28 Years Later

"unless you don't care about the ticket price"

I mean isn't the cinema 6e these days. Not exactly gonna break the bank if you end up picking a sub par movie.

Ya but if your concern is money the options are out there. Tony was making it sound like a big financial decision.

That same Cineworld is 11e on Tuesday. That's nothing in today's prices.

No. I went to see The Phoenician Scheme at a Vue. I had a free ticket and a half off popcorn voucher and I was out a tenner for a large coke and the other half of the popcorn alone.

Throw in transport and full prices and you'll easily hit £30, if not £40. I actually wouldn't mind in the slightest if they would just do something about imbeciles and their devices but that's another topic.

It always gets under my skin.

I think the cost of admission makes people feel entitled to get their phone out or talk whenever they want. I went to see Flash Gordon for the first time in 2020 (Covid screening) and an elderly couple just took out their phones and started playing music.

I see why but I've had mixed results. I saw 28 Years Later on the Friday evening after it came out and it was great. I saw the Al Pacino exorcism thing in a dead screening and there was a lad at the front who couldn't go 5 minutes without getting his phone out.

I did but it's far too common to do that every time.

What's the point of this?

The themed gang and the idea of categories of zombie "difficulty level" was just a bit too cliche computer game for me.

The Tellytubbies obviously set it up. This kid will be raised by TV which is probably Jim'll Fix It and Power Rangers videos. That finale was very X rated Power Rangers.

ThThere were a lot of moments when it seemed like it was his step father and not his birth father.

Also despite Saville not being exposed at the time the vibe off Jimmy was very noncy so it will be interesting to see where they go with that.

Looks like I was not wrong with the box office likely falling off a cliff....looking like possibly a 65% drop in US weekend box office...

I know the second one in the can, but I am not sure you can count on a part 3 at this stage...

Saw it today and thought it was good but not great.

With the exception of the sprint back to the village I thought the portion with Spike's dad and him out on his first trip was very dull. Maybe because the last of us is recent but the whole young person being guided through zombie apocalypse by parent is very cliche at this stage.

That might be why I enjoyed the next part so much, having Spike being responsible for his mother felt like a nice inversion and the discussions with the Doctor were a nice piece of personal drama that broke up the Zombie sequences.

Four things I wasn't a fan of:

1. I feel like the Swedish soldier section could be cut completely and you'd lose nothing other than a few comedic scenes that weren't needed. When you compare it to the first last of us and the impact the people they meet has on the story it's very lackluster. I thought they were introducing him as a way to build the plot about the outside world but all we got is "Britain quarantined, rest of world normal" which we already knew from the state of Britain and Spike's Dad seeing the French boat when they were out.
2. While the sequence leading up to it was very nice, Spike reacted way too calmly to being handed his mother's skull and being told to place it on the death Christmas tree 😅
3. The ending sequence felt very MCU-post credit scene. Felt it would have been much better as the first bit of promo released for the sequel as it would have generated discussion then but also let this one end on the nice emotional note it reached.
4. I have no technical knowledge in terms of film making or what constitutes skilled camera work but that weird freeze frame thing they did for the first half whenever a zombie was shot was awful, thought the projector was acting up.

About the ending. I'm surprised at the reaction. For me it's like an epilogue. The film ended in the previous scene and this was like a post credits scene.

I don't think it sets the tone for next movie. Also the movie is an alternative history and I'd say young Jimmy saw old Saville stuff on TV like Tellytubbies in the begining and it impacted him

Overall enjoyed the movie. Cinematography and music was excellent. The scene running back across the bridge whilst being chased was breathtaking.

A few irritations for me. The bus/birth scene just didn't ring true for me. A connection between the two mothers just makes now sense with a rage infected person.

The doctor: his massive effort with the skulls seems incredulous for me. Building that over 28 years with such precision in a highly dangerous world full of rampaging infected just seems impossible to me.

However, the doctor's Hamlet reference was a top notch joke that made me LOL and deserves more credit here.

So thinking back on that ending, the more I feel that this is literally the child's perception of them. That power ranger toy at the start feels like a hint at it, they almost resemble power rangers in terms of their fighting etc. Suspect they'll come across entirely differently when viewed through the father's eyes in the sequel.

You see the infected eating animals like deer.