I clicked on this thinking I was going to watch the original -- didn't know there was a remake - what a brilliant movie. Thank you so much for uploading.
I'm Icelandic and Greenlandic, half Inuit and my grandmother always told me to stay home and indoors during auroras because they are bad for your eyes and body. Inuits never stay out to watch them.
@@kushfairyny1 THE ORIGINAL WAS C 1962 R 63.......IT WAS PRETTY GOOD ND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN PR0BABLY 40 YEAS...I THINK THIS WILL BE BETTER AND SURELY HIGHER TECH..I DON'T REMEMBER EXTRACTING OIL FROM THEM...JUST TRYING TO GET IN A PLANT OS SOMETHING LINED UP AT A FENCE OR SOMETHING....THEY LOOKED LIKE CORN CROSSED WITH SUNFLOWERS....THE FIRST ORIGINAL WAS BASED ON 1951...THEY EVEN GOT RADIO VERSIONS IF YOU LOOK BELOW.......DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO ...TRIGGER THAT TWILIGHT ZONE MUSIC....
No diseases will take over now, given Covid-19, and other pandemics that are bound to come as we destroy jungles and forests and allow ice to melt, all carrying billions of bugs, that will all be released.
omg, this remake is so much better than the original 1 from late 60's, more drama, more realism, i love every second of this movie, congrats to the director & actors, this is just BRILLIANT !
This and the 60s version are both fucking terrible. The 1981 version is so far the only good adaptation of this book. Even by itself this miniseries is garbage.
This movie was excellent. I'm so glad I got to see this version of it here because I didn't know it existed before now. The Day of the Triffids was stamped in my memory from back in the day when we read the book in our English Literature class in high school. It always intrigued me. Got to see the earliest movie made of it thereafter. Still the impact of the book stood out. Then there was the first remake of the movie and that was more like watching and comparing the remake with the first movie but this one really top them all. So very well done. Action, suspense, great acting, actors, effects, setting. Couldn't have asked for more. The best!
whoa...is it possible this version is better than the original?.....the whole time i was watching torrence i was thinking of tim curry in that part....vanessa redgrave as a nun?.....wow...i read the book when i was a kid....watched the original movie as an adult and thought it was too hokey/dated...this version captured the tension of the book....excellent post....thanks
I remember watching Night of the Triffids in 1963 in a small town movie hall. We were ALL scared absolutely shitlesss. This during segregation and the blacks had to sit in the balcony away from the whites. Near the end some kids in the balcony started throwing weeds down on us and half the theater emptied!
One tremendously prophetic passage occurs in the last few days of the original book. The hero discovers that the 'clacking' of the Triffid boles is only a small part of how they communicate; as they move, they leave a web of very thin fibres behind, which the other Triffids connect to (No, Avatar did not come up with the idea first). Yes, an organic internetwork, and the hero knows that is why Triffids will ultimately conquer the earth, hence the title "The Day of the Triffids".
Film ke jako dobar🙏poslije gledanja tesko se vratit u realnost.Sokantno sve izgleda....opasno i zastrasujuce. Odjednom se svijet izmjenio.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇭🇷ocjena 10+
What they showed You Horror Movies at School and at my School all We got to see was a Autopsy of a young teenager drug addict and it was no holds barred and I was only 11 years old and yes I attended a Catholic School.
As a fan of John Wyndham and the book, this is not a bad version (unlike the 1963 movie with Howard Keel) and does a reasonable job of telling the story. However, for a more accurate and greater understanding of the book, the 1981 two part telemovie with John Duttine and Emma Relph is the best by a long shot.
Yep, very well done, with some nice themes running through it. And fairly close to the OSM in conclusion too. Can't really ask for a lot more, to be honest. I give it four and a half stingers out of five.
