28 DAYS LATER vs 28 WEEKS LATER - Which is Best?
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2021
- We all know 28 days later is a superior film, but have we taken the time to find out why? I have and the evidence is right here on this video.
28 Days Later overview:
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Christopher Eccleston
28 Weeks Later overview:
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne and Robert Carlyle. - Zábava
I remember in college, one of my roommates spent hours trying to find an hd version of 28 days later. Then he found out it didn’t matter what the resolution was, it was designed to look crappy.
This was an idea that I also had 😅
Because it was one of the first films to be filmed on a digital camera
@@xXPowerSurgeXx while you're right about it being early, that's not why it's not hd. I mean, look at the prequels which were also shot digitally. They deliberately chose that sd dv camera for it's portability and the way the image looks artistically. kinda like how super 8 and even 16mm still has some popularity due to the "feel." Also, the canon they used was only $4,000 which is cheap for the purpose. I'm sure that was a nonzero factor too.
I'm crying 😆 🤣 😂
I thought it was filmed through a cell phone
I've got a theory about the soldiers; they arent actually soldiers, just a band of survivors who came across the blockade and took all the abandoned equipment. It sorta lines up that they were pretty undisciplined, as you pointed out, botched an execution. Cant quite confirm but it's my head canon.
Thats fucking amazing great thinking
Nice theory brother its now my head cannon
I love it. I think as a kid i got the impression that they were reservists who had never seen any combat before the infection.
They're kids basically, throwing around their newfound power because they were the lucky ones to find themselves with rifles when it mattered.
That's always what I thought as well.
Also kind of explains why theres nothing but panic when they fall apart. I'd imagine a trained group of soldiers wouldnt become marauders that quickly. With better protocols in place for when one gets in the house
No matter what movie you prefer, that opening running scene in 28 weeks later is absolutely terrifying and unmatched in terms of how it emotionally effects me.
Yea that scene was epic
Fr the sound track is bomb
yhh
That scene got me hooked
@@justspittingsomefacts6425 unless i was hearing it wrong they used the same chase scene soundtrack as a few scenes in TWD
Days is better, but that opening scene in weeks is insane.
Ok now this is a comment I can agree with 😊
28 days later had so much atmosphere that the acting didn't even have to be on point as much... Danny Boyle has a talent
When the girl was all spacey, i thought she was just weird. Later when she takes all those sleeping meds, her acting actually improves somewhat.
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Robert Carlyle did carry 28 weeks later though, even though he was an absolute idiot he had great acting, but as the poster said I think Shaun of the dead is one of if not the most well filmed and acted zombie movie but it's not meant for the zombies too be serious so it gets underrated
@@p0tanscimm Shaun of the dead Underrated? are you crazy? Shaun of the dead is very, very overrated, every fucking media outlet always praise this movie as the holy grail.
I'm baffled how SotD and Train to Busan are put together with movies like the Romero's of the Dead trilogy, or 28 days later, it goes to show how these two movies are overrated, as in reality they wouldn't even make the cut to the top 10...
Do you know the main dude is from peaky blinders
Can we just appreciate the fact that the wife in 28 Weeks later wanted to sacrifice herself and her husband to 'save' some kid they literally just met and then starts a whole new zombie apocalypse because she's mad at her husband for not committing suicide.
Not to mention it’s pretty selfish since they have their own children to go back to.
How did she willingly start a new apocalypse? Poor girl had one of the most horrific and brutal deaths in any movie. She absolutely didn’t have any control over the outbreak and that was the point. Nobody had control.
@@mr.joesterr5359 But her death was her own doing. I admit she died in a gruesome manner, but all of it was her own cause. She was shown to repeatedly make the wrong choices. She could have left with Don instead of going to help someone she did not know for more than a couple of a minutes. But she chose to sacrifice herself to try and save that person. She then made the stupid decision of not communicating to officials what all happened for whatever reason. Sure, this can be played off as trauma, but even after the events of 9/11, victims were immediately asked questions about what happened and they responded, albeit shakily and in a not very credible manner, but they still provided information for first responders. Though there is fault in the sheer negligence of the military on this part, the second they discovered she was bitten, they should have had armed guards watching that entrance. Hell, they should have had armed guards prior considering how severe the infection was in 28 days later to have brought the entire country of the UK to it's knees.
She didn’t have any choice though, she didn’t know she was infected and neither did Dom. He kisses her, her immunity causes his death.
@Big Smoke oh yeh it’s so dumb, as if she wasn’t protected by armed guards.
That shop being stocked made sense to some degree. If the virus spread as fast as it did then you can imagine whole communities being taken over and any survivors being to scared to leave their house. The only groups that might chance going into shops would be organised to some extent but 28 days into it, you wouldn't find many. What makes less sense is that there were no zombies inside.
why would zombies be in a grocery store in countryside
@@alanscott6005zombies can roam around can they not?
@@gamingevolvedkg30 yea but they wouldn't randomly go in empty grocery store especially if it has generators with ligts on
I actually enjoyed the break away in Days with the group traveling through the flower field in their way to sanctuary. A savvy watcher will notice they chose to use Fauré's Requiem "In Paradisum" and it matches perfectly on the scene and their mission. Here's the text to the liturgy:
"May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs receive you at your arrival and lead you to the holy city Jerusalem. May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once (a) poor (man), may you have eternal rest."
Underrated opinion but I like when zombies can talk and when I say talking I don’t mean full conversations I mean little snippets of speech, it adds a false hope to them like they’re still human.
