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DeathsHand
06-28-2003, 03:32 PM
Anybody seen this or wanna see it? I saw it last night... K I'm pretty sure there are no spoilers in the stuff below...
This dood wakes up in a deserted hospital and wanders around London's deserted streets wondering where the fudge everybody is... And then stuff happens...
Yeah it's a "Zombie" movie... But they're not really zombies... I don't think they actually eat their victims... The disease is spread by getting infected blood into you (mouth, eyes, whatever) or by being bitten... The people aren't really undead, and instead of dragging themselves around slowly and moaning they go CRAZY and they'll twich and flail around and scream and run at you (In the beginning of the movie they call it being infected with RAAAAGE)... And they can be killed like any normal human could be (no shot through the brain stuff)...
And it was shot on Digital Video which gave it kind of a gritty look... And it also allowed them to quickly get shots of the deserted streets of London (setting up quickly and only having to stop traffic for a minute or two at a time)...
Really there isn't a whole lot of horror in the movie... Most of it is just more like a survival kind of movie... and most of the movie is very quiet and such... And because of that some might find it boring, but I thought it was a very good movie (which is kinda surprising for a horror movie)... First half of the movie was good, and the second half was even better (IMO)... yep...
fingersman
06-28-2003, 08:18 PM
Anybody seen this or wanna see it? I saw it last night... K I'm pretty sure there are no spoilers in the stuff below...
This dood wakes up in a deserted hospital and wanders around London's deserted streets wondering where the fudge everybody is... And then stuff happens...
Yeah it's a "Zombie" movie... But they're not really zombies... I don't think they actually eat their victims... The disease is spread by getting infected blood into you (mouth, eyes, whatever) or by being bitten... The people aren't really undead, and instead of dragging themselves around slowly and moaning they go CRAZY and they'll twich and flail around and scream and run at you (In the beginning of the movie they call it being infected with RAAAAGE)... And they can be killed like any normal human could be (no shot through the brain stuff)...
And it was shot on Digital Video which gave it kind of a gritty look... And it also allowed them to quickly get shots of the deserted streets of London (setting up quickly and only having to stop traffic for a minute or two at a time)...
Really there isn't a whole lot of horror in the movie... Most of it is just more like a survival kind of movie... and most of the movie is very quiet and such... And because of that some might find it boring, but I thought it was a very good movie (which is kinda surprising for a horror movie)... First half of the movie was good, and the second half was even better (IMO)... yep...
I saw the trailer and heard the storyline and I was not impressed ...but since you seem to think so highly of it, I think I'll give it a watch. :D
BTW ANYONE WATCHED THE HULK?? I want to if it was good your opinions since the reviews were kinda good.
DeathsHand
06-28-2003, 09:17 PM
I saw the trailer and heard the storyline and I was not impressed ...but since you seem to think so highly of it, I think I'll give it a watch. :D
BTW ANYONE WATCHED THE HULK?? I want to if it was good your opinions since the reviews were kinda good.
Actually the reviews for the hulk were pretty bad... I saw it though... It was kinda eehhhh... Boring overall... Prolly the worst comic book movie I've seen (out of like... All of them)... But I dunno, my friend and his dad liked it, so wuteva...
Rndm_Perfection
06-28-2003, 09:22 PM
Prolly the worst comic book movie I've seen (out of like... All of them)... But I dunno, my friend and his dad liked it, so wuteva...
Did you think about the last two Batman movies before you made that comment? *shudders*
DeathsHand
06-28-2003, 09:25 PM
Did you think about the last two Batman movies before you made that comment? *shudders*
Oops, I meant recent ones.. Not longer running ones like Batman, but I mean like Xmen 1, 2, Daredevil, and Spiderman... I actually havn't seen more than 5 minutes of a Batman movie... *cough*... :sneaky:
One Winged Angel
06-28-2003, 09:33 PM
The Hulk was utter ****. Don't ever see this movie. Dated CGI, crappy acting, and they tried to make the movie as a comic, which failed miserably. I only recommend this movie to people I hate...
