just watched this for the first time in over a decade and while it's still a good movie, i completely forgot about how jim the meek package courier went from a skinny loser to a rambo-level special ops badass that knew all of his surroundings in the course of a couple hours. completely took me out of it
>jim the meek package courier went from a skinny loser
he would need years of physical therapy, wasn't he in a coma for some time or something?
It's in the title. He was out for twenty-eight days.
he would be in a horrible condition even at 28 days. Even a few days can frick you up for a long time.
I think the title meant it was 28 days after the infection got out. The movie implies that it was probably somewhere in the north and it took some time to reach London where Jim was. He might not have been out for the full 28 days.
That being said yes, the premise is very unrealistic. He also would have been covered in feces.
Regarding his Rambo conversion, the infected Jim released (into a dark house with two helpless women) actually did a lot of the work for him.
I suppose he must have fallen into a coma before the infection spread to London (the infection is shown in the beginning that it started in Cambridge), but I always assumed the two events more or less coincided. He certainly can't have been in a coma for months if his limbs still work.
>the infection is shown in the beginning that it started in Cambridge
I see, I just remembered the people he runs into said it started in smaller villages and since there was a big military presence in Manchester that it had started roughly there. That would have given the infection some days before reaching London and before Jim's accident but I think I was giving the filmmaker's too much credit.
yeah but to be fair he wasnt vaxxed. you know, he wasnt a complete coward like you guys. also uncircumcised.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
absolutely BTFO
no refunds
it was a different time. onions milk hadn't been invented. a man could just walk off a month long coma back then
>heh i brought up the vaccine again fricking rekt gottem
I look like this and obsess about the vaccine like this.
Trannies (you) are literally incels
It’s been a while since I’ve seen this, but that’s not how I remember it. What does he do that’s so unrealistic?
He murders an entire spec ops squad with his bare hands to save two women, and this is only a few days removed from being in a month long coma
the zombie helps him. also, the "spec ops" squad is suffering from severe blue balls
>to save two women,
to save Imogen Poots, i would do it too.
That was 28 Weeks, she wasn't in this movie.
>spec ops
they're regular line troops
He kills one person and lets the zombies do the rest you stupid gay
That's a disingenuous as frick way of describing that part.
it's really not but ok
As others have already pointed out, the infected he releases does a lot of the heavy. It's disingenuous to say he murders the entire squad barehanded.
he still kills like 2 of them and somehow knows the entire layout of the manor, including the rafters that there would have been no way he would have known about beforehand. just complete plot armor bullshit
Sir its been 30 days, you know what we need to do
This is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I pity horrorgays that need to sit through shit like this to find a decent horrorkino from time to time
Realismgays never have anything interesting to say.
Not a thing.
Ever.
When you truly love someone, you will do anything to protect them. It is a reason, and not a meme...
Which the military guys didn't have, love, they just fugged around, shot zombies, were secured, were horny, and basically bro pranked each other for shits and giggles.
Love and survival will grant you a moronic strength, and Jim had that as leverage.
At six months, about 60% of TBI patients can walk again.
He would be a zombie himself...full recovery takes years
>"I promised them rape Jim"
Why do all Danny Boyle flicks turn into slashers in the third act?
i don't think 127 hours turn...actually you know what never mind
6 months of physical therapy and great care so he can walk again, but in the film he is walking in london with some discomfort and that is it.
Then he is a ninja that can take out special forces soldiers.
this is the only good zombie movie
it’s not a zombie movie.
>is a zombie
>UGH they don't say the word zombie ergo it's not one!
take this autism somewhere else
The defining trait of a zombie is that they eat people. The infected in this movie have a virus that infects them with rage. It doesn’t raise them from the dead. Not a zombie film
Don't be a pedantic moron
This isn't a favorite film of mine but it was a breath of fresh air at the time because all that was coming out were teen slashers trying to capitalize on the success of the Scream franchise.
I just rewatched 28 Weeks Later and it's really dumb. There's barely any zombie stuff in the first half and the zombified dad stalking his kids is dumb. I do like that it showed American soldiers as incompetent psychos though.
Also I want to lick Imogen Poots' face.
It has nothing to do with uttering the word "zombie" it's the fact that zombies are dead, the infected are not dead, just infected.
not all zombies are dead and eat people
28 Days Later is a classic. So is 28 Weeks. Great zombie films. Better than Resident Evil or the Evil Dead films for sure
18 Weeks was incredibly weak. The opening was great and then it was awful from there on out.
Wrong
Well yes I was because I meant 28 Weeks but the rest of the post is right.
the opening is so good that it makes up for the rest of the movie.
I would actually agree to that. The first one wasn't perfect either so it's all fair.
They're infected people, so they're still mammals and they eventually starve to death.
He kills one moron and with the other he has the element of surprise. Granted, it's unlikely he'd know the layout that well but he had also been there for a fair period of time and seemed to have spent most of the time just running around so maybe he got lucky.
right. people typically only really talk about the first half of the first movie. it completely falls apart too. so it's not that different for the second movie, except the 2nd half is even weaker.
You mean low iq people
I'll grant you that there are a ton of stupid plot holes, but it's still a scary and well made movie
Yeah everyone agrees that the third act sucks. That's been the consensus for twenty years you fricking zoom zoom
>Everyone agrees
I do not consent
The film is great first half then with the military guys come into into it gets stupid
fast zombies will always be stupid, and here's why:
consider the fastest creatures, cheetahs, leopards, antelope. all warm blooded mammalian life forms. then consider reptiles, they can be quick but not keep up any kind of sustained run. your theoretical movie zombie is closer to a reptile than a mammal, no warm heart pumping warm blood. they need to move as such. nothing gets faster when it dies. you want to buff the slow zombie for 15 minutes right after it eats a hot meal? sure, we'll allow it. but fast zombies are logically moronic and should never have been a thing
The infected in 28 Days Later aren't really zombies and eventually starve to death.
In this movie nothing dies and comes back to life. People (alive) are bitten or otherwise infected, contract the virus - still alive - run around trying to infect other people - and then die
They need to release the next one already frick me it's been too long.
So long since a zombie movie that takes itself serious.
They probably don't know where to go with it after the cliffhanger of Paris being emptied.
The last news I heard is that it's going to be 28 Years and Cillian Murphy is in talks to return.
The I Am Legend side stories were pretty neat too, especially the one from the perspective of the turned.
Being a package courier in the city is not meek and is a a dangerous job
oh yeah and what makes you an expert?
You could argue that the navigational skills that come in handy for a courier job helped him find his way around the house and plan out the attack, but admittedly the final sequence was a beyond what you'd expect from a guy like that, and I question if some Irish wagie would know how to handle a gun that well unless he was former IRA or something.
The army guys are not Rambo’s themselves and are mostly shown to be weak in some way
He has the element of surprise
And uses the infected guy as both a distraction and a means to dispatch several of them