This is one of the aspects of 'Warm Bodies' that I like if you've seen that movie? It's by no means a perfect zombie movie but it was different and watchable.
like cod zombies, deep gargled voice? or more like incoherent sounds as a sign of speech? cause sounds of pain, pleasure, or anger makes the zombie more of an infected person and not so much as a brainless monster
Bub is best zombie boi.
return of the living dead
dying light
The fact that there was no one guarding the mother after they realised that she had the virus was the last straw for me. 28 weeks later felt like a movie inspired by American psycho 2.... With that said 28 days later as mentioned felt old, dark and captured the zombie atmosphere really well. There were some minor faults with the movie but it is easily up there with other great zombie movies
Dude they didn’t have any time. They were literally heading to her the second they found out she was infected but by then it was too late. The whole sequence took place in a minute or two.
Idk, it bugs the shit out of me more when the main character in the first film let loose that highly infected guy, if only it would of chewed up his friends, and him for being a damn moron. That part alone made me hate the first film far more than the second one.
@@leoallan2225 Yeah I guess it would count as a fault. The thing is that if he had been the only one taking them out it would've been more like a rambo movie than a zombie movie. GOTTA SQUEEZE IN A ZOMBIE IN EVERY SCENE is the type of logic these movies follow most of the time. It's a zombie movie after all
@@mr.joesterr5359 if she's being tested, there should be a guard. It's an army base, it's not like guards are in short supply.
@@judyhopps9380 No need for guards since the access was heavily locked. Just a sad coincidence that the unknowing husband was the guy with all the keys.
28 days later really showed you can make an epic not just gory film in the zombie genre . Danny Boyle is a master, days is so much better than weeks.
All things aside the intro for 28 weeks is the most tense intro I’ve ever seen in a horror film.
Honestly Don’s decision to run wasn’t unjustified, he had no weapon and was vastly outnumbered by sprinting zombies.
Most of us might would run too.
@@User2jn You never know what you'll actually do if a situation like that arises. We all hope we'd do the right thing, but we are hardwired without extreme disciplining.
people like to hop on their high horse and be like "well I would've actually helped them!" obviously you can say that because you're nice and cosy in your chair and can think about it. in a life or death scenario, you can't think, you just have to do anything to stay alive. the will to live is often much greater than your moral objections, and it's incredibly difficult to break away from that fact.
you see stuff like that with school shootings or terrorist attacks. "i would've charged the attacker and save the day!" no, chad thundercock, it is very unlikely that anyone would do that.
@@Steamthrower1 Even then, would you leave to die the person you love the most? I think most people would instinctually try to help her, even if it meant they would die.
@@manboy4720 If it was slow zombies I might would be more likely to stay and help but the zombies from 28 Days Later are way too fast and just overwhelm you, even if you tried fighting you would surly die.
He had two kids, priorities
I kinda want them to do a 24 hours later, be more interesting to see the spread while it's still in it's infancy over it's already happened.
Man that would be crazy
That would actually be an interesting short film
Wow never considered that…would be wayyyy better than months…they could even include callbacks to Original
@@eriktatos seeing jim get hit while on his scooter or mark at the airport, the outbreak happened at night too.. this prequel would be insane.
And then 24 minutes later and 24 seconds later(?
15:18 I feel everyone should know that this kid is named Beans. I'm not kidding, watch the credits.
That's a fun fact
I dont remember much beyond the one viewing of 28 weeks later I watched as a teen... but all i remember is I absolutely disdained the overpowered ex machina presence of the father soooooo much. I still roll my eyes thinking about it.
ABSOLUTELY loved 28 days later tho !
The most chilling scene in 28 Days Later was when Cillian had that nightmare & he wakes up alone again, and even the SHEEP were running away from him. The feeling of utter despair he had still haunts me
I was watching it the other night and that imagery of the sheep fleeing was really unsettling and seemed almost subliminal (the infected chasing them in the tunnel, the chaos of people trying to flee in the airport during the infection as accounted for by Mark, or the group's own predicament) in that dream-like way
@@Chameleonardodavinci I also found the sheep running unsettling too. Reminds me of when I have nightmares. I feel like if I were in that situation and had that nightmare, I’d think the sheep are running from incoming infected, and then feel the absolute dread that I have I have nowhere to go and that they’re about to come out of nowhere and get me
Wtf why can’t I remember this, trying to find a clip on CZcams but no luck
Are all of you ok? SHEEP? they were horses! 😂
You blokes are the sheep
Days definitely had a much more gritty and real feeling to it making it easy to get immersed in the world, Weeks just felt like I was watching a movie.
I have to disagree. I respect 'Days,' but it was a very flawed-feeling film in several areas, and it definitely didn't feel "real" to me; with the empty but squeaky-clean streets, the infected being so much weaker and sparser and less convincingly-acted in 'Days' than in the sequel (making it much harder to believe that this virus annihilated society on mainland Britain in just four weeks), the characters not securing their hideouts and making so much noise out in the open at night in the city centre, and the production errors in 'Days' were very glaring and made it look low-budget.
I have been avoiding watching this video because I find the question ludicrous. The only thing weeks to me has over days is that it had a higher budget. The opening in weeks is also solid.
@@MrSqurk I really enjoyed the opening of Weeks but then it quickly starts feeling like another hollywood movie with zombies.
The opening for Days is quite a bit slower but I like the way you're just kind of thrown into the "new world" with the main character and you're both trying to figure out why the bustling city is now empty.
You mean the wild editing felt real to you? Your life must be weird as fuck
The opening in 28 Weeks was so well done@@MrSqurk
My personal favorite 28 film has to be the original. While it’s depressing, it gives the viewers and characters a true show of hope and sense of comfort that everything will be okay. 28 Weeks is just far too bleak. Yeah, yeah life can be hard and sometimes people suck, but you can’t just focus on the negatives all the time.
