The film looks so gritty and realistic is because this was the first movie to be shot entirely with digital cameras which were new at that's time. I quite like it it adds immensely to the dark apocalyptic atmosphere of the movie
Almost entirely. The theatrical ending was shot on film. I think only Spike Lee had used Mini DV extensively, prior to this. He shot Bamboozled almost entirely on the Mini DV cams, with only certain segments shot on Super 16 film, to achieve a certain effect. Afterward, David Lynch shot Inland Empire on Mini DV, but it never really saw much wide commercial use, in the long run, as HD became more really available. It does have a very particular aesthetic, though.
The DV video quality was intentional - Danny Boyle, The Director; has spoken about this in detail in the directors commentary. It would've been roughly the same cost to shoot in 16mm, use a 35mm lens, and then blow up the final film to 35mm/super35mm as a print for projectors in cinemas - but Danny wanted a certain look to the film, and I think that he is right in this choice: Having it shot and look the way it does makes it more real, more gritty, more 'sickly' and 'in your face', instead of having a 'perfect' 35mm image using photochemical film capture. The camera was the Canon XL-1, although a professional video camera at the time, most smartphones now have better video capability - so this was quite a choice to make. They could've used film - they did not, and there were solid reasons. I was surprised you did not mention the music "In the House, In a Heartbeat - John Murphy", utterly *haunting* track walking through London. You should go to London one day, and see some of the sights - I think you'd really like it.
I’m surprised she didn’t ask if they were rescued by cannibals in the very end 😂 This is one of my all time favorites. (recommend watching ‘28 Weeks Later’ and ‘Sunshine’)
So, popular theory about the infected from 28 days later is that they're still conscious and not mindless like most other "zombies" in movies. The fact that Mailer ignores Jim and specifically targets the other soldiers during the mansion scene and the infected soldiers remember each room and even use tactics is scary. The infected are just like us, only angry.
Mailer and Jim were never in the same room after he was unchained iirc. I agree with the idea that they're at least somewhat conscious though; the infected boy Jim kills actually speaks (angrily yelling "I hate you!" at him), and the first time Jim sees Mailer, it almost looks like he's trying to lure Jim into his reach.
@@Hank.. He does see Jim during his rampage. At one point, Mailer runs down a hallway and sees the shirtless Jim in a window, but instead of running at him, he runs down the hall towards another group of soliders. He sees him for maybe half a second, but doesn't react to him.
Just so you know, nothing in this is 'fake'.Thats how England looks. In summer we have up to like 18 hours of daylight, So they filmed it at like 4am in summer for the empty street scenes. The windfarms, we've had them for years.
For a horror month ---- I would highly recommend "DOG SOLDIERS" a great movie with horror and fun. Not something that has been reacted to, but it is much better than 95% of horror offerings. Not a Hollywood budget movie ( Like this film ), but fantastic cinematography -- loved by most that see it.
it's not quite a horror film, but I think Danny Boyle's most underrated movie is Sunshine (2007), also starring Cillian Murphy. It does get pretty spooky in some parts, but it's mainly just a dang good sci-fi thriller with Boyle's trademark dark beauty in presentation. EDIT: oh fast zombies are def the scariest to me. not just lacking self-preservation, but also hauling ass to eat me alive? no thank you lol. and this movie's really high up in my fav zombie films. it's a great example of using budgetary constraints to a film's advantage. the early digital filming doesn't look as ugly as it could have because the filmmakers clearly knew how to shoot with its low image quality in mind. makes it feel like you're really seeing everything happen for real without it being "found footage." and yet we get awesome cinematic moments with Jim going full rambo/ninja on the soldiers lol. great movie
I think fast zombies that can be killed like anyone else are a good balance. Fast zombies that need to have the brain destroyed would just be too damn hard to kill.
I love Sunshine because of how real they got a lot of the science. They even got a theoretical astronomer to give the writers a reason why our sun might be dying earlier, no matter how unlikely that event.
@@ZenzeroCAM sadly for some reason they forced her to do a London accent when she’s from Liverpool , personally I think she should have kept her accent they could have said her mum was from Liverpool
Christopher Eccleston played the Major at the end, and you were right he was The Doctor in season 1 of the Doctor Who revival. He was also in Gone in 60 Seconds and played the main bad guy in Thor 2 Brendan Gleeson played Frank and he's probably most famous for his role as Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter but he's done lots of great films like In Bruges
The song that plays when he is first walking around empty London is a real banger - East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is worth a listen, as is their entire discography tbh. Really love your reactions - a little light in murky times.
