The Descent

[XtRaVa]

Canadians are great :)

[urgeok]

Originally posted by XtRaVa
Canadians are great :)

not all of them ... mostly just me..

[XtRaVa]

Haha, fair enough.

[PR3SSUR3]

I wonder what our American cousins make about being so dense?

[urgeok]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
I wonder what our American cousins make about being so dense?

they dont know - they cant understand :p

[Vodstok]

I've been on the outside looking in, even as an american. Trust me, the average american is unaware that they are dense.
"A flea thinks the dog is the world" is an apt analogy.

I like English humor to a point. I thought a lot of the subtle things in shaun of the dead were great, like Shaun lumbering along with a hangover, oblivious to the massive bloody handprint on the fridge door at the convenience store. Had me rolling.



I dont htink 28 days Later was terribly derivative, ithought it was a great spin on an old idea. While the disease thing had always been mentioned in "Zombie" films, there was never an actual root cause, aside from Return of the living dead, but i considered the first 2 spoofs.

Another great thing about it was that it was a non-zombie zombie film. Not a single walking corpse in the whole movie.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok

I dont htink 28 days Later was terribly derivative, ithought it was a great spin on an old idea. While the disease thing had always been mentioned in "Zombie" films, there was never an actual root cause, aside from Return of the living dead, but i considered the first 2 spoofs.

Another great thing about it was that it was a non-zombie zombie film. Not a single walking corpse in the whole movie.

not that it's something i require in a movie - especially horror - but 28 Days was also the closest thing to a plausible 'zombie' movie ... like the Crazies, or Rabid ..

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by urgeok
not that it's something i require in a movie - especially horror - but 28 Days was also the closest thing to a plausible 'zombie' movie ... like the Crazies, or Rabid ..

I agree, thats part of what i liked about it. It really worked on feelings of isolation in the beginning. I had a dream once that i was trpped out in the country in a small house on a foggy morning, and zombies started comingout of the woodwork. it played on the feelings i had had in that dream very well.

[PR3SSUR3]

I like English humor to a point. I thought a lot of the subtle things in shaun of the dead were great, like Shaun lumbering along with a hangover, oblivious to the massive bloody handprint on the fridge door at the convenience store. Had me rolling.

This is the kind of thing I'm getting at - sure, the irony and analogy in scenes like these is present and correct... but Shaun of the Dead is hardly the bellowing laughter-soaked genius of comedy it's made out to be in some quarters. It's a knowing, self-aware film... and I find such things exceptionally difficult to like (except Airplane!, which is of course eternally brilliant).

I've seen so many (mostly shite) post-apocalyptic films in my time that when 28 Days Later came along, all I could see was the same old survivor-story tarted up with low FPS, flashy editing and CGI. When it came to any real suspense or intrigue, I found the film badly wanting.

[Spoorloos]

did you ever watch the deleted seens from 28 days later, the director cut his favorite seen, i think it would have been among the best seens in the movie, why do directors have such stupid superstitions. i thought the movie was a bore anyway