tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post2923243524736617539..comments2024-03-28T13:45:39.854-04:00Comments on Final Girl: Day 5- "No one ever comes back."Stacie Ponderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07784074536271206501noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-11171664042876913852007-10-08T15:09:00.000-04:002007-10-08T15:09:00.000-04:00Arbogast, are you assembling a 31 Willies list?Yes...<I>Arbogast, are you assembling a 31 Willies list?</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, melissa... yes, I am.Arbogasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670776992289080245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-15028309562471953272007-10-08T01:12:00.000-04:002007-10-08T01:12:00.000-04:00I was referring to the film version of TRIFFIDS......I was referring to the film version of TRIFFIDS... but now that you mention it, there's another parallel in the book to 28 DAYS (in both, the pair cross London to investigate a beacon flashing from the top of a tall building).<BR/><BR/>Not disagreeing that TRIFFIDS couldn't use improvement (although the BBC miniseries was a fairly nice adaptation), just that the '62 movie must have made quite the impression on the scripter in his youth.Craig Blamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700447209134787468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-74801818731433519302007-10-07T16:26:00.000-04:002007-10-07T16:26:00.000-04:00Day of the Triffids?!! Am I ever going to catch u...Day of the Triffids?!! Am I ever going to catch up?! And you've read the book, no less. I call time out. Arbogast, are you assembling a 31 Willies list?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07457791751387092373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-58918536638836468932007-10-07T13:38:00.000-04:002007-10-07T13:38:00.000-04:00Love the movie, but it's also hard to get over how...<I>Love the movie, but it's also hard to get over how much it was riffing on Day of the Triffids in the first act.</I><BR/><BR/>The book or the movie? Because if you mean the movie, then there is a <I>lot</I> of room for improvement and I think Boyle et al improve on the meager gains of Steve Sekely's adaptation in many ways. <BR/><BR/>I'd say one of the interesting things Boyle does with his Romero influences is to use them against the viewer familiar with Romero's "Dead" trilogy, playing against expectations to jack up the suspense. Case in point: the scene in the second act where the gang is fueling up the taxi... you expect something nasty to happen and it doesn't and even while watching this scene again and again I find myself getting anxious for a grim payoff that (happily, in this case) never comes.Arbogasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12670776992289080245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-50338206218213281562007-10-07T07:03:00.000-04:002007-10-07T07:03:00.000-04:00I think almost everyone I've spoken to about this ...I think almost everyone I've spoken to about this movie disliked the last third. There's am alternative ending on the UK DVD but i've yet to see it - has anyone else?Callide Faberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03680582682477897715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-83032007340590618842007-10-06T18:46:00.000-04:002007-10-06T18:46:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Remedial Gashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01401817140367979606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-53631216598042834352007-10-06T18:41:00.000-04:002007-10-06T18:41:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Remedial Gashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01401817140367979606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-91274520478851936322007-10-06T04:02:00.000-04:002007-10-06T04:02:00.000-04:00Didn't Cillian have a hospital gown on? It's been ...Didn't Cillian have a hospital gown on? It's been a long time since I've seen it so I can't remember but I don't really see why the hospital staff would bother putting underwear on a coma patient.<BR/><BR/>I'm fairly sure they're starving to death at the end of the film. They're only compulsion is to attack people to pass on the virus. No room for eating or anything else with that mission on your mind.<BR/><BR/>The only argument I've heard for considering them zombies is that the infected really are no longer themselves, they are no longer quite human. They do not have any of the other traces of zombification but they do fit the "no longer in control of oneself" portion. There is no conscious mind inside that body.