What Genre would you put 28 Days Later in?

[alkytrio666]

How about the "suck" genre?




But seriously, I thought this movie was dull as hell. I'd say horror/sci-fi.

[Angelakillsluts]

bore horror/sci-fi

[filmmaker2]

LOL a couple of the replies. I would put it in the "I didn't like it too much" genre. It had one good scene for me that I thought was disturbingly believable (guess which one it was?) but the rest of it I couldn't believe. That is to say, in my case, the movie did not suspend my DISbelief. Well it was a bad night that night. I watched it with two other friends and we kept picking it apart until finally we were predicting the next thing that would happen and the next; and finally we were laughing at everything that happened.

But part of the reason THIS happened was that I had heard all the stuff people were saying about it...how it was the scariest zombie movie or whatever. (Dead Zombies, Live Zombies, I'll ignore the distinction here.) So I was frankly intimidated and not anxious to see the film because, well, scary films scare me. Suffice it to say that when we started watching the film and the attacks started occurring, I sat back and said, "This isn't scary! I've seen really serious zombie movies, and this is like a piece of delicious toast with zombie marmalade on it. The critics are wimps if they were scared by THIS!"

However!! a lot of REALLY smart, wonderful people like this movie, so I think they're tuning into something that I wasn't getting. So it's not like I'm trying to disrespect the folks who like it. However, when I saw the " 'suck' genre" suggested, I did laugh, and it was a REAL laugh, not one of those fake ones!

[The_Return]

I didnt think too much of it either, though I plan to give it another day in court.

Did anyone watch the alternate endings on the DVD? The one that was just storyboard w/commentary was very good. If they'd used that, the movie would have been alot better. Boyle didnt film it beause he didnt think it was believeable enough:rolleyes:

[scouse mac]

horror/medical drama ;)

[PR3SSUR3]

A most derivative and overrated film, it seems the is it a zombie film... or not? debate is still raging all over the internet.

A zombie is described as a revived corpse, which these still living people are not.

They are also not flesh-eaters and move at a fair lick, which further removes them from contemporary zombie lore.

However they can be described as 'zombie-like', and most analysis make allowances for dull and shambling groups of folk wandering around looking for trouble.

Wait, that's just cannabis-users...

:D

[Amalthea]

Action/Horror too!

[Soloman Kane]

A waste basket
Seriously though the action/adventure gerne :D

[urgeok]

i enjoyed this film .. well directed, well acted, nicely paced ..
not sure why people jump all over it ... not enough gore ?

[bwind22]

28 Days Later is Zombie Horror and if you try to call it anything you're just nitpicking.

This reminds me of all the jokes on sitcoms about Star Trek actors facing their nerdy fans that like to point out and probe them on some stupid little technicality in an episode ten years ago.

Technically the virus has made the city have bloodlust without killing them first but who really cares? There's still a city full of people that arent curable and are trying to eat ya.

The main genre is horror. The sub genre is zombie.

I can't even believe there are SO MANY people that would sit and combat such a petty fact. It's clearly a zombie movie and the director has even said so in interviews.


EDIT: ADDED LINK TO ONE OF INTERVIEWS

http://www.indiewire.com/people/people_030627boyle.html