Your analysis on the husband is flawed. He stated to not open the door to the child as it would threaten everyone’s lives. His wife ignored it and the husband was the one to be at the door (take on the risk) when it was opened. The husband also defended the house when the infected broke in with the crow bar (which he dropped) and saved the other man from his group. The wife upstairs again put herself and him at risk for going after the child. The husband was without the crow bar at at his point and had no means to defend against the infected. All in the wife made very poor choices for the group for the sake of one child. When the husband was forced with his demise (no weapon) after his wife ignored his please to run he then broke with her to survive.
Yes but him and everyone else is dumb for the fact that not letting the kid in doesn’t stop the horde coming their way. If anything they should have let him in heard him say I’m running from infected they are chasing me. Maybe ask the kid how many they didn’t even do that. Things could have been different if he said 30+. Then they should have packed up immediately running with the kid. They were under the delusion that where they were was safe. These aren’t zombies they are rage filled people they know what houses look like, what they are and will check them.
robert carlyle is allways cast in deep psychological and the most human perverse raw nature projects. He's one of the most underrated and probably misunderstood quality character and quality actors of all
I think the magic of 28 Days was that it focused on telling Jim’s story (with a bit of Selena). 28 Weeks tried to tell the dad’s story, and the sniper’s story, and the kid’s story, and the cafeteria lady’s story, and the helicopter pilot’s story, and… I hope 28 Years is more like 28 Days.
I agree... the infected are terryfing in this movie... they really are the main threat... I hope that Alex Garland in the upcoming movie will not go the route "People are real monsters" garbage like he did in the second part of the first movie....
@@2005jare The first film was poetic though, in the sense that the monster isnt the soldiers, its Jim. At first hes being chased by these creatures you only get a glimpse of. At the end, Jim is the monster you barley get a glimpse of and the soldiers are the ones running. The second film was very Hollywood and ruined the true horror that was in the first film. The opening of 28 weeks is great because it stayed true to the original style, after that, it felt like regurgitated Hollywood garbage.
@@2005jarepeople are the real monsters being your sole takeaway of the final act is rather simplistic and kind of oblivious if I’m being honest. The evolution of Jim’s character arc in the original film is rather poetic. Most people given the circumstances don’t see Jim as the antagonist given what was going to happen had he not acted and embraced man’s most basic instinct for survival being violence
Don's character ist perfect. All decisions and actions he makes are just human. He has such a tragic story which is so emotional. He is consumed by guilt although the audience knows he didn't really do something wrong. Him lying to his children is very understandable. And him seeking for foregiveness when he meets his wife again is also understandable. But just when he gets redemption (for a few seconds) and also the love of his wife, the audience already knows what's to come. Don's love turns into rage even though he's trying his best to fight the virus. His wife's love on the other hand turns into naked fear when she realises that her husband who left her to die earlier is know going to finally kill her. It's so brutal. The cruel murder that follows is just the icing on the cake. Pure cinema.....in my opinion.
16:19 I believe Don did the best he could with the situation he was given. He voiced not to let the child in the house, he defended the house and saved a life while the horde got in, he doubled back and tried to get his wife out as the infected were on his heels. His wife didn’t listen on any front, she chose to protect the kid, while it was noble, it was also foolish. Not judging her for it but I’m not judging Don either. Don was put in an impossible situation, and at the end of the day, the kids would have been orphans if they both died there. Seeing how Don was a calculated infected (I think they are gonna tie in how the virus doesn’t take away key aspects of a person in some cases in 28 years later), and was able to tactfully infect a large group of people in a short time under the US Military’s nose, I think Don would have killed his wife in the cottage had he got infected, and she wouldn’t have escaped. Don most likely thought that at least one of them needed to survive for their kids and took off all the while giving in to fear. But to be honest, what could he have done more than what he already had to protect her, other than become an infected himself by the time the infected got into the room?
I know it's a kid, but if Andy has one hater, I'm it. He's the reason why Alice was even found, he was the one who let Don into a room full of civilians, he's the one who spread the infection to the rest of the mainland.
Some of the HATE and FAULTS should go to the US ARMY too. How so? Giving Don FULL ACCESS to ANYWHERE on and in the BASE. You see how he swipe a card and he was able to enter the room with Alice? Yeah something like that shouldn't be allowed.
Watch the movie again. He didn't let Don in, Don forced the door open because apparently the military forgot there was more than 1 door. Andy wasn't even close to the door, he had only seen his dad through the glass but never made it there.
Watched it again today, i can't believe how those two kids doomed the whole world. Also, the military's plan of evacuating all the civilians in one place is pure stupidity. They should just added metal bars and steel doors on each civilian condo units, if any chance theres a breach, civilian protocol is to lock themselves up and not let anyone in, no infected can get them, if for example one potential infected is locked in a unit they will not get out. worst case scenario is if the infected is locked in the room with some people at least it will not spread and the military will have a much easier time eliminating the threat. They can also advice the civilians to reinforce their vehicles with steel bars just incase theres a breach they can simply lock themselves inside the vehicles incase they are in streets when doing whatever when they sound the alarm. And "CODE RED" will stand for TOTAL LOCK DOWN! Sorry for my english btw
Yup, why do they not include commentaries at all?! Would seem like it would improve view times. I love multiple commentaries available for a single movie, or even like The Fifth Element, had the commentaries AND a pop-up fact blurb like MTV or VH1 used to do.
28 Weeks Later is definitely a great movie, it just has one stupid plot hole which is the fact that Alice was left so unguarded. Other than that it's perfect in my opinion, definitely excited to see what 28 Years Later brings to the table.
My biggest pet peeve of the movie! Ya I know it’s a movie but cmon. She’s arguably the cure that can save the world yet she’s not guarded and any key card can access her room?!?! 🤷🏻♂️ 🤦🏻♂️
There’s a lot of plot holes. Why did it take so long to bring the kids back after it was called in that they left? Why did Don have access to EVERY facility in the quarantine zone? Why was Alice left alone? How did Don leave Alice’s room? Why is code red mean everyone leave their room instead of staying in their room?
@@randylouissaint1636I just watched both films back to back for the first time. Unfortunately I also noticed these things. Also seemed weird that after Don was infected, it looked like he was easily just walking up to military personnel and picking them off without any reaction on their part. Might've been a camera angle thing but it struck me as odd. Another thing was when the three were in the tunnel at the end. Scarlett using night vision while they walked in front of her, unable to see and her just yelling at them seemed stupid. I kept thinking "you're the adult with the rifle and night vision, maybe have them link arms and grab your shirt from behind or something". Still really good film, but the first definitely sold me on the franchise.
True! I was in the Army and we had to stand watch on radios, weapon parts, armory cages, even people on suicide watch. Why would Alice be any different
I think it also does not make sense when they're in the car and they kept getting shot at. you'd think if the military units shooting at them had any ounce of brain cell, they'd have second thoughts shooting a moving vehicle because clearly, those infected with rage virus could not drive. Even with the code red on its extermination phase, there's absolutely no reason to shoot at them, as there is no other reason to do so other than bloodlust.
