Friday, May 15, 2009

28 Weeks Later

I really like what they've done with the camera work. In the non-frantic scenes, the shots are relatively stable, and long. However, in the scenes when the infected are attacking, the shots are very jerky. However, in contrast to the general bad sci-fi/horror movies that usually show on the SciFi Channel, the subjects/main characters are still in the center of the shot for most of it, so you actually have a good idea of what's supposed to be happening, and it still manages to visually convey the franticness of the situation.

Also, this movie has Robert Carlyle in it. He's one of the leads in the new Stargate series, Stargate Universe, which is coming out sometime this year. Apparently he's all famous and stuff, but yet I've still got little to no idea who he is, other than what he looks like. He was also in that 24: Redemption thing earlier.

Also, across the way, one of the apartments' porch lights is flickering. I can see it out of the corner of my eye as I'm watching this movie, and its rather annoying... Granted, I could go and shut the blinds if I really wanted to, but, as you all know already, I'm too damn lazy.

Also, the music in this movie series is always pretty good. Fits the mood rather well. Ratehr repeditive, but suits the frantic, intense mood...

Also, they keep using night vision and sniper scopes and stuff to see stuff. Thie issue with that is that they've got the crosshairs right on whoever they're looking at. And you gotta figure that they probably don't have the safety on, due to the rather high possibilitiy of meeting the infected.

Be interesting to see if they do another sequel. Wikipedia says "28 Months Later" might eventually come to pass, but who knows... I wonder what they'd do with the plot, considering the final scene of this movie has the Rage Virus going worldwide... Or at least to France...

3 comments:

Su said...

who needs the French? thought they do make good ridiculously accented villians...

Dan said...

and bread

Su said...

I make bread...