Huuuge fan of 28 Days Later, the rest is still decent, without too much scrutiny, but.

28 Years Later has an amazing soundtrack, almost entirely written by the Young Fathers. And they do GY!BE’s East Hastings at the end. So that was certainly very pleasant.

But I couldn’t shake off the feeling, maybe biased by looking at the state of the UK these days, that this is a movie by a dying culture for a dying culture. Which is in its own way poetic and beautiful, considering it’s a zombie movie.

28 Days Later was about people, and how bad (or good) they can be, not about zombies. And in this new one, it’s cool music, and cool camera work, and Ralph Fiennes covered in iodine, but it’s just death, death, death for its own sake. It really stops making sense toward the end unless you’re into euthanasia. Just a strange cult and a memorial to death.

  • un_mask_me [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    26 days ago

    The music really set the mood, and I appreciated the sense of creeping anxiety that it had. It very much felt like a movie adaptation of The Forest and Sons of The Forest games, though. The ending with the blondes was really weird, and kind of unnecessary unless they’re making another movie. I kept thinking that

    major spoiler

    the kid had just left an asymptomatic infant in a village, like the mom in 28 weeks just waiting to infect someone. I don’t understand why zombies would procreate anyway, since the virus is spread faster through fluids.

    Maybe I’m just overthinking it. Still enjoyed it for the most part.