Also, to be fair to Megan Burns, I feel like her reaction to Frank’s death is rather spot on. She’s in shock. How can you so quickly comprehend your father becoming infected, losing himself to uncontrollable anger, more or less attacking you, and then watch him be swiftly executed?
Due to circumstances I ended up watching 28 days later around 100 times and it was still very interesting, amazing film.
I like how Don was able to have unobstructed access to his wife without being challenged by any soldiers even though she's been found under suspicious circumstances where she is highly likely to have been bitten and is contagious..
didnt they know she was bitten as well?
@@grumbu5 well they also herded all the civilians into an unguarded, poorly lit, and unlocked giant shed. But that's just one of those annoying things you have to accept.
@@Darkpara1 honestly, read enough history, and stuff like this isn't all that surprising. Is it incredibly stupid? Of course. It is unrealistic? Totally the opposite lol. We like to believe the authorities are more professional and sensible then they often are. They do some truly, outrageously stupid things. Ask any soldier honestly ha, I know a couple
It was the british army though back when we were more rag tag did you hear the story about operation leap frog a vital peice of oneof the planes engines needed misplaced eventually found in the smoking room being used as an ash tray,
@@0lionheart Chernobyl dude frying from the inside by radiation sent to specialist hospital and his wife was found hugging him afew times. During chaos shhh goes how shh goes.
Can't wait for the 28 months, Years, Decades, centries, Millenniums and eons later movies.
Considering how long it's been since the last movie I don't think that's ever going to happen.
@@Equinox4O7 are you stupid, it takes 28 days to make the first one 28 years to make the third, and so on.
What about 28 months later
@@tylerwilson5769 If this is a joke it's not funny.
@RoboPotato I want a 28 zeptoseconds later.
I will always like 28 Days Later more, my personal favorite infected/zombie movie of all time. That being said, the intro to 28 Weeks Later is so masterfully crafted, got me hooked instantly.
That "Dad?" scene from 28 days. LMAO
The reason the market was fully stocked was because the infection spread so fast, nobody was warned in time to prepare.
(Also I had assumed 28 weeks later was a bootleg so I never watched it)
I would imagine that people inside of the shop or next to the shop when the news / panic broke out would have caused immediate looting. Also the existence of the survivors suggests there are many others who also survived and would have needed supplies especially when you consider it took him 28 days to wake up.
@@Howesenberg True…
That's what I thought as well.
Yeah it just looks too clean
@@Howesenberg If I remember Correctly It happened so fast that there was a lot of confusion and miscommunication and a lot of people thought it was riots, It's possible that in that area the people just heard about riots nearby and ignored it until the infected started showing up en masse, and then at that point it would be too dangerous to start looting and most people would be trying to get out of the area, also there didn't seem to be any windows so if it happened in the early morning/night when it was locked it wouldn't be easy to brake in while the infected are actively attacking people.
Also as for survivors, it seemed like there weren't many and given that it's dangerous to travel too far it's possible that there were some scattered stores that were untouched in areas where there was a lot of infected during the initial outbreak.
The cinematography in the first film is drop dead beautiful. It's so stylized and doesn't look like a polished and clean generic film like 28 weeks later is.
Because it was shot in a DV camera. I love that aspect!
The beginning of Weeks is like, "OH, YEAH!!! Get ready for the ride."
Then you buckle up, it gets stuck, and you are forced to watch the rest of a movie that isn't the first couple minutes.
Days was so much better. Hardly remember much of Weeks. A one off, for me.
@@bakerfreshlmao accurate.
@@ElDuderinoh i was soooo pumped at that first scene. Then I just felt like I was on a field trip to the aquarium in then1st grade and just so happened to pass by some zombies. Doo Da Doo.
I remember the initial scene, the zoom out and then a tunnel amd a stadium.
Yeah, 28 days was so much better. Sometimes Less is More.
To me, its like Donny Darko. Pre Directors Cut left a lot to the imagination. Then, the cut comes with crappy CG and a silly explanation of time travel through book chapters and just takes away from what was an interesting movie that made you think.
@@bakerfreshikr. It’s not even a debate. Plus no one likes kids acting in movies even when they’re decent. It still feels awkkkkkkk and I don’t wanna follow kids around. Maybe in Jurassic park it was funny cause they purposely stuck them with the fake Indiana Jones
I can't wait for the prequel, 28 hours later. I hope they also make the prequel prequel, 28 minutes later. I also hope they also make the prequel prequel prequel, 28 seconds later.
28 days later has been my favorite film for almost 20 years and I've only just realised thats Cillian Murphy
The scene with him saying Hello, and the infected instantly standing up unnaturally, staring like im some kind of cheeseburger, gave me the creeps, i would run too wtf
With the Zombie boy yelling "I HATE YOU!" at 9:00 I thought it was more of a psychological and or symbolistic scene. The Zombie boy didn't say any coherent words to Jim, but I believed it to be Jim imagining the boy saying that to him before Jim puts the kid out of it's misery.
Same. Adds to the weird fever dream feel of the film
@@Ash-dd3kx or it makes sense because a rage virus would probably have you saying nasty stuff like that
I've always felt it the same way, zombie kid didn't actually say anything but Jim misheard those words inbetween the gutural screams
@@AntonVagabond The human brain seeks patterns in everything. This is just like when we see shapes in the clouds.
Another theory : As children's brains are more "flexible", it kind of makes sense to me that infected kids can kind of adapt to the virus in a way they can still express themselves a bit. I don't remember another child being in the movie, so can't get more information about this but I find it relevant.
