ended up schlupping around on the net instead of watching a movie. i'm so not going to meet my 100 in '07 challenge.
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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tiggy - Nov 07, 2007 5:21:56 pm PST #2091 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Juliebird - Nov 07, 2007 6:09:15 pm PST #2092 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
ita, if you adore the 28 Days Later soundtrack, also kick in for 28 Weeks Later: Same composer, same themes, but expanded on (although unfortunately no whimsical interludes like the painted driving scene or the grocery shopping scene, but it was a different breed of movie).
I was so sad watching 28 Weeks Later. It wasn't even different like Beyond the Thunderdome is different from Mad Max , or how Chronicles of Riddick was different from Pitch Black, it just took all the wonderful themes from the original and raped them, and maybe it would have been okay except for the end (although I did enjoy that France got it).
But the music was lovely.
BigDuluth - Nov 07, 2007 6:53:56 pm PST #2093 of 10000
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
HE.
IS.
BEOWULF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is also Sparta on weekends
Atropa - Nov 07, 2007 7:06:17 pm PST #2094 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I was so sad watching 28 Weeks Later.
Same here. Pete and I just watched it over the weekend, and we had to pause the DVD at one point so both of us could bitch about sloppy writing and plot holes.
Juliebird - Nov 07, 2007 7:15:52 pm PST #2095 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
It wasn't even plotholes and such, but loss of theme, which is what I thought was so wonderful about Days. They go from the themes of survival and love and what one would do to survive and sacrifce for that survival "in a heartbeat" and twisting it into some generic "but love screws things up and destroys the world!" and ugliness and random violence.
What really ruined it for me was the chick who is now on Damages turning out to be a screaming laugh-fest with her ridonkulous final scene. The movie lost me completely there.
Atropa - Nov 07, 2007 7:25:29 pm PST #2096 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The loss of theme bugged me, but the scene where whathisface, the dad, is able to waltz into what should be a secured quarantine area to see his wife made my eyes roll straight back into my head. Yes, I know there was line about him having "all areas access", but please. She's strapped to an exam table in a military medical section, and you expect me to believe there's no armed guard or cameras there? Ha.
Not to mention him becoming Super!Infected, surviving everything, and being able to track his kids.
Hmmph. Pete cracked up at the end scene with Paris, tho'.
Juliebird - Nov 07, 2007 7:34:25 pm PST #2097 of 10000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Paris delighted me to no end, and yeah, the dad gaining access to what would have been a military guarded zone (sure he *had* access, but in that instance?) and then being the super-special enraged infected and following his family throughout?
Logically it didn't follow, and thematically... nope. (If the second movie even had a theme besides "kill all of mankind")
I do have to say that I finally found Josh Duhamel hot, because he does nothing for me in Las Vegas.
Jars - Nov 07, 2007 11:44:41 pm PST #2098 of 10000
A guy I used to work with had written his own script for a sequel to 28 Days Later that was way more fun than the actual sequel. Just for funs, but it was still a better idea than the one they ran with.
§ ita § - Nov 07, 2007 11:49:15 pm PST #2099 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How'd it go, basically?
Jars - Nov 07, 2007 11:54:37 pm PST #2100 of 10000
It was a 28 years later thing, and Britain had been entirely quarantined since the outbreak, surrounded by great big walls and boats with guns and such. But teams of bounty hunters/thieves and such would try to break in and track down money and works of art and such to sell once they got back out.
ETA - Are you still in the ER? I can entertain you with ridiculous things until you feel less/more human, if it helps. Either that, or turn off the computer and get some sleep!