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So, has anyone seen it yet? How about our British friends? I'm excited for it but, being in Utah, there are only a couple of places that will show it. I'm waiting for it to hit Brewvies, a local brewpub that shows movies. Best place in town to grab some great food, a beer and watch a flick.

this film was out last year in the UK [ but i still haven't seen it, yet !! ]

it's quite funny though, the survivors head from LONDON to MANCHESTER [ but MY city has been burnt down ]

Matthew.

I've seen it. I saw it the same weekend I saw Charlie's Angels and Finding Nemo (it was kind of a spur of the moment triple feature thing). Granted, those are very different films, being the summer blockbuster type, but 28 Days Later will stick with me long after those other two films will. Thumbs up!

I've been mulling over whether I want to see it.

I'm really considering skipping out of work early tomorrow to go to it. Caroline doesn't want to but she's spending the day with her parents so it'll be my one chance to see it.

Okay, I did it. I skipped work early and went. There were only two other people in the theatre with me and it was freezing inside. But who noticed with this movie? Absolutley the best zombie flick ever made!

I just can't describe it. It sort of reminded me of my favorite English "this is the way the world ends" flick. Anyone ever seen Day of the Triffids? It was not overly graphic but it was psychologically intense. And it was made more so, I believe, because of the setting. Bad enough feeling alone and abandoned in a world gone mad (literally) where coming into contact with the infected will turn you in 20 seconds. But extended that feeling of abandonment to include the entire nation, cut off from the world because of what happened, and it makes you wonder if its worth living. Island Nation never held such a dread meaning before.

If you like zombie movies, even if you don't, see this movie. The Blair Witch Project was a day at Romper Room compared with this. And Dawn of the Dead was just another day at the mall. I may see it again and then buy the DVD when it comes out.

For those of you who haven't seen this yet (in the American release) now's the time. 28 days after it was released (7/25) they have added an alternate ending to run after the titles. And they promise it is not a happy ending. I'm going to have to go out and see it again.

I feel like a bit of a sucker to their marketing campaign, but the "bonus ending" thing might actually tip the scales in motivating me to go see it. I wasn't so sure since my mom saw it and said it wasn't very scary and she's a wimp.

I saw this! I'm totally addicted to Spin Street's USED DVDs section. $6.99, so I bought it!

Gotta say, the potential was definitely there. The scene in the church with the "hello" and the 3 zombie guys turning amid all the corpses to see the speaker, and the priest guy... Mondo creey. Yeah, I was prepared for some true scarriment then.

But it kinda petered out into a one guy-takes-down-everyone kinda deal. I'd have preferred if Selena had been the one cast in that role.

I preferred the
"Dawn of" remake. More 'fast-moving zombie' action there than here, more scariness overall.

But who did you like better Lash? Cillian Murphy as Jim in 28 or Jake Weber as Michael in Dead? Murphy was, to me, much better. Still, I loved both movies.

And they are saying a sequel, without the original cast, is in the works. 28 Weeks Later takes up the story around six months later when the US has decided to repopulate Britain.

yes i read about the sequal, sounds promising.

Hmmm...I rented this a long time ago now, and I seem to recall thinking that I expected it to be a LOT scarier than it was. I liked Shawn of the Dead a lot better.

I should go to my MISSED IT thread and mention that I never saw Dawn of the Dead, nor it's remake. My wife forbids me from renting these kinds of movies because my two teenage sons totally want to watch them, and we agree that they just don't need to yet. They can wait a few more years. Of course, they end up seeing more than we want them to at their friends' houses.
Sorry, kinda rambled there...

Which version did you guys get? The penis-nose (Christopher Eccleston) as army blokie version or the original version that didn't get released here in the cinema but it is on the DVD and I have yet to see fully? Appartently the original version is way better, but I agree with Dean that Shaun of the Dead is actually even better in that it is both very funny, very creepy and very sad (the scene with Penelope Wilton at the end primarlity). Plus Shaun has some of the best DVD extras ever.

I love Shaun (stiil sending big hugs to Starboy for sending me my first copy). Hell I love anything that Simon Pegg is in; Spaced, Dr. Who, can't wait for Hot Fuzz to come out. The version of 28 I have has Eccleston in it. But I'll have to dig out my DVD as I think it has all the different versions, even the one that the ending is done in story boards because the director never got to shoot it.

And Dean, I was raised on horror films. As Cobie has heard, my mom used to take me and my little brother out to the Midnight triple feature at the drive-in in Phoenix when we were young and we didn't get home until dawn. Saw some of the best 70s horror flicks that way (Blood Farmers, Devils Rain, 2000 Maniacs). But I can see not letting kids see some of todays horror movies.

That Jim sure was a cutie.

the movie was good and all (I now recall the "flat tire/rats" scene, which just about gave me a heart attack) but I got more of my zombie fix in the "Dawn of" remake.

I'll definitely check out the sequel.