Posted: 2/13/2008 1:02:31 PM EDT
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Old topic, but I saw it recently. I went back and looked at what guys here had to say and they loved it. For me, not only did it drag as bad as the first one, but it was quick to paint the U.S. Army as heartless mass murderers. Worth what I paid to see it: not a goddamned penny. |
I don't think it'll be in Paris. I heard 28 months later will be in eastern Europe. Frozen Zombies?   !
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I thought it was great. I definitely did not think the military was portrayed as heartless. They were effeciently handling a gigantic operation clearing and repopulating a major industrialized city after what amounts to a biological attack. Their work was undone first by the two kids (who they refused to kill when they left the quarantine despite orders to do so) and then by the father, who used his access card to get through all the security measures they had set up to prevent such an incident. The only thing I found unrealistic was after the father was infected, and he was somehow able to kill at least 3-4 sentries single-handedly without any of them killing him, firing a shot, or raising the alarm. The sniper sentries and every one else we saw early on in the film seemed to be on high alert, but he was able to get four guys in a row with no alarm? I also liked how SGT Doyle was portrayed as highly competent but also with an independent/insubordinate streak. Remember when the female doctor asked him why he wasn't at his post after the outbreak, and he replied "Why aren't you?" Some of the best troops I have known were independent thinkers like him, and had a way of getting under the skin of their chain of command. |
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I just didn't like that they portrayed us as incompetent. As had been mentioned earlier, the 4 inept guards... Why use napalm and an ineffective WMD when we've got plenty of effective ones lying around? How did the helo get out? Did we not have any precautions against someone breaking quarantine by air? |
The use of gas would be that they could kill the infected WITHOUT destroying the city so it might again be able to repopulate. |
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First of all if you think that "28 Weeks Later" dragged than you must have the attention span of my three year old nephew. I thought it could have used another 30 minutes to develop characters more like General Stone. Second, they had to have an outbreak...had to happen. You couldn't move the story along unless you allowed for inspection to spread. If the military had airtight security it would have been a VERY boring and short movie. The main point of the story is that a virus will always find a way to survive. They are in a sense the top of the food chain on earth. Political considerations caused the military to rush reconstruction and as a result mistakes were made (sound familiar?) so now the rest of world has come to the virus and the virus is of course going to spread. I also think that military was never shown as cold blooded killers. The female main character makes it clear why they have to do a code red. |
 At the end of 28 Weeks later, the final seconds of the movie were zombies running through the metro in Paris...maybe they just showed that for the movie and decided to do a different location in Eastern Europe or something. I hope it's Paris because I've been to Paris and would be able to recognize the famous historical places they always put in these movies.
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I thought Paris too. But then I did some snooping via interweb and came up with Eastern Europe. |
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My ex-wife wanted to know why the British People didn't just shoot the infected when they first broke out. Why are they holed up in house with no real weapons? When I informed her that the "Highly Enlightened" people of England had essentially banned guns from everyone (except the Police and Military who then went Code Red" on the general population) it really made her think about the same efforts that happening here in the US of A. As she pointed out, in Texas an outbreak like that would have been stopped & stomped. BIGGER_HAMMER 
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Yup, wouldn't get very far outside the larger cities. It would have been a very short movie though if it had started in Texas. 
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Yeah, there was that. I can tell you that I wanted to punch a baby everytime I heard the word "Hello" for about two weeks after I saw the first one.... |
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i thought 28 days later started out kind of slow....... but, in the mansion at the very end when they are running around- the music, the lightning, the revenge and the killing... fucking AWESOME!!!!! i thought 28 weeks later started off very fast, edge of the seat- quite thrilling- then the character build up was good in the middle, and the end was just fucking chaos. i loved it. im really looking forward to the next one. |