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28 Years Later (2025)
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I loved the second movie. I will not apologize. That opening scene is insane.
No apologies needed, I absolutely agree with you, loved the first 10 minutes, middle was a bit meh for me, then the subway scene was really good to me too. I actually asked my wife if I did that what would she do, she said definitely not a kiss lol.
The only problem I really had with the movie was how often the father kept appearing everywhere. Like, just make it a random zombie and it would be way less ridiculous.
Had the same feeling. Every time I thought he was dead he pops up again out of nowhere. I don't know I'm hallucinating but did they try to humanize him a little bit? Like there were parts I felt like he knew those were his kids.
28 Weeks Later was a solid zombie movie, but in and of itself it was not a genre defining (or redefining) film. Also, I think zombie movie fatigue was already in play by the time it came out.
Looking back, you might think that there were only a handful of decent and recent-ish zombie movies at that time (and you'd be mostly correct), however, it was also an era where the new releases wall at the local video store would have been peppered with d-grade, knock-off, cgi zombie movies (a few of which even showed up in the theaters).
So, while I don't entirely agree that it was mostly forgettable, I certainly understand and think that's a valid opinion.
Look I kinda agree with most of what's said here, the tonal whiplash of the final act left me a bit lost for words. The thing I find so weird about the reviews I have read is the obsession with penises. Have these people not seen one before, is it that upsetting to them. There are also nude infected women, you can see some "zombie" titties but this seems completely unremarkable.
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Hell there is a zombie birthing scene, admittedly without any necrotized vulva, but still...
Am I just too old and rational to express adequate shock about seeing naked men in a group of naked people for whom nudity isn't an absolutely unreasonable state of being?
Or was it just the size of one particular member that made the experience noteworthy for them?
The zombie “titties” and naked women are there too, absolutely, but there’s something uniquely ludicrous about the film’s focus on swinging, sprinting masculinity, a kind of visual punchline to apocalypse. And we don't see this in movies very often. I actually thought the Alpha was Jason Mamoa for some reason, had to pause to Google it as I was pretty sure he wasn't in this movie.
I guess I just saw it as fairly naturalistic, the whole naked infected kinda made sense to me and after a moment or two it stopped registering with me. I guess I watched the movie on an 85 inch TV, maybe it was more evident watching it on the big screen at a cinema.
Also the series has been fairly judicious with its use of femininity throughout I think the way that the female characters were put in jeopardy in the first film made it clear that the apocalypse held additional threat and danger for the girls and women after society had collapsed. I can see how given that framework this primal embodiment of masculine power and virility might hit some people hard.
I'd be curious how it landed with Europeans as opposed to Americans/English/Australians I wonder if the more puritanical views on nudity would show differences in audience reactions.
Absolutely, "I promised them women", that hit me hard.
How would this new one hold up for someone who skips the second one?
No spoilers, please.
you’ll still understand it and enjoy it
Tough question. There are parts of the second one which is really good, subjective of course, but everyone I’ve spoken to agree the first 10 minutes is really good (was directed by Boyle).
To me the story is not connected, but still worth a watch.
Spoiler free. I skipped the 2nd and didn't feel left out. Might have missed some easter eggs or some other details but not enough to dislike it for what it is.
I have an unpopular take. I liked the first, loved the second, and thought this was a trainwreck. The marketing was misleading. The movie was tonally all over the place. Jodie Comer was used as a prop. I thought the new zombie archetypes were cringey, e.g. "We call these ones the Alphas." (Are they developing a video game?) The editing of the action scenes was sloppy - an Alpha is sprinting at you, but you have time to stop and talk about who's going to shoot the arrow? I don't want semi-sentient zombies with nicknames, I don't want anyone holding hands with mommy zombies.
I may give it another watch at some point, but on first watch I was confused and disappointed.
Have my upvote as I do enjoy reading other people’s perspective.
I agree with you on all points. It felt like they had turned what was actually a serious, scary franchise into a goofy caricature of what it was before. Also the final ending scenes made my eyes roll.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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