I remember there was an old 2-part miniseries that was an excellent representation of the book (which by itself if absolutely fantastic). It's such a shame that the modern remakes are nowhere near as good, even though the technical abilities have increased so much
This one of the best movie ever, I really enjoyed it ❤️🥰😍😊 thanks a lot for this video….. Millions thumbs up for this movie 🎥 can’t wait for the next one ☝️
Great movie to watch. Thoroughly entertaining. I like such movie that contains multiple stories in it and has good duration of time. Therefore, satisfying my entertainment need.
Wow! Amazing movie! One of the best I've seen on RUclips this year so far! As it goes I clicked on it by mistake thinking it was just gonna be another trash movie but what a surprise I'm glad I continued watching! This was that good I think it could have made the cinema in my humble opinion! Great movie good story acting special effects everything I recommend watching if your reading this comment..peace love respect and honour...
This movie has a deeper meaning. I love how the storyline turned around. Africanism is not the enemy. Blacks are not evil. Mother Nature 🌱🌊 is chaotic when exploited.
@@nikitaw1982 black people are not the ones who makes it about race..... But the ones who says blacks need to sit at the back of the bus, the ones who preach segregation, the ones who constantly killed unarmed black people, etc .....you don't need to wonder 😏 what race is that....but go figure 🤔
Nicely surprised. I thought it was a remake which would be awful because the original is a classic but it's more a 50 years later/part 2 kind of thing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
It is a remake. The original isn't in the past. 30 years previously, Bills mother, as shown in the first part, died to Triffid poisoning. Aside from that, the solar storm that blinded most of the people never happened, hence why it's in this series.
It sits in the gray area of "remake or not" where it's a separate adaptation of the same novel. The reason the plot is so different is that the 60s film does the very 60s thing of almost completely disregarding the plot of its source material and just making stuff up. Granted, this version also makes a lot of stuff up but it's much more recognisible.
I think in this case it's that he doesn't play a card-carrying villain. At least in the first half hour, he's simply playing somebody who knows full well that the moment he starts helping others, he's going to be swamped (there's a reason that Black Death doctors carried a heavy stick), so he simply tries to keep alive himself. It's just creepy that he doesn't show much in the way of shock, or compassion.
Excellent! I loved the original black and white one. During the pandemic I read the book ( it’s a free audiobook on RUclips) OMG so much more plot in the book - worth a listen if u are a fan of the DOTT.
Mummy Redgrave puts in an unexpected cameo appearance with her daughter and is a delightfully surprising jewell to this work horse of story that I am sure many school children enjoyed this in weekly instalments via cassette tape originally during story hour This is quite a glitzy action packed modern remake never the less nearly as fantastically enjoyable as the first time I came across it sat cross legged on the carpet before home time .
I mean.... Acting in this movie is still like 150% wat better then today... You can clearly tell the actors are terryfied and their scream sound genuine and they act very naturaly when scared and hurt, not like 100% of actors seeing like an alien or a monters in todays movies... The acting realy stood up in this movie, noticibly better than todays horrors...
9.5/10 Day of the triffards one ends in an annoying cliffhanger but this is day of the triffards 1 and 2 together. really good acting not too over the top and the triffards aren't too fake looking, the way they were filmed helped.