Im gonna be the one saying it: If you sacrifice yourself wihout any chances of making it out alive, dont blame me for not following you. Its not like he couldve or shouldve, she was done and gone.
I wanna know why was the father so intelligent and could think on his own, and not just rage like All of the rest did in the first movie, and like the rest of the other monsters..!? 🤔
@@djdustieDon was the most underused character/monster in this ... the could atleast hint that being from the carrier is different and a little bit less damaging for the victims brain cognitive functions (opening doors, having some sort of self preservation, past memories,.. etc..)
I don't judge Don at all everyone seems to have this main character syndrome all the time and think they'll be Gerry from WWZ and make it out of an impossible situation but most of us would actually be Don and people need to be more honest with that
Its not main character syndrome to think when faced with danger they would instead choose to protect even at the cost of their lives. History is filled with them. Today yeah if forced to choose to fight or go and continue your cushy 21st century western life many would choose the moral failing but I highly doubt that would carry over in a literal apocalypse situation. That being said I still dont blame Don. Wife didnt listen to him at all and ignored all his input and it resulted in the destruction of everything.
@The4HorsePeaples but what exactly is Don supposed to do get ripped up by the infected with the boy and his wife or see if he can save himself for his kids if there's a one percent chance to be able to see them again he's got to take it
I think this scene itself is a virtue trap, the laymen on the surface is supposed to say, "ooh, ouch," its a very tough decision without argument. But the trap appears when Don flees, you see 20, 30, 40 or even 50 Zs chasing him? in my opinion there's no way Don and Alice survive trying to defend against this horde, saying you'd stay kind of dooms yourself by choice, but that's easy to say knowing the outcome as an onlooker. I also like how this scene invokes thoughts of things like the path of least resistance vs "the right thing", in a heroic perfect world Don fights them off and they saunter into the sunset....., but what really happened is Don had to choose, fight or flight, in a scenario where he has a choice between "the right thing" or the path of least resistance, "the easy choice" which is an ironic comment itself considering you have to live with your choice or a painful but possibly quick death..assuming you actually die to rage. It really speaks to me about human nature in a more broad sense, how for many of us in our lives there will be a point where we have to choose between our family and our own sake. But fortunately for many of us, we don't have as bleak of outcomes to choose from as Don. Great comment greg !
Don’s actions are definitely within the norm. But his overall portrayal makes us hate him like an antagonist. At every pivotal moment, Don messes it hope and removes all hope
I love both movies. But 28 Days Later isn't any more grounded and has so many coincidences that just so happen to advance the plot in unrealistic ways: -Jim happens to wake up a month after the infection starts and walks throughout an abandoned London without attracting any infected. -When he finally does attract the infected, he happens to be rescued by capable fighters. -These capable people let him lead them on a journey to see his surely dead parents -When he's attacked, these capable people save him, and the only one that gets scratched or bit is the expendable character who isn't a love interest. -Jim and Selena happen to be saved by more nice capable people -One speck of blood improbably falls into Frank's eye -Hannah happens to be able to change a tire under pressure as fast as a Nascar pit crew. -Jim goes from being a mail carrier with a TBI to being Batman, and he clears out multiple waves of trained soldiers both outside and in the mansion -Jim survives getting shot in the abdomen in a world without doctors
I can forgive the stuff in the first movie but what boggles my mind is the mom surviving being attacked by multiple "feral" infected and then getting killed by her semi intelligent infected husband. If the infected do not kill each other then she should have been viewed by them as one also since she was carrying the virus in her. She should have been torn to pieces or severely wounded and succumbed to them before being found. Kind of like how the zombies in world war z didn't notice Brad Pitt after he took the antidote is how her infected husband should have viewed her.
I always saw it as just 2 different choices: the wife choose to try to safe the boy even if she die, he choose not to do that and safe himself and wait for his own children. I think he never left her until she went for that kid, she was demanding him to die with her for no reason as a suicide pact and he run out if it. Also my mind play me a game cus I always remembered as if she bit his lips when they kissed as revenge and I love that from her lol. Need to watch that part again now.
@@agfred774I think it may have been beacuse they thought the virus died with the infected they probably turned a regular medical facitlity into a testing room on the fly and since he was a janitor with all access his card could access it and the reason why it wasnt restricted was because they didnt think they would need to contain an infected
Everyone gets this wrong all the time but Juan actually directed most of the opening to 28 weeks later. Boyle only directed the boat part. Give credit to Juan where credit is due
Don was right. Alice was an idiot and so were the soldiers who thought it was a good idea to bring children back a mere month later. In both the original and the sequel, it's an overabundance of empathy/anthropomorphism that gets people killed.
As a right-winger, I couldn't have come up with a better illustration of the fatal consequences of overly sentimental liberals than 28 Weeks Later. The movie has a lot of parallels with the migration crises plaguing Europe and the US. Innocent people want to escape their chaotic hellholes (whether they be a zombie apocalypse or the real life Third World), but responsible people CAN'T let the refugees in, otherwise civilization will collapse. People in authority have to steel their nerves, ignore their emotions, and accept that some people can't be saved without putting other people at risk.
If the infection ran for 28year it should be apocalyptic af … I’d watch it out of curiosity but nothing could compare to how 28days later felt when it first came out
people are forgetting the comics that official tied events between the first two movies and alex garland wrote them too. he might take elements from those books and put them as connection plots to this new movie coming up.
I think an interesting alternative plot would be if Alice wasn’t an asymptomatic carrier, but rather a different kind of carrier. Take Don’s plot of being a slightly more intelligent infected, and apply it to her. What if Alice gets infected, but isn’t immediately overcome with animalistic rage, and she fully retains her calculating intelligence and motor skills? She would still be driven almost completely by rage, so she could come after Don for abandoning her, and cause the second outbreak. Don now has to run with the kids from the monster that he, in part, created. You could still have Rose observe that Alice or the kids could be the key to a vaccine/cure because she’s observed Alice’s intelligence or one of the kids get bit with no immediate rage.
This is great. I really appreciate the straightforward analysis of storytelling. One thing that I would add as a criticism is the kiss between Don and his wife. When I saw that with the line of spit, I thought "why would there be spit with that kind of kiss?" It seemed really forced as a way to transmit the virus.
2:58 people blame Alice for helping the boy or the boy from coming to the place. In reality the boy told them he was running from infected they should have known the infected were coming soon. The boy actually could have saved them if they listened and kept running with him. They were just too stuck on the place they were at and didn’t want to leave or were ignoring thinking the infected chasing him wont come this way.
I think the main message of the movie is that humanity is selfish and willing to Jeopardise the well being of the entire human race for their own personal whims , emotional comfort and individual survival. When push comes to shove, people are willing let other ppl die to survive, ignore safety protools and bring people out of quarantine zones. The entire movie is basically characters taking absolutely terrible decisions and risks, with the children bringing back the infection just to get a picure of their mom , their dad spreading it due to being impatient to get his story straight with his wife so it doesn't come out in front on his kids that he abandonned her... To the sniper abandonning his post and working actively to break the quarantine due to personal attachment to the doctor also breaking protocol and willing to extract potential infected for a cure, to the fact the sister hides the fact his brother got bitten to the soldier , knowing full well there's a possibility he'll cause an outbreak .... It honestly kinda makes me despise the two kids, as they show zero guilt for breaking quarantine, which lead to the outbreak, then leaving quarantine zone while being carrier. Zero personal responsability... Then again they are kids, but sadly you end the film with the realisation the second the kid's saliva comes in contact with anyone, it will trigger an outbreak..