Jason1
06-28-2003, 10:26 PM
The Hulk was utter ****. Don't ever see this movie. Dated CGI, crappy acting, and they tried to make the movie as a comic, which failed miserably. I only recommend this movie to people I hate...
LMAO! Last movie I was was hollywood Homicide...which was pretty meh...not horrible, but definatley not that good either.
BlueFire
06-29-2003, 01:56 AM
I saw this movie available in my theater, but sadly, i didn't go see it. Instead, I was forced to see Bruce Almighty. I hope to check this out soon though ;o
Ginkasa
06-29-2003, 03:23 AM
I heard 28 Days Later was horrible... :unsure:
*HULK SPOILERS*
And I thought the Hulk was just plain bad. It takes like an hour for the movie to even show the Hulk and then its one of those teasing in the shadows type things. The stuff in between the Hulk scenes were boring and uninteresting. I couldn't decide if Bruce's dad actually loved him, hated him, was proud of his "creation", or was always wanting to use him for his powers.
Jennifer Connely's character (I have never met a girl named Betty...) was just the typical love interest trying to protect the monster. How many times has the whole "girl falls in love with monster and has to stop daddy from killing it" thing been done?
Nor could I figure out where that other guy was coming from... The young guy... The one who wants to use the Hulk's DNA or whatever to make super soldiers. Maybe I missed something, but he just showed up out of nowhere suddenly antagonizng the heroes. Its said he has some past history with Bruce and Betty but it never expands on it. I just felt he was there to be the annoying comic relief villain.
And how many times had the super soldier thing been done as well?
And there were some inconsistencies as well. General Ross (correct?) is trying to interrogate Bruce to find out where his father is. He thinks that Bruce might be planning something with his father. This is complete stupidity. Bruce, who has never shown any sort of hostility towards anybody, does not seem to be the person to plan anything with anybody much less his father who he hasn't met since he was like three.
Not only that, but its revealed that Bruce's dad killed his mom in front of Bruce. General Ross knows this happened is completely surprised that Bruce was unable to remember this. How could he suspect that Bruce would be protecting his father if he knew his mother was killed in front of him? If I remembered my mom being stabbed by my father (not to mention because she was stopping him from stabbing me) I certainly wouldn't protect my father. I would help get him into custody.
And the ending sucks. Maybe I'm just stupid (or had just lost interest and wasn't paying attention) but I had no clue why they put Bruce and his dad on some electric floor and allowed them to talk while planning to electrocute them if they did anything. I didn't get that at all.
And the ending battle is the worst I've ever seen. I didn't understand that either.
In its credit, most of the scenes with Hulk were pretty cool. The CG was awesome IMO (except for one scene where the Hulk picks up Betty) but the action was good. There just wasn't enough of it.
Anyway...
I'm done :D
*shrugs and walks away*
Canyarion
06-29-2003, 07:19 AM
So how's Bruce Almighty? :)
Joeiss
06-29-2003, 11:24 AM
I liked Bruce Allmighty. It wasn't hillarious, but I had a good laugh.
One Winged Angel
06-29-2003, 02:08 PM
Go see Finding Nemo instead. Great movie :)
DeathsHand
06-29-2003, 02:28 PM
I heard 28 Days Later was horrible... :unsure:
Well the reviews are pretty good (check out www.rottentomatoes.com), although the couple of reviews from this area I saw said it was bad (2 out of 4 stars, then another said visually it does some nice things, but it's brought down by a 'horrible' script)
When we got to the theater there was a group of 6 or so people that my friend knew... They all said the movie was pretty bad... But we both liked it... *shrug*
I've heard from just about everybody else that Bruce Almighty blew chunks, but a couple people from GT have said it's good... A lot of people say The Hulk sucks ass (one radio reviewer guy said it was the worst movie he's ever seen), but my friend and his dad (and some other people coming out of the theater) thought it was pretty good...
See how opinions work? :D
Ginkasa
06-29-2003, 10:10 PM
I thought Bruce Almighty was hilarious. Funniest new comedy I've seen in a while.
