28 weeks later

Peter Collins

I though I was dreaming, but no. Some moron has created a "sequel" to one of the best horrors of the last 30 years.

Have you seen the trailer? American accents, the FBI, every damn cliche that the original didn't touch.

Why oh why oh why?

Please let it bomb and not tarnish the memory

:mad: :mad: :mad:

KTRIC

I love the original, whens this piece of plop out ?

r3nu4l

According to the trailer it's out on May 11. That mayonly be a US release-date. I dunno :shrugs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0oSdqQuzdU

I'm looking forward to seeing it. An interesting cast and all the prehupe has been positive.

If you think of it the Americans being involved makes since. If initially only England was affected then America would be the likely country to come and clean up, aka blow the **** out of everything.

r3nu4l

Official UK trailer...

eamon234

I've a feeling it might not be that bad Danny Boyle's still involved I'll wait until I see it until I make a judgement - never listen to critics amateur or professional like to make up my own mind:p

Dont be at yourself

I reckon it'll be good. Great cast, decent premise, the previous film was excellent, and it's from the guy who brought us Intacto, which is a fantastic film, and very well directed!

I've also just finished reading World War Z, so I need another fix of zombie war!

Rhyme

IMDB say 11th of May for a UK release as well... should be good.

Peter Collins

Deleted User wrote:

If you think of it the Americans being involved makes since. If initially only England was affected then America would be the likely country to come and clean up, aka blow the **** out of everything.

The US wouldn't want anything to do with a disaster like that...remember New Orleans?

Anyway, I wish they wouldn't make these unnecessary films...the first Hallowe'en was ruined by all it's sequels...it never stands alone in the same way as Carrie, The Omen, The Exorcist, etc (though I know these had sequels, they were must lower profile)

Damn those cash-hungry studios

Danny Boyle should know better if he's involved...his only involvement should have been to pull the plug

Damn again

Mitch Connor

i'm gonna freaking hate that kid by the end of the movie.... movies shouldn't have kids in them, child actors suck!

Jello

I think the trailer looks pretty good, so I'm looking forward to it.. but the FBI being in it doesn't sound too good.

Cillian Murphy didn't consider having a roll in it though because he knew it was just a money-grabber.

Q_Ball

Did the first movie not remind anyone of 'the day of the triffids'?

I thought it was good but too much of a rip from the book

Jello

Q_Ball wrote:

Did the first movie not remind anyone of 'the day of the triffids'?

Yep, from wiki:

The film 28 Days Later features several nods to The Day of the Triffids, including the protagonist awakening in a deserted hospital, finding other survivors by following tower lights, and encountering a paramilitary group in a country house whose plans include the acquisition of women with whom to repopulate the country.

TerrorFirmer

Can't wait personally but did anyone else think it looked a bit too Resident Evil Apocalyspe-ish? Plus, the effects shot there in the trailer of planes bombing the streets looked...terrible. Just terrible.

Still though. Looking forward to it. Didn't like 28 Days Later all that much. Not a bad film, but I didn't think it was an overly good one either. Fell apart in the second half in my opinion.

Boggles

Loved the first one, even thou it kinda lost it's way 3/4 way through.

28 weeks later was always on the cards, remember reading about it when the first one came out.

Didn't the trailer look good thou? And any film that has the line "We have lost control, execute code red" - Is already brilliant, no contest.

What they should have done was played Robert Carlyle as Begby, then you would see those rage infected zombies leg it being chased by a Scot with a pint glass.

Petey2006

I'm looking forward to it. Sure, it's a sequel. But if it's poop, it wont detract from the original. Do the ****ty sequels to The Matrix take away from the first film? Nope.

LoLth

Tauren wrote:

child actors suck!

erm, exactly what movies are you watching ?

Personally, I thought 28 days was good, but not great. It was almost like it couldnt decide if it wanted to be an action flick, a zombie flick or a drama. having said that, I do own the DVD and I've watched it about 5 times so there must be something I like in it possibly it came out too close to reign of fire so the two sort of blended together in my mind....

As a sequel, if there has to be one, I think I would prefer something more "in between" these two films. A gang surviving in london perhaps or birmingham if you want a truly depressing backdrop, maybe even have the gang get wiped out slowly through the film and all die out at teh end to hit home the real danger of the plague (28 days didnt do that well enough imho).

Then have a 28 weeks where order is restored.. sort of.