The dad literally said “leave him” and as he was about to go in and physically remove her an infected literally came in between them. No weapon, no chance
i haven't watched this movie since it came out, but my reaction at the time is that it felt like it had been written by a 5th grader. it's just a series of tropes and convenient coincidences. the whole plot felt obvious, where every step is the most tropey next step.
Alice's good, yet dumb, intentions caused her death. At least the kids were still left with one parent. I also don't blame Don for lying to the kids. I wouldn't normally condone lying. However in this case, it's like, A. Your mom didn't listen, she let someone being chased in. Then she went and again tried to get the kid when the infected were very close and was cornered. Or B. We fought the best we could. I couldn't save her in the end but I know she would be glad that you guys still have one parent left, she loved y'all so much.
Interesting bit of subtext in the movie I noticed in 28 Weeks - When Doyle is saying, "I'll meet you there", and then later winking at the kids from the back window, he's trying to put them at ease. However, the "fuck me" he gives when he sees the flamethrowers, the wide eyes he shows Scarlet as he says "I'll meet you there", and the fact he leaves his rifle in the car - All of it suggests Doyle knew he was fucked as soon as he saw the flamethrowers; He knew he was about to die but kept up an act to keep the kids calm as they could be.
Everyone's been saying how Don's actions are human. Tho honestly, A lot of characters here is quite human, either for the best (Don's survival instinct and escaping) or worst (Alice's maternal instinct overriding common sense, and ofc the damn kids). Audience tend to say how 'this character stupid' and this and that when sometimes, incompetency and preventable disasters are the horrors here. Heck even 28 Days the Animal Free Gang or whatever, they freed the chimps in the worst way possible without a cage ready (then again they probably hate cages so), you don't just expect a chimp to be friendly and not maul you, infected or not.
Don made the most human decision. Humans aren’t heroes destined to make sacrifices. His survival instincts said “ FLIGHT NOT FIGHT,” and he made a decision I’m confident most would make. I do not judge don’s decision to run.
28 Weeks Later is an unintentionally right wing horror movie. Every catastrophe in the film is due to characters displaying a form of "toxic empathy". The excessive sympathy in defiance of logic and common sense has devastating consequences. Idris Elba's character ends up being right to firebomb the city. If anything, he should be criticized for not going far enough to contain the virus. Jeremy Renner's character can't bring himself to kill innocent civilians... so instead shoots his own comrades and friends! Every "sacrifice" in the movie allows the kids to fly across the English Channel where they infect mainland Europe killing millions. 28 Weeks Later is a "timely" movie, but not in the sense the writers intended. The movie shows the consequences of liberal sentimentalism on civilization. The characters put the entire world at risk to save the lives of a couple of kids. Their disregard for the safety of literally anyone else dooms an entire continent and perhaps the world.
This was THE wrong but brilliantly written and coherent review of a movie I just watched earlier with just 2 weeks before an election lol. Independent voting aside, this thing tracks WAAAAY harder than it should, js 👉🏾
Wouldn't limited regulation and control over the virus exemplify right-wing ideals? Not to mention it was the right not wanting to adhere to safety precautions (in the US) during COVID
@@icewaterwitlemon Yes and no. Remember, the "rage virus" is super contagious and super lethal. A single drop of blood or saliva has a 99.99% chance of infecting someone with feral strength and speed with only the desire to kill. COVID has a 99.5% chance of survival and is only dangerous for elderly, obese, or sickly people. Sure the left is more likely to equate COVID with the rage virus, but that says more about left wing hypochondriacs than right wing misanthropes. Remember, it wasn't until COVID that Trump got the border secured with executive power justified to stop the spread of COVID. And it was Biden who undid all the executive orders around the border despite maintaining domestic COVID restrictions. According to the left, COVID was too dangerous for church services or spring break parties or visits to your dying grandmother... but it was perfectly safe for tinder hookups or BLM protests/riots. This is a long way of saying that COVID restrictions were justified by parties against certain actions that political actors already wanted to restrict. I saw 28 Weeks Later as an (unintentional) allegory for the migrant crises across the West. There are innocent civilians trying to escape savage nations gone to hell. But we can't let them in otherwise our countries will become "shit hole" countries too. We must steel ourselves against emotional appeals lest our civilization descend into third world savagery. I doubt the director and writer intended to convey this message. I just think the writers were dumb and didn't think through what their film was implying.
@@icewaterwitlemon Yes and no. In the US, Trump used emergency powers from Covid to seal the border from illegal immigration. The left pushed for church closures (punishing religious people) and school closures (benefitting teachers unions) but were fine with BLM protests/riots. Fauci even gave an interview in April 2020 saying Tinder hookups were fine... meanwhile people couldn't visit their dying relatives in the hospital. The "rage virus" is highly contagious with a 99.99% chance of turning you into a feral animal killing everyone in sight. Covid on the other hand has a 99.5% chance of surviving, and is only dangerous for old, obese, and sickly people. I don't think right wingers would react the same way towards the rage virus as they did Covid. I saw 28 Weeks Later as an (unintentional) allegory for the migration crises in the West. Innocent civilians are fleeing third world hellholes, but letting them come into our countries will bring the violence here and result in the end of our civilization. The lesson I took from the movie (that can be applied to the migrant crises) is that we need to steel our nerves against sob stories and refuse to let in people fleeing areas of violence unless we're absolutely sure they're safe. I don't think the writers intended to convey this message... I just think the writers aren't that smart and didn't think through the implications of the story.
It puts me off that they already dream of a new trilogy. That never ends well. Get the first installment (in this case the third) working. We have the original actor, director and writer. So I see a chance. It also comes at a convenient time. Our civilization is but a huge crash at the stock market away from crumbling. But I fear we'll get nothing but a passable cash grab.
yeah i really wish don and alice were in the movie a lot longer, i think the dynamic they had (both as loving and scorned partners) would have brought some interesting themes to the plot, plus i would've liked to have seen more of how the infection affected alice and to see her fighting against it. i think taking them out of the story so early on was just an excuse to bring jeremy renner and rose byrne to the forefront.
Does it seem to anyone else like Don is a "smart" zombie of some kind? He acts really strange. Weird that his son and wife also have a resistance to the virus.
