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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Living-In-Clip on June 27, 2003, 08:03:59 PM
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Alright guy\'s, skip \'The Hulk\', \'Charlie\'s Angel\'s and all those other crap-tacular summer movie\'s. Go watch Danny Boyle\'s (director of Trainspotting) newest masterpiece a zombie / sci-fi film named "28 Days Later". I just got back from watching it and I must say this is what the horror genre needed. It doesn\'t need crap movie\'s like \'The Ring\' (Credit given: RingU is good) or \'Darkness Falls\'. It needs intelligent, shock based movie\'s like \'28 Days Later\'.
Here is Ebert\'s review.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-later27f.html
I have to say I agree with him a hundred percent...
And for those with region free DVD players - go to HkFlix.com or ExploitedCinema.com and pick up the already out UK Double Disc DVD . Yes, this great movie is already out on DVD in the UK.
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I am a huge romero film, and even though it does not fall into the same kind of vein. It will fill familiar to those that enjoy zombie flicks, with enough new stuff to make quite possible the movie to watch this summer.
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Yeah i really have been wanting to see this movie. As for the other summer movies, theres no way im passing up T3:p
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Is it similar is Resident Evil (the Zombie concept).
I love these kinda movies, and don\'t say bad stuff about the ring, I thought it was great, the jap one is better though.
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Has anyone seen Braindead?
Now that is a good zombie hack n slash movie, directed by Peter Jackson.
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28 Days Later rocks.. I recommend it to everyone :P
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I have wanted to see this, but had no idea it was out on DVD already in the UK, thanks for the links LIC, but how do you know if your DVD player is region free?
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It is nothing like Resident Evil, Resident Evil cannot even be considered a horror film, it\'s an action film. This one is pure horror.
And Racer, The Ring was terrible. RingU was good, but The Ring was downright terrible.
Giga, go to VCDHELP.com, look under "DVD Hacks" and for your DVD player / Model number, a lot of players you can punch a code into and make it region free. If not, you can buy a region free player rather cheap. That\'s what I did yesterday.
P.S - Braindead is also known as Dead Alive and once again it cannot really be considered a true horror film, unlike 28 Days Later.
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woohoo there is a multiregion hack for my dvd the Aiwa DV370. Thanks LIC.
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No Problem. I wish my Pioneer had a multi-region hack, but it doesn\'t, so I was forced to buy a Cyberhome 402S and use a multi-region hack on it.
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Just ordered 28 days later... can\'t wait until it gets here... very nice post LIC... I would never have known.
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No problem. I personally believe making games and DVD\'s regional is complete bullshit.
You may not realize it, but we are gettin\' screwed on the DVD end in a lot of ways. I can think of a lot of movies, such as \'Brotherhood of The Wolf\', \'The Pianist\' that got THREE DISC treatments in other countries. .. Another one is \'Resident Evil\' which got a two disc treatment ... Romero\'s \'Dawn of the Dead\' and the list goes on.. Not to mention a lot of uncut movies, such as Friday the 13th are out oversea\'s, yet us American\'s are screwed over.
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I just saw "28 Days Later." I agree it was a very good and rewarding horror film. I have to say that it\'s not really groundbreaking in any way; it fits neatly into the "post apocalyptic zombie" sub genre. I would say it\'s very much like the BBC 1981 remake of "Day of the Triffids" in case you\'ve ever seen that. In any event, I enjoyed it.
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I will agree that it does not break ground, but it does go a step forward in the right direction. Almost all recent horror movie\'s have lost focus on what is scary and what is needed in a horror movie. Danny Boyle had the idea.
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Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
No problem. I personally believe making games and DVD\'s regional is complete bullshit.
You may not realize it, but we are gettin\' screwed on the DVD end in a lot of ways. I can think of a lot of movies, such as \'Brotherhood of The Wolf\', \'The Pianist\' that got THREE DISC treatments in other countries. .. Another one is \'Resident Evil\' which got a two disc treatment ... Romero\'s \'Dawn of the Dead\' and the list goes on.. Not to mention a lot of uncut movies, such as Friday the 13th are out oversea\'s, yet us American\'s are screwed over.
I agree... one more question if I set my region to 0 does that mean it will play any region?
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GigaShadow does your player also convert pal to ntsc and vice-versa?
If it does then when it is set to region 0 you should be fine.
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Good question... I have a Aiwa DV370 and from what I was reading (from a UK site http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/full/aiwa370.asp) if you set to 0 it will make it region free. Note: My model is the US version of the one shown on the website, but I tried the codes and it changes them - don\'t have any non US disks to check it out at the moment.
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I just saw it, GREAT Plotline.
What does this tell you about animal testing??? They are the bane of human existance.
I also thought metaphorically, this movie achieved great measures. The monsters inside (the sex-crazed army men) were just as bad as the monsters outside (the zombies).
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GigaShadow I was looking around on the net, and you may have to make one small solder to get it to do an auto-convert pal to ntsc. I can not find the schematic though.
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Argh PAL... I thought PAL was display and didn\'t apply to the DVD player... so confusing... LIC do you have any PAL dvd\'s?
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Originally posted by GigaShadow
Argh PAL... I thought PAL was display and didn\'t apply to the DVD player... so confusing... LIC do you have any PAL dvd\'s?
Pal is the Display, but Pal signals are not compatable with ntsc, and vice-versa. If you are in a pal country you will have not pal problems playing pal movies, but you may ntsc from us, can, japan, etc...