*shrugs and walks away*
NWO_STEVIE_NWO
06-29-2003, 10:23 PM
Ugh.. this movie sucked major ass...
manasecret
06-29-2003, 10:27 PM
Oh god.
The Hulk :shakehead.
I "saw" the Hulk drunk, and I don't remember a thing about it. Which is probably due to me being bored as hell and leaving five times during the movie. Y'know, popcorn, which I over-salted to taste like burning, bathroom, then going to the arcade for about 20 minutes, bathroom again, etc.
They just keep talking in the beginning is all I remember. That and something about the Hulk being sad.
My friend was sober and saw the whole thing, and said it was terrible. So I'm glad I didn't miss much.
fingersman
06-30-2003, 11:09 PM
Movie.com showed that the majority of reviews were either good or mixed......oh well a review is still a personal opinion, I still think I'm going to watch it.
bobcat
07-01-2003, 12:30 AM
Oh god.
The Hulk :shakehead.
I "saw" the Hulk drunk, and I don't remember a thing about it. Which is probably due to me being bored as hell and leaving five times during the movie. Y'know, popcorn, which I over-salted to taste like burning, bathroom, then going to the arcade for about 20 minutes, bathroom again, etc.
They just keep talking in the beginning is all I remember. That and something about the Hulk being sad.
My friend was sober and saw the whole thing, and said it was terrible. So I'm glad I didn't miss much.
lol
I remember watching LOTR drunk. I had 3 glasses of red wine (as you can drink in the upper class cinemas. It was awesome
DeathsHand
07-01-2003, 12:50 AM
Movie.com showed that the majority of reviews were either good or mixed......oh well a review is still a personal opinion, I still think I'm going to watch it.
You shouldn't see it just cuz I said it's good... I bet you won't like it :p I dunno though, my friend's who've seen it liked it... my friend and his dad, and another friend of mine and her mom (her mom says she wants to get it when it comes out on DVD :D )... And me... yep... *shrug*
manasecret
07-01-2003, 01:30 AM
lol
I remember watching LOTR drunk. I had 3 glasses of red wine (as you can drink in the upper class cinemas. It was awesome
Nice. :)
I had some friends who saw the LOTR The Two Towers drunk, and they said it was fun when it got to the action. But they also said they couldn't remember any of the story because they couldn't concentrate. So they didn't know if they liked it or not, haha.
By the way, the legal drinking age over there is 21, right?
fingersman
07-01-2003, 08:25 AM
You shouldn't see it just cuz I said it's good... I bet you won't like it :p I dunno though, my friend's who've seen it liked it... my friend and his dad, and another friend of mine and her mom (her mom says she wants to get it when it comes out on DVD :D )... And me... yep... *shrug*
Thx I won't see it since you liked it DH!!! You really helped me decide. :D
DeathsHand
07-01-2003, 01:56 PM
Thx I won't see it since you liked it DH!!! You really helped me decide. :D
Damn straight you won't! :D
Lord Germano
07-04-2003, 05:54 AM
By the way, the legal drinking age over there is 21, right?
Nope, 18 :aust:
The Germanator
07-04-2003, 11:46 PM
I thought 28 Days Later was pretty damn good. There were some cheesy scenes, but they were more than outdone by the vast city shots of a virtually empty London, and while it wasn't exactly scary, a lot of scenes were pretty damn intense. Great music too. Trainspotting was a cool movie too, so I sorta expected this...
DeathsHand
07-04-2003, 11:58 PM
I thought 28 Days Later was pretty damn good. There were some cheesy scenes, but they were more than outdone by the vast city shots of a virtually empty London, and while it wasn't exactly scary, a lot of scenes were pretty damn intense. Great music too.
Yay someone actually replied to the original subject and liked the movie (^_^
But yes... vast city shots of a virtually empty London = Neat
Intenseness = Great
Music = Sexy
:sneaky:
My sister was in britain last year cuz of university and she saw it(28 days later). Sounding like a pretty sweet movie. I'll probably see it on sunday night.
Canyarion
08-29-2004, 06:20 PM
Sorry for bringing up an old movie thread again :angel:
I saw this movie yesterday, I liked it.
