Nearing the two hour mark 28 Years Later was pretty close to the best film I'd see at the cinema this year. Then the last 5 minutes happen, and, well, I guess it is Danny Boyle's best film since Yesterday. - ThreadSky

wilsonjettone.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Nearing the two hour mark 28 Years Later was pretty close to the best film I'd see at the cinema this year. Then the last 5 minutes happen, and, well, I guess it is Danny Boyle's best film since Yesterday.

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Off to the cinema to see

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h0rr0r0fdracula.bsky.social•2 days ago

Heard this twice now. Seeing it Saturday and I can't wait to see what people are getting at. 'Tonal shift' is what im hearing.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, very much so. It felt really trolling to me. I expect some people are going to love it. I was properly fucking annoyed, but that's because the first hour and fifty minutes are very close to truly brilliant

h0rr0r0fdracula.bsky.social•2 days ago

I just can't imagine what you can do to mess it up..especially those two. Its not as if it can suddenly turn into a musical or something*

*Better not

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'll not say anything...but let me know what you think when you see it.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

I am so fucking irritated.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

Danny Boyle remains a really interesting director. 85% of 28 Years Later looks like an episode of Byker Grove recorded on longplay VHS, and 15% are the most striking and beautiful shots of the year. The film is structurally unsound, the plot is shaky and discarded, and it is absolutely thrilling.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Henry V scenes; Brexit means Brexit, Covid means Covid allegory makes this another Garland political film, but taken through Boyle's hyperactive sense of the world.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

It has superb performances. Aaron Taylor Johnson dominates the first act brilliantly; and Ralph Fiennes turns the mania up in the third act. It is a film structured by its actors, rather than characters, or plot.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

The fact that film survives a number of generic plot points in the second act is really a testament to how dynamite that first 45 mins to an hour is.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm now starting to worry that the rot set in much earlier than I originally thought.

mariephillips.bsky.social•2 days ago

The mind boggles but I’m anticipating Bobby Ewing Shower levels of WTF-ery

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ha ha - maybe I am overstating it. It doesn't break the world of the film, or minimise anything that went before. It just felt very trollish. It really annoyed me.

mariephillips.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well I’m going to have to see it now.

wilsonjettone.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was really struck by the film. It is tense, emotional, and really quite effective. Then, well, I don't know what they were thinking - felt like I was being trolled. I guess Danny Boyle was making a sequel to both 28 Days Later and another of his films...

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