Sorry you don't get a full new rant or philosophical moan from me today, but I've spent most of the day bedridden after throwing up for half Wednesday night. What fun.
What I will say is that today I watched 28 Days Later Again from under a rug on the sofa and I'm still not sure about it. It really feels like the best parts of it are the ones nicked from other movies or shows (Day of The Triffids and Dawn Of The Dead mainly) and I still think the last hour lets it down. It's a well made film, and I am yet to see the sequel, but it was a shame this film wasn't the classic it could have been. The other problem? Brendan Gleeson is forced to do a london accent (that keeps slipping into Irish) and Chris Ecclestone does an RP accent (which keeps slipping into northern). Why force good actors like these to work behind such a roadblock? I can believe there are Irish cabbies working in London the same way I can believe there are northern army Majors.. Ah well.
Normal service should be resumed tomorrow. See you then.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
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I bloody love 28 Days Later. Yes, the brilliant opening is taken pretty much wholesale from Day Of The Triffids, but isn't it time we did have a decent modern film interpretation of that book? I mean, the BBC serialisation is brilliant if you ignore the Triffids themselves, but it is very early 80s. SotD and Children of Men have also nicked scenes from Triffids (the scene in the pub and escaping the safe house respectively) and they don't get pulled up on it as often.
ReplyDeleteI just really love the ongoing tension without resorting to cheap made-you-jump tactics or gore (not too often, at least). Generally, I don't like zombie movies or most modern horror movies in general, but this was just right for me - all creepy-creepy, no jumpy-slashy.
DO NOT WATCH THE SEQUEL, however, since it resorts to every cheap trick of modern horror cinema going in lieu of a decent plot. It's clearly for idiots who have no imagination and can't picture the carnage of the infection tearing through terrified crowds when Selena and Whatsisname describe it, and have to be able to watch it, in all its eye-gouging, blood-vomiting, flesh-tearing glory. It is bollocks. I couldn't watch it after about half way in.
I just think the last hour really lets the film down. The film in my head finishes at the blockade with Gleeson's fate and then ends ambiguously there.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on creepy movies rather than gorefests (the recent spate of "torture porn" movies is a serious step backwards) but every Zombie seems to descend into a massacre at the end (ever since Night Of The Living Dead) and this is not a good thing at all.
Children Of Men is a fantastic film! I'm not sure that it rips of Triffids quite as blatantly as 28 Days...
And as for 28 days - I like the film, but as I said, I'm just disappointed the film wasn't as great as it could have been.
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