Still, I'll give this one a watch. maybe it will do an Alien / aliens on it and prove much more popular than the original (I still prefer alien to aliens by the way but I seem to be of a dwindling minority).

biko

Q_Ball wrote:

Did the first movie not remind anyone of 'the day of the triffids'?

I thought it was good but too much of a rip from the book

I own Day of the Triffids on DVD, class series!

Q_Ball

If i hadnt read the book i thought i'd have enjoyed it more. I had just finished the book a few weeks before watching the movie and i ended up identifying parts of the film that "nod" towards events in the book instead of actually enjoying the movie.

Eirebear

I actually reckon this looks fairly good, from the trailers at least.

I agree though with peoples critiques of 28 days later, it went on far too long leaving me a little cold.
IMO it should have ended when they crashed the car on escapie from the army guys.

Jonesy3110

Why are people so quick to call sequels a piece of crap?

A lot of movies improve as they go on, and how can you say the halloween sequels were all crap?? Does no one remember Halloween 3?? The one which had NOTHING to do with Michael Myers?? Great movie! Ignorance....:mad:

And also - The Omen and Exorcist sequels are far from low profile - The first Omen was boring, the second one - that scene where teen damian show up his teacher?? Classic scene!

And the latest Exorcist movie, the prequel was so good they made it twice!! (well actually, only one version is good, the others rubbish)

Hellraiser 3? Another great Horror sequel.
Children of the Corn: Urban Harvest?? With Screaming Mad George doing the special effects?? Another great movie!!

Im so damn mad right now!

Karl Hungus

Yeah, I think it looks good. I'll give it a watch anyway.

qwertplaywert

used to be negitive towards this movie, but got comic that bridges gap between the two movies yesterday,fookin increbiele
is acting is good, it shall be a fantasic movie

Deliverance

HavoK wrote:

Can't wait personally but did anyone else think it looked a bit too Resident Evil Apocalyspe-ish? Plus, the effects shot there in the trailer of planes bombing the streets looked...terrible. Just terrible.

Still though. Looking forward to it. Didn't like 28 Days Later all that much. Not a bad film, but I didn't think it was an overly good one either. Fell apart in the second half in my opinion.

Yeah it will be a good movie, I like the idea of the re-population of London, England, interesting. A nice idea for the continuation of the story, but I think there will be to many effects which will overshadow the fantastic originality of the original film making it another money over story type of film though.

The original film did fall apart in the second half without a doubt, it was like to different films pasted together, what happened there?
Have to say I loved the point where Cillian

saw the plane in the sky and realised the truth,

brilliant.

Still looking forward to the new movie, but only because the original was so good, it will dissapoint though I think. Where have all the original movie makers gone?

Sam Vimes

Deliverance wrote:

Yeah it will be a good movie, I like the idea of the re-population of London, England, interesting. A nice idea for the continuation of the story, but I think there will be to many effects which will overshadow the fantastic originality of the original film making it another money over story type of film though.

was just thinking that. looks like one of those films where they made the action sequences first and then fitted the story around them

ella minnow pea

Noooo...not again...not after Sunshine

Single greatest bit of 28 Days Later was the alternate ending (right at the end of the credits), I thought they were going to pick the story up from there??

qwertplaywert

i think something like that[just not with the alternitive ending]was the orginal plan but when they released cillian murphy wasnt avaible ,it changed...

Jello

It's been rated 16's - http://www.ifco.ie/ifco/ifcoweb.nsf/web/upcomingfilms?opendocument&upcoming=yes&type=graphic but looks like it almost got an 18 cert like in the UK. That's positive, at least it's not 15A.

qwertplaywert

deadly....shall be going to first dundalk showing :d

robotfridge

Anyone know the muse song in the background of the trailer?

Basq

robotfridge wrote:

Anyone know the muse song in the background of the trailer?

Think it's 'Shrinking Universe'

robotfridge

tis indeed, just found it there now too.
thanks basq.

ctc_celtic

i loved the first movie, i know the story faded towards the end, but i still watched it 4/5 times.

as for this movie, i;ll defiantly watch it but i would have preferred if the next film had been a prequel.
showing just after the outbreak, the mass panic, countries refusing to let UK planes land, the government falling apart, army firing at anything that moved etc.
but i know this would be too close to 28 day later, group of survivors trying to escape would have to be the bones of the film. still it would be a good film.

qwertplaywert

aye.....no doubt this will be uber susesful and spawn the inviable 28 months later.....HOPEFULLY WITH CILLIAN!

