Poll: 28 days or weeks.
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Days had a much better atmosphere. Weeks seemed a little too Americanised to work as a horror film.
Weeks was however the film that convinced one of my friends that while the rest of his crew had "zombie plans", he'd need to work on an "American-led taskforce plan".
Weeks was however the film that convinced one of my friends that while the rest of his crew had "zombie plans", he'd need to work on an "American-led taskforce plan".
I didn't like 28 Days Later. Honestly, it bored me to the point that I went off and started typing a paper for my English class.
Haven't watched 28 Weeks Later, so I guess Days wins by default, though...
Haven't watched 28 Weeks Later, so I guess Days wins by default, though...
I chose 28 days, but to be honest, it's like asking which one of the Schumacher brothers is best looking when we all know they're both pretty grim!
I really enjoyed "Weeks" a lot more... but that's not the popular opinion apparetly 
People seem to think as a bastardized action wannabe-film that lives on the blood of the first one... but I just think it was the logical next step in the story, and it was very well done.
I liked the introduction of asymptomatic carriers and the military involvement in the repopulation of London. Don abandoning his wife was a very strong and shocking sequence. I loved how things turn out later, as he tells his children what happened with their mother (and he lies)... I just liked the whole damn movie.
Maybe the fact that in the first one Cyllian Murphy goes rambo on the soldiers didn't help much (that doesn't mean I didn't like it, but I enjoyed the second one more)
People seem to think as a bastardized action wannabe-film that lives on the blood of the first one... but I just think it was the logical next step in the story, and it was very well done.
I liked the introduction of asymptomatic carriers and the military involvement in the repopulation of London. Don abandoning his wife was a very strong and shocking sequence. I loved how things turn out later, as he tells his children what happened with their mother (and he lies)... I just liked the whole damn movie.
Maybe the fact that in the first one Cyllian Murphy goes rambo on the soldiers didn't help much
(that doesn't mean I didn't like it, but I enjoyed the second one more)
Every single character in 28 weeks later was jaw droppingly stupid. Why are the army going after guys in car when there are zombies running around? Why can't she walk down a stair case? How could an armed person with night vision get out maneuvered up on and disarmed by a zombie without night vision. How did they get separated when they're standing two feet away from each other? Why on earth did the kids decide to leave. Why did the leave an infected person in a room without supervision or even a sign? Why can't three soldiers shoot one unarmed man? Why they assume the kids are more important than the doctor? If the kids die, they can still use the blood. If the doctor dies, no one can study the blood. How could a room full people not take out one zombie with out everyone getting bitten?
Danny Boyle was not the director with weeks. He did little producing and was not very involved. Too bad though. 28 days was great.
You can see the emphasis of Boyle's work with character and relations. (Trainspotting, Sunshine, 28 days later, Slumdog Millionaire, etc). In 28 weeks, you care less about the characters than 28 days.
Weeks is still good. However, it just doesn't compare to days except maybe in infected count. That's one thing 28 days didn't really gived much details. in 28 days, Jim wakes up in the hospital and he's in the middle of the infection. In weeks, the return of the infection gave us a feeling of how it kinda started.
Looking foward to 28 Months later. (Boyle is directing. I'm not worried).
You can see the emphasis of Boyle's work with character and relations. (Trainspotting, Sunshine, 28 days later, Slumdog Millionaire, etc). In 28 weeks, you care less about the characters than 28 days.
Weeks is still good. However, it just doesn't compare to days except maybe in infected count. That's one thing 28 days didn't really gived much details. in 28 days, Jim wakes up in the hospital and he's in the middle of the infection. In weeks, the return of the infection gave us a feeling of how it kinda started.
Looking foward to 28 Months later. (Boyle is directing. I'm not worried).
I'm not a fan of horror movies. Don't ask me why, I've just never found much appeal in them, especially with many offerings as of late. Having said that, 28 Days Later is still in my top ten movies of all time list. The characters were likable, it had some genuinely scary parts, and overall the movie just felt right to me.
The sheer ignorance of 28 Weeks was tangible.
-How do you hand pick buildings supposedly for their security, scope out their details to set up containment measures... then have a door that leads to the civilization containment unmanned. I mean, really!
-How can two untrained kids slip by an army without planning it more than a day in advance?
-Having an infected or possible infected on your grounds without telling your staff to be armed and on high alert is massively dumb.
-Knowing one's family has been involved with tantmountable acts of treason (kind of, not their land) should have revoked all of the family's access until proper assessments and decisions could be made. Why wasn't it?
Still, I liked the movies because Zombies were killed. Always a good time.
... Movie did seem unnecessarily violent towards women, though.
~edit: Oh yeah. The movie was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Someone who, as far as I know, was born and still lives in Spain. The writers were Juan Carlos Fresnadillo himself, Enrique Lopez-Lavigne, Rowan Joffe, Jesús Olmo. So, more over it was Spanish Bravado Bullshit.
Not the same ring, I know.
-How do you hand pick buildings supposedly for their security, scope out their details to set up containment measures... then have a door that leads to the civilization containment unmanned. I mean, really!
-How can two untrained kids slip by an army without planning it more than a day in advance?
-Having an infected or possible infected on your grounds without telling your staff to be armed and on high alert is massively dumb.
-Knowing one's family has been involved with tantmountable acts of treason (kind of, not their land) should have revoked all of the family's access until proper assessments and decisions could be made. Why wasn't it?
Still, I liked the movies because Zombies were killed. Always a good time.
... Movie did seem unnecessarily violent towards women, though.
~edit: Oh yeah. The movie was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Someone who, as far as I know, was born and still lives in Spain. The writers were Juan Carlos Fresnadillo himself, Enrique Lopez-Lavigne, Rowan Joffe, Jesús Olmo. So, more over it was Spanish Bravado Bullshit.
Not the same ring, I know.
