28 years later sucked ass
There’s a lot of hate for it on here. I actually thought it was grand and loved the ending with the shell suits. Set it up nicely for a change to some proper post apocalyptic shenanigans in the next one.
I will say, I thought similar thoughts nearing the end of the movie. But after analyzing it again, and incorporating two explainer video perspectives and takeaways, I realized that it didn’t suck as a movie. It just wasn’t what a lot of people thought the movie was going to be like. (There was also a fair amount of British symbolism throughout the movie. And as a US dude, a lot of it went right over my head.)
A lot of people (myself included at first) thought that 28 years later was going to have strong tension building, ‘not everyone is getting out of this alive,’ run and gun filming technique galore, and a lot of bloodshed. A tune to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. But we got something quite different from that. We got a movie that plays off the elements of parenthood, coming of age, morality dilemmas, empathy for Isla (the mother of Spike the boy), and many more things. It was a slower paced movie as the main characters weren’t having to fight, hide, and stay alive for another day. Remember, this movie is set 28 years… later. It’s stated in the movie at some point that nearly all of the zombies are dead now, but that doesn’t mean that it’s completely safe to go about your merry way. Infections still happen.
An element of sci-fi in the movie that I really appreciated was the evolved zombies. The ones that were part of the Alpha’s pack were quite different from the other zombies we saw earlier in this movie, let alone in the previous movies. These were smarter zombies. And I thought that was pretty cool.
One of the pillars of the movie, in my opinion, was what Dr. Kelson stood for and what he did. Dr. Kelson sees the infected and the humans as alike. His entire monument is in remembrance of all and features the bones of both. The infected are humans, but are sick. They can’t help it.
If you were confused about the ending, the connection was that the boy who escaped the zombie invasion of the house at the beginning of the movie, is now Sir Jimmy Crystal. The reason he and others are dressed up in colored track suits is because of its resemblance to the Telly Tubbies characters, which was the show the kids were watching at the beginning of the movie. It’s symbolic of holding on to your childhood.
So, as you can probably see now, the movie was set up with much deeper meanings and wasn’t your typical zombie movie.
I think most of that got lost in the awful editing that tried to make it look like just another action-horror flick. All tension and meaning gone.
I liked the zompreg
YES
I thought Murphy was already on board. Either way, Years was amazing, and Garland is a great writer, so I’m here for it.
28 Decades Later?
28 Centuries Later - a futuristic sci-fi about zombies in a space colony.
In the grim darkness of the 28th millennium later, there are only zombies.
28 days Before
I was sooo excited for 28 years later. Watched no trailers or anything. Walked out of the theater really confused and disappointed. Then I learned that it was a trilogy and a couple watches later and I’m a fan.
I do think generally a movie shouldn’t require re-watching and explanations to finally seem good, but at the same time I don’t think this movie was ever supposed to have wide appeal
10 years ago I didn’t think we would ever get a third 28 days movie… and now we’re getting a trilogy!
Lol
So happy to see this. The media reaction to press previews of temple of bones has been really positive, and I loved 28 years.
