The eye For me it works brilliantly

The eye

For me it works brilliantly. I love that they dont show me corpses, cos I dont want to know what has happened yet, they are reeling me in slowly. Something has happened, what is it, where is everyone, is that car just abandoned, why would somone just leave their car?! I share in Jims confusion. Sure I know that something happened in the lab, I have a little heads-up, but I dont know exactly what is going on. If the streets are littered with corpses, then its answering all the questions in advance, it would be like somone in the queue to the cinema saying its a virus thing, and it makes people kill other people and infect them, and in the end the Selena and Jim and the kid make it out cos it never spread beyond mainland UK!. Sure, it tells me what happens, there isnt much to nitpick, but its not much fucking fun either. Ftr, the streets are empty because people fled the city. The dead are lying in huge waist deep carpets of corpses at the channel tunnel, the ports, Londons airports etc. Machete-fodder-guy painted us this picture and it works for me. As London emptied, the eye chi-chi poodles of Knightsbridge would go feral and begin to roam the streets, dragging away any eventual corpses and tearing them to shreds in alleys and doorways. For me, the degree to which I can suspend belief depends on the movies premise. For that reason Star Wars was not the least bit of a problem. It was a long time ago in a galaxy far away. How should I know what could be possible in that setting? Im willing to give a lot of freedom to the movie in that case. This movie was set in a time I know and it wasnt advertised as a zombie flick. It is a what if flick. That means the eye enters the picture. IIRC, Omega Man was a very similar movie. A key difference was that radiation caused the zombies instead of a virus. They still stayed out of sunlight and attacked at night. The protagonist went out by day to gather supplies and look for survivors. He created a fortress with bright lights around it to keep the zombies at bay. The whole thing seemed much more plausible. Its not that every detail in a movie needs to be perfectly logical. Its that the movie has to be largely true to what we would reasonably believe should happen. Im reminded of the effect that a penny had on the Christopher Reeve character in that time travel movie sorry, cant think of the name right now. When he saw that it was out of place in time it broke the spell. The same thing happens to me when I see one of those 555 phone numbers in a movie. All of a the eye you remember your just watching a movie. Many of the flaws that Wierd Al mentioned had the same affect on me. Id liked to have lost myself in the movie but couldnt. Im sure they all have their own flaws but the flaws dont kill the movie. Im sure they all have their own flaws but the flaws dont kill the movie. whats your beef with 28 Days Later? All anybodys doing is picking apart the flaws. If the flaws dont ruin the movie, whats wrong with it? It had mood, a good story, and was great the minor details arent capable of destroying the enjoyment of the film, why did they ruin this one? Sending all the wrong mental images to all the right minds. Jack, I see the problem. The problem isnt with the film, it is with classifications and preconceptions. You went expecting a what-if movie, I went expecting a horror movie. When asked to name horror/splatter movies you enjoyed you talk about scary movies some great choices there, btw that I would never classify has horror/splatter despite the fact that some of them are indeed horrifying and some of them have a lot of splattering going on in them. 28 days later surpassed entirely the expectations I had of it. I understand that it didnt live up to the expectations you had, but I dont think that makes it a terrible film. Iteki, I think you have it right. I was expecting something different than a slasher movie. I had the impression it would be a bit more heady.