SuperSean11

i think it looks great the perfect way to continue the story

Timans

Deliverance wrote:

Yeah it will be a good movie, I like the idea of the re-population of London, England, interesting. A nice idea for the continuation of the story, but I think there will be to many effects which will overshadow the fantastic originality of the original film making it another money over story type of film though.

The original film did fall apart in the second half without a doubt, it was like to different films pasted together, what happened there?
Have to say I loved the point where Cillian

saw the plane in the sky and realised the truth,

brilliant.

Still looking forward to the new movie, but only because the original was so good, it will dissapoint though I think. Where have all the original movie makers gone?

Could you exactly tell me

What the "truth" that Cillian realises when he sees the plane?

qwertplaywert

question
didnt the makers say somewhere that they see the alterinate ending as canon in the 'series' ?

Brow

I really liked the original and am looking forward to the sequel. Im a fan of Bob Carlyle.

Deliverance

#Elites wrote:

im also wondering this =/?

is it

That the outside world, was doing fine etc?

anyway, loved 28 days later, looks interesting this film , ill go see it:)

Yep that's pretty much it on the spoiler. It was a scene that I liked along with many others. Ps watched the trailer again today and I am looking forward to this movie.
Does anyone know how the infection is re-introduced or is that the big tease, I know the trailer shows faded bite marks in the military facility on a subject maybe the virus has evolved to lay dormant in a carrier?

Ps the trailer also hints at a broken 6 month quarantine, any theories? I'm just impatient and can't wait for the movie. So any theories on the new outbreak?

qwertplaywert

anyone see london burning in the trailer?what a spoiler to give away........

jesus_thats_gre

Peter Collins wrote:

I though I was dreaming, but no. Some moron has created a "sequel" to one of the best horrors of the last 30 years.

Have you seen the trailer? American accents, the FBI, every damn cliche that the original didn't touch.

Why oh why oh why?

Please let it bomb and not tarnish the memory

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Seems sensible that there is America accents etc considering 99.9% of the English population was killed.. The American's seem to be the ones that are working on repopulating the island.

qwertplaywert

man.guy who played michael in lost is in it.....as he comes on screen, i shall ecxpect someone to say; ''so ben sent him to london''..........

ixoy

The darkhorizons review is very positive and here's how he summarizes:

It's full of the action, violence and dread you hope for from the zombie genre, and in being as good as 28 Days Later, it joins the canon of some of the best horror movies ever.

Fangoria and Empire both gave it positive reviews. In fact of all the reviews I've seen so far none have been negaative.

segadreamcast

Saw it last week. Disagree with Empire in the sense that I think it's a little worse than 28 days later - but it's still a fine movie in it's own right and, incidentally, the movie isn't American dominated really at all: you have two American characters who are there for about two-thirds of it but, ultimately, of the five leading roles, three are British, so it's not much of a change.

American involvement is thus (this isn't REALLY a spoiler I'd argue, it's just literally the first thirty second setup - but just in case): <spoiler>28 weeks after the original outbreak, Britain has been declared safe for re-entry and, so, a peacekeeping force lead by the U.S. is sent in and - upon declaring the country safe for re-entry - they begin allowing British citizens to re-enter...</spoiler>

qwertplaywert

how long is it?
how long was 28 days later?

Basq

qwertplaywert wrote:

how long is it?
how long was 28 days later?

28 Days Later was 113 minutes.
28 Weeks later is 99 minutes.

qwertplaywert

man...its been americanized for the second.........

Basq

qwertplaywert wrote:

man...its been americanized for the second.........

To be honest... if the first was that length, it would have been a perfect film!

I mean.. i love the first one and all.. but it does drag a bit in parts!

christo82

Saw a preview of this yesterday. Thought it was awful. Overly gory(eye gouging especially). Stupid characterisations especially the US Marine.
Very disappointing. Even though it was practically free, I want my money back.

koneko

qwertplaywert wrote:

man.guy who played michael in lost is in it.....as he comes on screen, i shall ecxpect someone to say; ''so ben sent him to london''..........

I'm expecting someone (I'll try to resist) to shout "DEY TOOK MAH BOY!!"

WAAALT, WAAAAALT