The last scenes with the marines were awesome!
Ending was sweet. :cool:
Professor S
08-29-2004, 10:44 PM
Dawn of the Dead was much better, but I like any movie with zombies so it gets a thumbs up from me.
Ace195
08-30-2004, 12:00 AM
Hrmm.. 28 days had a better story line there was actually an experiment gone awry I never did see what caused the people to go crazy in dawn of the dead...
Rubber Kitty
08-30-2004, 12:17 AM
Ugh, I thought 28 Days Later was total rubbish. The "zombies" do nothing more than hiss, gurgle, and kinda slap you around when they finally catch you. Musta been the girliest pack of zombies I'd ever seen. And don't even get me started on the ending. JETS. HELLO. END. It was the "punch yourself in the face" kind of stupid.
Return of the Living Dead is the pinnacle of zombie movies anyway. "Send more cops" :D
DeathsHand
08-30-2004, 12:32 AM
"Send more cops" :D
Send more paramedics was the better line... :sneaky:
And Ace, if the storyline of the remake is the same as the original, the zombies in Dawn of the Dead are all part of the same zombie outbreak that was in Night of the Living Dead (it being the sequel to it and all)...
I forget what caused the dead people to come back to life in NOTLD, but still...
yep...
Rubber Kitty
08-30-2004, 12:39 AM
Send more paramedics was the better line... :sneaky:
Haha, it was a toss-up between the two, but I prefered the way the old guy zombie said the line :D
Professor S
08-30-2004, 06:39 PM
Hrmm.. 28 days had a better story line there was actually an experiment gone awry I never did see what caused the people to go crazy in dawn of the dead...
28 Dyas Later's storyline was that they were infected by "rage"... and you think thats good? I actually thought the storyboard ending they had was much better than the one's that made it to film.
In none of the "...of the dead" movies is it ever explained why they come back to life. Thats the point. You have to understand the inspiration for the film. George Romero is a socialist. He made the Dead movies as a metaphor for the inevitable rise of the proletariat over the upper classes. The remake kept this theme.
Also, Dawn of the Dead had much better character development and it was more about the people who were surrounded by the zombies than the zombies themselves.
Canyarion
08-31-2004, 05:54 AM
I still have to see those. :)
Happydude
08-31-2004, 07:29 PM
28 days later was ok, not the best, not the worst, although i don't remember any of the endings...i do remember the endings to be pretty bad though.
I like both of 28 Days Later's ending's I cant remember if one of them the guy died or not. and happydude one of the ending the guy lived and they got away from the place they where at.
DeathsHand
08-31-2004, 11:51 PM
I like both of 28 Days Later's ending's I cant remember if one of them the guy died or not. and happydude one of the ending the guy lived and they got away from the place they where at.
SPOILERS AND SUCH I GUESS!!!! (^-^v
Yeah, one of the endings was basically just the same as the normal one, except the guy died... And there was extra footage of the women trying to save his life but failing...
I thought 28 Days Later's ending was a mixed bag... I liked the whole idea of just outliving the zombies as they starved to death, but then the whole writing out "Hello" with sheets seemed a bit silly... They could have done something else that took less effort and sheets... :sneaky:
Rubber Kitty
08-31-2004, 11:57 PM
I thought 28 Days Later's ending was a mixed bag... I liked the whole idea of just outliving the zombies as they starved to death, but then the whole writing out "Hello" with sheets seemed a bit silly... They could have done something else that took less effort and sheets... :sneaky:
Yeah, something with more guns and bombs woulda been better. Damn crappy pacifistic endings :mad:
Canyarion
09-01-2004, 12:47 PM
SPOILERS AND SUCH I GUESS!!!! (^-^v but then the whole writing out "Hello" with sheets seemed a bit silly... They could have done something else that took less effort and sheets... :sneaky:
Yeah, "Help" would have been shorter. :p
But then again, the word "Hell" in his dream was cool... :cool:
Happydude
09-01-2004, 07:57 PM
bah, i need to watch the endings again...i don't remember them at all :(
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