This more recent adaptation of the Wyndham novel - which is one of my Top Five Favorite Novels of All Time - IS a vast improvement over the previous film and TV versions, although it's still suffers from some imperfections in transition. It's darker, more fast-paced, more epic in scope (I always felt the novel was epic in the David Lean mold), IS helped largely by its larger budget (something the first 1981 BBC miniseries suffered from at times, as its limited budget showed) and does a largely good job of updating the novel and condensing the characters and events while staying true to the source material. Joely Richardson is a great Jo Playton and Eddie Izzard is creepy as Torrence. And although the Triffids here are almost entirely depicted using CG, they are pretty intimidating and even seem to be augmented with some details of the Triffids from the 1962 film - there are even certain scenes lifted from that film. And I like the inclusion of a failed attempt to create a Triffid that would breed sterility into the rest and the depiction of the massive Triffid sporing, something the novel merely hinted at. Having said all that, my only complaints - and I'm not including Dougray Scott, who was miscast but really was doing his best, despite the fact that his Bill Masen comes off as more sinister and seemingly less sensitive and compassionate compared to John Duttine from the '81 version - is that the narrative here seems more contrived, with the use of flashbacks to his childhood; I know it's supposed to serve a purpose later on the final act, and Masen in the novel WAS exposed to Triffid venom during childhood AND during adulthood while working on a Triffid farm, but it seems to smack more of convenience than an actual authentic set-up and payoff. Then there's Madame Durant - Vanessa Redgrave is good, but making her look and act like a deranged cult leader - with shades of her Sister Jeanne from THE DEVILS - over her community is somewhat off-putting. In the novel, film and first BBC version, she was simply misguided; the real terror there was that her good intentions weren't enough, and the lack of subtlety with her character's approach here is pretty annoying and sometimes unintentionally hilarious. Most bothersome was the substitution of a solar storm, which while visually effective and leads to a good set piece, makes the same mistake as the film did. In the novel, a massive faulty global satellite network - some satellites containing biological warfare - caused the supposed "meteor shower" that blinded everyone on Earth while also leading to the spread of a mysterious pandemic that gradually killed off the vast majority of people witnessing the lights outside who were blinded - except those who either missed the lights, or were blinded but protected by being indoors while witnessing the event from behind windows, and that the meteor shower was used as a public government gesture to cover up for their failure, both in creating the satellite weapons network out of political fears and failure to utilize and control it properly like the Triffids. The point was that the Triffids as experimental plants were enslaved by people when they were sighted; when they were blinded by the faulty satellite network, the Triffids broke free and proved harder to control, adding further to the horrors of the resulting apocalypse. The message of both the novel and first BBC version, which is far more effective, was that human civilization is capable not only of exploiting nature by creating the Triffids more out of avarice than the betterment of humanity, but also capable from said hubristic corruption of creating an element that brought about its own downfall, which the Triffids merely compounded, as the more civilized sighted humans including Bill, Jo, Susan and Coker had to contend not only with them but the more regressive, savage nature of their less-civilized counterparts. It's a far more important and terrifying message that made the novel a successful parable; substituting the faulty satellite weapons network with a random interstellar event like the film did - an act of nature rather than man - compromises the artistry of the novel and defeats the purpose of both Wyndham's original story and moral. I have no doubt that a far superior, bigger-budgeted and FAR more faithful - not to mention R-rated - cinematic version of the novel and its original message is still possible in terms of brilliant storytelling adaptation AND authentic execution (including but not limited to practical FX for the Triffids). The various versions including this one have their merits and despite their setbacks are effective, but a truly far more impressive, faithful and profound adaptation of the greatest apocalyptic disaster story involving killer plants has yet to be made.
I beg to differ. The 1981 version, which featured John Duttine and Emma Relph, is superior and did an excellent job of telling the story and remaining true to the book in many ways. I will say, however, that I enjoyed this version and agree that it would be nice when the producers, directors, writers etc decide to remain true to the story line of a book and deliver a film that represents the full and authentic nature of what Wyndham wrote.
I remember reading the novel at school in the 60s...really enjoyable, as same as this film version of it Thank you very much for sharing this movie. Definitely a keeper. 🪴
Watched this on a whim....thinking it would be another C horror movie...not even a B movie. I was quite surprised by how good this one was. Only gripe is not one person had a weed-eater or chainsaw.
There was a TV series in the 80s about the Triffids, and a WW3 Brit thing I think was called Spiders Web about people in Sheffield trying to survive... Anybody knows what I mean? Can I find it on YT? Search words? Anyhow, I've seen this before (Eddie Izzard as the villain, right?) so I'll enjoy this one... Thanx for sharing 🙏 Love from Sweden 💖
45:23 If you burn stuff, you pollute. That's the end of it. The only possibility of 'pollution-free' energy is to find ways of harnessing and exploiting natural energy (e.g. tidal, solar, wind, geo-thermal, etc), besides which there is NO energy source that does not generate pollution - and that goes especially for nuclear energy.
