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^ i know EXACTLY what you mean! CHILDREN OF MEN does the 'shaky' thing, but Cauron does it with enough sense of "can people still see what's going on?" that it doesn't cloud the action.
28 Weeks Later did the opposite... and it's lazy filmmaking.
Another really bad thing about this film is its use of the "let's brutalize the woman so it'll create a complete sense of how horrific the virus is".
Now, admittedly, 28 DAYS LATER didn't really give you a sense of the brutality the narrative in the beginning tried to convey. They tell us it's the culmination of all of man's anger and mean thoughts and, aside from teeth gnashing and the obvious 'eating human flesh' thing, that only amounted to "insatiable hunger" and not "brutality".
So, 28 WEEKS LATER shows us this brutality in earnest... but the use of the mother to show us? was that really necessary? they had other instances of showing that brutality, even in the first scene.
Now, part of me thinks that this would have been okay if EVERY ACTION, HORROR, MYSTERY film EVER didn't follow this same trend. Brutalize the woman and that's our cue: O NOES!1! Now, I'm riveted.
Basically, aside from some cool moments (the aforementioned NIGHT GOGGLE scene), this movie suffered from the same sophomore slump that most sequels to 'surprise hits' suffer: let's make it bigger to hide that it's not better.
save your $10 and rent it on Netflix on a dark, stormy night -- turn off your lights, and use the $10 to buy some booze.
PS. was I the only one who throughout the movie kept wanting the bro - sis combo to bite it? i mean, i kept thinking - bitches, it's YOUR FAULT all this shit happened!!! i hat ethat there's no sense of 'romantic comeuppance' in these movies -- where people who deserve to bite it, DESERVES to bite it.
PPS. (under the cut)
28 Weeks Later did the opposite... and it's lazy filmmaking.
Another really bad thing about this film is its use of the "let's brutalize the woman so it'll create a complete sense of how horrific the virus is".
Now, admittedly, 28 DAYS LATER didn't really give you a sense of the brutality the narrative in the beginning tried to convey. They tell us it's the culmination of all of man's anger and mean thoughts and, aside from teeth gnashing and the obvious 'eating human flesh' thing, that only amounted to "insatiable hunger" and not "brutality".
So, 28 WEEKS LATER shows us this brutality in earnest... but the use of the mother to show us? was that really necessary? they had other instances of showing that brutality, even in the first scene.
Now, part of me thinks that this would have been okay if EVERY ACTION, HORROR, MYSTERY film EVER didn't follow this same trend. Brutalize the woman and that's our cue: O NOES!1! Now, I'm riveted.
Basically, aside from some cool moments (the aforementioned NIGHT GOGGLE scene), this movie suffered from the same sophomore slump that most sequels to 'surprise hits' suffer: let's make it bigger to hide that it's not better.
save your $10 and rent it on Netflix on a dark, stormy night -- turn off your lights, and use the $10 to buy some booze.
PS. was I the only one who throughout the movie kept wanting the bro - sis combo to bite it? i mean, i kept thinking - bitches, it's YOUR FAULT all this shit happened!!! i hat ethat there's no sense of 'romantic comeuppance' in these movies -- where people who deserve to bite it, DESERVES to bite it.
PPS. (under the cut)
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