Also i know its off topic does any1 know where the whole fast zombie thing came from??Or was 28 days later the first to use it??
[quote]NeilMc wrote:
Also i know its off topic does any1 know where the whole fast zombie thing came from??Or was 28 days later the first to use it??[/quote]
Almost the better question was when did the idea of the slow, ambling, people-eating zombie come from. The original idea of a zombie was someone brought back from the dead as a slave to a voodoo priest (or an alive person can have his soul removed by said priest, check out the first zombie movie “White Zombie”).
If I remember correctly, Romero started the eating people thing because he liked vampire stories (I don’t think anyone had this take before).
To answer your original question, I think that there were a few (bad) asian kung-fu flicks in the 80s that had zombies actually fighting so I think that counts. I can’t remember any names… they were pretty bad and I haven’t seen any for like ten years.
[quote]NeilMc wrote:
Also i know its off topic does any1 know where the whole fast zombie thing came from??Or was 28 days later the first to use it??[/quote]
The Dawn of the Dead remake used it. So did the Evil Dead series (if you count deadites as zombies).
[quote]AdamC wrote:
Anyone seen 28 Weeks later?[/quote]
Yup. It was garbage. I don’t remember specifics because it was a while ago when I saw it, but my friends and I pretty much hated it. Now, I didn’t really care for the first one all that much(not saying it was bad…just not my cup of tea!), but my roomate loved it, and he still thought 28 Weeks Later was awful.
[quote]AdamC wrote:
Anyone seen 28 Weeks later?[/quote]
Yeah, it was good. had a very similar feel to the original. Everything was very frantic.
The story didn’t seemed that forced either - it was much more natural sequel than I thought it would be.
I can understand why people wouldn’t like it, but not if you really liked the first one.
[quote]BabyBuster wrote:
The story didn’t seemed that forced either - it was much more natural sequel than I thought it would be.
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I thought it paled in comparison to the original.
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The whole premise of re-populating Great Britain only 28 weeks after a plague wiped out the entire populace was absurd to begin with, and then it became increasingly predictable as the plot unfolded.
From Don’s cowardice coming back to bite him in the ass, to the plague being restarted by his carrier wife, to the sniper refusing to execute the code red order, to the kid sharing his mother’s immunity, to the ‘surprise’ ending where the the surviving carrier ending up spreading the plague to the continent.
The whole thing seemed to have been slapped together without much thought in order to cash in on the popularity of the original.
[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
BabyBuster wrote:
The story didn’t seemed that forced either - it was much more natural sequel than I thought it would be.
I thought it paled in comparison to the original.
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The whole premise of re-populating Great Britain only 28 weeks after a plague wiped out the entire populace was absurd to begin with, and then it became increasingly predictable as the plot unfolded.[/quote]
What were you expecting, that the zmobies wouldn’t come back? You’re right - how predictable that a movie about zombies would involve zombies.
Would you have preferred it if they called it 28 Months Later? Why did you see it if you thought the premise was “absurd”?
The point of the movie clearly was not to make the most original plot possible, but to give an intense and frightening experience. Tell me that when Don get’s into the basement where the inhabitants of London have been “safely” locked away isn’t a terrifying scene.
Yes, they were clearly trying to cash in on the original, 4 years after it came out. they made an enteraining sequel that furthered the overall story of 28 Days.
[quote]BabyBuster wrote:
What were you expecting, that the zmobies wouldn’t come back? You’re right - how predictable that a movie about zombies would involve zombies.
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He didn’t say the zombies shouldn’t come back. He said it was stupid that they tried to repopulate the area so soon after such a vicious plague ravaged it. But yeah, aside from the zombies…the movie was predictable and didn’t offer any scares…not even paltry cheap ones. The subway part with the nightvision could have been scary, but they really dropped the ball.
Despite an absurd premise, a movie can still be great. The idea behind Transformers is pretty fuckin’ retarded, but damn if it doesn’t look like it’ll be amazing and worth watching.
And it pretty muched failed miserably. My girlfriend scares damn easily, but even she was bored to death. The only moderately cool part in the movie was when the helicopter annihilates the field of zombies…and that part was still pretty ridiculous
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Yes, they were clearly trying to cash in on the original, 4 years after it came out. they made an enteraining sequel that furthered the overall story of 28 Days. [/quote]
Despite the time frame, I second the notion that it was slapped together to make a quick bit of cash. And how can you say it “furthered the overall story?” Nothing’s changed. London still seemed pretty infected.
[quote]BabyBuster wrote:
What were you expecting, that the zmobies wouldn’t come back? [/quote]
Nah.
I fully expected zombies. I just didn’t expect something as silly as repatriating a whole new batch of victims.
I was envisioning something more along the lines of the first 10 minutes of the movie, with a few small pockets of survivors struggling to rebuild some semblance of civilization in a countryside still ravaged by the ‘Rage virus’.
28 Weeks Later just felt a little bit too much like ‘Day of the Dead’, by far the worst movie in Romero’s original Dead trilogy.
The newest I Am Legend Trailer.
Looks very cool.
I Am Legend looks to be notches above 28 Days/Weeks/Years/Etc. Later. Better story.
Movies I am pumped for:
I am legend
Ironman
and maybe 1-18-08
[quote]Shammy wrote:
Movies I am pumped for:
I am legend
Ironman
and maybe 1-18-08[/quote]
I concur.
I think that the bridge scene for I am Legend is one of, if not the, most expensive scene ever made.
Has anyone made a joke about how Will Smith shouldn’t be doing behind the neck pullups in the trailer? If he wants to train to defend himself from vampires he should do some barbell complexes while balancing on a bosu ball.