@@nikitaw1982 Condensate water doesn't need 'pre-warming'. Once a thermal generation system is operating, the water coming from the condenser is hot. Even so, thermal generators are historically inefficient - whether nuclear or fossil fuel. What I am interested in, though, are your ideas for the disposal of nuclear waste. So far, nobody I've spoken to who's in favour of nuclear power wants it dumped anywhere near them. Also, have you considered the risks of nuclear power in the event of catastrophes of either natural origins (e.g. Fukushima) or 'man-made' ones (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl)?
When I selected this, I didn’t realize it was a remake. But though I remember seeing the old one, I didn’t remember anything more about it than killer plants. Interesting that it’s about the consequences of our hubris and meddling when we have no way to predict the actual outcome. Overall, not a bad movie, but WAY too long. A whole lot more of it should have ended up on the cutting room floor.
I clicked on this thinking I was going to watch the original -- didn't know there was a remake - what a brilliant movie. Thank you so much for uploading.
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I'm Icelandic and Greenlandic, half Inuit and my grandmother always told me to stay home and indoors during auroras because they are bad for your eyes and body. Inuits never stay out to watch them.
Very obidient
BS
@@lucylovic Are you inuit ？
Very useless, it’s harmless.
@@slylataupe4272 Are you inuit ?
Thanks a lot for making a full movie combining 2 parts together.
Yeah
This whole Triffid theme will last for a long time, there have been many remakes and this is one of the best. Long live "The day of the Triffids"
I aware I've never seen or heard about any version of this movie whatsoever 🤷🏼♀🤦🏼♀ I am however now extremely intrigued and must give it a chance!
@@kushfairyny1 THE ORIGINAL WAS C 1962 R 63.......IT WAS PRETTY GOOD ND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT IN PR0BABLY 40 YEAS...I THINK THIS WILL BE BETTER AND SURELY HIGHER TECH..I DON'T REMEMBER EXTRACTING OIL FROM THEM...JUST TRYING TO GET IN A PLANT OS SOMETHING LINED UP AT A FENCE OR SOMETHING....THEY LOOKED LIKE CORN CROSSED WITH SUNFLOWERS....THE FIRST ORIGINAL WAS BASED ON 1951...THEY EVEN GOT RADIO VERSIONS IF YOU LOOK BELOW.......DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO ...TRIGGER THAT TWILIGHT ZONE MUSIC....
@@kushfairyny1 There was a tv series in the 80s that was very good check it out
No diseases will take over now, given Covid-19, and other pandemics that are bound to come as we destroy jungles and forests and allow ice to melt, all carrying billions of bugs, that will all be released.
I wasn't aware of others? Titles please? So I can watch 😁
Have seen like three of your movies in two days... the tension is always a mind blowing
The flood and ICE ... is such a brilliant movies 🍿
Same here! 😁😁Completely hooked!
hahahha yes. me too.
loved this so much im watching again Dougray scott and eddie Izzard Brilliant
omg, this remake is so much better than the original 1 from late 60's, more drama, more realism, i love every second of this movie, congrats to the director & actors, this is just BRILLIANT !
Are you drunk?
Yup very good the original was good for its time and the people of that time. Is it perfect no, so what.
Umm. Do not compare...less technology back then mate
This and the 60s version are both fucking terrible. The 1981 version is so far the only good adaptation of this book. Even by itself this miniseries is garbage.
The 60s movie is great ,the best version of the book is the 80s TV show ,this new one was great as well
I'm here to comment again it's a best movie ever this one, I really enjoyed from first to finish
Somehow all the BBC sci-fi dramas for the last 20 years have had that same Dr.Who reboot look/script/feel about them. It's amazingly consistent.
This movie was excellent. I'm so glad I got to see this version of it here because I didn't know it existed before now.
