27:38 PM

im glad to hear that others liked the movie i thought it was great, i really liked the camera that was used for the filming

3/15/2006 11:03:06 PM

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"When humans got infected, they went all crazy, their eyes turned red, and they started spitting blood. None of those monkeys in the cages showed those symptoms. Its not like the activists would have released a red eyed, blood spitting, violent acting monkey in the first place; so I think they should have re-thought how the virus got released into the world.""

OH NO
TWO DIFFERENT ANIMALS SHOWING DIFFERENT REACTIONS TO A SICKNESS

3/15/2006 11:07:12 PM

i heart 28 Days Later + Shaun of the Dead

i heart the mawfawkin UK

-ZiP!-

3/15/2006 11:07:28 PM

Quote :

" 1. When the guy left the hospital and went out into the streets they were empty. In real life, there should be hundreds of empty cars and huge traffic jams. Someone in the group I watched it with said they figured people tried to stay at home knowing that the infection was coming, however there are always cars parked on the streets and those cars should still be there. Furthermore, I suspect there would have been a mass exodus that would result in a giant traffic jam. People would probably be ripped from their cars and infected and the cars would just be left in the streets. "

IIRC, the initial infection timeline isn't laid out. It could very well be that many (most?) of the other people had time to evacuate, and take their cars with them. That doesn't seem like too big of an issue.

The rest of the issues (except for the car driving over other cars... I don't remember the scene, but a car can't easily drive over other cars) seem to just be someone's lack of ability to properly perceive all the ways a scenario can play out.

3/16/2006 12:16:14 AM

Who really gives a shit about whether or not cars would be parked on the street?


That was one of best scenes I've witnessed in a movie and the rest of the movie kicked ass as well.

3/16/2006 12:36:32 AM

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"heart 28 Days Later + Shaun of the Dead i heart the mawfawkin UK"

yup. 2 amazing zombie flicks from the UK.

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" 7. What does strapping a monkey down and making it watch human violence have to do with developing a virus? At best, I think that would just make one pissed off monkey."

they were studying the effects of rage, so that they could make a virus, its fucking stupid to think they were trying to create a virus with a tv....whoever wrote this was too stupid to watch this movie.

[Edited on March 16, 2006 at 12:41 AM. Reason : -]

3/16/2006 12:38:54 AM

^^^^ ZiP: You can't substitute the UK for love

[Edited on March 16, 2006 at 12:54 AM. Reason : ]

3/16/2006 12:53:49 AM

monkeys were carriers... humans get infected

3/16/2006 2:29:13 AM

^^watch me!

haha

-ZiP!-

[Edited on March 16, 2006 at 8:47 AM. Reason : also: LDN is the new NYC... you heard?]

3/16/2006 8:47:12 AM

it was good, but didnt live up to the internal-hype id given it from the previews. i left disappointed, but i know it wasnt that bad.

3/16/2006 8:56:01 AM

This movie really wasnt good at all.

The beginning started out OK. My favorite scene was the church scene when he yells out and you see those eyes pop up and stare at him. that was creepy.

It just went downhill from there. they leave the city for the country and find some crazy military guys that have gone horny and want to repopulate the earth with the females that are in the group.

its pretty lame.

[Edited on March 16, 2006 at 9:53 AM. Reason : *]

3/16/2006 9:53:06 AM

Excuses, excuses. I knew TWW couldn't handle the truth about this movie.

3/16/2006 10:11:31 AM

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"This movie really wasnt good at all. The beginning started out OK. My favorite scene was the church scene when he yells out and you see those eyes pop up and stare at him. that was creepy. It just went downhill from there. "

3/16/2006 10:25:29 AM

whatever it was head and shoulders above 99% of all other movies that come out these days

3/16/2006 11:45:41 AM

why were there lights on in the grocery store during their shopping spree, but no where else in the city?

3/16/2006 11:54:17 AM

good grief

everyone in this thread must have taken their "smarter than danny boyle" pills this morning

3/16/2006 11:57:50 AM

3/16/2006 11:58:17 AM

i took my Im Smarter than Alex Garland pills last week

3/16/2006 11:59:49 AM

Who the fuck is Danny Boyle? I BET I'D KNOW THAT IF I TOOK THAT PILL

3/16/2006 12:15:06 PM

This thread is a joke, right? 28 days later is a bad knock-off of Resident Evil, etc. that completely falls apart.

3/16/2006 12:51:51 PM

^not even close.

3/16/2006 12:58:33 PM

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"This thread is a joke, right? 28 days later is a bad knock-off of Resident Evil, etc. that completely falls apart. "

your post is a joke right? oh yeah both have zombie like creatures in them so it must be a knock off.
either that or you didnt take your smart pill this morning.

3/16/2006 2:15:13 PM