28 weeks later

[Mr. Smash'n Bash]

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Aside from getting tons of people killed without stopping the virus anyway.

What the leading authority on that base did was absolutely abhorent. The government were more the villains in this film than the zombies(or infected or whatever you want to call them).

I'm sorry to shatter you're little bubble of happiness but the way things went down there was no other option. You seem to be forgetting that they tried to kill just the infected at first but weren't successful. These aren't ******o zombies, infected people still think and if you give them a chance to spread they'll take it. Totally sterilizing London, and England for that matter, is the only way to go.

 

[The Dark Defender]

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You also seem to be forgetting that blowing **** up, firing at people that clearly weren't infected, setting someone that also was clearly not infected and was trying to protect people from pricks committing committing acts of mindless and pointless violence just as horrid as that of the infected of not worse, setting off poisonous gas and all their other methods of destruction did not stop spread of the virus. It just got even more people killed.
They ended up being responsible for far, far more death than they prevented.
Sorry to burst your "blowing **** up and brute force is the way" mindset, but it didn't exactly help, in case you completely missed the point of the film.

 

[Red Mask]

I agree with Mr. S&M. The American led NATO forces turned out to be doing the only right thing against this threat. Of course, I wonder what the director was saying about children, since they brought so much death in this film. But as you'll see, once that virus spreads nobody is safe.

Nobody.

So if Britain must be wasted to save the rest of humanity, then so be it. The good doctor tried to use science and reason to acquire a cure. But there is no reasoning with chaos and zombies.

 

[DorkyFresh]

blowing the sector up and gassing it didn't to the job but if those don't work then there's nothing they could've done. either way, i'd rather be sniped, gassed, or blown up than run around as one of the infected.

 

[The Dark Defender]

And once the government resorted to their tactics, people were even less safe; and again

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Their plan didn't even work, at all.
A sacrifice only works if some good actually comes out of it.
There was a potential cure running around out there, not that they would know it, since they were too busy trying to shoot it up, blow it up, set it on fire, and poison it.

 

[Mr. Smash'n Bash]

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You also seem to be forgetting that blowing **** up, firing at people that clearly weren't infected, setting someone that also was clearly not infected and was trying to protect people from pricks committing committing acts of mindless and pointless violence just as horrid as that of the infected of not worse, setting off poisonous gas and all their other methods of destruction did not stop spread of the virus. It just got even more people killed.
They ended up being responsible for far, far more death than they prevented.
Sorry to burst your "blowing **** up and brute force is the way" mindset, but it didn't exactly help, in case you completely missed the point of the film.

I think you missed the part where the soldiers trying to kill the infected and only the infected could no longer pick them out of the crowd. Should the have just stopped shooting, because those people were as good as dead already and there really wasn't a damn thing they could have done about it.

 

[The Dark Defender]

And once the government resorted to their tactics, people were even less safe; and again

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Their plan didn't even work, at all. A sacrifice only works when something good actually comes out of it.
Oh yeah, and there was a potential cure running around out there, but the government wouldn't have known that, since they were too busy trying to shoot it, setl it on fire, poison it, and blow it up.

 

[The Dark Defender]

I think you missed the part where the soldiers trying to kill the infected and only the infected could no longer pick them out of the crowd. Should the have just stopped shooting, because those people were as good as dead already and there really wasn't a damn thing they could have done about it.

I didn't miss it, I also didn't miss the numerous parts where they

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were trying to kill people that OBVIOUSLY were not infected.

 

[Red Mask]

Wrong. It didn't work because

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some well-meaning people thought they were doing the right thing. The people in the house allowed a kid inside, letting their compassion blind them from the incoming hordes of zombies. Don and Alice's kids disobey the rules of staying in the safe zone, to get some family keepsakes. This brings their mother into the safe zone. Robert Carlyle used his security pass to see the wife he abandoned, not knowing she was infected. The good doctor and Doyle were protecting the kids, believing that finding a cure is worth sacrificing their lives. They get killed alright. But the chopper pilot, Flynn , isn't in on what makes the kids so special. And so after saving their troublesome lives the rest of the world is in peril.

So you think killing them all wasn't a good plan? It was the only solution if everybody just followed their orders. Or maybe just abandon Britain all together. But that would never happen.

 

[The Dark Defender]

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Yup, the kids made a stupid mistake that ****ed things up, then the government compounded that stupid mistake by making an even bigger mistake to try and resolve the first mistake, which ****ed things up even worse.

 

[Red Mask]

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Yup, the kids made a stupid mistake that ****ed things up, then the government compounded that stupid mistake by making an even bigger mistake to try and resolve the first mistake, which ****ed things up even worse.

No. Guilt-ridden Don secretly visited his infected wife.

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But it was his son who let him into the basement and spread the infection amongst the civilians. Stupid kids again.

 

[The Dark Defender]

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Yup, which doesn't change the fact that government compounded the stupid mistakes of the civilizans rather than resolving them.

 

[Red Mask]

They're not going to leave it to Red Cross and the W.H.O. (not the band) to handle a mess like that. You can expect the National Guard to be sent to a disaster zone in America.

