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Speaker 3: Take it Away Tonight, twenty eight years later. First off,
Speaker 3: the original movie twenty eight days Later came out in
Speaker 3: two thousand and two. And I know math is hard,
Speaker 3: but this is twenty twenty five, so that's twenty three
Speaker 3: years later. Screw you for that, filmmakers. Oh the movie
Speaker 3: is set twenty eight years later. Whatever. Here's some of
Speaker 3: the trailer.
Speaker 2: Episode many dead, infected, non infected, and like, that's why
Speaker 2: Alphole is so precious. You know, I feel he's a
Speaker 2: bit young.
Speaker 3: He's ready, thinks you never once you walk onto that mainland,
Speaker 3: there's no rescue forming up.
Speaker 1: And down again. You look at.
Speaker 3: What's in frons of you. That's cool, and you got
Speaker 3: a lot of zombies chasing after people. The tons and
Speaker 3: tons of people watch the trailer. It's really good, it's
Speaker 3: really effective, and it uses I believe in old Redyard
Speaker 3: Kipling poem. The movie set twenty eight are Let's get
Speaker 3: caught up. Let's Get Everything Straight twenty eight days later
Speaker 3: was the first one, and it wasn't technically a zombie
Speaker 3: movie because it was about a rage virus that spread
Speaker 3: quickly among humans and made them act just like zombies.
Speaker 3: You don't have to listen to everything filmmakers tell you
Speaker 3: about their stuff. It's a zombie movie if you remember
Speaker 3: that movie with Killian Murphy, who was one of the
Speaker 3: first ones that depicted zombies running like bats out of hell,
Speaker 3: like Zack Snyder's Down of the Dead remake two years later,
Speaker 3: and now the Fungus zombies and the Last of Us
Speaker 3: on HBO.
Speaker 2: Sorry Max. These aren't the.
Speaker 3: Old, drunk looking George Romero zombies that shuffle around and
Speaker 3: move almost as slow as a slee stax from land
Speaker 3: to the loss. These guys run really fast. They run
Speaker 3: like they're being chased by ice agents and a strawberry
Speaker 3: field twenty eight weeks later came out in two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven and scarred the Scottish actor Robert Carlyle, although
Speaker 3: it was focused more on his kids in that movie,
Speaker 3: watchable not as good as the first one. This new one,
Speaker 3: twenty eight years later is from the same team director
Speaker 3: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, the writer of the first one,
Speaker 3: which is enough of a pedigree to get my ass
Speaker 3: into a theater and not wait for it to show
Speaker 3: up on TV. Danny Boyle directed Train Spotting, slum Dog, Millionaire, Sunshine,
Speaker 3: lots of others. The real draw for me is Garland,
Speaker 3: who gave a civil war last year as a director
Speaker 3: and writer ex kind of Annihilation, Men and a great
Speaker 3: mini series called Devs Haven't Seen Warfare Yet, which he
Speaker 3: also did, but that's on my list. These guys cranked
Speaker 3: out something worthwhile here. Lots of tension, filled with imagery
Speaker 3: that's beautiful and disturbing at the same time, and also
Speaker 3: not just more of the same old, same old after
Speaker 3: decades of zombie trash, and still kind of has a
Speaker 3: punk rock feel to the action. It's jarring, the cutting's frenetic.
Speaker 3: It'll wake you right up if say you see it
Speaker 3: after work, very late at night in a nearly empty
Speaker 3: theater during the week. Here's the setup. All this time,
Speaker 3: after the rage virus and the berserk zombies, there's a
Speaker 3: community of survivors who live on an island that's only
Speaker 3: connected to the zombie infested mainland. By a causeway. And
Speaker 3: if you don't know what a causeway is, it's a
Speaker 3: little road or a trail that you can use when
Speaker 3: the tide's low and it's underwater. When the tides up.
Speaker 3: Causeways are scary. They're a great gimmick. Now, let's pause
Speaker 3: for a new feature cause Mark's definitive list of the
Speaker 3: all time greatest causeway horror films The Woman in Black,
Speaker 3: the twenty twelve version, and the nineteen eighty nine version.
Speaker 3: If you're a fan of causeways, these are movies for you.
Speaker 3: If you've got a causeway, when it's high tide, you
Speaker 3: either can't get to someplace or you can't escape someplace.
Speaker 2: Got that.
Speaker 3: Why hasn't Blumhouse made a movie called Causeway yet? Honestly,
Speaker 3: they've done more with less. And that was Mark's definitive
Speaker 3: list of the all time greatest causeway horror movies. Cause Okay, No,
Speaker 3: back to what we were talking about. Aaron Taylor Johnson,
Speaker 3: who was not banished to the island because of Craven
Speaker 3: the Hunter, is the dead of a little boy along
Speaker 3: with Jody Comer, who is very sick with something we'll
Speaker 3: find out later in the movie what it is. As
Speaker 3: a kind of rite of initiation. ATJ takes this boy
Speaker 3: crossed the causeway to the mainland, which is under strict quarantine,
Speaker 3: to hunt some zombies. This is not a recommended father
Speaker 3: son activity. Play catch get the porn sharing app or
Speaker 3: shaming app that Mike Johnson and his son share, not
Speaker 3: zombie outings though. That's even worse than that mumblety peg game.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 3: You remember your grandparents played with knives because they didn't
Speaker 3: have toys during the Great Depression. I'm sorry, son, we
Speaker 3: couldn't afford a PS five for your birthday, so instead
Speaker 3: we're gonna get chased around by berserk carnivorous zombies while
Speaker 3: we're armed only with bows and arrows. Sound like fun.
