I'm so behind the curve on this one, but I just watched the DVD of 28 Days Later. Very disturbing virus-decimating-the-population story, written by Alex Garland (author of The Beach) and directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting). The benefit of seeing this on DVD is you get to watch 3 alternate endings, plus one radically alternative ending shown on storyboards.
There are shades of The Omega Man (I Am Legend), Edmund Cooper's All Fools' Day, Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor and so on.
Can't say it's a great film, but it is a very interesting treatment of a perennial subject.
It does add to the sense of seasonal bleakness, as I wait for the blowback of imperial triumphalism to hit home.
There are shades of The Omega Man (I Am Legend), Edmund Cooper's All Fools' Day, Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor and so on.
Can't say it's a great film, but it is a very interesting treatment of a perennial subject.
It does add to the sense of seasonal bleakness, as I wait for the blowback of imperial triumphalism to hit home.
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Re: 28 Days Later
Thu, December 18, 2003 - 9:05 AMWe need a movie that is a combination of On the Beach and the Andromeda strain, now that would be a fun flick!