The Day of the Triffids was stamped in my memory from back in the day when we read the book in our English Literature class in high school. It always intrigued me. Got to see the earliest movie made of it thereafter. Still the impact of the book stood out. Then there was the first remake of the movie and that was more like watching and comparing the remake with the first movie but this one really top them all. So very well done. Action, suspense, great acting, actors, effects, setting. Couldn't have asked for more. The best!
I never heard of it until I got a free copy of the book, I am reading it now and maybe I’ll watch the movie later.
@@TriniMonstera if you remember to, please let me know what you think of the movie after reading the book too!
I have always loved this story, each remake is great in its own way. I love each one!!
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whoa...is it possible this version is better than the original?.....the whole time i was watching torrence i was thinking of tim curry in that part....vanessa redgrave as a nun?.....wow...i read the book when i was a kid....watched the original movie as an adult and thought it was too hokey/dated...this version captured the tension of the book....excellent post....thanks
I remember watching Night of the Triffids in 1963 in a small town movie hall. We were ALL scared absolutely shitlesss. This during segregation and the blacks had to sit in the balcony away from the whites. Near the end some kids in the balcony started throwing weeds down on us and half the theater emptied!
LOL....that's a funny recollection... & a lil sad too...
One tremendously prophetic passage occurs in the last few days of the original book. The hero discovers that the 'clacking' of the Triffid boles is only a small part of how they communicate; as they move, they leave a web of very thin fibres behind, which the other Triffids connect to (No, Avatar did not come up with the idea first). Yes, an organic internetwork, and the hero knows that is why Triffids will ultimately conquer the earth, hence the title "The Day of the Triffids".
There is also a short story called "Day of the Dragon" with the same result.
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I remember reading the book and watching the original over 35 years ago in school.
The 80s version isn't the original. It's a remake
What they showed You Horror Movies at School and at my School all We got to see was a Autopsy of a young teenager drug addict and it was no holds barred and I was only 11 years old and yes I attended a Catholic School.
Me too
Clearly a lot of work went into this production - thanks for the upload !!!
As a fan of John Wyndham and the book, this is not a bad version (unlike the 1963 movie with Howard Keel) and does a reasonable job of telling the story. However, for a more accurate and greater understanding of the book, the 1981 two part telemovie with John Duttine and Emma Relph is the best by a long shot.
Agreed.
Yep, very well done, with some nice themes running through it. And fairly close to the OSM in conclusion too.
Can't really ask for a lot more, to be honest.
I give it four and a half stingers out of five.
This movie is surprisingly good. It is worth watching.
I remember there was an old 2-part miniseries that was an excellent representation of the book (which by itself if absolutely fantastic). It's such a shame that the modern remakes are nowhere near as good, even though the technical abilities have increased so much
Nice movie, nice acting, thoughtful message .
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This one of the best movie ever, I really enjoyed it ❤️🥰😍😊 thanks a lot for this video….. Millions thumbs up for this movie 🎥 can’t wait for the next one ☝️
Just found this channel, what a joy to what such good disaster movies which I would never have seen on TV in my region. Best from Buenos Aires!
I enjoyed it as much as the original 1963 version. Very good watch.
Very entertaining film. Many thanks for posting !
Great movie to watch. Thoroughly entertaining. I like such movie that contains multiple stories in it and has good duration of time. Therefore, satisfying my entertainment need.
Wow! Amazing movie! One of the best I've seen on RUclips this year so far! As it goes I clicked on it by mistake thinking it was just gonna be another trash movie but what a surprise I'm glad I continued watching! This was that good I think it could have made the cinema in my humble opinion! Great movie good story acting special effects everything I recommend watching if your reading this comment..peace love respect and honour...
the original too, not the same but worth the watch
Best
Same here, I just finished watching a movie and this came up was about to skip but decided to watch
Loved the original movie back in the day. This remake is just as good 👍😊
This movie is just like the book. John Wyndham.
@@thegreencat9947 I was going to list the book reference you beat me to it.
@@jaimeosbourn3616 great minds think alike.😃📚
@@thegreencat9947 Have you read any other of Wyndham's books?
