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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nim</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,2,11,15,4,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 11, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:04 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The brits sure got it together. Cheers, mates. *clink*<br /><br />I enjoyed this movie better by not knowing anything about it,<br />so anyone who hasn't seen it in the cinema and likes scary action-flicks, read no further.<br /><br />$$$<br /><br />This is probably one of the best post-apocalypse survivor movies I've seen,<br />absolutely the most realistic, and over in the zombie-category, number one.<br />I really hadn't counted on something with a "Day of the Dead"-inspiration.<br /><br />See, I didn't know about the disease before watching, just that some dizzy young guy woke up in an empty hospital.<br /><br />The zombies (well, lesser humans, technically) are the best I've ever seen. Such fervor and drive, it really was scary. And those screams and the panting, I don't even want to think about it.<br /><br />Just in the first scene, were the director (Danny Boyle) uses the clamour of the chimps in their cages to offset you,<br />I sensed this was a bit different from other movies.<br /><br />Now, the typical american movie, even the fairly new "Resident Evil" (which was scary in its own way),<br />uses more detached camera angles, not quite so intrusive sound effects and relies more on the background score.<br />Just enough to paint a faint barrier between the screen and you.<br /><br />This movie was like you were there, and you were dangerously close. And not in that overdone, confusingly shaky "NYPD Blue" way.<br />The camera quality sometimes almost reverted to surveillance camera feeling, lending a feeling of authenticity.<br /><br />Not the perfect, "Ridley Scott"-ish, crystal clear, sterile quality.<br /><br />Especially the environmental shots were good, the city landscapes. <i>That</i> was post-apocalypse.<br />It's like the crew had spent a month's vacation in Chernobyl.<br /><br />The cast of "28 Days Later" was good. No big names, smart move.<br />I've never seen the lead actor before but he really "had" it, as fas as <i>"desperate, well-meaning though approaching borderline"</i>-people go.<br />He kinda looked more of a zombie than the real ones, actually.<br />Those cold eyes, the malnoursished body frame.<br /><br />The zombies in the church were the worst, the way they snapped from sleep to that panicked, frozen stare, when stirred. Damn.<br />It'll come back to haunt me, I'm sure.<br /><br />Also, I'm glad they kept the genuinly british feeling to it. The typical rows of white terrace houses, the typical SA-80:s and Harriers.<br />The black, original british taxi.<br /><br />Oh, oh! Soundtrack! Sometimes very Starsailor-ish, great move, just the right feeling to it.<br />Ironic that my brother, who dragged me out of my flat to the cinema tonight (though I chose the movie),<br />lended me Starsailor's "Love is here" album last week. I haven't listened to it until just now. :-)<br /><br />The last "violent" scene was probably the worst as well. A real eye-opener.<br />Almost beat Gaspar No�'s "Irr�versible".<br />Second thought, no, not really. And I wouldn't <i>want</i> to see the movie that beats "Irr�versible" in the first place, poor Monica Belucci. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" /> <br /><br /><br />I liked the ending as well. Prudent, just-enough. Everyone in the cinema thought it was over when the cab ran into the closed gate, of course.<br /><br /><br />A pity Danny Boyle passed on directing "Alien Resurrection"...*snort*<br /><br /><br />So, opinions? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge</b> <br /><small>Member # 144</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,2,12,1,10,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 12, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:10 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I've heard of this movie before, but I can't remember where though. It sounds just as scary as Resident Evil. Isn't Monica Belucci going to be in the two Matrix movies this year? <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Nim</b> <br /><small>Member # 205</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,2,12,1,22,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 12, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:22 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> She is, yes. She speaks excellent french, as well. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge</b> <br /><small>Member # 144</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,2,12,14,1,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 12, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:01 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ah, je parle francais un petit peu aussi. <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Vogon Poet</b> <br /><small>Member # 393</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2003,2,12,15,21,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">March 12, 2003</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:21 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> And how do small Australians react when you speak to them in French? <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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