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After being stuck in for however long in development hell, I'm sort of shocked to see things have moved forward enough to actually have a trailer released for this movie. I wasn't a big fan of 28 weeks later since it felt like a movie that happened more due to contrivances of the idiot ball being passed around and the military being portrayed as complete incompetents, but 28 days later was a fantastic movie IMO. If it captures more of the first movie, I think this will be something I'll be checking out when it gets released. Curious to see how much the infection has changed since it seems like waiting out for the infected to die of starvation seems to not work anymore.




Bonus points to the trailer not spoiling anything in the movie but having the right horror vibe of the apocalyptic setting.

I'm not sure I'll go to the theater to see this, by the end of the night it will be 28 dollars later.

I liked both Days and Weeks, for different reasons as they are very different movies.
Trailer doesn't hype me up though, but it also tells not much of a story. Probably only catch it when it hits streaming services, as the wife is not a horror fan.

Weeks I have two soft spots for.

1. Robert Carlisle. He’s ace.
2. The safe zone is filmed in and around where my office is. Kinda cool to recognise locations, even if some of the movements make absolutely no geographical sense!

28 Years I’m looking forward to. Though, given the ending of 28 Weeks, I hope we get at least some exposition. Because by that point? Realistically the only continents that could possibly be free of infection would be Australia and The Americas, plus lots of Island nations.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Weeks I have two soft spots for.

1. Robert Carlisle. He’s ace.
2. The safe zone is filmed in and around where my office is. Kinda cool to recognise locations, even if some of the movements make absolutely no geographical sense!

28 Years I’m looking forward to. Though, given the ending of 28 Weeks, I hope we get at least some exposition. Because by that point? Realistically the only continents that could possibly be free of infection would be Australia and The Americas, plus lots of Island nations.

Based on what I can see in the trailer I'm fairly sure we're still in the UK, but I feel like some of the safer areas would specifically be the ones that are in cold/northern regions, where the infected realistically can't get through the elements without dying.

Also, at the end of 28 Days? We see the Infected, not being Zombies, have a finite shelf life, especially with their energy output.

So my guess is it’s mutated in some way, and now there are proper Zombies, as well as Infected?

I'm pretty sure that infected at the end of 28 Days had just tripped, and was about to get up.

I also hope we get some good exposition. I love the world building that these films (post apocalypse, "zombie" style flicks) sometimes do so well.

Sequel Time!

Ugh. I'm burned out on this stuff.

I actually watched 28 Years Later a few days ago.

Like most people I thought Days was a great film. While I didn't hate Weeks I wouldn't go so far as to say it's any better than OK.

After watching Years I have to say that the film is... weird. Not sure I can think of a better way to describe it. The design choices for the infected were weird, the story was not terrible but also a bit weird, just weird overall. I was convinced that this film was from a different director to Days but right at the end of the film it says "Directed by Danny Boyle" so I guess I was wrong there.

If this new film is what I think it is (don't want to give too much away since I can't be bothered to use spoiler tags for this post) I have zero desire to watch it. Since it's taking some of the weirder decisions from 28 Years Later and making a film about them I just don't see why I'd want to spend my time on it.

I don't think 28 Years Later was too bad, just an odd way to continue the legacy. I'm happy to leave the franchise there and not view any more sequels or spinoffs.

Looking at Wikipedia it could be the second film in a trilogy.

I disliked 28 Days Later, never saw Weeks, and had no interest in Years…until I started hearing how weird and divisive it is. Would someone please spoil me on what makes the film so weird and unlike the first two? If I hated the “man is the real monster” aspect of the first movie, does Years get away from that or double down?

It’s more “can any semblance of society reemerge” type stuff, and very character driven. It’s not something you can pop on in the background and get the full benefit. It’s definitely a Sit Down And Give It Your Attention job.

If you’re in two minds? I’d suggest a Prime Rental job.

Character driven can be amazing or amazingly tedious depending on execution. Can Society Re-emerge sounds not very fun. That still doesn’t describe what make hundreds of fanboys chanting “boots boots boots” come back from the theater chanting “worst movie ever”.

I can’t get into more detail without spoilers.

I know my taste in movies is frankly highly suspect absolutely exquisite, but I thought this was terrific.

It’s a continuation of the saga right enough. But it’s not a Retread Sequel. Same world, different lens, new and interesting story and perspective.

Importantly? Our humans feel like deserving survivors. They’re not timid. They’re not daft. They survived through skill and being sensible and cautious.

I am asking for spoilers.

I thought it was a really good film*, it was a very interesting “what if” and probably one of the most realistic post-apocalyptic films made. The “evolution” of the infected also had an interesting logic to it. And then the final five minutes was a wildly jarring change in tone.

I would highly recommend watching it.

* content warning

I haven't seen it yet, but I was very intrigued by the marketing featuring the Taylor Holmes reading of Rudyard Kiplings "Boots", they really used it to good effect.

I enjoyed the first two films in the series despite my distaste for zombie fiction (in this case, they aren't really undead which is 98% of my issue with zombie fiction - the idea of animated undead consuming brains exceeds my ability to suspend disbelief from a scientific standpoint, especially when they try to explain and justify it from a scientific standpoint).

I'll get around to watching it eventually. The trailers reminded me a bit of the back end of "Threads" which covers a brief slice of life in post-nuclear holocaust Britain. Even moreso with the apparent focus on "can society re-emerge" being discussed in this thread.

Comparison to Threads isn’t bad actually, although not quite so depressing and horrific! Also, if you’re from / familiar with the UK from 28 years ago, they’ve done a great job of recreating the world as it was (but aged).

I wish they would adapt Michael Logan's British Zombie series into some films...

Wouldn't you rather watch a series based on Apocalyspe Cow and World War Moo?