I found on the internet that the UK movie magazine Empire has a new cover story on this movie with what I believe is a photo of Angus Neill from it. It’s an arresting, almost disturbing image.
There’s a new trailer out.
Only 2 more months to go!
Wired wrote it was made on an iPhone 15.
The movie opens today.
My plan is to rewatch 28 Days Later tonight, and then go watch 28 Years Later tomorrow night.
92% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I won’t make it this weekend, but hopefully next week.
My newspaper gave it 4 stars (out of 4). I usually agree with their assessments, but we’ll see.
No plot spoilers are in my post.
Well, I liked it! I’d avoided reading anything about it for awhile and had forgotten the cast, so that was fun. I liked new elements that were introduced.
The sequel was shot at the same time (also on iPhone) and is expected out in January. There will be a third one sometime after that, but I have no idea whether any of it was already shot.
I just read that 28 Days Later is being streamed free of charge on BBC-something if anyone wants to catch up. There was at least one relevant callback to it in the new movie, so I’d recommend a rewatch.
Kinda off topic: this thread led me to the poem for the first time, and the trailer made me wonder if the poem would have been any better if it’d ended with a line of the soldier counting miles again, to deliberately defuse the tension and add to the sense of inevitability and repetition.
But what do I know, I’m no Kipling.
Just saw this and thought it was great! I barely remember the first one and never saw the second and it didn’t matter at all. This is basically a Fantasy movie without the Magic. It’s literally a quest story with Goblins and a kindly wizard.
In case you don’t remember many specifics, in the first one Cillian Murphy wanders out of the hospital and into a church where all the infected happen to be, including the minister. Very similar to the beginning of this one.
I actually watched the recent Honest Trailer a few days back which brought a lot back. I guess my point was anyone who was hesitant to see this because of a lack of knowledge of the previous ones should just go see it because it is excellent.
I am a HUGE fan of 28 Days, and rewatched 28 weeks on Friday before my son and I hit up 28 years.
I enjoyed it. If I hadn’t known there were to be more movies coming, I think I would have been pretty let down, but knowing there is more helps.
I do wish they had been a bit more expository, with maybe the Fiennes character explaining what was happening with the Infected, or something.
Looking forward to the next one!
Also, I suspect Cillian Murphy may have been one of the infected, but not playing as his original character, thus claims of him being in the film. Kind of a trick, imo. But he is also a producer for the film, so who knows what is coming?
I know who you are talking about, but no, that’s a completely different actor. He does have similar bone structure though.
Angus Neill was identified upthread, around the eleventh post.
No, he isn’t. He’s listed as an executive producer. He isn’t listed as anything else.
More may come out in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, but I want to know more about Spike’s mother taking out that Slow-Low while Spike was asleep. She certainly seemed more vicious and practiced than I imagined a typical woman villager would have been, assuming her not coming into regular contact with the infected on the mainland, even allowing for maternal instinct. I wonder what her backstory is.
I had some minor misgivings about the ending until I read more online. It makes sense now. The idea being that the blonds’ cultural references were stunted at the stage they were at when kids were watching Teletubbies and Power Rangers on the telly. I’m sure we’ll learn more in January.
And especially Jimmy Saville, as the gang’s look is almost identical to his. And the name. I suspect most American viewers won’t get that reference.
The web pointed out that Savile hadn’t been exposed yet as a sex offender at the time of the onset of the rage infection, so as far as the blonds knew he was still a weird kids’ entertainer.
When I posted that, he was.