I think of the shops being stalked up as an extremely grim reminder of how fast infection rate happened and how quickly people had to evacuate the city. That’s pretty terrifying.
That would be fine if it wasn't for the fact that people had time to print newspapers and put up missing person signs in London.
Mannn...either film you love better.....there is no denying that the opening chase scene in WEEKS was stressful AF! Well done!!
4:20 still fills me with dread when i see it. The fact a jumpscare can get you twice, not to count all the times i've seen this movie really goes to show that jumpscares are more than loud shock noises that they've been relegated to being now.
Going from those calm empty streets into this completely silent church full of dead bodies, a single hello and then two sets of eyes stare at you with what can only be described as a twisted look. You go from a "What's going on here?" vibe to a "HELL HATH COMETH!" sensation in the blink of an eye. I still gets me, even though i know what's coming. But that's because i always get lulled into calmness when he walks those empty, maybe hoping things won't be as bad this time around, but no. That 'hello' kickstarts a hell that will last the rest of the movie. There are other movies that have jumpscares like these, that instead of scaring the viewer by triggering a bodily response, scare you with the sudden realisation that things are about to get worse, a whole lot worse. Like seeing a hostile person drawing a weapon, you get that escalation feeling.
Yep! That part is really creepy. How after they spring up, to look at him, they don’t immediately run after him. They just freeze and don’t move, while staring at him
It’s almost as good as the shinings animal costume scene
That feeling of eyes on you during the night.... very unsettling bravo to those actors I hope they were called back for more scenes
I had rewatched this movie like a week ago and my friend mentions "that's how fast the infection epidemic started, they weren't able to stock up on food" when it came to the grocery store scene and it made sense to me
The problem I have is that they had time to print news articles, put up missing posters in the city centre, but not enough time to get food? Just doesn't seem right to me. Even during riots shops typically get trashed at least
I think they could have made the shelves look a bit more picked
Nah man, grocery stores, pharmacies, hospitals, gun stores etc would all be emptied within a few days in a scenario like this
@@Dan-tr5kw It makes sense that grocery stores wouldn't be emptied, I mean, think about it, zombies that could be sprinting around the inner city would more than likely have infected everyone who was thinking about looting or scavenging anything, and then you would have no one who would dare to enter the main part of the city, as it would be overwhelmed with the infected.
Lmao imagine surviving the zombie outbreak but then dying from a bombing run because a 12 year old said "Nah bruh" to the border rules
That point where you mention how Naomi Harris shouts "quiet" to Jim (who is most definitely being quiet), that made me almost piss myself laughing as I thought no one else had noticed that part. Lmao.
I think the "I hate you part" might have been left over from an earlier stage of development, When you think about it the infection doesn't make people mindless it just consumes them with rage, so it's possible that originally they were going to make the infected able to speak (though mainly cursing and screaming at people) but later in development they decided to cut this.
If you look at the development of 28 days later there were actually quite a few changes to the script, originally the soldiers weren't in the script and the group were going to cure Frank by giving him a full blood transfusion (which was eventually decided to be too unrealistic).
That kid took a play from Anakin. Maybe he was one of the youngin's Anakin missed....
lmfao imagine every infected yelling FFUUUUUUCCKKK (I found a healthy survivor)
"Mainly cursing" Where my Comic Book gang at
They did show this the comic book before rage was deliverd via ebola it was deliverd through just an injection, like the infected in that instance said 'fooooking mental' but he wasn't really the infected per say.
right on man
Both of them were awesome. The guy running down the field to escape the infected during 28 weeks later was freaking insane. There were certain scenes that I like. Better in 28 weeks later. But I think 28 days later is the better of the two.
28 days later is my favorite scary zombie movie. 28 weeks felt like a poor mans rip off. Even now I can watch 28 days a couple times a year and love it every time. Plus , Cillian Murphy is fantastic and that's the first time I saw him act
I’m personally a fan of 2 weeks to flatten the curve. It starts out alright, but the overall run length feels like it never ends. I think it tells dim but grounded reality. If you have two years to kill I highly recommend it.
Based.
I see what you did there mate 🤣
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Lol, indeed
Lol
28 Weeks Later relied WAY too much on the usual horror trope of people having to act in the dumbest way possible in order to facilitate the plot, to a point that it felt unnatural and forced. I mean, it almost seemed like the US military was doing everything on purpose so there would be a second pandemic of the Rage virus, nothing they do in the movie makes any sense.
Exactly. That's what turned me off of 28 Weeks. The military has its screw ups, but if someone who has been bitten by a virus that has already turned millions of people into carriers before killing them, they would be under so many guards with guns pointed at the woman constantly if they even suspected she had been bitten. Probably with a bomb under her bed if she tries to get up for good measure. No one would get to spend "alone time" with her to get bitten.
No military is that incompetent.
Almost like real life...
Usa usa.
Just like real life, where many people are way too stupid to be allowed to breathe.
The first bit was brilliant tho with Dawn running away no hero crap just someone who tried everything can't stop it so he has to run for his life
Absolutely loved them both and mega excited at the prospect of a 24 months later being made down the line.
I'm losing faith that it will ever happen
@Howesenberg Films Yeah if it carries on at this rate its gonna be a 28 years later! Just have to keep our fingers crossed 🤞
It would be awesome if they would do a 28 months later. They left the last one off so that they could do that. I would just hope the quality would still be good. They did two awesome movies, I would hope they could do a third. Usually after two sequels the quality goes down.
One of my favourite shots in the first movie is when Jim looks up at the sky and sees a plane. The world is still completely normal outside and you are in a living hell.
True...