28 weeks later is actually really great! Danny Boyle had several really awesome movies before this, but 28 days later and Slumdog Millionaire really launched him internationally. I'd for sure watch Shallow Grave, his first feature.
I think you guys should also watch the sequel 28 Weeks Later for some reason nobody ever follows up with sequels I know you guys are pretty good at it. Another sequel has some pretty heart pounding moments
they filmed at 5am in the morning on a saturday or sunday here in the uk the clubs kick out at 2-3 am so it looks like a war zone by 4am till 7am when the street cleaners have cleaned up. they filmed the deserted streets cos it was the only time they could do it with out shutting down the entire city
@@filyblunt2572 Actually, they don't. Day of the Dead - "It wants me! It wants food! But it has no stomach, can take no nourishment from what it ingests. It's acting on INSTINCT!" Day of the Dead even has Dr. Logan theorising that zombies will "survive" in a functional state longer due to a slower rate of decay. Walking Dead also plays around with this idea that the zombies, though rotting corpses, will function for many many years before they fall apart. But they do not starve. Not only do the 28 Days Later infected not starve, they don't eat their victims either. They might bite, to infect, or out of anger, but they don't ingest any amount of their victim like a zombie. They vomit the infection onto their victims. Also, they have a pulse. Theoretically they could be cured. Which was the whole point of the pre-title sequence. They were seeking to cure this infection known as "Rage." You can't really "cure" complete death of the body.
My favorite "running zombie" film is also the first "running zombie" film. It's the 1985 cult classic, "Return of the Living Dead" which is terrifying and intentionally hilarious. You two would definitely enjoy it!
They filmed the empty London shots at around 4-5am, They had shut down that area of London, tipped the bus over, done all the filming and put everything back to normal, bus back on its wheels etc, within a couple of hours. No photshop, editing or special effects used
No, they actually closed down sections of the streets in London. Usually just for a few minutes at a time in the very early morning before traffic started.
hm... not to me. It's much bigger budget, yes, but that's about it. Where Days had a very gritty, visceral sense of dread going on, Weeks really didn't come close to that. I'd call it more of simply an action movie. Except the intro to Weeks. The intro was great.
I Love this movie, it creeped TF out of me. I remember watching this at home and I lived in the middle of no-where it was sooo dark out, I kept seeing "infected" coming at me lol
6:39 It´s real. They filmed it during the early hours of the morning, when there was as little traffic as possible. On reason why they managed to pull this off, was the use of Canon XL1 mini dv, a portable digital camera that was quick to set up. They used it also to give the film a gritty and rough feel. Only the last scene is filmed with 35mm.
@@jamesfrench7299 you've just watched scenes with two people reacting and discussing the movie for 40 minutes but it is one singular word from a stranger that puts you off? Curious, but you do you man.
I remember watching this in theatres and enjoying it to much I bought the DVD. They had an alernate ending done in animated storyboards. Where I think instead of the military overtaking an estate it was a bunker maybe? And Frank while still infected isnt killed but captured. In the end, Jim sacrifices himself by doing a blood transfusion with Frank, thus reuniting Hannah with her father. The group somewhat morbidily leaves a now infected Jim restained to a table in the bunker to die alone as they venture on. Pretty grim but would have been a killer ending, keeping touch with the dark reality of the rest of the film.
"They're not zombies. They're infected!" If something like this happened and you were to say this to me, I'm slicing your Achilles and ringing the dinner bell.
i had never seen a "zombie" or "virus" movie before i saw this one... i didn't even know what "zombies" were back then, i'm glad that this happened to be my first movie of these genres, still the undisputed #1 on my list
The only thing I hate about this movie was their use of 480p video cameras instead of film. Trying to watch it on a 4k TV just looks like a blurry mess. And if you like Cillian Murphy, I HIGHLY suggest you watch the BBC series, Peaky Blinders.
Re: The video quality- “Danny Boyle made a conscious decision to shoot the entire film using DV-based Canon XL1 cameras due to the "harshness" of the video. He believed that such rough-edged quality would help give the film a sense of grittiness and real-world plausibility that would benefit the overall narrative.”
Also... one last thing... dude... if you guys ever have to go without food....i'd keep an eye on your wife... she seems like she'd go 28 hours and then start thinking cannabalism.
Mrs. Movies: "Then what's the point of staying alive?" There is no "point", to anything, that's just not how things are. I'm a 42 year old virgin, I have never sought love or saving the world, I just help where I can because every tiny thing we do affects the future, just like the people making the virus and the people that let the monkey out, that's how things are.
