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I’ve seen some bad takes on this film. Some complain it’s not scary enough (its a gorror, not a horror, its about oh wow look at that cool practical effect, not jump scares and adrenalin rushes, they need to adjust their expectations :stuck_out_tongue: ) and others call it plain nostalgia bait.

While it’s set in a nostalgic time (for me), I don’t think it’s fair to also just call it nostalgia bait. I may be biased, because I was 13/14 in this period, and so are the main characters.

I’d say it’s closer to a coming of age film with sprinklings of comedy and gorror. But nobody is reviewing it as such, so I only seem to see bad takes. It’s more comparable to something like Superbad or Ferris Bueler than what I’ve seen people compare it to (other a24 horror movies cos, media literacy is truly dead I guess.)

Either way, I had a real fun time with this film, brought back some memories from the time I’d completely forgotten and looking forward to rewatching it vicariously later with some friends of a similar age :slight_smile:

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On a similar note, I just watched 28 years later and saw some similar complaints. People were angry there weren’t enough scary parts and zombies. Aka, the music didn’t go RUH enough and the scene didn’t suddenly cut to a BLAWAHWALH!!! enough. I swear people are brain broken by marketing. And don’t understand the difference between actual horror and fear, and a loud noise making your adrenalin kick in.

The film (28 years later) is an absolute art piece by the way (and pulls heavily form Crossed +100, which I was hoping they would because of course you would! ) I didn’t watch a single trailer for the film, Alex Garland as a screenwriter is about all I need to hear and I’m all in. Very much enjoy every film he’s done as a Director too. Nice to see him and Danny Boyle working in tandem again. I should stop before I gush about Alex Garland.

I’m extremely happy because for a long time 28 weeks later has been, imo, the biggest mistake they ever made allowing that much studio control and interference, to commit to the “ordered for profit” sequel business model. It’s nice to have a true sequel to the tone and themes of the original movie. But it probably did give both creators absolute free reign on any project going forward so… I guess 28 weeks later had to exist. It’s still the only movie I felt imprisoned by in a cinema. When Robert Carlisle is your Jailor, it’s hard to get up and leave.

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Oh and all this typing has tipped off youtube, this was waiting for me on the front page.

An Ouroboros of inspiration feedback. 28 days inspired last of us inspired some visual things in Annihilation and so on. Might finally get some actual confirmation on that :slight_smile:

It’s from three months ago so should have no spoilers for 28 years later or TLOU season 2

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Poetry, not a movie or short nor a play

But here it has come to stay

:sweat_smile:

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Really enjoying the new Alien:Earth telly show for humans.

It might be the best thing that’s happened to the franchise since some of those comic omnibuses.

In the latest episode, the supposed smartest person on the planet misattributed an Arthur c Clarke quote to Isaac Asimov and I absolutely love that.

He’s so self assured in his genius he doesn’t realise when he gets something completely wrong.

That’s good foreshadowing and character development.

Highly recommend the show, especially if the idea of young children’s minds inside extremely powerful androids being hunted by a Xenomorph sounds like a fun jaunt to you.

It opens itself up to be a bit goofy which works surprisingly well, it also cradles the line between the first films horror elements and the second films action elements, and even the third film philosophical wavering.

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All of this recent thievery business has me watching one of my old favorites

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There was a Toy Story 4? Thats genuine confusion on my part; I swore the last one was the soft southern accented purple teddy bear one.

My head canon is Pixar stopped making movies after Wall-E. I mean its technically true, that Film was straight up Cinema. They are not making Kino at Pixar anymore :stuck_out_tongue: (sorry, UP is also a masterpiece, no shade)

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Why am I only now finding this movie?

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Heheh, I watched that as a child, in the same category as Time Bandits or Being John Malkovich, I would say. Or the Linklater movies (trying to remember their names, a scanner darkly? And something fun about lucid dreaming.)

I don’t think I understood Brazil as a child, I couldn’t tell you what it was about, a kafkaesque nightmare? :slight_smile:

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Dystopian. Based around Orwell’s 1984. Came out in 1985.

