8 Things I learned from 28 Days Later
Its a movie that rocked when it came out, and a sequel that didn't rock so much but it was still a great movie for its time and it thought me eight things!
8. A London taxi is the best transport post RAGE apocalypse
Think about it, you're alive in Britain and as far as your concerned the world has ended after a RAGE virus pretty much turns everybody into crazy infected monsters that will attack and pounce on you and the best vehicle you can think of to drive from London to Manchester is a fucking black London taxi, it fits in well but c'mon, you get all of London to yourself and any car you want and they pick a black taxi!
7. Camping in the open with roaming infected is completely safe
So as we pretty much saw from the start of the movie when Jim lit a candle it caused three infected to literally burst into his house and pin him to the ground and try and kill him and took two others to finish off those infected, not long later on the trip to Manchester the four survivors set up camp in the middle of the countryside outdoors, why weren't they jumped by hordes of or even a handful of infected?
6. HELLO is more sufficient then HELP or SOS
Near the end of the movie we are introduced to the fact that the infected are slowly dying out and the now three survivors are residing in a cottage somewhere in England, anyway after knitting loads of fabric together they spell out HELLO in block capitals and lay it across a field, each letter is massive and looks like it took ages to fix together, they signal to fighter jets which comes across the valley and calls for a helicopter to come out and rescue them.
Here's the thing, you'd look pretty distressed to spend enough time spelling that out instead of HELP or SOS, and personally if I was that Finnish fighter pilot they'd be the last people I'd rescue.
5. Pepsi is the post apocalyptic drink
Wake up in a hospital with nobody there whatsoever, why not have a drink of Pepsi to refresh yourself, your immune shutting down from having no proper food in 28 days?
Why not have some more Pepsi instead of Lilt!
The movie briefly entered a period where we forgot about the murderous infected for a few minutes and were reminded of drinks like Pepsi, Tango and Lilt oh and Terries Chocolate Orange (that one bit of dialogue was cringe worthy).
4. 15-Year-Old Girls show no emotion
Apart from being happy sometimes the British girl Hannah in 28 Days Later never seemed to show any emotion, especially just before a mother figure to her was about to be raped, obviously the script writers were afraid of the character showing any emotion in that scene so gave her some pills to make her have NO EMOTIONS WHATSOEVER for the main shootout scene at the end of the film.
3. PETA will lead us to the apocalypse
Yes a little incident involving PETA resulted in the deaths of over 60,000,000 British people, at the start of the movie the animal rights activists break into a Cambridge facility holding RAGE infected chimps and end up freeing them starting off the deadly virus, believe it or not this I thought was a rather amusing way to blame somebody apart from some crazy German scientist or the French.
2. When Britain falls so will all media communications world wide
That's the most baffling thing about the entire movie, the fact that it was only the UK that had fallen pray to the virus even though we were told at the start infection had spread to Paris and New York (fans claim it was a diversion of some sort), so the British army unit in the movie obviously have no proper radio or TV to find whether or not everybody is alive ignoring the fact across the channel people are watching The Simpsons, it was a stretch that went way too far to ignore.
1.British soldiers will ruin your day and steal your woman
Yes the army unit in the movie nearly pretty much ended everything for the protagonists in the movie, first they are shown to be arrogant and killing infected gets them horny, when one Scottish guy attempts to do the right thing it results in him and Jim about to be shot in the woods (Irish and Scottish!), anyway Jim escapes the rest attempt to rape the two women since they needed to repopulate Britain to continue being arrogant pricks (that's the best explanation I can come up with).
8. A London taxi is the best transport post RAGE apocalypse
Think about it, you're alive in Britain and as far as your concerned the world has ended after a RAGE virus pretty much turns everybody into crazy infected monsters that will attack and pounce on you and the best vehicle you can think of to drive from London to Manchester is a fucking black London taxi, it fits in well but c'mon, you get all of London to yourself and any car you want and they pick a black taxi!
7. Camping in the open with roaming infected is completely safe
So as we pretty much saw from the start of the movie when Jim lit a candle it caused three infected to literally burst into his house and pin him to the ground and try and kill him and took two others to finish off those infected, not long later on the trip to Manchester the four survivors set up camp in the middle of the countryside outdoors, why weren't they jumped by hordes of or even a handful of infected?
6. HELLO is more sufficient then HELP or SOS
Near the end of the movie we are introduced to the fact that the infected are slowly dying out and the now three survivors are residing in a cottage somewhere in England, anyway after knitting loads of fabric together they spell out HELLO in block capitals and lay it across a field, each letter is massive and looks like it took ages to fix together, they signal to fighter jets which comes across the valley and calls for a helicopter to come out and rescue them.
Here's the thing, you'd look pretty distressed to spend enough time spelling that out instead of HELP or SOS, and personally if I was that Finnish fighter pilot they'd be the last people I'd rescue.
5. Pepsi is the post apocalyptic drink
Wake up in a hospital with nobody there whatsoever, why not have a drink of Pepsi to refresh yourself, your immune shutting down from having no proper food in 28 days?
Why not have some more Pepsi instead of Lilt!
The movie briefly entered a period where we forgot about the murderous infected for a few minutes and were reminded of drinks like Pepsi, Tango and Lilt oh and Terries Chocolate Orange (that one bit of dialogue was cringe worthy).
4. 15-Year-Old Girls show no emotion
Apart from being happy sometimes the British girl Hannah in 28 Days Later never seemed to show any emotion, especially just before a mother figure to her was about to be raped, obviously the script writers were afraid of the character showing any emotion in that scene so gave her some pills to make her have NO EMOTIONS WHATSOEVER for the main shootout scene at the end of the film.
3. PETA will lead us to the apocalypse
Yes a little incident involving PETA resulted in the deaths of over 60,000,000 British people, at the start of the movie the animal rights activists break into a Cambridge facility holding RAGE infected chimps and end up freeing them starting off the deadly virus, believe it or not this I thought was a rather amusing way to blame somebody apart from some crazy German scientist or the French.
2. When Britain falls so will all media communications world wide
That's the most baffling thing about the entire movie, the fact that it was only the UK that had fallen pray to the virus even though we were told at the start infection had spread to Paris and New York (fans claim it was a diversion of some sort), so the British army unit in the movie obviously have no proper radio or TV to find whether or not everybody is alive ignoring the fact across the channel people are watching The Simpsons, it was a stretch that went way too far to ignore.
1.British soldiers will ruin your day and steal your woman
Yes the army unit in the movie nearly pretty much ended everything for the protagonists in the movie, first they are shown to be arrogant and killing infected gets them horny, when one Scottish guy attempts to do the right thing it results in him and Jim about to be shot in the woods (Irish and Scottish!), anyway Jim escapes the rest attempt to rape the two women since they needed to repopulate Britain to continue being arrogant pricks (that's the best explanation I can come up with).
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