The infected from these movies definitely felt like the most realistic outcome of a “Zombie Apocalypse.” Rabies is a terrifying virus, and it does make you more aggressive
A lot of people actually made some theories that if its any type of virus that makes us zombies it would most likely be rabies
@@chichichichichichiOwO good thing rabies is a 100% death type of virus
@@erichvondonitz5325 wait till you find out about the already existing zombie parasites
@@chichichichichichiOwO I mean yeah, it takes over your brain 🧠 and then makes you become aggressive, confused, all while you have no clue what’s going on. Horrible way to die.
@@aidenralston5477 yup, and I believe there already is a human rabies virus but I'm not too sure
When I first saw 28 days later, the music genuinely haunnted me, took me ages to track it down, quite difficult as it wasn't on the official soundtrack. Damn those canadians with their principles. Found it eventually, thanks Danny Boyle for introducing me to an excellent band.
props to the little guy walking down the street who didn`t know
I personally liked 28 weeks. The scene where the infected start breaking out and the military decides to shoot everyone is amazing. Weeks felt more like a situation that would be impossible to survive, where Days felt more like you could actually survive something like that.
Exactly.
The opening sequence in the farmhouse scared me the first time I watched it. I've always watched zombies as these slow lumbering creatures, not running ferals.
You're mental
The Don abandons Alice scene is straight perfection
The scene where they had to go through subway using the scope of the rifle was insane.
Nevermind what one is better.
Both films compliment eachother so well I wish they made a third.
A third is in development 28 yrs later😮
@@kiloomelow4269 that'd be a 4th
28 Months Later
As of July of this year, Boyle and Murphy are talking about making a 3rd.
Weeks Later isn't a *bad* film, but it's not a good film either so I fail to see how it can compliment 28 Days Later by being objectively inferior in every aspect of filmmaking to it.
I think the first film had so much more going for it apart from the unrealistic soldiering.
The idea of rage and the human condition had a way more powerful tone than the relatively practical problems to be overcome in the second film.
I wish you had included something of the night at the ruined Abbey in the first film. I love that sequence.
The opening 10 minutes of 28 weeks later is a masterpiece!!!!
Agreed
I've always thought the kid screaming "I hate You!" Was more of Jim kind of hallucinating the words because he saw the hatred in the kid's eyes.
A fine theory, but sources tell me it's already been reported as an audio error
@@Howesenberg still since it's in the movie, even as an error, it can still be just a weird thing that happened to Jim in his head. It only makes the error make sense as something that happened to Jim within the fictional universe the movie takes place in is all.
If a scientist said "It is infected with a highly contagious infection" You might want to take caution even if he lied. Because if he lied, nothing would happen either way. If he didn't the outcome wouldn't be in your or his favor
The scientist shouldn’t have said “Rage”, should’ve said Super Rabies
I'm not even an animal activist, and I'd feel like smashing up his lab if he tried to convince me there was a condition called Rage
28 Days Later is one of my favorite movies of all time. I love the way it was shot, the ending and climax were amazing. 28 Weeks later wasn't at good, but still good.
I was obsessed with the trailer for 28 weeks when I was a kid I watched it so many times before i saw it in 2007. I had a huge obsession with zombie related stuff then especially left 4 dead and then when I finally saw 28 weeks my 11 year old brain became more obsessed then I found out about 28 days.... They're both great movies and they have their flaws but I think 28 days is very world immersive and 28 weeks is very scenario focused it really emphasized how dangerous the virus is/was.
I think the scene where the main character of 28 days later goes into the gas station is a lot deeper. I think he purposefully went into the gas station to find an infected and kill it. I think he wanted to kill one to try and loose his humanity more, maybe to make it easier for him to do hard things and survive. He seemed like he was prepared to get jumped when he was attacked. But instead of just any infected, he found a child. He had to kill a child. And I think he was ashamed of what he did after and that's why he didnt want to talk about it after. I also think that this might be a moment where he decides that loosing his humanity is not the way to go. Or maybe it helped him later turn him into a ruthless ghost, picking off the soldiers one by one without fear of death.
That's amazing
VERY WELL SAID…
That’s why I prefer *Days* over “Weeks”. It’s the Journey and Character Development of the first film that I enjoyed the most.
Killian has such an awesomr yet subtle character arc. I love how he becomes an absolute konster towards the end
I don't understand why the video is so unhappy with the child speaking. If the infected are smart enough to run and bite, then why couldn't they also talk? It just shows that the infection hasn't completely taken over and the part of his brain that deals with speech still works. It is also interesting since it shows that the virus makes the infected person hate others which is why they attack.
That really opend my eyes ngl
28 Weeks later is a good movie in its own right, but 28 Days later was just brilliant. It is one of a small handful of movies I own a physical copy of.
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Keep on rocking my guy.
Thank you very much! I try to pick music that fits with the feeling I want to communicate and it just so happens much of it comes from game music that me and my friends enjoyed growing up
The kid zombie in 28 Days - the director commentary elucidates on this a bit, doesn't outright say it but basically this is a traumatic moment for Jim, Jim is looking at this zombie and projecting a human meaning to the "enraged" nature of the child, hence the "I hate you."
I actually love that bit, because this is what happens in traumatic situations. You interpret what is happening through a distorted lens - the film "Come and See" is basically ALL about this kind of thing and the inclusion of these elements in 28 Days (the POV shots, the nightmare sequence) gives 28 Days a more intimate feel over 28 Weeks.
28 Weeks is a fine film, likely more tense and anxiety-inducing - but 28 Days has moments of surreal horror as well as beauty (the horses), that I think makes it a better film overall.
There is no horror masterpiece without some jank. Look at Dawn of the Dead - they had people with strainers sifting the letters out of alphabet soup to make the blood in the film -hence the bright, almost orange color of it. Some shoddiness is an integral part of the genre.
