I can hope that it's an Aliens/Alien quality sequel, anyway. Until I learn otherwise. Certainly not the way to bet, but hey, it can happen.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
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Theodosia - Apr 15, 2007 2:03:46 am PDT #8176 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
IAmNotReallyASpring - Apr 15, 2007 2:09:57 am PDT #8177 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Rose Byrne's in both Sunshine and 28 Weeks Later so everyone's a winner.
Sean K - Apr 15, 2007 8:22:43 am PDT #8178 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Have you seen the trailer yet, Theo? Bone chilling. I can't wait. In some ways it looks to be much scarier because its basic premise is to hold out hope that everything's going to be okay, and then snatch it away.
Sean K - Apr 15, 2007 9:04:56 am PDT #8179 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Serial:
It's the Muse song used at the end that just breaks me every time I watch the trailer.
Sean K - Apr 15, 2007 9:09:29 am PDT #8180 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Hat trick:
In addition to Rose Byrne and Robert Carlyle, the film also stars Idris Elba and Harrold Perrineau.
Theodosia - Apr 15, 2007 9:25:44 am PDT #8181 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That's a cast that would make me perk up my ears even if I hadn't heard anything about the movie they're in. :: superstitiously crosses fingers ::
Sean K - Apr 15, 2007 9:52:21 am PDT #8182 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And in looking around just now, I read a few things that indicate Danny Boyle even directed some second unit stuff on 28 weeks later, so he very literally was a second director on the movie.
Also, he's listed as an executive producer, which means he absolutely had story approval on the film, so even though he didn't direct, it's still effectively a Danny Boyle movie. I imagine he would have directed it himself if he hadn't been doing Sunshine.
Narrator - Apr 15, 2007 12:11:49 pm PDT #8183 of 10001
The evil is this way?
I saw "Slow Burn" yesterday with my sister. Oh my. It was ... "bad" is not even the word for it. There were 10 people in the theater at the start of the movie and 4 left mid-way through. The rest of us stayed. We were the crazy ones. The ones who thought that somehow, someway, this would make sense. Silly us.
§ ita § - Apr 15, 2007 12:29:48 pm PDT #8184 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's the one where Jolene Blalock is randomly black and then not black, or something? Can you flesh that out for me in whitefont? The trailer looked ridiculous.
Narrator - Apr 15, 2007 1:47:17 pm PDT #8185 of 10001
The evil is this way?
"Slow Burn" Spoilers Yes, Jolene Blalock is the "is she black is she not" character in the movie.
The movie is a mix of various movies, shoved into a blender and pureed into some really bad mix. Mostly it's a riff on "The Usual Suspects" -- with the writers apprently deciding that if that movie had one (potentially) unreliable narrator, 2 or 3 would be better; and if one surprise twist at the end of the earlier movie worked, then 2 or 3 of those here would be better.
The questions include whether Jolene Blalock killed Mekhi Phifer's character in self-defense or cold-bloodied murder; who is Keyser Söze Danny/Danni Lumpkin; and would the movie have been any better if they made it longer? (The answer to the last question is NO - the movie's saving grace that it was only about 90 mintues long.) ***