27:53 "And _eventually,_ he'll tell me how long the infected take to _starve_ to death." Well, maybe. He should be in a _pit,_ though. A _covered_ pit. A _deep,_ covered pit that there's no hope of him getting _out_ of.
Love this movie. When he says "Hello?" at the start in the church and that one zombie sits up and looks at him I get chills every single time. Also just remembered watching this that Christopher Eccleson played Nicole Kidman's husband in The Others.
Such a great movie. It felt gritty and, in a way, realistic. You two should check out The Road if you’re looking for some post-apocalyptic cannibals. Lol.
Not a zombie movie, a viral infection movie. The infected aren't reanimated dead, in either the shambling corpse or voodoo zombie sense. Most people also seem to call the evil dead series zombie movies, but those are demonic possession.
Great reaction to one of the best British horror flicks. Another really good one from the same year you should try and watch if you have time is Dog Soldiers.
1 of my favourite ever films as well as 1 of my favourite horror films. It’s just so good!!! An emotional zombie film, which you would think wasn’t possible but it is!!!
@@FMK1317 Opinion of a mouthbreather. Beyond the technicalities of how we define a zombie, this is definitely a zombie movie. People like to quote Danny Boyle on this but fail to realize that the guy who actually WROTE the movie considers it a zombie movie. Honestly, it's a lot like saying that Black Hawk Down isn't a war movie because the United States wasn't at war with Somalia. It's a redundant opinion.
@@tennoheika94 Zombie's are dead....these guy's ain't 🤦♂️ it's not exactly a hard concept to grasp. That writer can claim all he want's,if he wanted zombie's then he should have wrote a zombie book. I can claim I'm a real life zombie all a want, doesn't make it true 🤔 Let's roleplay with your logic: Ok,black hawk down is my favourite romance movie,and they fight the French in it. You can't change my opinion on this,no matter how much evidence there is in the movie itself,they are French. Because clearly I'm superior to everyone else,all I have to do is insult anyone who soeak's against me,instead of comin up with a decent argument because their isn't any 😌
@@FMK1317 Don't try to apply logic which you clearly don't understand. Zombie movies as a genre are based on thematical criteria. It's not about small pedantic details. There are multiple zombie movies/games which never specify if the monsters are dead or alive, yet we clump these movies into the zombie category. Why? Because they share the same general characteristics with other zombie movies, and it's generally accepted that undead or not, they share enough features with classic zombies. Black Hawk Down example seems to have flown way over your head. It's a action-drama about a military operation. That military operation wasn't part of any war, yet we classify it as a war film. The reason we do this is exactly the same as the reason 28 Days Later can no doubt be categorized as a zombie movie.
The deserted London was filmed in June so the sun it up around 4am but they had to stop the clubbers going home into scenes after a night out, but it was easier to divert traffic and normal peds around the filming locations that early.
Having myself been asked to hold back for 10 minutes to let some shooting finish before crossing south of the river, I can attest to this. Not sure if I was coming home from a club, or just finishing up late (at the Post-production place I worked at c.2001). London's always got filming going on somewhere; though still quite an achievement specifically here - and the scope / time of day make it memorable - it's pretty normal for productions to ask passers-by to hang on for a minute. Londoners are a lot more chill than they're given credit for. Sometimes. 🤣
one of my favourite films of all time. Garland and Boyle did an exceptional job, re-revolutionizing the genre. the character development, pacing, story, and underlying social message still holds up to this day.
The film looks so gritty and realistic is because this was the first movie to be shot entirely with digital cameras which were new at that's time. I quite like it it adds immensely to the dark apocalyptic atmosphere of the movie
Almost entirely. The theatrical ending was shot on film. I think only Spike Lee had used Mini DV extensively, prior to this. He shot Bamboozled almost entirely on the Mini DV cams, with only certain segments shot on Super 16 film, to achieve a certain effect. Afterward, David Lynch shot Inland Empire on Mini DV, but it never really saw much wide commercial use, in the long run, as HD became more really available. It does have a very particular aesthetic, though.
Shot with a Cannon XL... Pretty decent camera.
It feels more like a movie than 4k movies imo
When the movie was first released on blu-ray it looked like crap as a result.
For a zombie flick it sure did make me cry a lot.
The dad scene gets me the most
You should check out Train to Busan 🤣
The DV video quality was intentional - Danny Boyle, The Director; has spoken about this in detail in the directors commentary.
