28 years later - for discussing once you have seen the film - CONTAINS SPOILERS***

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I thought I’d start a separate thread so we can discuss the film.

So what do people make of the ending with Jimmy? I know lots of people found it really jarring but I personally loved it. It was a LOL
moment for me. I saw one poster on Reddit saying that the colourful tracksuits were a reference to the Teletubbies clip, which I thought was interesting.

I enjoyed the the first half. Down hill from there.

While driving home i thought - hang on - if the rest of the world is ok enough to have the internet still and Amazon delivery drivers, why the fuck has no one air lifted medicine and everyday things needed onto the island OR, better still gradually airlifted the non-infected off it to a place of normality and safety ? 🧐

Honestly i think the jimmy saville stuff is in poor taste. I don't think, generally speaking, folks are quite there yet.

I’m also not sure he would have been considered a national treasure by the tracksuit gangs age group. Just odd

Yes it was odd but that was apparently the meaning behind it. To show how history had been rewritten. I’m sure they could have chosen a better example though

I’m wondering if the Jimmy Saville link will continue into the next film…little Jimmy lived in the Scottish highlands…how creepy would it be if he ran away and bumped into Jimmy Saville…who lived in Glen Coe (on the Scottish highlands!). I feel like Danny Boyle is mad enough to do a whole alternative reality film based around Jimmy Saville!

I absolutely loved it. As someone who lives in Northumberland I thought the accents were pretty good( Jodie Comers was excellent, Aaron Taylor-Johnson not so much). We did have a giggle when they walked from Holy Island to Sycamore gap to The Angel of the North in an afternoon though ! On the subject of Sycamore gap, Danny Boyle states he deliberately added the tree( although it had actually been felled the year before) as a way to show how the UK would look if time had stood still after the virus outbreak.

As a previous poster states, I absolutely think the infected pregnant lady was in a relationship with the alpha and was made pregnant after infection. The infected must be able to biologically reproduce or they would have died out, and we also see a family group of man, woman and 2 children in the first " feeder" group that Spike kills.

What was with the fat things that crawled across the floor?!

Apparently (just read an article about the actor who played Samson - not Momoa but IS a wrestler. He's 6'8 😳) all the extras playing the infected had to wear false genitals, not least because the actor playing Spike was 12 years old.

Just watched it last night with DH and DC2. I did suspect that it was a lot of (false) willy waving. 😅

I also loved Ralph Fiennes' shamanic character. Although I wondered what would happen when the iodine ran out. 🤔

I thought Isla gripping the pregnant woman's hands as she laboured, was very powerful and moving.

I did think the fast paced music over the Jimmy scene did feel a bit, " Killing is fun, kids.". Felt a bit iff about that.

Oh, and DH and I thought it should have been the Northumberland county flag rather than St. George's. Although maybe not so recognisable.

I'm not sure about the lack of aid, they might throw some stuff off the boats but I assumed that ever since the outbreak as a result of 28weeks later, that no one is willing to take the risk of another outbreak on mainland Europe. Probably just decided to let whatever is there fend for itself.

Saw this last night, and thought it was worth seeing. Very different to the first two, but thought the themes were well explored.

Loved Ralph Fiennes' character and I hope he survives in the next installment.

The JS ending was definitely a WTF moment for me, and I wonder what will happen to Spike when he joins them.

Just speculating on this one. Baby Isla is not infected, but will be a carrier, so introducing her to the community may be the start of an outbreak storyline.

I really enjoyed it, but yes I did wonder if Samson, the alpha, is Isla's father and he might be on a quest to get her back. I don't know if how smart or cognitively developed they are going to make them out to be. Mind he did lift up the dead mothers body and look angry?

I loved the bonkers ending, so surreal and unexpected! I'd actually forgotten about Jimmy, but guessing he'll turn out to be a norighter, it'll be interesting to see how that affects island life.