Speaker 3: That's not all the movie, And yes, ATJ playing a
Speaker 3: crappy father does play a role in the story. Hey son, next,
Speaker 3: I thought we'd go swimming in the ocean at an
Speaker 3: La Beach. Don't worry about all this sewage. You want
Speaker 3: to build up a strong immune system. You see rape
Speaker 3: finds in the trailer, and he plays a very strange
Speaker 3: survivor on the mainland, and he's only really in a
Speaker 3: portion of the movie. It's not a cameo, but sort
Speaker 3: of like in twenty eight Weeks, the kids really the focus,
Speaker 3: and believe it or not, that doesn't ruin the movie.
Speaker 3: We also get new alpha zombies in this which are bigger, smarter,
Speaker 3: harder to kill, and fairly well endowed. Lots of the
Speaker 3: zombies are naked, so yes, you will be treated to
Speaker 3: some zombie dong in the film, and or the movie
Speaker 3: almost tips into un like that, the movie almost that's
Speaker 3: got to be a first tips into comedy with what
Speaker 3: this alpha male can do to people that it catches. Now,
Speaker 3: without spoiling anything, all I'm going to tell you it's
Speaker 3: like the most hilariously brutal move from one of the
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat video games.
Speaker 2: Now you got to see it in the theater.
Speaker 3: This is a really British movie and you can find
Speaker 3: some echoes of Brexit in how the UK's quarantined, while
Speaker 3: Europe seems to have dealt with the zombie problem and
Speaker 3: starting with Knight of the Living Dead in nineteen sixty eight,
Speaker 3: most of the good zombie movies were vehicles for social commentary,
Speaker 3: some better than others. Now here's some BS. A couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago, I got a Google alert referencing a
Speaker 3: review I did of twenty eight weeks Later back in
Speaker 3: two thousand and seven, because now it's a hit again
Speaker 3: on streaming. It's an article from Slash Film which reads
Speaker 3: like it was written by an AI a lot of
Speaker 3: clickbait blather to say twenty eight weeks Later is doing
Speaker 3: well on Hulu, and it quotes critics from the New
Speaker 3: York Times and Chicago Tribune wetting themselves over how great
Speaker 3: they thought twenty eight weeks Later was. But then quote
Speaker 3: Mark Ronner of the Seattle Times wasn't in agreement. However,
Speaker 3: the writer evidently found the movie's social commentary to be
Speaker 3: as subtle as well at George Romarrow movie.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing, I was right at this point.
Speaker 3: Nobody regards twenty eight Weeks Later as anywhere close to
Speaker 3: the original. The original filmmakers had nothing to do with
Speaker 3: that middle movie. I didn't go along with the pack
Speaker 3: at the time. And what this Slash film writer or
Speaker 3: AI meant to say was what clear insight Mark had then,
Speaker 3: when the bigger fish were acting like toddlers with a
Speaker 3: shiny object that said twenty eight years Later is a
Speaker 3: much better movie. Over and above all, the zombie Dong,
Speaker 3: You Get to See So Far, Sinners and Bring Her
Speaker 3: Back are the best horror films this year. This one
Speaker 3: belongs on that list, along with that Jim Jordan Ohio
Speaker 3: State wrestling documentary. It could be the first of a
Speaker 3: new trilogy if it does well. Sign me the hell
Speaker 3: up for this. Some trivia.
Speaker 2: This movie was on an iPhone or iPhones plural.
Speaker 3: Granted there are iPhones of all sorts of extra gear
Speaker 3: that you and I probably couldn't afford, but still phones,
Speaker 3: and it looks really good. I hate the way most
Speaker 3: digital movies look. I finally caught David Cronenberg's The Shrouds,
Speaker 3: and the digital photography, to me made it feel not
Speaker 3: like a real Cronenberg movie at all, just looked terrible
Speaker 3: and look at all this time later, most people can
Speaker 3: pronounce Killian Murphy's name. Twenty eight years later, Carlisle went
Speaker 3: on to be a Bond villain. Idris Elba became a
Speaker 3: huge star. He was in the Middle One. Imagen poots
Speaker 3: from the Middle One still has the best name in
Speaker 3: show business. That kind of sounds like farting but is
Speaker 3: completely unrelated. Jeremy Renner went on to nearly get disemboweled,
Speaker 3: not by zombies but by his own snowplow. Life comes
Speaker 3: at you fast like a snowplow. Mo. Tim Conway Junior
Speaker 3: is going to have half an issue with you, just
Speaker 3: half an issue, how so because you left out the
Speaker 3: d You know, I thought about that while it was
Speaker 3: ding this, the mobingos point of that activit, and I thought,
Speaker 3: just let it go, bark.
Speaker 2: I don't need to pick a fight with anybody I
Speaker 2: worked with. Yeah, no, no ding dongs, just just half
Speaker 2: of it.
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