I loved this movie, its rich in subtext and imagery. If you squint hard enough you can actually see the medieval fantasy movie barely hiding in the background.

So you got the young squire from a small village traversing the English mainland with a bow and arrow in order to bring his mother to a mysterious wizard/witch doctor in order to cure her of her unknown illness.

Along the way they hide in castle ruins and churches and they even encounter a foul-mouthed, nordic viking warrior that helps them on their quest. They fight these monsters that are, lets be real, really fantasy like. You got the worm-eating crawlers, the huge orc-like alphas, and ravens appear as like a dark motif for these evil that lurk the lands.

Then the bone temple - I mean holy shit this is pure fantasy imagery. Needs no explanation.

INfact the entire movie is rife with occult/fantasy symbolism. Everything is just fantastical like in a medieval hero's journey.

Then at the end, the young hero is rescued by warrior monks (Jimmy from the intro) dressed like the teletubbies. They use eastern melee weapons combined and have heavy religious imagery.

I loved this movie. Im sure there's more details I missed but to me its pretty obviously like one of those old school dark fantasy adventures like Excalibur (1981), Conan the barbarian and The Navigator: A medieval odyssey (1988) - This last movie funny enough is also set in the same area.

Keep in mind the setting of 28 Years Later is also HEAVILY rife in mythological/fantasy significance. Lindisfarne/Newcastle area was where the Viking Age started, and now it’s a last bastion.28 Years is set in the area where civilization first fell into chaos as well as reborn.

>>211752685 (OP)
>I mean holy shit this is pure fantasy imagery. Needs no explanation.
Why do you write like a Redditor faggot?

This movie fucking rules. Fuck the faggots saying it was bad.
People are just too cynical to enjoy anything anymore.

>>211752764
because i am

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/1lgfbqx/28_years_later_is_a_medieval_dark_fantasy_movie/

>>211752685 (OP)
>its rich in subtext

you are a faggot

>>211755316
ok

>Aron Taylor Jew
Not watching. Nice ad by the way, stupid faggot.

>>211756220
ok

>>211752685 (OP)
Danny boyle ruined it by whining like a labour boomer as usual

>dressed like the teletubbies
zoomers know nothing.

Humans die all the time when exposed to the element and have to try to manage on their own in the wild. You're telling me that 28 years after everyone turns into a rabid 100% aerobic expenditure at all times super-zombie with blood shooting out of their stomachs (conditions which would dehydrate any animal in a few hours) they are still an active threat to the many organized bands of humans with ranged weapons, agriculture and fortresses?

I know it's a "suspension of disbelief" thing but the buffing of le infected on such a long time scale really cuts into the "seriousness" of the concept. It would make a lot more sense if there was a nuclear war or something and now 28 years later a new virus has just emerged that had been evolving in animals for the last decades. Britain still being this agrarian hellscape after so long seems crazy when the virus can only transmit via bodily fluids (much easier to quarantine than airborne)

>>211756220
name one thread that isnt an ad on /tv/

why did they put a monster dick front and center for a straight two minutes?

>>211752685 (OP)
cool take on the movies, made me wanna watch it

>>211752685 (OP)
That’s a whole lot of cope
It’s just shit

>>211757507
i think its americans who dont know

>>211758244
https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/1lgfbqx/28_years_later_is_a_medieval_dark_fantasy_movie/

Theres a shitton of evidence for it being a secret dark fantasy movie.

Oh and also guess what Alex Garland is directing next? Elden Ring movie lol. Whats the plot of elden ring but a young squire that traverses cursed lands, fighting monsters in a dark fantasy setting lol

>>211752685 (OP)
>zombies + time = medieval
The Walking Dead did it already

>>211759201
nah they spell it out for you in 28 YL. Erik calls himself a viking and there's interspersed footage of Henry VIII, a medieval movie, to parallel the archery scenes

>>211757791
The movie broke its own lore rules because the Rage Infected are not so singularly suicidal anymore
They forage, they form tribes, they have children, they communicate and play, they're basically just extremely aggressive apes now and have displaced humans as the dominant species in Britain but nowhere else because they're easy to kill for organized people with guns

They had to handwave the SHIT out of the "they'll kill themselves off very quickly because they do nothing life-sustaining" stuff

>>211760246
well yeah, a big point across the movies is how the infected changed.

In 28 weeks later you had one infected who was immune, and the father actually kept enough of his sentience and memory to actually stalk his children. Not to mention the children are also immune.

Decades later, the virus has once again evolved.
Dunno what ur asking about really. The infected can now eat food and animals on top of being zombies.

Theyre essentially just another life form now, not just suicidal rage monsters

>>211760511
So... it broke its own rules.