It would've been roughly the same cost to shoot in 16mm, use a 35mm lens, and then blow up the final film to 35mm/super35mm as a print for projectors in cinemas - but Danny wanted a certain look to the film, and I think that he is right in this choice:
Having it shot and look the way it does makes it more real, more gritty, more 'sickly' and 'in your face', instead of having a 'perfect' 35mm image using photochemical film capture.
The camera was the Canon XL-1, although a professional video camera at the time, most smartphones now have better video capability - so this was quite a choice to make.
They could've used film - they did not, and there were solid reasons.
I was surprised you did not mention the music "In the House, In a Heartbeat - John Murphy", utterly *haunting* track walking through London.
You should go to London one day, and see some of the sights - I think you'd really like it.
Naomie Harris (Selena) so far has had the biggest career. Cillian has kinda fallin off while Naomie has stand consistent.
Coke is good but Pepsi will knock you out
I’m surprised she didn’t ask if they were rescued by cannibals in the very end 😂
This is one of my all time favorites. (recommend watching ‘28 Weeks Later’ and ‘Sunshine’)
They both suck..
The jet pilot spoke Finnish so probably from Finland, we don’t have a lot of cannibals here 😅
@@09Raffytaffy The jet was the rescue, and I’m baffled by your response. Have a good one 😅
Trainspotting
28 weeks later is trash
So, popular theory about the infected from 28 days later is that they're still conscious and not mindless like most other "zombies" in movies. The fact that Mailer ignores Jim and specifically targets the other soldiers during the mansion scene and the infected soldiers remember each room and even use tactics is scary. The infected are just like us, only angry.
Exactly 👏 I've been saying this for years. They aren't zombies, they are infected with a super virus.
Not angry, pure unbridled rage.
Mailer and Jim were never in the same room after he was unchained iirc. I agree with the idea that they're at least somewhat conscious though; the infected boy Jim kills actually speaks (angrily yelling "I hate you!" at him), and the first time Jim sees Mailer, it almost looks like he's trying to lure Jim into his reach.
@@Hank.. He does see Jim during his rampage. At one point, Mailer runs down a hallway and sees the shirtless Jim in a window, but instead of running at him, he runs down the hall towards another group of soliders. He sees him for maybe half a second, but doesn't react to him.
Yeap, characters in movie talk about it...its infection of RAGE
Just so you know, nothing in this is 'fake'.Thats how England looks.
In summer we have up to like 18 hours of daylight, So they filmed it at like 4am in summer for the empty street scenes.
The windfarms, we've had them for years.
except for the obviously way too big/close windmills
Selina's motivation is fear. It's as simple as that. What keeps her alive now, in this moment. The rest of the day. That's all that matters.
Yup, she pretty much makes it clear she doesn't believe in "the future" - just surviving "the now."
She was 100% right to not want to go find the soldiers.
Also the desire to survive is a default condition of humanity
But as humans we need something more
Boyle and Murphy team up again on Sunshine. A personal favorite of mine.
Murphy and Boyle, the Robocop/Brooklyn Nine-Nine crossover buddy cop movie the world needs right now.
@@Lusciouslysorry Ooooo!!!!
Suuuuch a great movie ❤
Sunshine rocks!
Agree, sunshine is a great anti/religion/superstition movie!
For a horror month ---- I would highly recommend "DOG SOLDIERS" a great movie with horror and fun. Not something that has been reacted to, but it is much better than 95% of horror offerings. Not a Hollywood budget movie ( Like this film ), but fantastic cinematography -- loved by most that see it.
Move your a*se soldier
Can you lick your own b*lls yet 😆
I think the corporal said that 🤔
love that movie!
Oh yeah, saw that at a cinema in Dundee, Scotland, and was blown away. Front row, laughing, jumping, shouting...
100% this. Love that movie. I was stationed in the UK when it came out, and saw it in the cinema (theater) at Grafton Centre in Cambridge.
it's not quite a horror film, but I think Danny Boyle's most underrated movie is Sunshine (2007), also starring Cillian Murphy. It does get pretty spooky in some parts, but it's mainly just a dang good sci-fi thriller with Boyle's trademark dark beauty in presentation.
EDIT: oh fast zombies are def the scariest to me. not just lacking self-preservation, but also hauling ass to eat me alive? no thank you lol. and this movie's really high up in my fav zombie films. it's a great example of using budgetary constraints to a film's advantage. the early digital filming doesn't look as ugly as it could have because the filmmakers clearly knew how to shoot with its low image quality in mind. makes it feel like you're really seeing everything happen for real without it being "found footage." and yet we get awesome cinematic moments with Jim going full rambo/ninja on the soldiers lol. great movie
Sunshine would have been a 5 star film if it was not for the final act. Still a great film though.