Come and see fucked me up a little.
The whole scene where the boy gets back to his village will never leave me.
I believe that the young boy who was infected wasn’t speaking, I think maybe he is reliving past memories from when he was younger. Maybe had a fight with his parents and said “I hate you” and he’s like punishing himself because he can’t reconcile with them. I might be reading into too much.
It sounds like an audio error honestly, sounds like the woman who was with their group.
@@amp4105 definitely not an audio error. That would’ve been an easy fix. I think its just part of the directing to show a subtle hint of how the virus effects its host. The virus possibly feeds its host the most disturbing or damaging memories in order to fuel the host’s rage. Ex. before Don attacked his wife he was getting flashbacks leaving her to die before attacking her.
@@natista4523 same as the cameraman, he was actually a soldier with a rifle ;)
@@Bakeddru I noticed that too
I always figured that Jim just thought he heard the zombie say 'I hate you' and to sell it to the audience they just actually added the words mixed in with the sounds of the zombie struggling. he may not have mentioned it afterwards cause he was trying to figure out if he killed a zombie or if it was an actual child. thats understandably heavy and maybe doesnt want to bring up the possbility of it at all.
28 weeks had a great intro where it captured the panic. The clown up was eerie too and it was shocking what happened to Renner in it. I enjoyed both.
This was when I first fell in love with Cillian Murphy as a kid. He's sooo cute in this movie 😭
He is a handsome fella
Here's a thing, on the roof, one of the buckets Frank uses to collect rainwater is a laundry hamper, showing how desperate he was by the time he met Jim and Selena.
The biggest thing I took away from this is that I really want to see someone do a study on why it is we can care about fictional characters and their safety as if they were real people, despite knowing they're not real simply because we've "gotten to know them," but find it much harder to do the same with characters who aren't fleshed-out enough. I mean, in real life, I would be horrified to see a complete stranger get torn apart by a mob of bloodthirsty crazies simply because they're people. I wouldn't care as much as if it were someone I knew personally, but I'd still care. So why is it that I can tap into a bit of that emotion for a make-believe person that I "know," but not as much into that general empathy for all (or at least most) people when it's presented in a fictional setting?
tf, u wouldnt care if someone u knew personally got bit in frong of u? wtf lol.. i understand if they’re a POS, but if its someone u even REMOTELY care about, then wtf are u talking about
@@TQsquad he’s saying the exact opposite of that reread the comment he’s saying he doesn’t care about fictional characters he doesn’t know but irl he even cares about randos getting hurt
@@meetingorb3428 Oh okay ty
Because either most people are slime to you, or you are a slime of a person. And I am not saying that to just spite you or anyone else just because... it is the truth. It has to be one or the other.
@@meetingorb3428 No he not. READ IT. "why it is we can care about fictional characters and their safety as if they were real people" and "I mean, in real life, I would be horrified to see a complete stranger get torn apart by a mob of bloodthirsty crazies simply because they're people. I wouldn't care as much as if it were someone I knew personally," It is no different than people being horrified watching videos of little pets getting torn apart but its "yeah whatever" watching fellow humans getting torn apart.... and im not saying its wrong or right here.
The raw grittiness of how 28 Days was shot and the story makes it my favorite zombie movie.
Great music in both!
"The story of this film is PETA causes the apocalypse"
That made me burst laughing
I'm glad to be of service 😎
@@Howesenberg I mean, PETA doing that is certainly in the realm of possibility
They don't give a fuck about humans anyways
In a director’s commentary track I watched, Danny Boyle said that the “I hate you” is not diegetic. It’s supposed to be a kind of translation of the inner life of the infected. They are infected with rage, pure hatred, and this is what that looks like. Also this film had so many alternate plots/endings it’s mind blowing and the filmmakers seemed still unsure that they had picked the ones they liked best. Pretty interesting
I found some of the criticisms strange, including the description of Jim in his parents' house with the candle as "watching a movie", the "I hate you" thing, and the full grocery store. I don't think so many of the elements like these are intended to be viewed as literal. Instead, I think they're meant to evoke a sort of dream-like quality to their moments, to make them feel more personal and human.
The memories Jim was remembering were replayed in his mind as home videos, which often make us feel nostalgic. You can tell what they mean to Jim because of this surreal rendition. I didn't know about the "I hate you" comment by the director, but I love that and consider it in the same vein. And the full grocery store, with the well-lit aisles and colorful packaging, I think really just shows us how abundant the store would have felt to them and the kind of joy that the moment contained in the context of the absolute catastrophe that was the global infection.
Even if we don't talk about it, I think we all know this film is way more than just a story. It speaks to our humanity in a very special way that is not very literal but still very real
Oh, thank-you! Someone explaining what the zombie said!
I sware after many listenings, I couldn't hear anything more than "arkarrraaaakaauk"... but now that you've quoted it, I can hear it clear as day. Very weird.
I like that you roasted tf out of 28 days later the talking zombie, the terrible child acting, the cameraman in the shot.
The begginings of 28 weeks is bless. Is one of the best scenes to cope up with a breakup
Robert Carlyle is such an amazing actor absolutely criminally underrated
The way he played hitler in rise of evil is just terrifying
Agreed, he's one of a kind
Cillian Murphy tho!
Yeah that whole "pointing the loaded weapon at children" thing is a real issue. In a lot of situations I've seen of, heard of or read of, if you're panicked enough you'll have an utter death grip on your weapon, enough so that you could accidently drop your magazine, or say if you were spooked by a zombie that came at you through a 4x optic you could be panicked enough to squeeze off a round at the people you are there to help
i guess that's why they say to only aim at something you're willing to destroy.
