28 Days Later

[nemesiswontdie]

umm yes i no that part that says "oh yha those were really zombies" is sarcasum

[Weskers Flag]

i didnt like the story to it. hows that? i thought the story was shit but i thought it was more entertaining than Andersons RE films. oh yha those were really zombies. damn i didnt know that zombies ran track in the olympics.

but yha i thought the movie sucked. thats my opinion though.

Technically, they weren't zombies. They act like it sometimes, but they were just people "infected with rage".

I watched both, but I prefer 28 days cause I really got into the movie, really cool story.

I love that scene with this woman, is so romantic lol xD
If they release a "28 years" it would be like RE: Extinction cause the infection was spread worldwide lol

In the second movie, why would people go back to England? lol
I would stay as far as possible

[BadWolfX]

The opening sequence for Weeks was brilliant.

[Rombie]

Weeks has only 1 moment which rivals the original overall for character and that is the opening sequence. That whole situation basically encompasses the idea of what sorts of decisions one may have to make against an angry mob of anyone. Its really good, which is why it's a shame the movie never reaches that level again.

[Gideon Quinn]

28 Days Later hits home a lot more for me than any recent zombie movie for the simple reason that it takes place in my home country. It's really bizarre how much more invested you can become in a character and their story and the scenario in general when it takes place over familiar terrain.

28 Weeks Later was a worthy sequel but it had a case of sheep syndrome - Many parts were am obvious homage to the way things happened in the first movie. The director went overboard whilst trying to emulate the shakey camerawork from the first movie (Which only worked well in the first movie because it was filmed on DV). My main gripe with the film was the cast. Not strictly the actors, but the way they were used. The first film had four distinct characters to cling on to but in "Weeks..." I didn't feel like I knew enough about anyone to be able to relate to their grief or emotions. Too many of the supposed 'key' characters were expendable, like Spoiler:

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Sergeant Boyle and Scarlet (The female Doctor),

and the kids were mostly irritating and unemotive in their roles. The film would really have benefited from some stronger leads and more memorable characters in general. The scene i disliked the most is the scene which is pretty much everyone else's favourite part of the movie, the Helicopter VS the swarm of Infected. The rotary blades of the Copter chopping them to shreds looked utterly rediculous and had to be some of the worst CGI i've ever seen. Terrible!

On a more positive note, the film had all of the extreme style and all the intensity, violence and jump scares that are expected of any top horror movie and completely dwarfs 28 Days in terms of scale in that department. Seeing parts of Central London exploding under firebomb attack was extremely surreal, since i'd spent quite a lot of time there leading up to the movie's release and it really freaked me out - And I nearly had a heart attack during the opening scenes which are some of the most intense and amazing first scenes ever.

[BadWolfX]

Loved 28 Days Later and I've yet to watch 28 Weeks Later past the point where he kills his wife, which I believe is one of the images above. It just....really disturbed me.

[A-J]

but damn if that chopper scene wasn't awesome incarnate

[Darkmoon]

It is very important to note that the infected are not zombies. They're not dead. They're still, for lack of a better term, human but infected with a disease that has driven them insane with pure, undiluted rage. The worry thing? Look at a disease that alters your personality and thought process, such as rabies, and it's not nearly as big a stretch as zombies...

28 Days is one of my favourite movies, ever. It's more of a thinking horror movie than most. It doesn't always spoon feed you details, or doesn't feed you them all, like just how much human the infected still have in them. I also liked how the movie developed and such. It essentially shows the extremes...the extremes of the infected, the extremes of the soldiers, and eventually the extremes the hero's take to survive.

I felt that the second one was too...well, action packed. Just when you thought you were meeting the main characters and would really start the story of escaping from London the person got killed. You were never really able to form any kind of emotional attatchment once the outbreak began.

[Rombie]

Weeks would have been fine if it didn't have that stupid Paris coda sequence at the end. The movie should have ended with the helicopter going over Dover and left it open ended. I don't often ask for that in films but this movie deserved it...

both are excellent feelms, I think 28 days later was better because the story was much more worked out, but 28 weeks later doen't stay behind.... well... i don't know! both are good films, very interesting; the second one seems like a sequel with much more money, better efects and all

[GuardhouseMusic]

I didn't like the fact that Cillian Murphy became Rambo at the end, but I would say 28 Days Later was a good movie. Weeks was okay, but it definitely wasn't as enjoyable. I didn't think there was any resolution, it just kinda ended.

As for the zombies, I like them a HELL of a lot more than the slow, lumbering idiots in the early RE games.

I'm interested in what the rage-infected humans are thinking, because more so than any other living dead film, they definitely are still human. That kid in Days who says "I HATE YOU!" opens up all kinds of theoretical doors.

[randomwab]

Both are awesome films, but Weeks is vastly superior to Days in my opinion. Just rewatched both of them last week and honestly forgot how fantastic they are.

Also, John Murphy's work on the music for both films makes me pee my pants. So fucking great.

[nemesiswontdie]

opinions opinions.

[Vector]

i didnt like the story to it. hows that? i thought the story was shit but i thought it was more entertaining than Andersons RE films. oh yha those were really zombies. damn i didnt know that zombies ran track in the olympics.

Put yourself in the main character's shoes. You wake up out of a coma and your entire city is deserted. Remember that scene in the chapel? Fucking terrifying. I would've shit my pants. Then, he goes home to find his parents lying dead in their bed having commit suicide. Freakin' brilliant.

As for the zombies, I like them a HELL of a lot more than the slow, lumbering idiots in the early RE games.