Sunshine is very good indeed
I think fast zombies that can be killed like anyone else are a good balance. Fast zombies that need to have the brain destroyed would just be too damn hard to kill.
I love Sunshine because of how real they got a lot of the science. They even got a theoretical astronomer to give the writers a reason why our sun might be dying earlier, no matter how unlikely that event.
Ever seen Shallow Grave bro? Ewan McGregor and Chris Eccleston it's Boyle's first picture and wicked dark.
The scene with the parents (don't wake up) gets me every time.
People have inadvertently gotten this film confused with "28 Days", a drama/comedy starring Sandra Bullock.
" *THAT* little car is offroading??"
It's a London cab. It's seen worse.
It's such a fantastic movie!, the cinematography, the script, the acting & the score!! sooo good
The Sequel is ok as well
The daughter Hannah is pretty awful though
@@ZenzeroCAM sadly for some reason they forced her to do a London accent when she’s from Liverpool , personally I think she should have kept her accent they could have said her mum was from Liverpool
@@tedbaker3846 yeah I enjoy the sequel too but there’s something about the original that just hits differently
Sequel is trash, absolute garbage, apart from the 1st few minutes which are some of the best zombie action going.
Christopher Eccleston played the Major at the end, and you were right he was The Doctor in season 1 of the Doctor Who revival. He was also in Gone in 60 Seconds and played the main bad guy in Thor 2
Brendan Gleeson played Frank and he's probably most famous for his role as Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter but he's done lots of great films like In Bruges
Gleason also was a big part in Gangs of New York.
The song that plays when he is first walking around empty London is a real banger - East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is worth a listen, as is their entire discography tbh. Really love your reactions - a little light in murky times.
A man of taste I see
Ah look at this distinguished gentleman...yes distinguished indeed 🧐
Not many vocal Godspeed fans around these days, but it's a pleasure to see it ❤
@@reservoirdude92 they're hard to bring up fluidly in conversation... Not hard but definitely not as casually simple as it could be
@@PickleBread355 Them: what kind of music is it?
Me: uhhh like instrumental rock, but in a feel bad kind of way.
28 weeks later is actually really great! Danny Boyle had several really awesome movies before this, but 28 days later and Slumdog Millionaire really launched him internationally. I'd for sure watch Shallow Grave, his first feature.
The sardonic witt of an young Ewan McGreggor, woefully underated film that.
Killian Murphy also plays the lead in 'The Peaky Blinders', a show you guys should definitely watch!
Cillian*
Peaky is shite, Killian great!
The teenagers dad is a London cabbie, she knows her way around a spider wrench! Great choice to kick of October movie season
I think you guys should also watch the sequel 28 Weeks Later for some reason nobody ever follows up with sequels I know you guys are pretty good at it. Another sequel has some pretty heart pounding moments
Or not, because it’s average.
Hawkeyes best appearance
@@VictorLugosi well... thats like....your opinion man
Worth it for that opening farm sequence alone, good lord is that scene intense
@@GeneralDread yeah it gets my heart racing every time
Brendan Gleason played the Father. He was in a lot of great films like Braveheart, Gangs of New York, and the later Harry Potter movies.
Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise is another great one.
Brendan Gleason and Cillian Murphy are in another film together called “Perrier's Bounty“ a good dark comedy/thriller
In Bruges
@@Wrencher_86 Yessss!!!! I would f-ing love for them to start watching Martin McDonagh’s brilliantly twisted movies!
@@Wrencher_86 Love that movie.
they filmed at 5am in the morning on a saturday or sunday here in the uk the clubs kick out at 2-3 am so it looks like a war zone by 4am till 7am when the street cleaners have cleaned up. they filmed the deserted streets cos it was the only time they could do it with out shutting down the entire city
Love this movie. Zombies are usually slower but these are actually 'infected' and run like regular people so they're scary af.
Yeah. These aren't zombies. Zombies don't starve to death.
@@OpenMawProductions actually they do
@@filyblunt2572 voodoo zombies maybe. A rotting corpse can't starve to death, but then it also can't move either...
They're rage virus monsters.
@@filyblunt2572 Actually, they don't.
Day of the Dead - "It wants me! It wants food! But it has no stomach, can take no nourishment from what it ingests. It's acting on INSTINCT!"
Day of the Dead even has Dr. Logan theorising that zombies will "survive" in a functional state longer due to a slower rate of decay.
Walking Dead also plays around with this idea that the zombies, though rotting corpses, will function for many many years before they fall apart.
