28 Days Later

[TheLemming]

Should be heading up to the cinema to see this after work tonight.

If anyone has seen this yet, was it any good?

[david010167]

No, the girl friend will not let me, she says it looks too scary, I thought it looked good though.

David

[beano1197]

Well each to his own, but I enjoyed Harry Potter better

I thought it was a re-run of a million similar plots, a number of inconsistencies and missed opportunities. Oh and unlike Swordfish or XXX there are no good cars in it

But, on the plus side - there are a couple of things to keep you on the edge of your seat!!

[s2ooz]

its one of those that each indivdual has a different view, I went with my mate who has almmost identical likes to me, but hated it, I loved it.
8 people walked out halfway thru.

its medium scary in places, but lots of silent mood type scenes, plot building, allowing the imagination to wonder, could this really happen, phsycological stuff; rather than action.
I have a free(ish) membership to the cinema so Ive seen loads lately, XXX comes in as a good fun action movie.

[Mad Dave]

i went along the other day with my girlie to see it (i told her it 'wasnt that scarey apparently' and she fell for it). It scared the hell out of her!

I loved it tho, thought it was really good, more of a psychological fear than a shock factor tho. As you say tho, many mixed reviews...

[adeewuff]

The screenplay was by Alex Garland (wrote The Beach, The Tesseract) and like his books he does like to dwell on the 'silences' as it were, the times where the characters sit down and try and think their unreal situation through.

For myself it was one of the traights of his book that I really enjoyed and it always gave over a very realistic, gritty kind of atmosphere. For some it may seem slow, so that's why some of the reviews have been negative. Each to their own but I really enjoyed the movie.

[anonymous-user]

Starts well (nasty). Slows down and gets touchy feely. Then turns into a completely different film and ends. Badly.

Not a bad film as the first third is worth the admission price alone but Danny Boyle (the director) has problems with ending films (Trainspotting, Life Less Ordinary, The Beach). His best will always be Shallow Grave.

Harry Potter was indeed better, which was a suprise.

[TheLemming]

Thanks everyone. Im going with the majority opinion here, so thats my evening sorted.

(What a riveting life I lead...)