I think the fact that this movie came out in 2007, and had a cartoonishly incompetent and undisciplined portrayal of the U.S. Army, was more of a commentary geopolitics than anything. I watched it once in theaters, and then hadn't seen it again until yesterday and holy shit is it laughable. 😂
The entire immunity angle should never have made it in the movie. It is completely unnecessary and overplayed. The entire point of an outbreak apocalypse is that there's no going back. There's no fixing things. You just have to make the best out of the broken pieces. At least TLOU sidesteps the immunity angle by never allowing it to lead to a cure. Not just because logisitcally that's almost impossible to do, but because human motives also get in the way of achieving it. Mostly, it's because immunity is used as a vehicle for survivors guilt for Ellie. That's its purpose in the story. So unless you're gonna do something like that, just avoid immunity / cure plots. Not least because it often leads to exposition of how the virus works, which always sounds corny and BS (less said, the better). Weeks would have been a better movie without it. Another outbreak occuring in the city could have happened any number of ways, and the rest of the movie could largely stay the same as everyone tries to escape the city. Indeed, the soldier could have been replaced by the dad. That way, we could continue exploring the family dynamic as the dad and the kids try to escape the city. It would make the sacrifice via flamethrower even more hard-hitting and allow the dad a redemption arc for failing to save his loved ones the first time around. Just lots of missed opportunities.
Is it just me or every comment in regards to defending Don's actions tend to also mention that there are others that also condemn his "selfishness" in "abandoning his wife". When really, in every single 28 Weeks Later video comment section I see, all are in arms in saying that Don is right. Which is weird, are there any Don critics? Every single comment I saw has been like "I'd be like Don, I'm smart and it's survival baby fuck em wife and kids uwu" lmao
Zombie movies started as a statement about how the youth will need to stand up and fight for their life aginst the old socially accepted normal. When Romaro made the first night of the living dead it is about the changes in values at the time of the Vietnam war. So I see every zombie in every movie as Republicans.
28 years is making a TRILOGY!? i did NOT know that! just thought it would be years than thats it but a trilogy? im PUUUUMPED! just REALLY hope they dont mess it up. but you can complain at RUNNERS! #MakeYourDaddyProudSon! sorry for the hashtag, i hate it.
28 Days later is my 2nd favorite Zombie movie. I love 28 Weeks also. I give 28 Days a 8.5 out of 10 and 28 weeks like a 8.0. My favorite Zombie movie is Dawn of the Dead 2004. If the Walking Dead was a movie, the first few seasons to me would be a 9.0 out of 10. When it comes to Infection movies, I love the first Stakeland, for me it's about a 8.5 also, technically it's vampirism yes but it's told more through an infected outbreak lens. World War Z is ok, just fun to watch. I give World War Z a 6.5 out of 10. I hated Z nation but liked Black Summer more, it's like a 6 to me. There was another movie I can't remember with a father and Daughter whom dealt with infected who mutated during the Winter and became Wendigo type infected, that was like a 7.0 to me. I like Train to Busan (8.5) and the Animated Seol Station (8.0) and I give I Am Legend a 8.0 too and Train to Busan Peninsula a (7.5). I watch pretty much every zombie/infected movie I come across. There's so many I cannot list them all. I watched Dawn of the Dead 2004 like 16-18 times. Sean of the Dead like 5 times (8.5) Solid comedy zombie movie.
I didn't enjoy this one because of the issues that you mentioned. The opening put so much weight into Don's decision to run that I thought it would play a bigger, more interesting part later on in the story. Instead we got what we got. However, we did get another OneTake video so it all worked out. Thanks! :)
Says a lot the only good scene in the movie was the only one directed by Boyle. 28 Weeks had so many stupid plot holes and felt like far too much a Hollywoodised and less gritty version of 28 Days.
This movie always makes me cry- cos its always love!! Love dooms us all!! But what's the point of living if not for love??! It's all so heartbreaking, got me crying all over the place...lol yeah, my kids won't go to the cinema with me anymore😂😂🤷♀️
When the medical industry is exposed, for being the source of most of the world's illnesses, this scenario seems imminent. That's my perception of 28 days later. But, I am just a humble usher. I merely open doors that people WANT to walk through, and point out the options available, when inspired.
The thing that gets me us they bring the mother in with the kids quarantine them but somehow the husband gets in with his wife alone like some piss poor quarinten procedure an the fact he easily gets out. An ut easily gets out of control like how
Your analysis on the husband is flawed. He stated to not open the door to the child as it would threaten everyone’s lives. His wife ignored it and the husband was the one to be at the door (take on the risk) when it was opened. The husband also defended the house when the infected broke in with the crow bar (which he dropped) and saved the other man from his group. The wife upstairs again put herself and him at risk for going after the child. The husband was without the crow bar at at his point and had no means to defend against the infected. All in the wife made very poor choices for the group for the sake of one child. When the husband was forced with his demise (no weapon) after his wife ignored his please to run he then broke with her to survive.
Exactly. Man says go right but woman goes left, not responsible for the outcome of the left side.
Yes but him and everyone else is dumb for the fact that not letting the kid in doesn’t stop the horde coming their way. If anything they should have let him in heard him say I’m running from infected they are chasing me. Maybe ask the kid how many they didn’t even do that. Things could have been different if he said 30+. Then they should have packed up immediately running with the kid. They were under the delusion that where they were was safe. These aren’t zombies they are rage filled people they know what houses look like, what they are and will check them.
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robert carlyle is allways cast in deep psychological and the most human perverse raw nature projects. He's one of the most underrated and probably misunderstood quality character and quality actors of all
Yeah, the husband did all her could and more.
I think the magic of 28 Days was that it focused on telling Jim’s story (with a bit of Selena). 28 Weeks tried to tell the dad’s story, and the sniper’s story, and the kid’s story, and the cafeteria lady’s story, and the helicopter pilot’s story, and…
I hope 28 Years is more like 28 Days.
I certainly liked that 28 Weeks Later gave the infected more focus and screentime
I agree... the infected are terryfing in this movie... they really are the main threat... I hope that Alex Garland in the upcoming movie will not go the route "People are real monsters" garbage like he did in the second part of the first movie....
@@2005jare The first film was poetic though, in the sense that the monster isnt the soldiers, its Jim. At first hes being chased by these creatures you only get a glimpse of. At the end, Jim is the monster you barley get a glimpse of and the soldiers are the ones running. The second film was very Hollywood and ruined the true horror that was in the first film. The opening of 28 weeks is great because it stayed true to the original style, after that, it felt like regurgitated Hollywood garbage.
@@2005jarepeople are the real monsters being your sole takeaway of the final act is rather simplistic and kind of oblivious if I’m being honest. The evolution of Jim’s character arc in the original film is rather poetic. Most people given the circumstances don’t see Jim as the antagonist given what was going to happen had he not acted and embraced man’s most basic instinct for survival being violence
Don's character ist perfect. All decisions and actions he makes are just human. He has such a tragic story which is so emotional. He is consumed by guilt although the audience knows he didn't really do something wrong. Him lying to his children is very understandable. And him seeking for foregiveness when he meets his wife again is also understandable. But just when he gets redemption (for a few seconds) and also the love of his wife, the audience already knows what's to come. Don's love turns into rage even though he's trying his best to fight the virus. His wife's love on the other hand turns into naked fear when she realises that her husband who left her to die earlier is know going to finally kill her. It's so brutal. The cruel murder that follows is just the icing on the cake. Pure cinema.....in my opinion.
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I believe Don did the best he could with the situation he was given. He voiced not to let the child in the house, he defended the house and saved a life while the horde got in, he doubled back and tried to get his wife out as the infected were on his heels. His wife didn’t listen on any front, she chose to protect the kid, while it was noble, it was also foolish. Not judging her for it but I’m not judging Don either.
