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28 Days Later [Blu-ray] [2017]

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The aggressive rock score blasted impressively, and effects popped up within logical and appropriate spots.

Jim discovers that West's "answer to infection" involves waiting for the Infected to starve to death, while giving hope for community survival by forcing sexual servitude on the female survivors. The first finishes the flick on a darker note, while the second resembles the existing conclusion except it omits one character who dies here but not in the released movie. They reveal that while Jim was comatose, the virus spread uncontrollably among the populace, turning most people into vicious monsters ("the Infected") and resulting in societal collapse, possibly on a global scale.

Unfortunately, not only do those sequences pop up predictably, but also they come about too infrequently for my liking. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. The film might be watchable on smaller TVs, but on a 21st century 65-inch TV, it looked awful – DVD or Blu-ray didn’t matter for this mess. To make matters worse, in the editing process, Danny Boyle purposely degraded the picture even further, leaving only the film's denouement untouched (and the only portion actually shot on celluloid, for that matter).

It's one of those cases where, the better the movie is presented (ie high-definition) the worse it looks. There are also some treble issues that lead to random frequency whistles beneath the audible components of the soundfield. Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. Selena, held hostage by the last uninfected soldier, is horrified when Jim, covered in blood, bursts into the room and savagely kills the soldier, leading her to believe that he may be infected.Ultimately, 28 Days Later provides an intermittently interesting flick, but it doesn’t muster a great deal of consistent appeal. For the second pack, he lets us know the nature of the shots and provides some additional details about Polaroids and films. Shaky colors and wavering contrast combine to create a painful, two-dimensional picture -- one that is further flattened by the consistent presence of intrusive artifacts. The first ten minutes of this 24-minute featurettes is more documentary on viruses and the chances of a bug wiping out mankind.

He goes over elements like wrangling the chimps for the opening, shutting down parts of London for the shoot, stylistic choices, both fighting and embracing clichés of the genre, paying homage to George Romero, and various storytelling issues among other subjects. I am still giving it a low star rating because no matter which way you slice it, this is not a film that will show off your high def television. Rounding things out is a montage of "Animated Storyboards" (2 minutes), a Jacknife Lee music video (6 minutes), a teaser trailer, and a theatrical trailer presented in high definition. To me the most interesting moments came when they discussed how they achieved all the shots of London devoid of people ( "We just blocked off the streets," Boyle admits), but the entire track is of high quality.Detail is the tiniest bit sharper than the DVD, but it's a minor improvement that's an inherent product of the increased resolution. To be fair, given that this is a film shot in SD and released on Blu-ray Disc, it really should note this very clearly somewhere on the case. The BD release looks better than the DVD because of the lack of compression artefacts and edge halos. He acts as oral subtitles for the first batch and tosses out useful notes such as the way still photographers work on the set. Sure 28 weeks as a sequel was also great but nothing compares to the original as its perfect and has all its flaws rightfully too!

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Much more introspective than most programs of its ilk, “Rage” starts with an extended discussion of the worldwide potential for deadly disease. When Jim wakes from his coma, the movie is dead silent (pun intended) for a good amount of time as he walks around looking for signs of life. i just want to say that you shouldn't listen to anyone else's opinion of the film, only your own, you don't even have to listen to mine, it's just my thoughts on the film that's all, but i do recommend it.

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