But they do not starve.
Not only do the 28 Days Later infected not starve, they don't eat their victims either. They might bite, to infect, or out of anger, but they don't ingest any amount of their victim like a zombie. They vomit the infection onto their victims. Also, they have a pulse. Theoretically they could be cured. Which was the whole point of the pre-title sequence. They were seeking to cure this infection known as "Rage."
You can't really "cure" complete death of the body.
28 Days Later and 28 Weeks later are so fantastic.
28 Weeks Later probably has the best opening for a zombie/infected movie.
@@NecramoniumVideo 28 weeks later as a whole wasnt that good imo, but yeah the opening was fantastic.
@@davidokinsky114 Compared to other zombie movies 28 weeks later is an amazing movie
I believe this director did the IMO underrated Sunshine - worth checking out too! (Cillian Murphy is in it too)
He's had quite a career since - he was behind the opening ceremony for the London Olympics in 2012...
The church scene is still something that creeps me out to this day. The stare those 2 infected give.
My favorite "running zombie" film is also the first "running zombie" film. It's the 1985 cult classic, "Return of the Living Dead" which is terrifying and intentionally hilarious. You two would definitely enjoy it!
Hell yeah Linnea Quigley on a tombstone
'Hello dispatch, send more paramedics'
They filmed the empty London shots at around 4-5am,
They had shut down that area of London, tipped the bus over, done all the filming and put everything back to normal, bus back on its wheels etc, within a couple of hours.
No photshop, editing or special effects used
Yelling Hello over and over again as a homege to Day of the Dead is awesome.
Not many people notice that! I don't know for certain but I was pretty sure it's the same voice added in. Definitely similar
No, they actually closed down sections of the streets in London. Usually just for a few minutes at a time in the very early morning before traffic started.
The sequel (28 Weeks Later) is even better in my opinion.
It's good, but doesn't have the same impact....
hm... not to me. It's much bigger budget, yes, but that's about it. Where Days had a very gritty, visceral sense of dread going on, Weeks really didn't come close to that. I'd call it more of simply an action movie.
Except the intro to Weeks. The intro was great.
No green screens , many parts of London are essentially empty until the morning rush hour so filming was done before the public were about
The video quality is phenomenal for a film that was shot in standard def.
The music is fantastic too, it’s often used in a lot of tense scenes in loads of things.
The score definitely stands out
Please watch the 2nd one too! The first 5 minutes of 28 Weeks Later is the most intense opening of any film ever!
The first 5 minutes of 28 weeks is the best part of either of the two films. But the rest of weeks falls flat in comparison imo
That’s the only part Danny Boyle directed, legendary opening too but sadly the rest of that movie is not nearly as good as the opening scene or 28days
true omg
It was my first movie in the franchise and my first fast zombie movie. I was petrified, mumbling "I have no idea" again and again.
I Love this movie, it creeped TF out of me. I remember watching this at home and I lived in the middle of no-where it was sooo dark out, I kept seeing "infected" coming at me lol
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another great scary movie with Cillian Murphy called Red Eye next! :)
6:20 Live. They shot this live, in London. Sequestered the area.
This film made The Walking Dead, and influenced many more films and series.
Honestly 28 weeks later is an underrated sequel if still more "Hollywood" then the first
Tommy Shelby would’ve had this wrapped up long ago
I love this and it's sequel guys. It's a shame we never got 28 months later
There are rumors that it's coming but I can't confirm it.
Few more years, we can have 28 years later
Cos 28 weeks was shit, I said it
@@filyblunt2572 You sure did. Good job.
6:39 It´s real. They filmed it during the early hours of the morning, when there was as little traffic as possible. On reason why they managed to pull this off, was the use of Canon XL1 mini dv, a portable digital camera that was quick to set up. They used it also to give the film a gritty and rough feel. Only the last scene is filmed with 35mm.
Great reaction as always. Please watch the original Fright Night next. Thanks.
Wonderful movie, can't wait until you're going to watch 28 weeks later. The opening scene of that movie is iconic.
I'll know not to bother with it when someone uses that word wonderful.
Thanks.
@@jamesfrench7299 you've just watched scenes with two people reacting and discussing the movie for 40 minutes but it is one singular word from a stranger that puts you off? Curious, but you do you man.
@@jamesfrench7299 What a dumb way to go about things, "oh noes, they used Wonderful! Now I can't watch it anymore!"
@@deadso Why does it bother you?
You do you man.
@@jamesfrench7299 I'm allergic to idiotic statements, I have to point out the idiocracy. Wonderful.