>>211760511
>we want the Crossed audience

>>211760696
What fucking rules? The second already established it can affect people differently. The only established rules are that it's blood born can can turn people in less than a minute from one drop. The second goes out of it's way to show people can be "immune"(lol just kidding they're asymptomatic carriers who still realistically get raped by regular infected no telling how she lived the first incident) and then the father getting a different slightly less suicidally retarded version where he had some semblance of intelligence. Who is to say some carrier bitch having a kid didn't make some slightly more sentient cavemen like infected? Who's to say they even are infected and not just feral children who have been born in the last 28 years? Seriously fucking rules? Lol you're stupid.

>>211761265
>The second already broke the rules

>>211761407
>the second expounded upon existing rules
Fix'd and by fixed I mean dumbed down for your stupid ass

I just watched it, it was good enough. The ladies in my theater were giggling when they saw the giant zombie dick.

>>211761495
thats why weeks was shit. days had a perfect ending

>>211761407
so there were no rules to begin with you retard

>>211761685
>the first movie didnt exist but somehow there was a second movie

>>211761759
????????

what rules was established exactly?

in three movies, it was shown that infected evolve.

What are these imaginary rules you speak of?

>>211761860
>in three movies
kek no shit retard. i bet you also think alien sequels are canon

>>211761955
?????????????????????????

damn, i truly am talking to a retard

>>211762023
oh yeah? well YOURE the retarded one for having shit taste! AND your a faggot for taking sequels as gospel. FAGGOT RETARD
(...heh, gottem)

>>211752685 (OP)
>Then at the end, the young hero is rescued by warrior monks (Jimmy from the intro) dressed like the teletubbies.

Alright, nice bait fagget.

>>211752685 (OP)
You really took the brief medieval imagery thrown in without much thought and ran with it, huh

>>211752685 (OP)
>Then at the end, the young hero is rescued by warrior monks (Jimmy from the intro) dressed like the teletubbies. They use eastern melee weapons combined and have heavy religious imagery.

Average cinema goer and /tv/ poster is too retarded to see the genius in 28 years. The films was kino and if you're from the UK its patriotic at times

>>211760246
The apparent progression of infected behavior is massively overstated. They're still mindless zombies, some of them just follow an "alpha" (kek). They're shown splashing about in a stream as if they're trying to bathe or fish at one point, but besides that (and the pregnant zombie which is nonsense that never should have been included), they're still just zombies.

>>211760696
You're a pedantic moron lmao

>>211752685 (OP)
AI bot post.

>>211763011
you are brown hehehe

>>211755283
What is it about the way they write that makes it so easy to sense.

>>211762435
???

Name one rule you claim is established?????

>>211760696
correct that is called lacking consistency

I don’t know why everyone is hung up on the ending. It’s one minute at the end that has no bearing on the film, which was good.

>>211763406
yeah and it was funny

>>211763146
?????????????????youre the one who claimed the writers changed things in the sequels???????????????????
if you acknowledge they changed rules you must know what they changed FROM.
either that or you just ignored the first movie and its ending

>>211760246
Glad I read this. Won't be watching this retarded shit.

>>211763565
what rules were established exactly?

u keep mentioning these rules LMFAO

there are no rules established except that the virus evolves over time LOL


retard

>>211752685 (OP)
>jews star in major motion pictures
>palestinians die screaming
lol

>>211764083
We dont sign our posts here.

>>211764526
kk. What rules established?


retard

>>211764198
Yeah LOL

Why was the kid mad that his dad was puffing up the story of what happened when they were out? That's how you tell a bar story retard

>>211752685 (OP)
The trailer is a better movie

>>211765775
he was more mad about his dad cheating on his mom/forcing him to grow up faster (ATJ wanted to toss his son away to slaving on the logging crew ASAP and go back to chewing muff but his wife wouldn't hurry up and die)

>>211763117
they sound like gayfaggots

>>211766559
They live in a fucking zombie quarantine the boy needed to stop playing with toys or else he would have died

>>211765775
You expect me to take this post seriously? Is this your thesis question? A ponderance on the ignorance of a 12 year old boy on the oral tradition of Scottish drinking establishments? Is that it you buffoon? You cretin, you sniveling, dark triad lackey of the lowest order?
Judgment will come for you, and it will not allow you to shitpost quietly into the night

>>211766793
Yeah that's true but he's also a kid and probably a little resentful about it, now at the end of the movie he's totally alone and has a group of neckbeard manchildren to put him on a bad choice road where he sinks into delusion to cope

>>211761860
Are you gonna even attempt to stop acting like a retard?

>>211752685 (OP)
Excellent analysis. The footage of English longbow re-enactors interspersed throughout the film tipped me off, as well as the deeply forested locations chosen to film in. All they’re missing are tabbards and it would be a 1-1 medieval fantasy movie.

