28 Days Later

[SlowwHand]

Pekka is going to be a Finnish-American.
He knows whats what.

[Pekka]

well if you want to put it that way. I usually just say Europe is part of Finland.

[red_jon]

Didn't we save America from the Spanish and the French?

You'd all be speaking French if it weren't for us!

[red_jon]

I'm sure you would agree that is far, far worse.

[Pekka]

and I forgot to say.. the part we don't like!

[Alex]

Finland saves the world? Ah, it is a work of fiction.

[MikeH]

I was pretty sure it was an RAF plane at the end but. *shrug*

[Felch]

I liked it, and the darker stuff did stay in the American release. I'd love to see the DVD when it comes out.

[Pekka]

Even if it was RAF plane, it doesn't matter, it was Finns you flew the planes and saved the world . Thanks for excellent planes!

[GePap]

I liked it. I did nott hink it to be as 'scary' as it was made out to be, but that is because it keeps the violence to short burts (up until the manor scene), which I think is a good decision. I like all the down time to meet the characters, it makes you care about them more. The movie was also shot very well: there is one point, when the cab drives by a field of flowers, that it lookss like an impresionist painting: very nice.

Great movie overall, specially on how relatively small the budget was.

As for the plane: The guy is certainly not speaking English.

[GePap]

Sorry Peka, but Finns did not save the world, or Europe. You guys did a fine job saving yourselves for about 6-8 months, until the Russkies got what they wanted, and ended up keeping it and a lot more.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by Pekka
Also many modern fighting tactics were adopted from us, still used today. Like many formations and tactics how to attack fleets with lesser amount of planes etc using the support fire from top planes that sneak unnoticed, then using multiple angles from top, back and side. So, the joke is on you!

source.

[Pekka]

H Tower, I learned them in the army. And the reason I learned them was because we needed to learn different types of attacks fighters make on convoys, other objects like buildings, other planes etc. They are not used 100% the same way, but they were adopted, and then modified to suit the more modern dog fights etc.

I can try look them up, but right now I can't be bothered to go through my notes I made few years ago .

and I'm NOT saying all tactics are adopted. Just few different types of attacks.

[Soul Survivor]

I just saw the movie last night, my first impression was, not bad but nothing special.

But I can't stop thinking about it, the more I think about it the more I like it.

The cinematography was great, the whole movie just had a dreary, futile feel to it - especially when they see all of Manchester burning. Or the garbage and destruction in the streets of London, or the church packed with infected people.

It wasn't very scary, nor over violent - both had there purposes and neither really overwhelmed the movie. There was also comic relief, like when the father was getting alcohol in the grocery store or the chef in his apron making dinner.

The only one minor plot hole was when Jim walked into that shack.... it didn't make sense that he would risk his life going in there for what? A cheeseburger.

What made the movie really interesting was the moral choices the different characters had to make. And how everything seemed to be a part of human nature, most of the people still uninfected had abandoned morality, and taken on a nearly nihilistic view of life. In some ways they were forced to, because they had to kill friends, family, children without a second thought or watch them die in front of them. Rape, murder, larceny - all of it wasn't important, there was only survival.

[Dis]

I think I need to see this film.

It has the alternate ending. And I'd love to see a film with a darker ending.