Don was put in an impossible situation, and at the end of the day, the kids would have been orphans if they both died there. Seeing how Don was a calculated infected (I think they are gonna tie in how the virus doesn’t take away key aspects of a person in some cases in 28 years later), and was able to tactfully infect a large group of people in a short time under the US Military’s nose, I think Don would have killed his wife in the cottage had he got infected, and she wouldn’t have escaped.
Don most likely thought that at least one of them needed to survive for their kids and took off all the while giving in to fear. But to be honest, what could he have done more than what he already had to protect her, other than become an infected himself by the time the infected got into the room?
Yeah, Don was more of a man than most people would give him credit for. I'd like to see some of the people who blame Don in his position.
The only thing he really did wrong was lie to his kids. I don't even know if blame him for that either.
The scene where he attacks his wife while she is strapped to the table still gives me chills to this day. Ugh it is so brutal and disturbing.
I know right!! My girlfriend and I just watched it and we were absolutely stunned by it 😮
I know it's a kid, but if Andy has one hater, I'm it. He's the reason why Alice was even found, he was the one who let Don into a room full of civilians, he's the one who spread the infection to the rest of the mainland.
Yup he should have been put in prison I’m serious he was a brat.
Some of the HATE and FAULTS should go to the US ARMY too. How so? Giving Don FULL ACCESS to ANYWHERE on and in the BASE. You see how he swipe a card and he was able to enter the room with Alice? Yeah something like that shouldn't be allowed.
Watch the movie again. He didn't let Don in, Don forced the door open because apparently the military forgot there was more than 1 door. Andy wasn't even close to the door, he had only seen his dad through the glass but never made it there.
I will never forgive what they do to Doyle.
Watched it again today, i can't believe how those two kids doomed the whole world.
Also, the military's plan of evacuating all the civilians in one place is pure stupidity. They should just added metal bars and steel doors on each civilian condo units, if any chance theres a breach, civilian protocol is to lock themselves up and not let anyone in, no infected can get them, if for example one potential infected is locked in a unit they will not get out. worst case scenario is if the infected is locked in the room with some people at least it will not spread and the military will have a much easier time eliminating the threat. They can also advice the civilians to reinforce their vehicles with steel bars just incase theres a breach they can simply lock themselves inside the vehicles incase they are in streets when doing whatever when they sound the alarm. And "CODE RED" will stand for TOTAL LOCK DOWN!
Sorry for my english btw
I think the past few years have proven that the authorities have no real clue how to deal with a quarantine situation.
Gawd I miss DVD commentary, we lost that great when streaming took over and its sad 😢
Yup, why do they not include commentaries at all?! Would seem like it would improve view times. I love multiple commentaries available for a single movie, or even like The Fifth Element, had the commentaries AND a pop-up fact blurb like MTV or VH1 used to do.
28 Weeks Later is definitely a great movie, it just has one stupid plot hole which is the fact that Alice was left so unguarded. Other than that it's perfect in my opinion, definitely excited to see what 28 Years Later brings to the table.
My biggest pet peeve of the movie! Ya I know it’s a movie but cmon. She’s arguably the cure that can save the world yet she’s not guarded and any key card can access her room?!?! 🤷🏻♂️ 🤦🏻♂️
There’s a lot of plot holes. Why did it take so long to bring the kids back after it was called in that they left? Why did Don have access to EVERY facility in the quarantine zone? Why was Alice left alone? How did Don leave Alice’s room? Why is code red mean everyone leave their room instead of staying in their room?
@@randylouissaint1636I just watched both films back to back for the first time. Unfortunately I also noticed these things. Also seemed weird that after Don was infected, it looked like he was easily just walking up to military personnel and picking them off without any reaction on their part. Might've been a camera angle thing but it struck me as odd.
Another thing was when the three were in the tunnel at the end. Scarlett using night vision while they walked in front of her, unable to see and her just yelling at them seemed stupid. I kept thinking "you're the adult with the rifle and night vision, maybe have them link arms and grab your shirt from behind or something".
Still really good film, but the first definitely sold me on the franchise.
True! I was in the Army and we had to stand watch on radios, weapon parts, armory cages, even people on suicide watch. Why would Alice be any different
I think it also does not make sense when they're in the car and they kept getting shot at. you'd think if the military units shooting at them had any ounce of brain cell, they'd have second thoughts shooting a moving vehicle because clearly, those infected with rage virus could not drive. Even with the code red on its extermination phase, there's absolutely no reason to shoot at them, as there is no other reason to do so other than bloodlust.
Im gonna be the one saying it: If you sacrifice yourself wihout any chances of making it out alive, dont blame me for not following you. Its not like he couldve or shouldve, she was done and gone.
All we needed in this film was Jill, chris, claire and Leon.
"Gimme an egg"
lol totally agreed and then Jill gets the rage virus and joins wesker in battle
Coach, Rochelle, Nick, Ellis.
ELLIS! ELLIS IS THAT YOU?! WHAT THE HELL!
*That is when an infected would sneak behind Coach and jump at his back.*
I wanna know why was the father so intelligent and could think on his own, and not just rage like All of the rest did in the first movie, and like the rest of the other monsters..!? 🤔
Yeah man, he was the SCARIEST version of the rage zombies
Some remaining will have selfish (old world) ambitions or ideals, despite the lessons we're to have learned from the past.
Because the plot needed him to.
@@djdustie that damn plot armor is impenetrable...
@@djdustieDon was the most underused character/monster in this ... the could atleast hint that being from the carrier is different and a little bit less damaging for the victims brain cognitive functions (opening doors, having some sort of self preservation, past memories,.. etc..)
I don't judge Don at all everyone seems to have this main character syndrome all the time and think they'll be Gerry from WWZ and make it out of an impossible situation but most of us would actually be Don and people need to be more honest with that
Its not main character syndrome to think when faced with danger they would instead choose to protect even at the cost of their lives. History is filled with them. Today yeah if forced to choose to fight or go and continue your cushy 21st century western life many would choose the moral failing but I highly doubt that would carry over in a literal apocalypse situation. That being said I still dont blame Don. Wife didnt listen to him at all and ignored all his input and it resulted in the destruction of everything.
@The4HorsePeaples but what exactly is Don supposed to do get ripped up by the infected with the boy and his wife or see if he can save himself for his kids if there's a one percent chance to be able to see them again he's got to take it
I think this scene itself is a virtue trap, the laymen on the surface is supposed to say, "ooh, ouch," its a very tough decision without argument. But the trap appears when Don flees, you see 20, 30, 40 or even 50 Zs chasing him? in my opinion there's no way Don and Alice survive trying to defend against this horde, saying you'd stay kind of dooms yourself by choice, but that's easy to say knowing the outcome as an onlooker.
I also like how this scene invokes thoughts of things like the path of least resistance vs "the right thing", in a heroic perfect world Don fights them off and they saunter into the sunset....., but what really happened is Don had to choose, fight or flight, in a scenario where he has a choice between "the right thing" or the path of least resistance, "the easy choice" which is an ironic comment itself considering you have to live with your choice or a painful but possibly quick death..assuming you actually die to rage. It really speaks to me about human nature in a more broad sense, how for many of us in our lives there will be a point where we have to choose between our family and our own sake. But fortunately for many of us, we don't have as bleak of outcomes to choose from as Don.