@@manboy4720 I mean, at least detach the scope to use it as a monocular, although it might be less convenient to use one hand on the rifle and one hand on the scope but if I were one of the kids I would feel a hulluva lot more comforted knowing an untrained lady isn't pointing a loaded weapon at the back of my dome
@@ethanlandis8517 oh yeah, i didn't even think about just detaching the thing. that seems a lot safer than having it on the gun lol.
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You're not wrong logically but detaching a scope In a high tense situation isn't on the top of your mind at that moment
@@Mas3d_p0ta3rs Fair, but at the same time you should be avoiding pointing your rifle at the people you're protecting at all costs
At 5:26, Jim did not watch a home video. He was standing in the kitchen with a lit candle reminiscing on a happy moment he had with his parents, and it was the candle’s light that caught the attention of the infected.
When I first saw the "I hate you" bit, I immediately thought it was meant to be unconfirmed whether it was actually said or not to suggest to the audience that his mind might be slipping, that he might be imagining things, which is why he remained silent after.
Cool video.
'28 Months' had been stuck in production hell for several years and the only news about it is vague quote from Boyle from 2019 and considering what had happened since I don't think this thematic would get priority in production so I wouldn't hold my breath.
By the time we actually get the third film, it's gonna be 28 Years Later
@@IHateDubstep or maybe 28 decades later
@@apollozoid7421 Or maybe 28 Millenniums later
I think this aforementioned 3rd installment could have fanfare or more attention from the public in retrospect of the last 2 years. Intriguing.
@@Blakezilla594 I've thought about this for quite sometime. Zombie/infected movies could make a genuinely good comeback similar in vein to Dawn 2004 and 28 Days/Weeks. The genre will obviously hit different for the public now and longtime fans of the zombie genre deserve more serious/haunting zombie films again. WWZ could've been that and at times came close, (rating held it back) Army I really enjoyed but still not what most fans of the genre want. Black Summer was decent for a lot of the 1st season, tho its potential got pretty wasted in the 2nd imo. Still tho, I think in time there will be a good return to the genre. Just need the right people behind it who actually know, love and respect the genre.
"Boop to the snoot, and lights out".
That happened to be the best line for almost any rifle butting to the face that I've ever heard 😆
The protagonist issue you brought up made me think of Black Summer. Its been a minute, but i remember an episode of that where you think "okay, heres the main character", but then they die and the protagonist for the rest of the episode is a person they met right before they died.
That show did a great job of making you feel the situation.
I think the interesting thing about 28 Weeks is it’s about “what would I do in that situation”. What are the choices that a leader should make? What do you do to survive. It’s trying to achieve something really different to the original film
Man I remember seeing that church seen as a kid, and that scene absolutely scared the life out of me, still gives me the creeps till this day. 28 days later is my favorite “zombie” movie along with “Day of the dead”
For the scene where the child that's infected speaks for some reason it always bothered me that there was a possibility that since you're seeing the movie through the main characters eyes it's a possibility he mentally altered the fact that the kid might have been asking for help and not attacking him therefore he beat him to death for no reason. This always felt like a possibility because of the fact that he doesn't bring it up to Selena outside and when the soldier asks him if he's had to kill anybody he says a boy not an infected
For me I always pictured Hannah to be on the spectrum but high functioning
It explains her lack of emotion which could have helped frank and her survive. Children get scared make noises don't listen and panic which can get everyone killed. But Hanna's dulled emotions made her and frank easier to hide and survive. That's how It would explain why Al of a sudden she acts a bit better when she is drugged.
16:00 had me absolutely wheezing!!
I have a theory: the infected kid in 28 Days Later might be the same kid they saved from 28 Weeks Later. Remember that the first sequence of 28 Weeks Later happens during the first 28 Days before Jim wakes up from its comma.
Its not the same child. And Jim was lucky a nurse locked him in the room while he was in a coma.
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Blud 28 weeks later takes place after 28 days
@@gamingevolvedkg30 its prologue takes place in parallel to 28 Days Later.
Idris Elba not being known is not quite right. He did play a massive role in The Wire
I haven't seen The Wire but I still maintain that he wasn't a household name back then, but everyone knows him now
The scene early on in the church is done so well. Beyond the fact there’s piles of bodies,The way the zombie look up-you immediately know there’s something completely inhuman and not right about them way they look up, the way they move. Immediately butt-hole puckering terrifying.
What a cast! I only recognized Byrne at the time it came out and she was just becoming well known in America. Forgot completely about Kenner and Elba! Wow. And Ms. Poots!
17:00 Not just his wife, literally EVERYONE at that house except him was killed during the escape, even Jacob who was actually at the boat before John but as they were setting off he fell over the side and got bitten
In defence of the girls acting and the wierd painting shot, I always felt that the movie was meant to feel like a fever dream, which the unnaturalness and out of nowhereness, mixed with the type of camera and music kinda work IMO
To me the fever dream theory would be at odds with what Danny Boyle said in an interview, he said the reason he used low quality cameras and fairly unknown actors was because he wanted the audience to connect with the movie in a way that felt real.
@@Howesenberg Fair enough, I still kinda see it as realistic though, as in, if you woke upweeks after it happenning, you'd realistically feel like you were having a fever dream and the uncanny valley would be constant with Zombies. Also, just finished the vid, watch Rec 4, its at sea and decent.
I mean I definitely get an eerie, ethereal fever dream from 28 Days. It gives the same feeling of waking up disoriented, sticky with sweat, senses dulled. Uncomfortable, makes me feel like I have a headache.
@@Howesenberg I would describe it as a fever dream not because I think it literally is but because it just kinda *feels* that way, ya know?