>>211752685 (OP)
>fucking bows
There's absolutely no reason why guns wouldn't be used, especially on defense or against multiple infected.
>muh noise
Virtually all hunting weapons in Britain (particularly 2001) had suppressors, and there would be tons of military weapons and police weapons that would make "Alphas" trivial.

>>211770037
>There's absolutely no reason why guns wouldn't be used
Europe

I feel like this kind of movie breaks the 4chan attitude of everything being kino or shit because it's just okay

>>211770037
>There's absolutely no reason why guns wouldn't be used
because with the collapse of Her Majesty's government, there's nobody left to grant gun licenses you twat

>>211770133
The government is gone dude, I don't think laws matter anymore.

>>211770179
It's ok with some kino moments, I'd say 7/10.

>>211770255
did you reply to the right person? the post you replied to made no mention of government or law

>>211770330
I gave it a 6/10 but I agree. Good enough to keep my interest and has me curious about a sequel. Not enough zombie movies, never thought I'd say that

>>211770413
It's not a zombie movie though

>>211770466
Shut the fuck up, cockbreath

>>211770133
>>211770216
>survivors start using guns
>the crown remnant sees this via satellite
>they send aircraft to bomb those groups
>they justify it online saying "AT LEAST THEIR SCHOOLS DON'T GET SHOT UP!!"

>>211770512
holy shit you owned that nerd

>>211770466

>>211770512
Just because some idiots run around naked and angry doesn't make them zombies, just like you taking it up the ass doesn't make you a woman. But still, proceed to get fucked some more by your boyfriend, loser.

So is 28 Weeks Later just not canon?

>>211770368
Europe has extremely strict gun laws, but that goes out the window when your population becomes screaming blood puking psychotic murderers.

>>211770685
It is, but reality kicked in and the military actually did something useful for once.

>>211770518
Trust me, if the UK government was still alive and in exile, an all white island village wouldn't fly for long. That military blockade would be broken by migrants boats heading for the island before you could settle down for some tele and a greggs sausage role

>>211752685 (OP)
I will post my brief review before reading the thread. Just got back from it.
The first third is a straightforward zombie movie with a cool premise.
The second two thirds is a strange relationship/ character growth thing that kind of makes no sense and I didn't care about.
There is lots of strange surreal things to it which kept it interesting, scene by scene, even if the overall plot was screwed. This was a characteristic of the first movie, which was also enjoyable to watch even if it was retarded in various ways.
Watching it in the theater, on things that make stuff more intense, was quite an experience and on the whole I enjoyed it. However. It felt like they didn't know what to do after the first act, and let some millennial SJW women try to make it some profound character meditation on life and death that amounted to nothing substantial.

>>211770685
It's still canon, they even use footage from it during the boots montage.

>>211770685
it's soft canon, they nuked paris and nothing to do with the kids being immune will come up again
think of it like opposing force

>>211770685
Years is not canon. It's a silly reboot cash grab series

>>211764083
>>211764526
Honestly he kinda won the argument with that one.

This movies was messy but the relics of the british empire was a nice touch

>>211770037
Europoors don't have access to guns

>>211771375
Yeah that was fun, I like the motif of all violence being contextualized similarly across generations and this being a new version of it that's all the new generation would know

>>211771395
It's been 30 years. The US can ship a couple hundred crates of guns to them in that time.

28 days later did not need a sequel. Stop watching crap.

It was great until the ending, holy shit that was bad, also when the mom went to help the pregnant infected but then they tell you she's in metastasis which explains why she seems lost most of the time.
But overall it was enjoyable, like 90% of the movie

>>211771765
I don't think they care if they survive, they could have swept them up in helicopters at any time with no real risk of infection. They know the communities are stable and monitor them. As long as they don't try to leave, they don't give a fuck. Not proactively exterminating them is precisely as far as aid extends

>>211770685
It is, they just wiped the infected from continental europe and said fuck the british

>>211771926
I feel like wiping them out would be more merciful than letting them choose between being infected or being british. Its like they want them to suffer on their little island.

>>211752685 (OP)
the boy spike is insanely cute shota hot

Are there any zombie movies that take place in America where the scenario plays out realistically and all of the zombies are just shot?
There are 12billion bullets sold every year in America

>>211770825
This is brutally true.