Great comment greg !
@@The4HorsePeaples Yet here you are, judging him without directly saying it. You're entire argument contradicts itself.
Don’s actions are definitely within the norm. But his overall portrayal makes us hate him like an antagonist. At every pivotal moment, Don messes it hope and removes all hope
I think Alice knew exactly what would happen when Don kissed her. It backfired, but I think she knew. She felt rage too.
I think ur right
She smirks slightly because she knows what she done. She obviously freaks out when she realises she’s about to get beaten to death though
Did you mean she wanted to infect him?
Look at Begby Run!
Run, Begby! RUN!
loved that opening sequence.
Very intense.
I love both movies. But 28 Days Later isn't any more grounded and has so many coincidences that just so happen to advance the plot in unrealistic ways:
-Jim happens to wake up a month after the infection starts and walks throughout an abandoned London without attracting any infected.
-When he finally does attract the infected, he happens to be rescued by capable fighters.
-These capable people let him lead them on a journey to see his surely dead parents
-When he's attacked, these capable people save him, and the only one that gets scratched or bit is the expendable character who isn't a love interest.
-Jim and Selena happen to be saved by more nice capable people
-One speck of blood improbably falls into Frank's eye
-Hannah happens to be able to change a tire under pressure as fast as a Nascar pit crew.
-Jim goes from being a mail carrier with a TBI to being Batman, and he clears out multiple waves of trained soldiers both outside and in the mansion
-Jim survives getting shot in the abdomen in a world without doctors
I can forgive the stuff in the first movie but what boggles my mind is the mom surviving being attacked by multiple "feral" infected and then getting killed by her semi intelligent infected husband. If the infected do not kill each other then she should have been viewed by them as one also since she was carrying the virus in her. She should have been torn to pieces or severely wounded and succumbed to them before being found.
Kind of like how the zombies in world war z didn't notice Brad Pitt after he took the antidote is how her infected husband should have viewed her.
I enjoyed both films. It's a small gripe, but I wish they left in the scene from the trailer where Doyle winks at the kids as he's pushing the car.
I always saw it as just 2 different choices: the wife choose to try to safe the boy even if she die, he choose not to do that and safe himself and wait for his own children. I think he never left her until she went for that kid, she was demanding him to die with her for no reason as a suicide pact and he run out if it. Also my mind play me a game cus I always remembered as if she bit his lips when they kissed as revenge and I love that from her lol. Need to watch that part again now.
I swear i remember her biting his lip too. Mandela effect
Stupid movie police: why was there no guard posted outside Alice's room?
Don't get me started 😂
Hehe, it would have been a short movie ;)
how the hell does zombie dom swiped his id card
@@agfred774swipe only on entry not exit too.
@@agfred774I think it may have been beacuse they thought the virus died with the infected they probably turned a regular medical facitlity into a testing room on the fly and since he was a janitor with all access his card could access it and the reason why it wasnt restricted was because they didnt think they would need to contain an infected
Lovely video. Thank you. Can’t wait for 28 years later!!!! I’ve always cherished these two movies.
Everyone gets this wrong all the time but Juan actually directed most of the opening to 28 weeks later. Boyle only directed the boat part. Give credit to Juan where credit is due
Don was right. Alice was an idiot and so were the soldiers who thought it was a good idea to bring children back a mere month later. In both the original and the sequel, it's an overabundance of empathy/anthropomorphism that gets people killed.
Don is also an imbecile for kissing her when he knows the obvious that his wife was attacked by the infected.
Yeah I like the movie but lots of details just didn't make any sense
As a right-winger, I couldn't have come up with a better illustration of the fatal consequences of overly sentimental liberals than 28 Weeks Later. The movie has a lot of parallels with the migration crises plaguing Europe and the US. Innocent people want to escape their chaotic hellholes (whether they be a zombie apocalypse or the real life Third World), but responsible people CAN'T let the refugees in, otherwise civilization will collapse. People in authority have to steel their nerves, ignore their emotions, and accept that some people can't be saved without putting other people at risk.
I recently rewatched this for the first time since it came out and was so surprised at how good this film is.
28 Weeks Later's Opening is Peak Cinema of showing off True Horror!
If the infection ran for 28year it should be apocalyptic af … I’d watch it out of curiosity but nothing could compare to how 28days later felt when it first came out
people are forgetting the comics that official tied events between the first two movies and alex garland wrote them too. he might take elements from those books and put them as connection plots to this new movie coming up.
I think an interesting alternative plot would be if Alice wasn’t an asymptomatic carrier, but rather a different kind of carrier. Take Don’s plot of being a slightly more intelligent infected, and apply it to her.
What if Alice gets infected, but isn’t immediately overcome with animalistic rage, and she fully retains her calculating intelligence and motor skills? She would still be driven almost completely by rage, so she could come after Don for abandoning her, and cause the second outbreak. Don now has to run with the kids from the monster that he, in part, created.
You could still have Rose observe that Alice or the kids could be the key to a vaccine/cure because she’s observed Alice’s intelligence or one of the kids get bit with no immediate rage.
It took me all these years to figure out the military gassed everything. Which is why we see so many skeletons in the city. Crazy.
This is great. I really appreciate the straightforward analysis of storytelling. One thing that I would add as a criticism is the kiss between Don and his wife. When I saw that with the line of spit, I thought "why would there be spit with that kind of kiss?" It seemed really forced as a way to transmit the virus.
2:58 people blame Alice for helping the boy or the boy from coming to the place. In reality the boy told them he was running from infected they should have known the infected were coming soon. The boy actually could have saved them if they listened and kept running with him. They were just too stuck on the place they were at and didn’t want to leave or were ignoring thinking the infected chasing him wont come this way.
Great breakdown of the duality of fear and rage
Think I’m the only person on the planet that likes the second more than the first
Me
I actually saw the 2nd one before the 1st lol
I didn’t even know there was a 1st one until
After I saw the 2nd one.
The original cast were originally suppose to come back to for 28 weeks later but they were busy with other project
That’s with other movies
Ironically, or perhaps tragically, the UK looks a bit like the desolate landscape of 28 Weeks Later for real these days.
Have you not see the many Indians and Muslims over there lmaooo
28 weeks later feels like it happened in the first day of the virus lol
28 days later was the first zombie movie where zombies could run.
Compared with much of the junk that comes out the past few years, 28 Weeks imo is a masterpiece.
Fair lol
Without a doubt (except for Dune).