I did wonder about the lack of airdrops. I mean, I guess that the rest of europe cant afford to keep that up unless they know for sure there are survivors out there to use the supplies. It struck me that the coastguard ships were there to prevent any infection getting to mainland europe, which I'm guessing they nuked Paris and some of france to wipe it out. Cant wait for the next instalment!

I thought it was absolute dogshite from start to finish.
I came very close to leaving the cinema.
It was a complete piss take to see what they thought they could get away with imo.

I thought it was the best one yet. Loved it.

I loved the first one but yes for me it was a close second, absolutely brilliant.

The Jimmy Saville bit was a total wtf moment but I loved it! Was not expecting that at all.

Loved that the Shell garage had lost its ‘s’ and just said ‘hell’.

Also thought that Samson was Jason Momoa (thanks for the lawnmower joke upthread!) and couldn’t get over the size of his tackle. Now, I didn’t go googling after Jason Momoa’s tackle but wanted to see how many others thought that the guy playing Samson - Chi Lewis Parry - looked like Momoa. That’s how I found out that Samson had fake parts, as did all of the zoombies.

I really hate zombie films; I only really watched this as a continuation of the others and because it had such a great cast. Jodie Comer was amazing as always and I loved Ralph. So when I saw the Jimmy bit at the end I laughed and was instantly ‘in’ for the sequels. Cant wait! Roll on, January!

I really hate zombie films

A good job that there's no zombies at all in any of them! 😆

If it gets reanimated like a zombie, moves like a zombie and eats intestines like a zombie, then it’s a zombie!

Having said that, I believe it was Danny Boyle - or Alex Garland - who created the zoombie.

Didn't get the Jimmy Saville references despite being the right age. Doh!

Except they are not undead, they are living and infected with rage.

Danny Boyle himself said that he did not intend 28 days ro be a zombie film.

Yes, I know I'm being a picky so and so, but it explains why you don't hate the 28 days, weeks, years film. 😁

’Yes, I know I'm being a picky so and so, but it explains why you don't hate the 28 days, weeks, years film.’

Well, yeah, but no. Because I still find/found the NotZombie bits incredibly boring. All of that dull running about mindlessly snarling and eating people and other people shooting them makes me glaze over. I enjoyed the drama aspects and loved the Jimmy Saville meets Teletubbies in Tarantino stylee bits most. That and the stuff with Ralph. I do reckon he’ll turn out to be a wrong ‘un in the next one. Ralph that is. We already know Jimmy will be a wrong ‘un.

You have to bear in mind that in the 28 years later lore that Jimmy Saville was never found guilty and nothing ever came out about him- they also don’t have any tv/videos that are post 2002, so everything is stuck as if it’s that time and before.

Even if the Village of the Damned kids think he’s a god they do bad shit in his name - as evidenced from the bloke hanging up with ‘Jimmy’ carved on him. And then there was Jimmy’s name on a bit of graffiti on the side of a house/shack. Although that didn’t indicate much.

I hated it so, so much.

Big fan of Days and Weeks. Massive fan of the dystopian undead genre but this left me cold, and angry that I’d wasted my time.

Jodie Comer’s character was so sick she couldn’t leave bed, yet was fine to trek to the mainland and kill Infected with her bare hands? Was nobody suspicious of the “doctor” with the giant mound of skulls telling vulnerable people “oh, I can’t do any tests but you totally have cancer and why don’t I euthanize you? Your skull? Oh don’t worry, I’ll look after it”.
And her instinct on being diagnosed was to off herself immediately instead of, you know, helping her child to cope with the news and supporting him to get to safety so he’d have some hope of survival.

Best thing about the Infected is that, no matter how many of them are attacking you, they’ll kindly just approach you one-by-one so they’re pretty easy to pick off.

The Infected have evolved beautifully. Not only do we now have Alphas, but they can open sliding doors on train carriages better than most intercity commuters.
And the gigantic (and fake) penises were just laughable. Why were they so comically large?

I hated it with a passion, and then the Jimmy Gang showed up and I wanted to put my foot through the tv and send Danny Boyle the repair bill.

Awful.