Huh?
Those weren't home movies Jim was watching. He was reliving his memories and mourning the death lf his parents, who left a loving suicide note to him.
That wasn't a stylistic choice. Those rows of flowers are a very famous attraction. It was even featured in Spider-Man: Far From Home. It was a way of showing precisely where they were without a place card.
That infected kid wasn't talking. That was Jim wondering if it was right to just kill the kid. He was then realizing that the only thing going through the kid's head was hatred. He then committed to the kill. That's why it was a moment of hesitation to tell the timelord he killed someone. That was a call back to his hesitation which was a callback to him questioning Selena unflinchingly killing Mark without first making sure of infection. If it wasnt clear, Mark was NOT infected. She straight up muckducked him lol. It was all to call into question the will to survive.
The soldiers are strongly implied to be a support squad, not combat squad. Everyone was called to action though. It was also strongly implied they were cowards who abandoned their deployment. Hence them being more bullies than actual combatants and Jim able to take them out. The incompetence makes sense.
Anything done in that world, especially trying to take on armed soldiers, is reckless lol.
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I really think Don keeps getting a bad rep in that movie. That was all on his wife. She was out of touch with the reality they were in, refusing to adapt. Sure, currently with our rules, laws and general safeties somewhat assured, helping a child seems like the right thing to do. In an apocalyptic setting when you can't guarantee your own safety, instead relying on others, you don't get to decide to bring in another dependent. Then, as everyone is dying, he's still trying to save who matters to him. She's willing to risk herself and her loving husband and go for the kid. She then put him in a position, expecting him to fight the infected, unarmed(straight suicide) as a result of her idiotic choice. To make matters worse, all she could do was scream him name and bang on the window. When we see her escape, there's no kid, so what was it all for? Don shouldn't have snuck in to see her tho, especially with her weird behavior.
It was the mutation from different eye colors that somehow prevented the infection, instead making them carriers. The daughter wasn't immune.
Don was still largely the main character. They were trying to show how the infected still have lingering attachments and how they can be twisted by the virus. Don didn't try to infect his wife, whom he loved. He brutally killed her. He infected others and killed a few. However, his focus was on tracking down his children. The more he loved them, the more the Rage Virus made him hate them.
Like his mom, the boy became a carrier. So any type fluid swapping, like sharing a bottle of water with his sister, would create another outbreak.
Also, of course the place wasnt completely safe. Thats why they had perimeters. Children being a big deal was precisely why the movie happened. If they just said screw those twerps, left them where they were, or killed them and the mom on sight, no second outbreak.
Rose Byrne was a medical officer. Crazy misconception that everyone in any military is trained for the frontlines or acting in highly stressful, combative situations.
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Side note, if you want to see a zombie movie in an enclosed location? There's MY favorite zombie movie: Train to Busan. Quarantine is an older one thats not as confined. They had rabies in that one. They were... well... quarantined in an apartment building because of it.
I haven't personally seen the movie, but if anyone is interested in a film that Taps into the idea of a zombie/infected Outbreak on a ship, that's basically the plot of Rec 4
The opening to 28 days later is one of the greatest openings to any movie ever. I didnt think the sequel was particularly good at all.
The opening of 28 weeks was brilliant as well, i think. Maybe even the best scene out of the two movies.
@@leo_the_v.3847 agreed … that opening was epic ….both opening scenes were appropriate for each movie….the 1st we needed a slow introduction to hell the 2nd we already knew the hell so it was fitting
28 weeks opening was far better.
I loved Robert Carlyle's acting in 28 Weeks Later. It really made me hate his character, but it also reminded me that when shit hits the fan and the dead walk the earth, not everyone is going to turn into Sylvester Stallone and become a zombie slaying Giga-Chad, but most likely become cowardly and jump ship at the first sign of trouble, no matter who they leave to the wolves (or undead, in our case.)
I'd die to see a "28 Years Later" in production.
Wel wel.....do a Google search..it's in development 😮
People don't help when you get mugged and you expect the same people to act like heroes?
Shouldn't be 28 months later the next?
28 months later surely
28 financial quarters later.
Awesome video, but I'm sure someone else pointed out that Rec 3 was on a ship.(and your right it was good) i preferred 28 weeks later cause it was fascinating to see the rebuilding then watching it go boom
Jim isn’t actually watching a home video, it’s just an interpretation of his memories. It’s the candle he lights that draws in the zombies.
Before I watch:
28 days was a masterpiece.
28 weeks was shite, but the opening scene is hands down one of the greatest pieces of media I've ever watched
Sounds like we agree
@@Howesenberg yeh now that I've finished the vid, the joy of 28 weeks is more nostalgia based than nothing else. . . It's just kind of rubs the bigger budget in your face? Again. . . Those first 10 minutes are like the culmination of all horror cinematography. And then it's just generic Hollywood horror.
Whereas 28 days didn't have anything that specifically impactful, but the entire movie held its own. . .
Also that scene where Cillian can't run due to a lack of proper nutrients. . . Fucking immaculate. For most viewers, probably inconsesquetial, as a bio that hit so hard. . . Bought fucking time a post -apoc movie showed the detriments of that shitty arse diet. . .
The opening 10 mins of 28 days later is one of the most frightening sequences I’ve ever seen…and there are no deaths no zombies. A truly amazing film that still more than holds up
11:30 If I remember correctly, these guys are not actual soldiers but instead are inmates that took military gear.
So it's not surprising for them to be animalistic.
I think the painted picture in one short scene was him being on medication drugs, i think generally did a great job with those kind of short scenes of the environment around them!! Big movie!!!!
He could also have just imagined the boys voice