I think the main message of the movie is that humanity is selfish and willing to Jeopardise the well being of the entire human race for their own personal whims , emotional comfort and individual survival. When push comes to shove, people are willing let other ppl die to survive, ignore safety protools and bring people out of quarantine zones. The entire movie is basically characters taking absolutely terrible decisions and risks, with the children bringing back the infection just to get a picure of their mom , their dad spreading it due to being impatient to get his story straight with his wife so it doesn't come out in front on his kids that he abandonned her... To the sniper abandonning his post and working actively to break the quarantine due to personal attachment to the doctor also breaking protocol and willing to extract potential infected for a cure, to the fact the sister hides the fact his brother got bitten to the soldier , knowing full well there's a possibility he'll cause an outbreak .... It honestly kinda makes me despise the two kids, as they show zero guilt for breaking quarantine, which lead to the outbreak, then leaving quarantine zone while being carrier. Zero personal responsability... Then again they are kids, but sadly you end the film with the realisation the second the kid's saliva comes in contact with anyone, it will trigger an outbreak..
28 years is gonna be a bop.
itll be woke in some way. Shame
@@ETfromMexicohow do you guys know¿
@@ilqar887 Cuz obvious.
@@ETfromMexicoThe infected will all be straight white males. 😂
@@ETfromMexico Cry snowflake Cry
The dad literally said “leave him” and as he was about to go in and physically remove her an infected literally came in between them. No weapon, no chance
i haven't watched this movie since it came out, but my reaction at the time is that it felt like it had been written by a 5th grader. it's just a series of tropes and convenient coincidences. the whole plot felt obvious, where every step is the most tropey next step.
Alice's good, yet dumb, intentions caused her death. At least the kids were still left with one parent. I also don't blame Don for lying to the kids. I wouldn't normally condone lying. However in this case, it's like, A. Your mom didn't listen, she let someone being chased in. Then she went and again tried to get the kid when the infected were very close and was cornered. Or B. We fought the best we could. I couldn't save her in the end but I know she would be glad that you guys still have one parent left, she loved y'all so much.
Interesting bit of subtext in the movie I noticed in 28 Weeks - When Doyle is saying, "I'll meet you there", and then later winking at the kids from the back window, he's trying to put them at ease. However, the "fuck me" he gives when he sees the flamethrowers, the wide eyes he shows Scarlet as he says "I'll meet you there", and the fact he leaves his rifle in the car - All of it suggests Doyle knew he was fucked as soon as he saw the flamethrowers; He knew he was about to die but kept up an act to keep the kids calm as they could be.
He only winks at them in the trailer
On dvd he does not wink at them
And all that pandemonium happened because two kids disobeyed their parent.
Either that or they definitely need to have more guards posted in a zombie medical research facility
Losing Hawkeye was the worst part about this movie.
I remember watching this when i was 12 and being traumatized by the opening scene lmao. Thanks dad
Everyone's been saying how Don's actions are human. Tho honestly, A lot of characters here is quite human, either for the best (Don's survival instinct and escaping) or worst (Alice's maternal instinct overriding common sense, and ofc the damn kids). Audience tend to say how 'this character stupid' and this and that when sometimes, incompetency and preventable disasters are the horrors here. Heck even 28 Days the Animal Free Gang or whatever, they freed the chimps in the worst way possible without a cage ready (then again they probably hate cages so), you don't just expect a chimp to be friendly and not maul you, infected or not.
I don’t think Don “lied” he probably invented that story as a coping mechanism and believed it due to how traumatic the experience was
It's about the friends we made along the way.
The treasure was inside your heart all along!
I love rumplestiltskin💛💛💛
He’s a coward in both, tho.
I also saw Rumpy.
Don made the most human decision. Humans aren’t heroes destined to make sacrifices. His survival instincts said “ FLIGHT NOT FIGHT,” and he made a decision I’m confident most would make. I do not judge don’s decision to run.
28 Weeks Later is an unintentionally right wing horror movie. Every catastrophe in the film is due to characters displaying a form of "toxic empathy". The excessive sympathy in defiance of logic and common sense has devastating consequences.
Idris Elba's character ends up being right to firebomb the city. If anything, he should be criticized for not going far enough to contain the virus. Jeremy Renner's character can't bring himself to kill innocent civilians... so instead shoots his own comrades and friends! Every "sacrifice" in the movie allows the kids to fly across the English Channel where they infect mainland Europe killing millions.
28 Weeks Later is a "timely" movie, but not in the sense the writers intended. The movie shows the consequences of liberal sentimentalism on civilization. The characters put the entire world at risk to save the lives of a couple of kids. Their disregard for the safety of literally anyone else dooms an entire continent and perhaps the world.
This was THE wrong but brilliantly written and coherent review of a movie I just watched earlier with just 2 weeks before an election lol. Independent voting aside, this thing tracks WAAAAY harder than it should, js 👉🏾
Interesting opinion
Wouldn't limited regulation and control over the virus exemplify right-wing ideals? Not to mention it was the right not wanting to adhere to safety precautions (in the US) during COVID
@@icewaterwitlemon Yes and no. Remember, the "rage virus" is super contagious and super lethal. A single drop of blood or saliva has a 99.99% chance of infecting someone with feral strength and speed with only the desire to kill. COVID has a 99.5% chance of survival and is only dangerous for elderly, obese, or sickly people. Sure the left is more likely to equate COVID with the rage virus, but that says more about left wing hypochondriacs than right wing misanthropes.
Remember, it wasn't until COVID that Trump got the border secured with executive power justified to stop the spread of COVID. And it was Biden who undid all the executive orders around the border despite maintaining domestic COVID restrictions. According to the left, COVID was too dangerous for church services or spring break parties or visits to your dying grandmother... but it was perfectly safe for tinder hookups or BLM protests/riots. This is a long way of saying that COVID restrictions were justified by parties against certain actions that political actors already wanted to restrict.
I saw 28 Weeks Later as an (unintentional) allegory for the migrant crises across the West. There are innocent civilians trying to escape savage nations gone to hell. But we can't let them in otherwise our countries will become "shit hole" countries too. We must steel ourselves against emotional appeals lest our civilization descend into third world savagery. I doubt the director and writer intended to convey this message. I just think the writers were dumb and didn't think through what their film was implying.
@@icewaterwitlemon Yes and no. In the US, Trump used emergency powers from Covid to seal the border from illegal immigration. The left pushed for church closures (punishing religious people) and school closures (benefitting teachers unions) but were fine with BLM protests/riots. Fauci even gave an interview in April 2020 saying Tinder hookups were fine... meanwhile people couldn't visit their dying relatives in the hospital.
The "rage virus" is highly contagious with a 99.99% chance of turning you into a feral animal killing everyone in sight. Covid on the other hand has a 99.5% chance of surviving, and is only dangerous for old, obese, and sickly people. I don't think right wingers would react the same way towards the rage virus as they did Covid.
I saw 28 Weeks Later as an (unintentional) allegory for the migration crises in the West. Innocent civilians are fleeing third world hellholes, but letting them come into our countries will bring the violence here and result in the end of our civilization. The lesson I took from the movie (that can be applied to the migrant crises) is that we need to steel our nerves against sob stories and refuse to let in people fleeing areas of violence unless we're absolutely sure they're safe. I don't think the writers intended to convey this message... I just think the writers aren't that smart and didn't think through the implications of the story.
28 weeks almost feels like it’s like Aliens. Like they focused more on the action and horror rather than a complex narrative.
I do hope 28 years later is in the style and genre of the first film and doesn’t follow the Hollywood genre of 28 weeks later.
