ECV Podcast: 28 Years Later - Spoilers Edition
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Zach here - and this is a rare new release shelf discussion this episode on Danny Boyle’s latest entry into the 28 [INSERT DATE HERE] LATER franchise. Russ liked this film a lot more than I did, but we both thought it was kind of all over the place. That said, thanks to its controversial ending both of us have committed to seeing the next entry in theaters.
This was a car trip episode so we don’t have video as usual, so if you’re a Youtube-watcher, we’re sorry. We’ll be back on camera in a couple days, unless you subscribe to our onlyfans then we’re on there every night. Kidding… for now.
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Speaker 1
But this is.
Speaker 2
Hello and welcome to the Emerald City Video podcast. I'm Russ and this is Zach.
Speaker 1
Hello.
Speaker 2
And, we're going old school. There's no video this time. We are doing a quick new release wall in the car as we drive back from a movie theater. Yeah. Tonight we saw, 28 years later, the, long gestating sequel to 28 days. And then 28 weeks later.
Speaker 1
Yes,
Speaker 2
For which you needed to see absolutely nothing. Yeah, I don't really. I mean, I guess if you saw 28 Days Later it would explain the rage virus, but honestly, other than the zombies being kind of fast for the most part. Yeah. So what's your what's your first thoughts?
Speaker 1
I figure what we'll do is we'll do, like, a little bit, and then go into spoiler territory because there's some weird, weird stuff.
Speaker 2
Yeah.
Speaker 1
Which not surprising, like it's a zombie film.
Speaker 2
And it's Danny Boyle. I do feel like part of me is like, you know, everything he's done has been increasingly weirder and more experimental since 28 days later. So there's bits in here that I wasn't in love with, but I'm like, I guess it makes sense because, like, he's going to be more interested in that than doing what he.
Speaker 1
Yeah, that's my kind of thing. I mean, like, obviously the premise, not the premise of the film itself, but the premise of like him doing this trilogy, it's a little like, you know, there's a handful of auteur directors, you know, like boyhood, like there's like that have like odd that have, you know, I don't know about an asterisk or like a concept in there, like we're going to go through with it.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Obviously this was shot, on, the, the iPhone, like the previous one, was kind of always shot on the, like whatever. There was the most consumer.
Speaker 2
Yeah.
Speaker 1
Kind of thing. It was shot on like what was it. It wasn't high. It was.
Speaker 2
No. The first, the first one was shot on like a mini DV. Yeah. Or a DV tape. It was, it was shot in like four ADP. Yeah. And shot digitally, which at the time was still not the norm. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Especially, like.
Speaker 2
Much.
Speaker 1
Cheaper. Yeah. Yeah. Especially shot with like, more at least on the, the end of consumer cameras. Obviously this was shot on I forget which iPhone but like like it.
Speaker 2
Was a 15 Pro max. But also if you saw the insane this is where they have this.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Ridiculous rig on it. So I yeah I was going to add like it's shot an iPhone with an asterisk. It's an and I know it's like kind of like all those iPhone ads would be like shot on an iPhone. Yeah. Shot an iPhone with special specialty lenses that are probably worth more than most people's cars. And also shot by a professional cinematographer who knows very specifically what they're doing.
Speaker 1
Except. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, obviously, you know, I would hope people always understand that those caveats when they see ads for cell phones and s**t like that. Yeah. But, but yeah. No, I mean, so I dug the premise of, of the film, you know, there I think no spoilers here. Like they're caught on it. They're, they're basically kind of sequestered on an island, safe from, the, the zombie hordes, which are still around.
Speaker 1
There's the different kind of levels of zombies. And now there's kind of a, there's an alpha zombie, as they call it. I had yeah.
Speaker 2
I'm so I'm put off by the, like, various zombie subspecies and stuff. It just it felt like it took, George George Romero, like, 25 years to get to that point. Yeah. And then once he did, it was all downhill from there. I.
Speaker 1
I'm a little bit more okay with it. Maybe not the alpha thing. And we can get into it probably. I don't know about the spoilers. I don't know if that's Euler's or not. We've already talked about a little bit, but I think it's. I think it's implied a little bit in the trailers. Yeah. But like since this is a virus, like very specifically a virus and a virus is going to have an effect, you know, we're going concepts here, guys.
Speaker 1
You know, like let's follow through on the zombie.
Speaker 2
Well, I will say, I was watching an interview. Brandon Davis talked to Danny Boyle, the other day. And so at the end of the first movie you saw, all of the runners were, like, emaciated and dying off in the winter and stuff like that. And so Boyle from, like First Principles wanted to introduce the slug zombies like those.
Speaker 2
Yeah, there's these big fat zombies crawl along the ground, and the premise is that they've evolved in such a way that they don't burn all those calories. Yeah, and they like, they eat, you know, worms and whatever animals they can get their hands on and like, they're they're still a threat to humans, especially because they're like 400 pounds.
Speaker 1
Yeah.
Speaker 2
But like.
Speaker 1
They are they're quiet to their.
Speaker 2
Yeah, they're kind of the opposite of what you think of as the 20 at 28 Days Later. Zombies. Yeah. And like I like that premise. I guess I just felt like the like the, the alpha zombies are a little bit too close to like what Romero did in land of the dead. Yeah. Where the zombies had their own, like, mini society.
Speaker 2
And it's like we're they're not zombies anymore. They're more like cavemen.
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. I mean, the, like, the level, I tried about which zombie it wasn't let it out that I'm thinking of, but there's another zombie kind of thing that like, there are certain zombies that have, like a little bit more intelligence, right? More kind of thing going on. And like, that is okay, these guys are f*****g I mean, let's just go spy a little bit.
Speaker 2
Yeah. I'm going to say it's like spoilers all the way through. Nothing super plot sensitive, but that we will like before we spoil anything that's going to ruin the ending for you. I will say something.
Speaker 1
Like the the fact that these alpha that, basically are, I suppose, you know, basically can kill one, kill a zombie with like one arrow shot in this kind of world. And that's a little flexible, as long as it's kind of near, vaguely near the heart or the throat or the head. Yeah. It's not like the separate that, you know, the standard kind of zombie thing.
Speaker 1
Which is, I mean, it's, it's like, if it would kill you, then it kind of kills, you know, and, the fact that these guys are like, they're like, oh, it takes like six shots to take them out. They're enormous, including their genitals, which that the swinging, the big swinging dick. Yeah. That's right. Holy s**t. So a little distracting.
Speaker 1
Jesus.
Speaker 2
Way more, way more penis in this movie than any of the other zombie movies I've ever seen.
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a little a little too, too much sound mean. But it's I've coined the term but, but anyway. But it is and it's, they're not necessarily, you know, like an alpha in the way that we think of alpha is that, you know, they're oh, they're controlling of like women or the controlling of things.
Speaker 1
I thought that there was going to be some sort of play with, like very serious spoilers here, with the baby that like, oh, this was his baby.
Speaker 2
And I still think that's on the table the way that he pursued it.
Speaker 1
And but, I also like that's what am I thinking of that that's a, that's a f*****g plot in the film and what it is, I mean, film or like a zombie as, like I.
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