 

[The Dark Defender]

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and if they resort to these types of mindless brute force tactics, I can also expect them to compound mistakes rather than resolve them and turn a mess into an even bigger mess, as they did in this film.
Combating mindless brutality with more mindless brutality rarely solves problems, it just creatres more of them.

 

[the a1ant]

I just love how this film brings out debate. IMO, if this happened in the real world, I think they'd kill all those people as well, just to contain the virus. It was a disturbing decision, but with a virus that spreads that easily, was there much choice?

Also re: the ending. At first I disliked it, but then when I started to think about it (and that boy) then I realized it was pretty cool.

 

[The Dark Defender]

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They had the choice of not firing at people that were clearly not infected, setting fire to one of their own men trying to save life rather than destroy it, again someone obviously not infected. Throwing more savagery at savagery is not going to contain savagery.
You can certainly say that stupid mistakes were made out of personal interest that led to disaster, but none the less that doesn't even come close to justifying the stupid mistakes that followed that did nothing that spread the disaster in a mindlessly brutal and off-base attempt to contain it.
I don't doubt that the government would do something along these lines in a situation of this sort in real life, but that doesn't at all make it right.

 

[the a1ant]

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True, it doesn't make it right. They did first try to only shoot the infected, but then things were getting so out of control, they just started shooting everything in sight (I think ). I honestly don't know how I would handle the situation if I were in charge.

 

[Mr. Smash'n Bash]

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They had the choice of not firing at people that were clearly not infected, setting fire to one of their own men trying to save life rather than destroy it, again someone obviously not infected. Throwing more savagery at savagery is not going to contain savagery.
You can certainly say that stupid mistakes were made out of personal interest that led to disaster, but none the less that doesn't even come close to justifying the stupid mistakes that followed that did nothing that spread the disaster in a mindlessly brutal and off-base attempt to contain it.
I don't doubt that the government would do something along these lines in a situation of this sort in real life, but that doesn't at all make it right.

The fact of the matter is they weren't spreading it. Britian had less then 50,000 people in it at the start of the movie and thats including military personel. Anyone that could have been infected was in that area during the breakout, seeing as all civilians were contained in sector 1.

 

[Electro_for5]

I seen this movie on friday. From watching the trailers i thought it was going to be good but i wasnt expecting it to be awesome. I still prefer the 1st film because it got more of a claustraphobic feel to it but still this film is a very good sequel. Judging by that last scene in paris were gonna get 28 months later. lets just hope they give it the same feeling as he 1st two movies.

oh one question

what helicoptor scene do you prefer

The original dawn of the dead or 28 weeks later? lol

 

[dpm07]

I'm still trying to figure out if I liked this movie or not. It's good in some parts, but I still think the first one is better. Still, the ending with the French calling for help, and the zombies coming out of the subway and running toward the Eiffel Tower is pretty intense. What I didn't like was that it appears that all the stars of this second film died. However, that does bring a sense of realism to the movie. If one looks at this movie as the second in a trilogy, then it's not bad.

 

[french joker]

eeeehhh hide those ***** spoilers !

 

[Horrorfan]

You know, I'm a brit, but the US troops in this movie did the right thing 100%.

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They tried to play it by the book and only kill the infected, but seriously, you saw what the snipers saw...how the hell could you tell who was and wasn't infected? Because I sure couldn't....what did you want them to do, let the infected all get away? I mean you aren't exactly offering up a soloution...they TRIED not shooting the uninfected, but how well did that work exactly? You cannot contain something like this by not be willing to do what it takes.

Remeber, if the soldiers hadn't tried to save the kids, then france (and possibly most of europe) would have been spared the infection that will probably spread like wildfire.

all the bad things that happen is down to good intentions...and you know what they say the road to hell is paved with. First, the husband just wanted to share a tender kiss with his wife, and then the soldiers, although commendably wanting to save the kids, didn't think about what potentially could go wrong and how if one got infected, there were about a billion ways for them to spread it and not know before it was too late.

Plus, the troop was definitly right about the mother, and they should have killed her....had they done that in the first place, the infection would never, ever have gotten out. She had the virus but was seemingly unaware, and could have passed it on by kissing, drinking from the same glass as someone, etc...her life would have been one of total isolation anyway...

also by the way does anyone else think...

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that maybe the wife infected him on purpose?

 

[Horrorfan]

That's not bad actually.

It's opening within a week of the most expensive film ever, and that new comedy with Lohan and company that I can't remember the name of is PG-13, on more screens, and made less than half of what 28WL did opening day.
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Does anyone know the total budget? I suppose considering it's opened up next to spiderman that it really isn't doing too badly- I just really, really want a third movie. It would kill me not to get one

 

[Charlie No-One]

Two things annoyed me:

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The husband/father had access to the military part of the safe zone. I know he ran the water, heat, etc. but seriously, why would they give him an all access card like that to areas where he clearly had no need to be in?

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The soldiers were leaving to kill the wife after they learned she was infected. Where was the detour? Why did it take them so long to get to little room where she was? You would think they would have someone guarding her if they knew she was infected.

 

[hammerhedd11]

It made 10 mil this weekend.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/