Always love the classic monster movie trope of "the real monster is mankind itself". Its kind of how TWD slowly evolved.
Or made it up as they went progressively getting shitter and shitter
I remember watching this in theatres and enjoying it to much I bought the DVD. They had an alernate ending done in animated storyboards. Where I think instead of the military overtaking an estate it was a bunker maybe? And Frank while still infected isnt killed but captured. In the end, Jim sacrifices himself by doing a blood transfusion with Frank, thus reuniting Hannah with her father. The group somewhat morbidily leaves a now infected Jim restained to a table in the bunker to die alone as they venture on. Pretty grim but would have been a killer ending, keeping touch with the dark reality of the rest of the film.
There were 3 big different Zombies era..
60-80s Romero's/witchcraft era..
80s-90s Living Dead/military/experimental era..
2000s Virus Break era...
def watch the sequel 28 weeks later. I think you should watch the original black and white Night of the Living Dead. absolute classic.
now you have to watch peaky blinders with cillian murphy as the lead....
nice... mis movie caught on pretty quickly that they weren't zombies...
"They're not zombies. They're infected!"
If something like this happened and you were to say this to me, I'm slicing your Achilles and ringing the dinner bell.
i had never seen a "zombie" or "virus" movie before i saw this one... i didn't even know what "zombies" were back then,
i'm glad that this happened to be my first movie of these genres, still the undisputed #1 on my list
Speaking of nonstop terror...May I submit my choice. Good o'l Art the clown in TERRIFIER. I think you both will be pleased.
This is one of my favorites. Thanks for doing it!
The only thing I hate about this movie was their use of 480p video cameras instead of film. Trying to watch it on a 4k TV just looks like a blurry mess.
And if you like Cillian Murphy, I HIGHLY suggest you watch the BBC series, Peaky Blinders.
Re: The video quality-
“Danny Boyle made a conscious decision to shoot the entire film using DV-based Canon XL1 cameras due to the "harshness" of the video. He believed that such rough-edged quality would help give the film a sense of grittiness and real-world plausibility that would benefit the overall narrative.”
I remember when this came out it was good and I remember thinking thank goodness this could never happen....now, I'm not so sure
Also... one last thing... dude... if you guys ever have to go without food....i'd keep an eye on your wife... she seems like she'd go 28 hours and then start thinking cannabalism.
Mrs. Movies: "Then what's the point of staying alive?"
There is no "point", to anything, that's just not how things are. I'm a 42 year old virgin, I have never sought love or saving the world, I just help where I can because every tiny thing we do affects the future, just like the people making the virus and the people that let the monkey out, that's how things are.
excellent reaction! want those cookies.
Nobody would be eating anybody if they had some delicious ARCANA CREAMERY cookies!
Important safety tip: In case of zombie apocalypse, keep premium cookies on hand so Mrs. Movies doesn't start noshing on you.
Anyone else amazed at just how untouched that grocery store was? Any food they wanted it was there for them.
Based on your comments on this film, you should really watch "The Road". Now there is a real 'what would you do' realistic experience.
*31:00** oh, ok. so men cant be pregnant. ok. ok. so it's THAT kinda channel. ok.*
_JC
27:53 "And _eventually,_ he'll tell me how long the infected take to _starve_ to death."
Well, maybe. He should be in a _pit,_ though. A _covered_ pit. A _deep,_ covered pit that there's no hope of him getting _out_ of.
"Carriers" has a similar vibe and really good too. No zombies though, just a pandemic.
Love this movie. When he says "Hello?" at the start in the church and that one zombie sits up and looks at him I get chills every single time. Also just remembered watching this that Christopher Eccleson played Nicole Kidman's husband in The Others.
Should watch Sunshine another Danny Boyle movie with Cillian Murphy
Such a great movie. It felt gritty and, in a way, realistic.
You two should check out The Road if you’re looking for some post-apocalyptic cannibals. Lol.
They shot everything on location. There was no green-screen or post manipulation. They just used the very early hours when nobody was around.
nope, shes right... they edited out everyone from those London shots (not photoshop but aftereffects). It was super time consuming.
Now you have to watch the greatest running zombie film ever: The Return of the Living Dead.
It's our one year anniversary! Love you guys!!!
Mrs. 3 days into a weather related power outage would 100% kill and eat Mr. for the protein. He's a walking flank steak in her eyes then.
39:56 - She'd definitely start eating people. There could be a McDonalds right down the street but nah too far to walk
😂😂What is with Mrs. thinking everyone's eating each other in this film.. 😂😂
In an apocalypse setting, if i'm alive, catch me at any grocery store or mall. I'll be sitting in the stairwell with warm beer and terrible magazines.