>>211772512
Night of the living dead. The army, police, and a bunch of rednecks kill them all

>>211772715
Fuck I forgot how kino that movie was, I watched it once in college
Amazing film

>>211772512
The very first Night of the Living Dead
The ending implies that like the title says, there was one particularly nasty night where thousands of unaware people died horribly, and by the next day redneck militias had wiped out the zombies

Shaun of the Dead also references this, the army takes all night to organize and deploy but then immediately wins

Yeah great but there is still a sort of bad movie with annoying retarded characters draped over it. If you want to make a dark fantasy movie just make one. The main kid the story follows is too young to make a good story. He's constantly tripping over his own feet and is a secondary character in every shot he is in. But everyone else is also stupid, how does a patrol boat patrolling an island nation full of zombies possibly not have escape rafts? Why didn't they stay on the coast until they were rescued? No coastal boat is ever leaving port for patrol through dangerous waters without escape boats. I'm really not here to watch a movie with some bed ridden person who can't remember her own family who's highlight in the movie is delivering a zombie's child in the back of a ruined bus. After 28 years nobody on the island has even worked out crossbows, traps, or nailbombs? How have they named the big zombies but but the one person who has found a way to deal with them effectively is the witch doctor? But other than that pretty average movie 5/10.

>>211772760
>good shot on that last zombie Jed!
>zombie?

I feel bad for the toddler some retard brought to see this in my theater today. Poor little dude had to see gore and huge zombie cocks

>>211772512
Night of the living dead, and somewhat dawn
In Night they pretty much organize after 24 hours and just decimate the undead with sporadic outbreaks afterward, so much so things are still "functional" for a few weeks/months after the intial outbreak.
Dawn tackles the breakdown of society afterwards where it's apparent the problems are much deeper than they initially thought and communications and public services start to break down, people start to flee and orginizations start to disband
Even then, when they fly over some of the counties they can see people having a blast, but they'd inevitably fall to the same fate.

>the gigantic alpha penis was extremely distracting and gross and takes you out of the movie

>Spike and his mom sneaking out to find the doctor was really dumb. They would have died within an hour. too unrealistic. Also the Dad was completely dropped as a character after that.... lame

>The newborn baby scene made no sense and was dumb

>that swedish soldier with the Iphone was stupid and cringe. Why doesnt sweden with modern 2025 society drop in some generators and Iphones to the island? maybe some machine guns? DUMB

>the beginning and ending with Jimmy made absolutely zero sense

seriously tho, all those flopping cocks were too much

>>211773104
Never understand why people bring small children to horror movies. I didn't start watching real horror movies until I was at least 8 or 9, and that might be a little too young

>>211773104
uh bro in my country the movie is rated 15+ so ain't no one bringing a toddler to watch it
i kinda though it was like that in most of the civilized world, where the fuck do you even live?

>>211773104
I remember some lady brought her baby to a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood screening. A baby's first time in a movie theater was Bruce Lee getting fisted.

>>211773272
>the gigantic alpha penis was extremely distracting
>all those flopping cocks were too much
I will now see your zombie movie

>>211773397
>Can't bring your kid to a scary movie because the government says so
lame

>>211752821
Thanks for your honesty. Now, bite the curb.

>>211773397
America. So long as they have an adult with them you can take a kid to see an R rated movie

>>211763117
Very gay like, and like someone who watches 20 hrs deep dives on has been hotel

>>211773318
I was 9 or10 years old when 28 days later came out and I remember the poster with the red eyes gave me nightmares. I might have been a pussy tho

>>211762787
Go to the dr and tell them ur a skitzo

I get quarantining the British isles, but letting the survivors fend for themselves seems pretty retarded. Why not just drop them supplies?

>>211772512
Return Of The Living Dead is very realistic in how it's handled, with them going for an ultimate solution when regular methods fail. It just goes from a small manageable problem to become a disaster since regular people approach it with whatever logic they have.

>>211774497
because then they'll tell everyone about all the dead civilians that got fucking holocausted after the most comically bungled recolonization effort ever

I noticed that everyone in this movie was white

>>211763117
They're corny nerds that never got manic urges out of their system when they were young and it could be forgiven.

>>211770037
Not enough guns in Europe
Not to mention most existing ammo has been used up after a decade or so

>>211760246
>They forage, they form tribes, they have children, they communicate and play, they're basically just extremely aggressive apes now and have displaced humans as the dominant species in Britain

It's a metaphor for immigration

>>211775041
I suspect Weeks really isn't canon. Weeks says the infected starved to death in 5 weeks yet in this movie they live as nomadic packs 30 years on.

The real question is how the fuck did Ireland get infected?

>>211763923
Literally none of this happens. Normal infected just follow big ones around for food. In Weeks Don literally hunts his kids down and shows enough intelligence to avoid the napalm and gas. Its not a huge leap for some to be a bit smarter.

>>211776178
Weeks is canon, it just mutated.

>>211770706
Yeah, but where are any guns and the ammo for 28 years you callosal retard?