I hope it's vise versa
It puts me off that they already dream of a new trilogy. That never ends well. Get the first installment (in this case the third) working. We have the original actor, director and writer. So I see a chance. It also comes at a convenient time. Our civilization is but a huge crash at the stock market away from crumbling. But I fear we'll get nothing but a passable cash grab.
Thank you, Gil.
28 days and weeks later were both great movies I hope 28 years later continues it
What is sound in backfrown sounds like car door alarm that tells you it’s open
yeah i really wish don and alice were in the movie a lot longer, i think the dynamic they had (both as loving and scorned partners) would have brought some interesting themes to the plot, plus i would've liked to have seen more of how the infection affected alice and to see her fighting against it. i think taking them out of the story so early on was just an excuse to bring jeremy renner and rose byrne to the forefront.
ALICE chose to commit suicide... Don did not.
I love this movie. One of my favs. I like just as much as the original. I love the outbreak scene in this movie
My favorite zombies movie
Underrated film.
Epic opening… the rest of the movie was average at best.
I feel like the scene where the kids in the vent is under rated one of the darkest creepiest concepts I've seen
That opening sequence is amazing though.
Does it seem to anyone else like Don is a "smart" zombie of some kind? He acts really strange. Weird that his son and wife also have a resistance to the virus.
my favorite movie series!!!!
Poor alice went thru hell for just a movie.
OMG YES THANK YOU
This is why you raise you kids to be obedient
Why did they skip 28 months later?
Why didn't they go with 28 Months later?
I think the fact that this movie came out in 2007, and had a cartoonishly incompetent and undisciplined portrayal of the U.S. Army, was more of a commentary geopolitics than anything. I watched it once in theaters, and then hadn't seen it again until yesterday and holy shit is it laughable. 😂
The entire immunity angle should never have made it in the movie. It is completely unnecessary and overplayed. The entire point of an outbreak apocalypse is that there's no going back. There's no fixing things. You just have to make the best out of the broken pieces.
At least TLOU sidesteps the immunity angle by never allowing it to lead to a cure. Not just because logisitcally that's almost impossible to do, but because human motives also get in the way of achieving it. Mostly, it's because immunity is used as a vehicle for survivors guilt for Ellie. That's its purpose in the story.
So unless you're gonna do something like that, just avoid immunity / cure plots. Not least because it often leads to exposition of how the virus works, which always sounds corny and BS (less said, the better).
Weeks would have been a better movie without it. Another outbreak occuring in the city could have happened any number of ways, and the rest of the movie could largely stay the same as everyone tries to escape the city. Indeed, the soldier could have been replaced by the dad. That way, we could continue exploring the family dynamic as the dad and the kids try to escape the city. It would make the sacrifice via flamethrower even more hard-hitting and allow the dad a redemption arc for failing to save his loved ones the first time around.
Just lots of missed opportunities.
I agree, and the outbreak could have started with infected rats or lab blood samples contaminating water.
Guilt turning to resentment... interesting, I never considered that.
Who else here after the announcement of 28 years 😅
Is it just me or every comment in regards to defending Don's actions tend to also mention that there are others that also condemn his "selfishness" in "abandoning his wife". When really, in every single 28 Weeks Later video comment section I see, all are in arms in saying that Don is right. Which is weird, are there any Don critics? Every single comment I saw has been like "I'd be like Don, I'm smart and it's survival baby fuck em wife and kids uwu" lmao
No way Tammy is the crazy chick in that new show Outer Range
It's also a commentary on Afghanistan and how nation-building doesn't work out.
Its about 2 kids bringing about death and destruction because of their actions.
Zombie movies started as a statement about how the youth will need to stand up and fight for their life aginst the old socially accepted normal. When Romaro made the first night of the living dead it is about the changes in values at the time of the Vietnam war. So I see every zombie in every movie as Republicans.
I like this view.
I always think of zombis as leftists and their woke mind virus 😂
@@lharrrybuggyns8396Pathetic 🤦♀️
Pretty sure zombies don't have political views... They feast upon the flesh and spread.
They had the foundation to make a decent movie, but it seems like the writers got infected with the rage virus and became mindless idiots.
Is that the avengers guy 😅? Doyle?
That's what I thought as well! I think it is !
28 years is making a TRILOGY!? i did NOT know that! just thought it would be years than thats it but a trilogy? im PUUUUMPED! just REALLY hope they dont mess it up. but you can complain at RUNNERS! #MakeYourDaddyProudSon! sorry for the hashtag, i hate it.
I prefer weeks over days
28 Days later is my 2nd favorite Zombie movie. I love 28 Weeks also. I give 28 Days a 8.5 out of 10 and 28 weeks like a 8.0. My favorite Zombie movie is Dawn of the Dead 2004. If the Walking Dead was a movie, the first few seasons to me would be a 9.0 out of 10. When it comes to Infection movies, I love the first Stakeland, for me it's about a 8.5 also, technically it's vampirism yes but it's told more through an infected outbreak lens. World War Z is ok, just fun to watch. I give World War Z a 6.5 out of 10. I hated Z nation but liked Black Summer more, it's like a 6 to me. There was another movie I can't remember with a father and Daughter whom dealt with infected who mutated during the Winter and became Wendigo type infected, that was like a 7.0 to me.
I like Train to Busan (8.5) and the Animated Seol Station (8.0) and I give I Am Legend a 8.0 too and Train to Busan Peninsula a (7.5). I watch pretty much every zombie/infected movie I come across. There's so many I cannot list them all. I watched Dawn of the Dead 2004 like 16-18 times. Sean of the Dead like 5 times (8.5) Solid comedy zombie movie.
I didn't enjoy this one because of the issues that you mentioned. The opening put so much weight into Don's decision to run that I thought it would play a bigger, more interesting part later on in the story. Instead we got what we got. However, we did get another OneTake video so it all worked out. Thanks! :)
Oh wow I forgot all about this
i liked both
28 months later would be better
Says a lot the only good scene in the movie was the only one directed by Boyle. 28 Weeks had so many stupid plot holes and felt like far too much a Hollywoodised and less gritty version of 28 Days.
Todays kids would be the end of the world
Hmm...they skipped right over 28 months, didn't they? Maybe they'll go back & do that one.
This movie always makes me cry- cos its always love!! Love dooms us all!! But what's the point of living if not for love??! It's all so heartbreaking, got me crying all over the place...lol yeah, my kids won't go to the cinema with me anymore😂😂🤷♀️
No, not love but disobedience. The whole thing starts because the kids disobeyed their father and sneaked out.
Well we know who's infected first lol
When the medical industry is exposed, for being the source of most of the world's illnesses, this scenario seems imminent.
That's my perception of 28 days later.
But, I am just a humble usher. I merely open doors that people WANT to walk through, and point out the options available, when inspired.
You think the medical industry invents illnesses? How can someone so stupid have made it to be old enough to use a computer?
Damn
The thing that gets me us they bring the mother in with the kids quarantine them but somehow the husband gets in with his wife alone like some piss poor quarinten procedure an the fact he easily gets out. An ut easily gets out of control like how
civil war was laughably terrible, cant believe the same guy wrote 28 days later