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-67121684028157922652007-10-06T01:30:00.000-04:002007-10-06T01:30:00.000-04:00I know everyone considers this a zombie movie. As ...I know everyone considers this a zombie movie. As funny as it may be, I have never thought of it as a zombie movie. Since when do zombies starve to death? The people in the film are effected with a virus. Ok, we can say that goes with some zombie movies out there. But I never thought of them as turrning into the living dead. They were always just insane people to me.<BR/><BR/>I could be way off base but I'm pretty sure we are told that the people infected with the virus are starving to death. At least that was the impression I got when I watched this movie.Heather Santroushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03225708725622936749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-39042911191906875472007-10-05T23:56:00.000-04:002007-10-05T23:56:00.000-04:00Two theories re: nekkid Jim.1. He just came out of...Two theories re: nekkid Jim.<BR/><BR/>1. He just came out of emergency surgery when those caring for him dashed off to the intake area to greet an ambulance full o' new trauma (that is to say... INFECTION!! BWAR HAR HAR!!!). They cut his clothes off him when he arrived at the hospital, sent him right straight in for his trepanning (hence that nifty scar on his noggin), and didn't have time to dress him before they had to RUN AWAY!!! Nice of 'em to leave the key, though. (As for the IV-refill debate, I like to imagine-- with a bit of a wink-- that Jim was a huge, hulking, strapping bruiser of a guy when they brought him in-- and now, these long, food-free days later, Cillian Murphy is all that's left. Not that it's a bad "left," mind.)<BR/><BR/>2. Danny Boyle has just the tiniest of tiny gay crushes on Cillian. (Watch, too, how lovingly he stages the rasslin' matches in "Sunshine" between Mr. Murphy and Chris Evans. [Then, if you're feeling especially energetic, blink in dismay, delight, shock, outrage, or any combination of the four at how the slash community has picked up on the Mace/Capa "dynamic."]) I don't know if Mr. Boyle is gay; frankly, I don't think it matters one way or the other. But I think there's a little crushing going on there....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-6825450318501516302007-10-05T17:06:00.000-04:002007-10-05T17:06:00.000-04:00Re: Jim waking up nekkid...... it's best not to gi...Re: Jim waking up nekkid...<BR/><BR/>... it's best not to give that too much thought. Because after that comes the wondering about how he spent so long a time unmolested in his hospital bed as the city went to hell, how he went near a month without an IV refill, and how he manages to wander about a rager-packed London all day before he <I>finally</I> encounters some just before nightfall.<BR/><BR/>Love the movie, but it's also hard to get over how much it was riffing on <I>Day of the Triffids</I> in the first act.Craig Blamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700447209134787468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-85447517049293988652007-10-05T16:56:00.000-04:002007-10-05T16:56:00.000-04:00That band should totally happen.The scariest part ...That band should totally happen.<BR/><BR/>The scariest part of the movie for me is when Jim wakes up to find himself alone, his friends have simply left him in the middle of nowhere. But it's just a nightmare, and he wakes up and they're still there. I loved how they tapped into that anxiety of what one would do if our whole network of friends and family were to simply disappear (like it can happen in a war) and you truly had to rely on no one but yourself for once in your life. Especially considering that it's a mad world out there, full of zombies that don't care about you. To me this movie is about the war.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679839426291667211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-5003181065643271372007-10-05T16:40:00.000-04:002007-10-05T16:40:00.000-04:00The Romero Shufflers:"When there's no more room in...The Romero Shufflers:<BR/><BR/>"When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will ROCK the Earth!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-21421101826899294992007-10-05T15:31:00.000-04:002007-10-05T15:31:00.000-04:00Don't forget the ending where they're rescued by t...Don't forget the ending where they're rescued by the heroic Finns. The Finns don't get much love.<BR/><BR/>I'm in on keyboards for the Romero Shufflers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599870.post-33190637297280912832007-10-05T14:57:00.000-04:002007-10-05T14:57:00.000-04:00Cillian Murphy totally hung one out there!!!Did th...Cillian Murphy totally hung one out there!!!<BR/><BR/>Did the doctors try to come up with a reason as why to strip him?<BR/><BR/>"Hey, he's in a coma, you never know what might happen. Just take all his clothes off & put sheets on the bed, but don't actually cover his batch. You never know."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com