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Capcom and I both own the same models and our\'s are "suppose" to convert PAL> NTSC. Cyberhome 402S, is the model.. I guess we\'ll really put it to the test when 28 Day\'s comes in..
Like Capcom said, PAL singals are not compatiable with NTSC TV\'s, unless the DVD player converts it. Some of them do, some of them don\'t. VCDHELP.com should have something on it and if not that place, try nerd-out.com .
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i said about this last summer, no one seemed totake any intrest, i thought it was a very good film...
braindead, yup ive seen that, hilirious..... the blokethat directed brain dead, also done some othr horror films, " meet the feebles" and " bad taste", both very funny, he also went on to direct "lord of the rings".....lol
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Peter Jackson.
:)
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I ordered the UK import a while back, but the manager from the online store I ordered from contacted me and informed that the PAL release is due early July, with similar specs, so I\'m still waiting...
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Might be some spoilers. Not sure.
Personally, I thought it could have been better. You had the same stupid characters you get in all horror movies, the ones that do stupid stupid things that seem to defy all common sense. That always annoys me. I really didn\'t find the movie all that scary myself. Also, the fact that things seemed so hopeless the entire time really didn\'t help me much. Usually there is an ultimate goal: escape a killer, survive until a certain time, kill someone before they kill you. In this there was just no hope. It was survive so you can be killed later rather than sooner. I didn\'t like that.
Personally, I did like movies like The Ring (and Ringu, although I did not think the American version was bad). I liked that movie better than this one in fact. I really don\'t see what makes this movie so much more intelligent other than mainly the fact that there was some sort of medical basis for the virus. I thought the characters acted stupider as a whole than characters in some other horror movies I have enjoyed, including the Ring.
But of course, this is just one man\'s opinion :p
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There is little doubt Ringu is a good movie. The ring I would have to wonder where you are coming from on that one.
"You had the same stupid characters you get in all horror movies, the ones that do stupid stupid things that seem to defy all common sense."
I felt there was quite a bit of that in the ring.
I myself found 28 days later appealing because there are so few zombie type movies out there. The few they do make fall toward a comedy aspect, or an action type movie instead of horror aka resident evil.
Also spoiler. With the short incubation time of the virus it would make it near impossible to spread elsewhere. I really enjoyed this aspect, and if you thought about during the movie you would realize it is not just a normal rebuild civiliaztion type movie. There would be no one to pilot and land the plane, or boat. Just my opinion though.
Enjoy the movie for what it is. A movie that will make you jump a time a few times. Not many horrors have that anymore.
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Just went out and bought a Philips DVD 727 - remote multi region hack and it converts Pal to NTSC - all for 80 dollars at Target. My copy of 28 days later should be here tomorrow or Wednesday. :)
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Why not see it in a movie theater? It\'s in release now...
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hate to say it but cameron diaz rock I dont care if the movie blow or not kitties will die moments after I watch this movie...
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Originally posted by Coredweller
Why not see it in a movie theater? It\'s in release now...
Thanks to LIC I have a new hobby, buying UK DVD\'s. :)
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Originally posted by Cyrus
hate to say it but cameron diaz rock I dont care if the movie blow or not kitties will die moments after I watch this movie...
Ewwww, she\'s overly thin and just plain ugly.
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Originally posted by Cyrus
hate to say it but cameron diaz rock I dont care if the movie blow or not kitties will die moments after I watch this movie...
Diaz is in 28 Days Later? Cool, didn\'t know that...
ehem
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Got the DVD today and just got through watching it. I really liked it. Not quite that scary, it was filmed very well. Watching the deleted scenes was sort of amusing as in one it showed a ton of wreckage on a bridge and then the camera pans over and the normal London traffic can be seen in the next lane bypassing the props.
This film really reminded me of Day of the Dead, especially concerning the army camp and "zombie" they have chained up there... sort of like "Bub" (its been so long since I have seen Day of the Dead, but I think thats the zombies name that they kept around for research). Thank God, they deleted some of the scenes as on one alternate scene they had a hundred zombies invade the compound at towards the end... reminded me of resident evil and the Dead series.
Well worth owning and now my neighbors envy me ;)
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Glad the DVD played fine for you. And I\'m also glad you enjoyde the movie.
If you actually enjoyed importing that, you may want to look into other titles also Giga. I don\'t think you realize the scope of things. Go to other sites such as http://www.hkflix.com and look around. There are a lot of uncut non-region 1 titles and what not. Not to mention the fact that there is simply a lot of movies that we will never see on our side, that are excellent...provided you don\'t mind subtitles.
If I may recommend one, with subtitles...Battle Royale! An excellent, excellent film. Xploitedcinema.com and HkFlix.com both stock that one.
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I will check it out... I know you all are into the anime thing, but that isn\'t for me. However, I do check out what ever else people in this forum recommend. If anyone has problems with their DVD player converting PAL to NTSC - the Philips 727 works flawlessly and its under $90.00.
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Battle Royale isn\'t anime. It\'s a live action film.
:)
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I Thought it was one of the best movies I\'ve seen in a while, now, zombie movies arn\'t really realistic usualy but I thought what made this movie great was how all the characters reacted in that type of enviroment, it did a good job of showing human nature.
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Just saw this one actually. Quite good indeed. :thumb:
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I thought it was decent. The idea behind the movie was good but they could have made it better. I wouldn\'t really call it a horror movie either - it wasn\'t scary.