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[Ulysses 31]

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The ending was ridiculous. Kinda took me out of it. Totally unnecessary.

The alphas were also over the top. Making them intelligent was dumb. The whole point of the virus is it makes you super scary and mindless. I didn't like that addition either. And then ripping heads off was a little lame.

Was hoping they'd show more of the village. Even though this was Spike's story. I wanted to know more about the people. And know why ATJ was so cold toward Isla. I wonder if Spike wasn't her son at all. Or if he just wanted her to die so he could be with that other girl Rosey.

A pretty big stretch that a woman in the state Isla was in could make that journey the way she did. And not only that, but kill the one infected on her own with brute physical force. Wtf was that about?

The birth scene was ridiculous. I was like c'mon.

But overall I thought it was a sweet story that still had plenty of tense infected moments and scares.

Or what about Isla somehow ending ahead of the guys where they just can't catch up to her coz she's just that fast...
Or the chasing Alpha they incapacitate several times but don't kill.

 

[Sardaukarama]

Movie was decent enough but the soundtrack and the Kipling poem

 

[xrnzaaas]

I watched it again and I have a nitpick with continuity.

Spoiler: 28 Days Later and Weeks Later Spoilers

So a big component of Days Later was how long the infected take to starve to death. By the end of the movie they show them already dying off and starving and frail and thin laying on the ground. Then in the beginning of 28 Weeks Later they tell us they die in a number of weeks and starve off. 28 Weeks Later is obviously less than a year after Days Later. So there's no way the infected would have evolved that fast to where they all starved off after 28 Days Later and then after the breakout of 28 Weeks Later which took place in under a year, learned how to cannibalize and eat other things to survive. The infected in Weeks Later would have starved off too.

And it's not like the UK was teeming with people. The entire island was wiped out by the virus, and they only reintegrated a few thousand in Weeks Later. There simply shouldn't still be around 28 Years Later let alone more than a few weeks after the events of 28 Weeks Later. They should have all died off. And 28 Years Later never explains how they are still around other than just showing them having evolved.

That's one of the things I hate about 28 Years. Not only it wastes the potential of 28 Weeks ending, but it also doesn't make sense that the infected are still there. And they didn't even bother with a more elaborate explanation of why is the threat from them still a thing. This is an even bigger stretch than coming up with a solution to start a new outbreak in 28 Weeks.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I hated this, every zombie looked like a theater artist in a dumb suit trying to act like a zombie. It all looked fake and silly.

The kid and mom would never survive. I never bought into their journey.

Illogical scenes galore, like the kid being right behind the mom when she entered the train only to be 3 minutes late in coming inside it. Or soldiers just watching the alpha eating their friends for 10 seconds without firing before the alpha took them down as well.

How did the kid leave the baby at the gates unseen at the end when the only way in is watched 24/7?

Why didn't his father go and look for him? bring a party to find him?

And why did the kid and dad run around alone? in such a scenario, they would never go out in small groups like that. And landing arrows with enough force in such chaotic situations is ridicules.

This was a weak ass zombie movie for people who have never seen a zombie movie.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

It was okay. Good, even.

I don't like how unrealistic some things were, and it seems like when those unrealistic things rear their head, it's because the writer (Alex Garland) was more focused on delivering metaphors/social commentary instead of a story.

I bet if I were 15-years-old when seeing this, I'd think it was a fantastic coming-of-age movie.

Ralph Fiennes was uncannily good.

 

[Ishma3L]

This is what I was referring to when I said a while ago that the ending was a knee jerk tonal shift. Found it pretty funny actually.



about a minute into that clip if you don't want to wait around.

Edit: Not sure what's going on after 2:59 not responsible for that.

 

[zaga]

The ending scene is the best part of the movie

 

[Windle Poons]

The ending scene is definitely different.

 

[clarky]

I watched it again and I have a nitpick with continuity.

Spoiler: 28 Days Later and Weeks Later Spoilers

So a big component of Days Later was how long the infected take to starve to death. By the end of the movie they show them already dying off and starving and frail and thin laying on the ground. Then in the beginning of 28 Weeks Later they tell us they die in a number of weeks and starve off. 28 Weeks Later is obviously less than a year after Days Later. So there's no way the infected would have evolved that fast to where they all starved off after 28 Days Later and then after the breakout of 28 Weeks Later which took place in under a year, learned how to cannibalize and eat other things to survive. The infected in Weeks Later would have starved off too.

And it's not like the UK was teeming with people. The entire island was wiped out by the virus, and they only reintegrated a few thousand in Weeks Later. There simply shouldn't still be around 28 Years Later let alone more than a few weeks after the events of 28 Weeks Later. They should have all died off. And 28 Years Later never explains how they are still around other than just showing them having evolved.

They said that it's a follow up to Days and Weeks basically doesn't exist.

Still a disappointment.

Edit: Sorry didn't realise I was responding to a 2 week old post.