I was still in high school and had just read 1984 in 1984. I was just starting to understand the dystopian ideology. Ozzy Osbourne had a song I wrote a vision of the future around for my Humanities class. I played the song for the class then read my dystopian sci-fi version of the future about aliens discovering earth and digging thru the ruins we left behind. Piecing together the last moments of human existence and telling the story of our demise thru displays of artifacts at a museum the aliens build here on earth once they are settled in.

I can’t remember the name of the song

Wish I still had that essay. I was quite proud of it.

When I finished, the class was wide-eyed and slack-jawed.

My teacher looked at me and said, “You don’t really believe that will happen do you?”

I smiled and said, “No”

The rest of the class responded What??!!! You mean we didn’t have to write about what we really believe the future will be like?

The teacher said, No.

I got an A

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There’s a doctor who episode or two, with a woman named Cassandra who looks like she could be the future of the Brazil guy’s mother, so many rejuvenations that all that’s left of her is her stretched face…

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It’s cool that this teacher appreciated your applied dystopianism, and a pity you can’t find it. But if you found it now, you would maybe find a tiny imperfection in it and no longer see it as so impressive, so maybe it’s better to not find childhood writing again. :wink:

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There was also a drawing. It is long gone too.

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It’s hard to “understand” the movie even as an adult, there’s so many layers to it. As a child it’s probably even difficult to find it funny…

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https://www.npr.org/2025/11/15/nx-s1-5604280/the-running-man-review-stephen-king

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I’m starting to be concerned about your awareness of Terry Gilliam. Have you seen twelve monkeys? The movie, not the recent regrettable TV show. This as judgemental as I get. How dare you, etc :wink:

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It’s been a while.

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I just watched a mini series on Netflix called Death by Lightning.

It’s about the 20th president of the United States and the man who shot him.

I have to admit I knew very little about this man. I knew there was a James Garfield and that he had a very short run, but my memory was because he wasn’t well liked and I assumed he was voted out.

I could not have been any more wrong with my bad secondary school recollection.

Fantastic cast delivering some very good performances, it’s a slow burn that takes its time but by the second episode I could not put it down.

Minor spoilers below but the show informs you from the outset that this is about a president and the man who shot him.

A lot of parellels with what is happening today in America, in his short three months he manages to root out the corruption from New York and even turned his biggest detractor to his side to carry on his work after death. This distraction stopped him from getting on to the good work he planned and it’s mad to think what might have been had he gotten to live out a full term.

The man who shot him is also incredibly fascinating, from parasocial relationships with politicians to what appears to be (imo, must look into the expert consensus) borderline personality disorder mixed with some sort of Messiah complex.

Ultimately the show seems to deal with the ignorance and ego of “great” men and the absolute devastation it can wrought. Meeting his doctor/physician at the end really hammered this theme home for me.

And the thing that initially drew me in? Nick Offerman. I’ll watch anything he’s in, no questions asked.

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Parallel to today only if the roles reverse.

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Well a parallel to today in how corrupt the republican party was. And also “future-hopeful” parallel in that a James Garfield-type comes along to fix all of the decay within the republican party.

Super wishful thinking.

I doubt anything like that will ever happen again, not easily anyway. He wasn’t even on the ballot as a republican nominee, he essentially got a write-in-vote from the collegiate because he had the nerve to actually give a rousing speech (albeit in favour of his candidate, Sherman.) And of course, delegates giving him their vote because they wanted anyone but Ulysses Grant to return to the seat (mostly for their own selfish power wanting reasons) after a long day or re-counting.

This is all news to me and probably very well known to yourself, please school me on this if you can <3

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At some point in the ancient past, I could list the Presidents in order.

Then I watched an excellent History Channel series, The Presidents and realized they were all power-hungry, dirty-minded old men. :joy: So really the only difference between them and the current one is that the ones who came before tried to put up a front of decency.

It’s a very interesting series

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