Writers: Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Enrique López Lavigne Release Dates: Movie Release Dates / 28 Weeks Later Release Dates In Theaters: May 11, 2007, DVD: Oct 09, 2007 Recommended: Recommends you watch 28 Weeks Later Release Date: Theatrical Release Date May 11, 2007 Stars: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack … (full cast) Horror Subgenres: Apocalypse, Killer Parents, Urban Decay, Virus That, and the shaky-cam crap.More: Most Anticipated Horror Movies Coming Soon in 2022-2023! 28 Weeks Later Movie Information: Type: Movie ![]() It does have what audiences like, such as polish, action, and a scary experience– that’s why critics like it, but it lacks the personal nature of the original, so I think it’s below average for that reason. Problem is, since almost everything is different, there’s not much left resembling the first one. Too bad they couldn’t use the same tone and style, but I guess you can’t do everything the same. Danny Boyle admits that this sequel is a cash-in on the name value made by the first one. Imogen Poots does alright too and Idris Elba was in there somewhere. Jim just sorta wandered around in the first one, so I guess 28 Weeks Later is more focused and more polished, but it doesn’t make me like it any better. Since the story is about how the military is dealing with the virus, his character fits in pretty well. He’s a super smart guy and a tough cookie. He’s not an everyman like Jim from the first movie. Jeremy Renner plays Doyle, a sniper in the military. The cast is pretty good, at least when they get to do stuff other than run away. Those scenes are shot traditionally and really don’t add much except to give us bigger stuff like more explosions. Also, the long shots of the city and the military stuff seems to contrast the personal tone, which is not both good and bad. The movie was shot mostly with hand-held cameras, which is good and bad, mostly bad for my stomach. It was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, whose work started in short films, so you can tell why 28 Weeks Later seems so up-close and personal. Anyway, the scene is mostly pitch black and the camera sticks very closely to the characters, as they fall down and fight the infected (not zombies). An air attack forces the characters into the London Underground, because they’re trying to meet a helicopter, so they can get the heck out of Dodge. ![]() I will say that one scene is way better than anything in the original. And it didn’t have any shaky-cam crap either. It’s got more weird camera angles and shots of the cityscape and just more stupid stuff than you can shake a stick at. It’s got more medical gross-outs and people expelling blood from their mouth like a hose. More decapitations like it’s Final Destination or something. 28 Weeks Later had no warning.Ģ8 Weeks Later also didn’t warn me that it had more crap not found in the original. Back when I bought tickets for Cloverfield (2008), there was this neon-pink sign warning me that shaky-cam crap was imminent. Remember when they used to have a warning about this kind of thing in the theatre? I do. I can’t deal with shaky-cam crap in general, as you can tell from my rant, and I’ve got two paragraphs into this blog post where I’ve only talked about how the shaky-cam makes me dizzy. I thought to myself ‘hey self, dealing with the shaky-cam crap on DVD shouldn’t be as bad as on the big screen, right?’. It’s not an introspective quest for survival anymore-nope, it’s just jammed full of shaky-cam crap to make me sick to my stomach. Ok, so I bought Danny Boyle’s 28 Weeks Later (2007) on DVD, but I can’t watch it because of all the stupid shaky-cam crap in this stupid, shaky-cam movie.
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