28 Years Later
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Juvarisx
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Flash Fact - 28 Days Later was inspired in part by Day of the Triffids sharing a very similar opening where our protagonist finds themselves in a hospital after a catastrophic event before wandering a ruined city. Instead of rage zombies it has mutant plant monsters and for the premise being really goofy the book is pretty good.
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30 Days of Night is really solid, based on a comic and has a sequel with a fucking hilariously good open. "Hey, how come people don't ever do X OH SHIT SHE'S DOING IT"
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Oldbased
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My only gripe remains he gave his life at the end for a ungrateful bitch who was planning to leave him until she was stuck there and suddenly was like I love you again.
I like to hope he did it more to save humanity but the reality is he did it to save her. He should have let the fuckers eat her.
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if Cillian is going to be back. Him and Boyle are Butt buddies not as bad as Him and Nolan though
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Pretty standard zombie, big reveal is whe Cillian escapes the shooting squad but has kinda given up on life but at that moment when laying down in the woods he sees jets flying over realizing out side of England the world is still functioning giving him hope. Thats when he goes scorched earth on the fortress.
Thank God they didn't go with the alternate ending, that story was fucking retarded
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I have only watched maybe 4 or 5 directors commentary on movies in my life. I loved 28 days later, so one day I was like "Fuck it, lets hear the directors talk about it." and it was shocking how bad this movie almost was. Basically, at one point in the movie they just pause it and start talking about how the whole last 20-30 minutes of the movie had to b changed. Then it goes into a story board of what was supposed to happen, which was the main character does a total blood transfusion on the girls dad, so that he becomes infected, and its a happy ending for the girl and her dad. They had filmed a bunch of it, and then one day, some random crew member went "Are people going to believe this? I mean, you guys already established a single drop of blood in one guys eye turns him into a bloodthirsty zombie in about 30 seconds. How is a blood transfusion not immediately infected?" and they looked at eacxh other and just went.. "uhhhh FUCK.". They had to call the studio and tell them they needed to shut down production and do rewrites. The studio gave them 48 hours to start filming again.
So they basically said they spent the whole first day pissing and moaning, looking for inspiration, trying to come up with an alternate ending. They said they basically stayed up all of night 2 in a fever just trying to make something that worked. They were super unhappy with the direction they were going until the actors started adlibbing and they were basically taking any suggestions from crew and cast for how each scene should go. They then talked about how well everything just happened to work out, and that they had filmed another ending where the main dude had died and it was just the girls living in the woods making the banner, basically the same ending but a little bleaker.
All in all, the only thing I got from the directors commentary was that these guys tried to make a shitty movie thinking it would be good, and instead fell face first into making a good film thanks to everyone around them. So when 28 weeks later was announced I expected it to be garbage, and it was. I don't know what these guys have done since, maybe they figured it all out, but man, I wouldn't bet #1 on anything these guys do based on that one directors commentary.
So they basically said they spent the whole first day pissing and moaning, looking for inspiration, trying to come up with an alternate ending. They said they basically stayed up all of night 2 in a fever just trying to make something that worked. They were super unhappy with the direction they were going until the actors started adlibbing and they were basically taking any suggestions from crew and cast for how each scene should go. They then talked about how well everything just happened to work out, and that they had filmed another ending where the main dude had died and it was just the girls living in the woods making the banner, basically the same ending but a little bleaker.
All in all, the only thing I got from the directors commentary was that these guys tried to make a shitty movie thinking it would be good, and instead fell face first into making a good film thanks to everyone around them. So when 28 weeks later was announced I expected it to be garbage, and it was. I don't know what these guys have done since, maybe they figured it all out, but man, I wouldn't bet #1 on anything these guys do based on that one directors commentary.
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Well fuck me, haha, I just googled Danny Boyle to see what else he had done, and there are some very solid movies on that list. So Jesus, I don't know.
All I can say for sure is the Director and whoever was on that commentary with him sounded like absolute retards on that commentary.
All I can say for sure is the Director and whoever was on that commentary with him sounded like absolute retards on that commentary.
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