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About time. It looks pretty awesome!

Well bloody-disgusting.com just spoiled the ending for me. Great.

Apparently Danny Boyle already has penned a sequel

Check i checked out the trailer a little while ago.. i guess it looks alright, as good as can be expected from a sequel to 28 Days with none of the original cast i suppose.

Won't be as decent as "28 days later" (I say decent, because that's all it was) because the original writers are not of this movie =/

Judging from the trailer, this looks to be a lot better than 28 Days Later (like that's hard to accomplish). I'll probably end up seeing it when it comes out.

It didn't suck, it's one of the best original "zombie" movies to have been made in the past twenty years. Just because it wasn't full of american marines going around blasting the hell out of the undead, doesn't make it a bad film. It portrayed real people trying to overcome a crisis.

I think the reason most of the american audiences didn't get it is because it was set in the UK

Why does the original need a sequel?

Because good movies that make money get sequels?

...and prequels, and remakes, and reboots, and spin offs.

Hmph. Why not make a prequel instead? Show what happened between days 2-27...would be more entertaining.

haha that's so true! 28 days later was a brilliant movie.. it was ORIGINAL which might have disappointed some.

No...it really wasn't that great of a movie. It was boring as hell and poorly shot. The only good parts came at about the last 30 or so minutes.
And please don't tell me why I didn't like the movie. The BS American stereotype you gave has nothing to do with why I didn't like it...saying stuff like that just tends to piss people off. I'd appreciate it if you got off your high horse and let me give my reasons for not liking the film, instead of giving the reasons for me based on what country I live in. I also don't see how the setting of the movie would cause people to not "get" it. I know a lot of people who like the movie. I don't. You can like it all you want. I don't care. I don't care how original it was or whatever...it's just a boring movie.

I have to add, as always, that these are not zombie movies. There are no actual zombies in them. Zombies = the undead. Rage = taken over by anger and violence.

I agree though somehow I looked at my DVD's just now and it's in the second pile. It just didn't have much action because really the entire movie was about getting them to safety and not really getting into any action at all but sitting around/driving/talking about something.

So now I know why America never releases many good movies anymore... Our citizens all are ADD.

I totally agree...

28 Days later A great movie and by the looks of it 28 Weeks Later is going to be just as good, been waiting a few years for this one to come out. I watched the trailer and it looks good, the thing I think what makes these films work and appealing to me is the fact is this could be possible this type of thing could happen, unlike the undead coming back to life. Don't get me wrong I love Zombie films but this just has a lot of realism in it. When they try to repopulate the country and the cleansing and stuff this is what would happen its nice to see a film actually show you what would happen rather than skip past all this and just go to we repopulated but we missed some. In another way this is also showing you what it was like between days 2-27 on the original film. I was also glad to see Robert Carlyle in this movie.

Yeah, but I still think that's pretty outdated definition. Lots of zombie games/films use infections as a cause of zombification, any real infection that behaved similarly most definetely wouldn't kill the host first...



It would be pretty cool, but then that's how almost every zombie movie starts. 28 Days Later was slightly different because it was, 28 days later. I'd rather they go for something original again this time.

They could have made the prequel 28 seconds before.

I dissagree. I feel that most Zomb flicks cop out, as 28 Days Later does really, and nearly always show the period before the outbreak, and the period after the outbreak. 28 days after the outbreak... Resident Evil 2's 24 hours later, Shaun of the Deads 'next morning after'. etc etc.

I'm much much more interested in movies that deal with the outbreak itself, not ones that skip the outbreak and just show people survivng post-outbreak. There aren't many of those at all. Dawn of the Dead both remake and original dealt with the outbreak pretty well, i like to see more movies like that.
(Although the outbreak in the remake is far too short and mostly skipped).

Did you loose money on the movie? Because you sound really pissy. I thought is was pretty good.

What ever rocks your boat I suppose but I thought it was superb and it had a real atmosphere about it which I like in films, especially that scene where 'In Paradisum' is playing..wow. Sooo looking forward to 28 Weeks, the trailer looks wicked!.

But that was one of the main parts of 28 Days Later. He'd been in a coma, he woke up and everywhere was empty. The complete emptyness of London was one of the great things about the film.

Also 28 weeks later may be a sequel but the idea is that people repopulate and then Rage springs up again - so you are being shown the outbreak this time.

Personnally I saw the trailer on the big screen (unsurprisingly before Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine'!) and thought it looked good. Massively Hollywood-ised compared to the first film, but the facts that Danny Boyle still gave creative consultancy and that Robert Carlyle is in it keeps me optimistic it won't just be a forgettable glossy follow-up.

Ah heheh I don't think that movie can be counted as a zombie movie...although I take your point.

The trailor to 28 Weeks Later looks great - I didnt realise it what it was till I heard them mentionthe aftermath or something.
Great how they did that.

I loved the atmosphere...

Hey has anyone heard anything about that new sheep zombie movie released? Its from New Zealand; in the same boat as Shawn of the Dead and stuff...
Looked pretty funny (if your into that kinda thing)

Havew you seen SotD!? It's the greatest zombie movie ever made, and has the best most realistic zombies hands down.
I don't see how that movie can not be counted as a zombie movie.

OK so for me I've been following zombies since I was a kid, And 28 days later, although a good movie, doesn't totally fit into the genre, It's in a new class of film I think...Similar to George romeros 'the crazies', which also is in talks to be remade......Also to put something in as a contradiction, ZOmbies don't necessarily = UNDEAD.... DOn't forget about the Mythos of VOODOO zombies, which is a drug induced waking coma...This movie looks like it's a relapse of what happened from 1 to 28 since well, it deals with a totally new outbreak, just on a less larger scale to start since theres only one large group of settlers to undergo the infection, and yes BD ruined the ending, but it has potential to explode into a great 3rd movie

Just caught the back end of the trailer and decided to search the forum for a thread...