To me, this movie is easily top 5 Zombie movies ever. Keeping on the Zombie train, I'd love to see your reaction to Train to Busan. Really incredible.
Cillian Murphy is not just the Scarecrow from the Batman movies... 😑He's a Peaky Fookin Blinder. 😎
0:24 - A missed opportunity for the Mrs.' Texas Chainsaw dance.
No greeen screens, they paid quite a bit to clear Piccadilly Circus, more than 1 million.
I think they have to watch peaky blinders now that sopranos is coming to an end. Its a British post ww1 sopranos basically.
Not a zombie movie, a viral infection movie. The infected aren't reanimated dead, in either the shambling corpse or voodoo zombie sense.
Most people also seem to call the evil dead series zombie movies, but those are demonic possession.
17:30 this is clear signal that you need to watch The Signal tho... Patreon people... make it happend please!
I believe running zombies we're in return of the Living Dead from 1985
Great reaction to one of the best British horror flicks.
Another really good one from the same year you should try and watch if you have time is Dog Soldiers.
40:0 why you so against being a zombie when all you want to do is eat ppl? _JC
Mr Movies better make sure the cupboards are stocked otherwise Mrs Movies may be having him for dinner!
After Jim was shot at the end, I think Selena and Hannah should have eaten him, just for the comedic effect.
1 of my favourite ever films as well as 1 of my favourite horror films. It’s just so good!!! An emotional zombie film, which you would think wasn’t possible but it is!!!
A: not technically zombies
B: Train to Busan
What film you talkin bout? Not this one,since it's not a zombie film 🤔
@@FMK1317 Opinion of a mouthbreather. Beyond the technicalities of how we define a zombie, this is definitely a zombie movie. People like to quote Danny Boyle on this but fail to realize that the guy who actually WROTE the movie considers it a zombie movie.
Honestly, it's a lot like saying that Black Hawk Down isn't a war movie because the United States wasn't at war with Somalia. It's a redundant opinion.
@@tennoheika94 Zombie's are dead....these guy's ain't 🤦♂️ it's not exactly a hard concept to grasp.
That writer can claim all he want's,if he wanted zombie's then he should have wrote a zombie book.
I can claim I'm a real life zombie all a want, doesn't make it true 🤔
Let's roleplay with your logic:
Ok,black hawk down is my favourite romance movie,and they fight the French in it. You can't change my opinion on this,no matter how much evidence there is in the movie itself,they are French.
Because clearly I'm superior to everyone else,all I have to do is insult anyone who soeak's against me,instead of comin up with a decent argument because their isn't any 😌
@@FMK1317 Don't try to apply logic which you clearly don't understand.
Zombie movies as a genre are based on thematical criteria. It's not about small pedantic details. There are multiple zombie movies/games which never specify if the monsters are dead or alive, yet we clump these movies into the zombie category. Why? Because they share the same general characteristics with other zombie movies, and it's generally accepted that undead or not, they share enough features with classic zombies.
Black Hawk Down example seems to have flown way over your head. It's a action-drama about a military operation. That military operation wasn't part of any war, yet we classify it as a war film. The reason we do this is exactly the same as the reason 28 Days Later can no doubt be categorized as a zombie movie.
Hopefully both of you watch Zombieland 😍😍😍😍
This movie is why I started keeping a battery powered impact wrench in my trunk
The deserted London was filmed in June so the sun it up around 4am but they had to stop the clubbers going home into scenes after a night out, but it was easier to divert traffic and normal peds around the filming locations that early.
Having myself been asked to hold back for 10 minutes to let some shooting finish before crossing south of the river, I can attest to this.
Not sure if I was coming home from a club, or just finishing up late (at the Post-production place I worked at c.2001). London's always got filming going on somewhere; though still quite an achievement specifically here - and the scope / time of day make it memorable - it's pretty normal for productions to ask passers-by to hang on for a minute. Londoners are a lot more chill than they're given credit for.
Sometimes. 🤣
one of my favourite films of all time. Garland and Boyle did an exceptional job, re-revolutionizing the genre. the character development, pacing, story, and underlying social message still holds up to this day.
12:37 My wife has maintained for years if she were the one wielding the machete, she would chop me down, which is nice?
omg if you havent seen yet,do yourselves a favor and watch ''the changeling'' 1980 with george c.scott it is 1 of the best ghost stories ever made
Oooh man, five minutes into this I remembered about the dad. Jeez....