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28 Weeks Later
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Meade's Ball
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The Thing is undoubtedly up there for me as one of cinema's horror greats. The whole way through the synthesised score is mostly a heartbeat, in times of greater horror stretched to a consecutive note without pause. To tie people together and test each other's blood for who is infected is one of the great scenes, with the notion that each cell is so separate and determined for survival a darwinian commentary.
I saw 28 Weeks Later on a Friday afternoon in an Odeon with about 14 other men of my age with beards and stained shirts sitting far enough away from each other so that none would get attention or be forcd to answer questions on who they are. Quite enjoyable, and sickening to the core in certain places. The downside for me was the presumed sympathy for the children and their tearaway tendencies, but the positives were the political elements and the gut-wrenching moments where society and its peopled norms are truly and fleshily torn apart.
I saw 28 Weeks Later on a Friday afternoon in an Odeon with about 14 other men of my age with beards and stained shirts sitting far enough away from each other so that none would get attention or be forcd to answer questions on who they are. Quite enjoyable, and sickening to the core in certain places. The downside for me was the presumed sympathy for the children and their tearaway tendencies, but the positives were the political elements and the gut-wrenching moments where society and its peopled norms are truly and fleshily torn apart.
Herne Hill Seagull
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Papa Lazarou
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And wasn't she a picture when they found her?
couldn't they have looked online at their photbook or Flickr account?
captainmorganrum
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But that hadn't been updated for about ....ooooh.....six months or so.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
True, but I'd imagine that any photos taken during those intervening 6 months wouldn't be the sort of thing you'd want to remember...
One moment involving the mother that freaked me (without giving too much away) is right after the kiss, when she's in the observation room... poor woman.
Meade's Ball
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Easy 10
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Well, the kid was like something out of Hansen, which was disturbing enough in itself.
However, I was rather taken with his big sister Tammy, and her classic english rose beauty. Those pouting lips, long eyelashes and flowing tousled locks.
Even if I happened to be a crazed, salivating, Rage-infected mutant from the apocolypse, hell bent on ripping the face off anything that moved in a prolongued and frenzied zombie attack, I'd like to think I'd take a moment to sit down with her over a synthetic vending-machine cappucino in a deserted Leicester Square and take the time to find out a little about her.
Before savagely tearing her to shreds and devouring her eyes of course.
alan partridge
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you've done it again! i remember you ruining the film for anyone who hadn't seen it when we were arguing about the merits of the yank vs japanese one
then again if you watch the american one you know something is going to happen cos they make it so bloody obvious....
alan partridge
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but yeah, the thing. brilliant.
alan partridge
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no excuse and you know it
shall I just anounce whodunnit on the orient express cos it's old?
actually I did do that to my sister being a **** of an older brother
Tom Hark Preston Park
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How QUEER! I also watched 28 Weeks Later for the first time last night. Not round Easy 10's house I hasten to add, nor did he watch it round mine. Honest.
Yup, marvellous scenes, WAY better than 28 Days Later. Good clean scarey fun.
Spent the first 20 minutes trying to work out the relationship (girlfriend? nanny?) of the fit bird to Robert Carlyle (daughter actually). Took another hour before I realised the younger kid was a boy. Doh!
Love the way the scary guys run. Much faster than the people running away from them, especially the ones hobbling away from them with bullet wounds to the leg. Oddly tho, they rarely catch them.
But both films are of course mainly notable for scenes of London featuring no traffic and few people. How do they DO that?
Yup, marvellous scenes, WAY better than 28 Days Later. Good clean scarey fun.
Spent the first 20 minutes trying to work out the relationship (girlfriend? nanny?) of the fit bird to Robert Carlyle (daughter actually). Took another hour before I realised the younger kid was a boy. Doh!
Love the way the scary guys run. Much faster than the people running away from them, especially the ones hobbling away from them with bullet wounds to the leg. Oddly tho, they rarely catch them.
But both films are of course mainly notable for scenes of London featuring no traffic and few people. How do they DO that?
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I reckon it's because most people haven't seen the originals to compare. While I think the remakes are pretty poor compared with the originals, they are still pretty scary for those who haven't seen the originals.
As for the Japanese being best at horror - mmm, maybe. After masterpieces like Ring and Audition, J-Horror seemed to get just as formulaic as the current spate of Hollywood gornography - I mean just how many times can you use a girl with long dark hair who walks funny and a creepy little kid who talks like an old man...