What do we know about this movie? does it carry on from the other "28 days later", are the same actors in it?, is it still UK based?

UK based, completely different actors, 28 Weeks after the initial Outbreak, England was decared free of infection. Repopulation of the country began, and shortly after the repopulation, reinfection...

This movie deals with the outbreak itself while the previous dealt with living after the outbreak.

Check out the full trailer on the web.

Cheers Buddy... like I said I only saw the back end of the trailer this evening.. can't wait to see the movie.

The newer full trailers look really good. I'm actually looking forward to this movie now.

Some reviews are starting to come out now, with the usual mixed opinions.





I caught a few spoilers while I was reading the reviews and it definetely seems interesting.

I don't really read or listen to the reviews, I have liked most Zombie movies anyway especially the ones like 28 days where the Zombies can actually run.

I think with 28 Days, the fact that the Infected are still alive, and not zombies renders the matter a lot more disturbing. It's OK with zombies, because they're not really people any more but with the Infected they're still alive and therefore there's a certain judgement that comes with it.

Sure, it was done first with Romero's The Crazies but this is a good modern take

The display for this movie on our local cinema looks rather exciting!

Little story for you guys, when I was in London around Christmas time, I was stopped in the street (very near houses of Parliament) along with all other pedestrians and cars, so that a bit of this movie could be shot without disturbance. We all had to wait a few minutes, then saw a bloodied, messed up car drive past and turn into a street filled with mist and rubbish, it looked fantastic! Apparently I had missed the zombie scenes though, which is a shame. I have to see it now, just for that

haha wow that's pretty cool!

that's pretty damn cool! i would love to be around for something like that

i'm very excited for this movie to come out. i personally thought 28 days later was awesome. the way they cleared the streets of london to make everything look so eerie, and as someone mentioned before, the way that this could actually happen. i think this factor alone makes the movie very scary. and the way that the infected ran so fast and moved so... unnaturally. it just seemed so freaky and i know i would sh** my pants if one of those were chasing me. all in all, found 28 days later to be a very rewarding watch and i can't wait for its sequel.

saw preveiws of it. i havent looked it up or anything but.. it looks excoting..!! i cant wait to see it

Man, my opinion is that this movie sucked compared to the first one. The plot started out well, but the atmosphere was all wrong to make 28 Weeks Later have an erie effect without any cheap scare tactics that the 28 Days Later carried. (I know it had like 2 put not as many as the second.) The way District one and outlying London made me feel like I was watching a totally different movie, not the sequel of 28 Days Later.)

So yeah... I recommend you see the movie if you life anything that closely resembles a zombie. Even if you gave the first one a 10/10 like I did, see the second one anyways (for kicks n giggles). But the sequel does have some potential because it left the whole Eastern Hemisphere open to attack. Don't mess it up next time.

28 Weeks Later
LOOKING GOOD!

*sigh*

I'm so, utterly dissapointed. I found this movie to be incredibly weak, relying on an extremely uncredibale story filled with so many bad decisions and huge coincidences it felt like I was watching LOST. Every action scene left me comparing to the shaky camera on Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and in 28 Weeks it was by far worse. I couldn't see a damn thing at all, just an entire movie of blur and shaking. Good scenes were very few and far between, but they did at least leave a good impact when you could see them. I felt like the movie was just a big waste of time, it didn't build on anything from the previous, just churned the story in a blender and poured out the contents onto digital camera.

And I really did think I was going to be the last person to say this. I was desperately trying to find ways to defend the movie from my friend who I knew were also not enjoying it, and couldn't make myself defend any of it in the end. Niether could the crowd, some of the moments of 'boo' or suspense were inducing laughter at best.

3/10

That settles it, if Burns doesn't like it I'm not going to bother!

Why are poeple so retarded in zombie movies? That is a question I asked myself leaving the theatre...

I agree totally BurnSide. It started off well enough and I was really still hyped about 20 or 25 minutes into the movie. After that:

a) The tempo dies
The plot has major holes in it
c) You really never feel for the people in the movie. I really could not have cared less who lived or died.
d) The ending was there to totally set up another sequel. 28 years later????

Hollow drivel. If you want to see a better "British" movie right now, go see "Hot Fuzz" if it's in your area.

i like how the b in your list turned into an emoticon

I totally agree with you. The story never wrapped around me like 28 Days Later where I actually cared about what was going to happen to the 4 main characters and found it kind of sad when the father got infected nearer to the end of the movie.

Oh, the sequel was announced practically on opening day raistlan. 28 Months Later.

You prob. didn't like it because it was 50% plot & 50% action, as most u.s. films like this are 10% plot & 90% action. Who can forget that classic comedy Armageddon. dohhhh

Hard to say. The Brits did a great job way back with the nuclear war movie Threads, but horror movies without happy endings are a tough sell for some reason. Personally, I would like to see day 2 thru 27, but I'm likely in the minority. Books are the same way. There are lots of godawful virus pandemic novels, but those like Boyle's Full Circle don't do well because the humans don't win. We seem to love the hero saving the day, maybe it's some closet religion thing.

Don't you think a prequel would just make another crappy action movie? I think it would turn out worst than 28 Weeks Later. Unless... it was directed fully by Danny Boyle and written by Barry Hines like the original.

I would say that one of my major problems with 28WL is the prescence of the american army. I just don't think that a film like this one needs a bunch of gung-ho guys shooting at anything that moves. The first film worked perfectly, in the respect that we had normal people trying to get out of a situation. This film turned the situation into more like Resident bloody Evil.

Urgh.