Vuuxo
Scaphism
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Yes. Like was said earlier. It's hard to imagine this piece of shit was made by the same people that did the first. Don't even waste your time streaming it.
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28 Years Later
- Thread starter Juvarisx
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Onoes
Trakanon Raider
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I ranted about it at one point, probably in this thread, but a quick recap because I'm not at all surprised by what I'm hearing. I purchased 28 days later on DVD from a blockbuster back in the day. I liked the movie so much I watched it with director commentary turned on, something I've only done a few times in my life. The two directors commenting made it abundantly clear that it was just dumb luck, and a series of random setbacks which caused changes to the script that we even got the movie as is. No joke, they had filmed half the movie when one of the people on crew made some comments about how it didn't make any sense, and they realized he was totally right and had to stop production while they stayed awake for like 48 hours straight trying to rewrite something better. The whole second half of the movie was basically a last minute hail Mary to salvage their dumb vision. If it wasn't for that the movie would have been absolute trash. They literally paused the movie in the director commentary and go through and show you a bunch of artist renderings for how the movie was supposed to happen, and they both agree that it was really really dumb and they don't know why they ever thought that was a good idea. So yeah, at the end of that I thought "holy fuck, probably should steer clear of anything else these guys do!"
Sounds like that was the right call.
Sounds like that was the right call.
Malakriss
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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The trouble is how many productions don't have the leeway to make drastic changes. Or how many have studio execs forcing their changes. Or actors that aren't available to do reshoots or extensions so they have what they have and will "fix it in post"
A lot of great movies had trouble on set and needed major alterations or else it was toast.
A lot of great movies had trouble on set and needed major alterations or else it was toast.
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Silver Knight of the Realm
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Bald Brah
Trakanon Raider
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I didn't even like the second half. It was retarded. Like here we have this impregnable fortress but let's leave it to hunt down some retarded that we already stole his women from. Just kick his ass out. What's he going to do? And even if you want to kill him just kill him while you have him. The whole death march thing was retarded. They have cars just kill him and throw him in the trunk if you want to take him to the corpse pile. Fucking stupid.
Vuuxo
Scaphism
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Bandwagon
Kolohe
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Onoes
Trakanon Raider
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The original plot had zero of the soldier stuff. Basically they were going to tie up the dad who got infected and then wander until they found the lab where the virus was made. There they would find a scientist who tells them the only cure is to do a full blood transfusion. The main guy straps the dad to a table and then hooks himself up to a machine that fully swaps his blood with the dads. The dad basically wakes up cured and the main dude is thrashing around on the table next to him as a zombie. Dad frees himself, gets his family and heads off, with the ending showing main character alone in the room thrashing around while all the violent movies play. Basically the same scene the movie opened with, only this time with him instead of monkies.
A stagehand goes "Haven't we already established that 1 drop of blood from the crow in the dads eye is enough to fully infect him in seconds? why wouldn't all the new blood being pumped into him also just be immediately infected?" and the two directors looked at each other and went "fuck, he's right" and shut everything down to write a whole new second half to the movie.
Stupid.
Drajakur
Molten Core Raider
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This is one of the most criminally idiotic movies I have ever had the misfortune of paying to see. If I had been at home I would have turned it off in the first act. Absolute retardation where no one's motivation makes any sense whatsoever, the source material is butchered and retconned in ways that castrate the original material, and some dumb fucks think that shooting an arrow at someone makes them explode. Just totally retarded.
I hated this movie.
I hated this movie.