# Why 28 Days Later = worst film ever made **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190 "2004-04-04T16:15:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Farmwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8dc957/32.png) [@Farmwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmwoman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/21 "2004-04-05T12:05:55Z")
Make that emperor ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/22 "2004-04-05T12:24:01Z")
Perhaps the infected give off some kind of chemical marker that causes other infected people to not want to attack them. I don’t know. Even though quite a few people found this plot element to be preposterous and a deal-breaker as far as enjoying the movie, it didn’t bother me in the least. Perhaps there is some fan fiction out there that provides an explanation that would be satisfactory. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/23 "2004-04-05T15:55:09Z")
> [@Farmwoman](#): > > I’m with the OP. I’ve certainly seen worse films, but I can’t recall any I dislike so much which is also lauded by so many…and by so many whose opinions I generally respect. Two words - Citizen Kane. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/24 "2004-04-05T16:16:09Z")
Whilst there are many many worse movies. And I quite enjoy 28 days later. I don’t know why more people don’t pick on the question as to how the guy at the start survived 28 days of coma to wake up healthy? He must have been without medical care for that period, would he have not dehydrated after the first drip ran out? The escape from London was awful, the logic was non existant, still I thought the film was fun at least. ---
**Author:** ![Thingol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Thingol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thingol)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/25 "2004-04-05T17:05:51Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > I’m more amused that the OP only thinks people who agree with his opinion of 28DL are entitled to post in this thread. Entitled? I don’t know if I’d consider posting to this thread an entitlement… 😉 I just wanted to keep it on topic, that’s all. There are other threads for more general discussion of the film. This was meant to be nothing more than a little juvenile fun razzing a bad movie – “Let’s see how many flubs we can list”. But in any case, I’m glad you’re amused. This thread was meant to amuse. Peace on. ---
**Author:** ![Thingol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Thingol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thingol)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/26 "2004-04-05T17:21:34Z")
> [@Ross](#): > > No such film was ever made. “I know this is going to be hard for you to accept, Peter. But sometimes, we experience things… things that are just too horrible for our minds to accept. We push them away, deny that they ever happened.” Wow – a film that got exactly zero fresh tomatoes on [rottentomatoes.com](http://rottentomatoes.com)… [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Highlander2TheQuickening-1037465/reviews.php](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Highlander2TheQuickening-1037465/reviews.php) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/27 "2004-04-05T19:28:19Z")
Basically, almost all of the criticisms for this movie boil down to two points: Some unknown mechanism causes and regulates the disease, and sometimes the characters don’t do the brightest things. Sorry, OP, but just because a character in a movie does something dumb, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie. It just means that, sometimes, (especially in crisis situations), people do dumb things. ---
**Author:** ![Thingol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Thingol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thingol)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/28 "2004-04-05T20:38:23Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Basically, almost all of the criticisms for this movie boil down to two points: Some unknown mechanism causes and regulates the disease, and sometimes the characters don’t do the brightest things. > > Sorry, OP, but just because a character in a movie does something dumb, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad movie. It just means that, sometimes, (especially in crisis situations), people do dumb things. Film is art. An artist has an obligation to be purposeful in his/her work. If a character “does something dumb” there should be a reason that the artist chooses to render that moment. Even in a zombie film. Stringing together cliches and cheap plot devices that continually distract (only a few have been mentioned here – I was being literal when I said one happened about every 5 minutes) from the “dream of fiction” or simply serve as shortcuts so the artist can get quickly from A to B… makes for bad art. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/29 "2004-04-05T21:07:53Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Whilst there are many many worse movies. And I quite enjoy 28 days later. > > I don’t know why more people don’t pick on the question as to how the guy at the start survived 28 days of coma to wake up healthy? He must have been without medical care for that period, He hadn’t been alone for 28 days. Rage got out on day zero, he woke up on day 28. The hospital had probably held out for as long as possible before the staff left, and the fit didn’t hit the shan all at once, so the odds are good he’d only been alone for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/30 "2004-04-05T21:27:17Z")
Just a few opinions: > [@](#): > > 1. Highways free of abandoned/crashed vehicles. FWIW, on the DVD there’s a deleted scene featuring a number of abandoned/crashed vehicles piled up on the road, impeding the survivors’ progress. > [@](#): > > 1. Jim takes the time to prop up the body of the dead soldier in the Jeep simply for psych-out effect, despite the Major being on the loose in the area with a machine gun, but does not bother to take his jacket or boots, despite the fact that he himself is wearing only pants and it’s raining. To me, this is an artistic choice. We’re obviously meant to see Jim and the infected man as similar in the siege on the manor house; keeping Jim in pants and barefeet makes that connection much more overt. > [@](#): > > 1. Our hero lets loose an infected maniac into the mansion where the heroines are being held. I accept this on the basis that there’s a profound difference set up in the film between how the military and how the survivors deal with the infected. The military blows them up with their guns and land mines and whatever. Jim and Serena and the others are by nature of being civilians forced to be resourceful in how they dispatch and elude the infected; I’d argue that Jim understands this and lacking the weaponry to properly attack the military men, figures releasing the infected man in the house is a good way to keep them occupied while finding Serena and the girl. But part of me does agree, it seems rather risky. I’m not saying this was the best movie ever. But I certainly don’t think it was the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190/31 "2004-04-13T16:00:10Z")
> [@Thingol](#): > > Ok, before we go too far down this road, please let me repeat a couple of points from the original posting (which I generally recommend reading before replying): > > 1. There are other threads on this board re 28 Days Later (yes, I am a member; yes, I did a search). > > 2. The purpose of this thread is not to debate the virtues of the film. It’s to make fun of the film’s flaws, an honored tradition as old as the genre itself. If you’re not interested in that, please don’t clog up this thread. _Ahem_ I started a thread with exactly that purpose in mind, called iirc “Why 28 Days Later sucked”, I can’t search for it at the moment as I’m waiting until the last minute to sign up as a charter member, following my tradition of waiting until the last minute to do pretty much everything. I still haven’t done my taxes even… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-28-days-later-worst-film-ever-made/238190.md?page=1)