@@jaimeosbourn3616 starting "The Kraken Wakes"
Finally a decent movie and it isn’t American. I guess that’s why it’s good.
This movie has a deeper meaning. I love how the storyline turned around. Africanism is not the enemy. Blacks are not evil. Mother Nature 🌱🌊 is chaotic when exploited.
Why are black people obsessed with race? Every conversation become about it.
Nature Finds a Way, but being black or white means nothing when your blind to the truth.
H3eh
@@nikitaw1982 black people are not the ones who makes it about race.....
But the ones who says blacks need to sit at the back of the bus, the ones who preach segregation, the ones who constantly killed unarmed black people, etc .....you don't need to wonder 😏 what race is that....but go figure 🤔
Nothing to do with what you are saying, just that the african guy used the mask , so that the Trifids who do nothing.
Nicely surprised. I thought it was a remake which would be awful because the original is a classic but it's more a 50 years later/part 2 kind of thing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
It is a remake. The original isn't in the past. 30 years previously, Bills mother, as shown in the first part, died to Triffid poisoning. Aside from that, the solar storm that blinded most of the people never happened, hence why it's in this series.
It sits in the gray area of "remake or not" where it's a separate adaptation of the same novel. The reason the plot is so different is that the 60s film does the very 60s thing of almost completely disregarding the plot of its source material and just making stuff up. Granted, this version also makes a lot of stuff up but it's much more recognisible.
The 60s version is an adaptation of a book....and it's a genuinely terrible adaptation. This is also horrible.
Yes , best movie. Should be in cinema.
Great movie! Wonderful characters & acting... excellent message.
There's a fairy story about a man with a genie, he asked to be invisible, so the genie made the world blind. This is what Triffids is based on.
Excellent
How is Eddie Izzard so good at playing sketchy dudes and villians? I'm always a 1000% more interested in a character when he's played by Mr Izzard.
I think in this case it's that he doesn't play a card-carrying villain.
At least in the first half hour, he's simply playing somebody who knows full well that the moment he starts helping others, he's going to be swamped (there's a reason that Black Death doctors carried a heavy stick), so he simply tries to keep alive himself.
It's just creepy that he doesn't show much in the way of shock, or compassion.
I read the book when I was 13yo. Wouldn't watch fireworks for years. Fantastic book!!
way better than expected! thanks !
We read this book in English at high school I was just obsessed with it and the Triffids look just the way I imagined them in the movie !!😂👋🇦🇺👀
So is this our green energy 🤔
Love this movie
Truly a bona fide classic!!
Good version , enjoyed it a lot, the original is even better
Excellent! I loved the original black and white one.
During the pandemic I read the book ( it’s a free audiobook on RUclips)
OMG so much more plot in the book - worth a listen if u are a fan of the DOTT.
Well that was fun!! Thank you, enjoyed this movie very much❤
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Nothing better than watching a 2 parter in one go, great flick 👀👍
Mummy Redgrave puts in an unexpected cameo appearance with her daughter and is a delightfully surprising jewell to this work horse of story that I am sure many school children enjoyed this in weekly instalments via cassette tape originally during story hour This is quite a glitzy action packed modern remake never the less nearly as fantastically enjoyable as the first time I came across it sat cross legged on the carpet before home time .
Imagine busting to go to the toilet at exactly at this time and missing being blinded.
'In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.'
👋🏾Thanks! Enjoyed this movie immensely!👏🏽
Until now I had only seen the original 1963 version. this was a decent remake. Eddie Izzard's character was good.
Good movie definitely worth the watch
hindi and urdu speaking must have heard the saying ANDHO ME KANA RAJA and this movie gives literal meanings to it.
This is the very First time I am looking a movie based on Blind theme. Very interesting. अच्छा सस्पेंस लग रहा है.
Joely Richardson- talent wrapped in good looks 👌
Who?
@@lucylovic Joely is a real man mate
She does a pretty good English accent.
Idky I confused her with actress Joely Fisher.
@@joelspringman523 That's prolly because she IS English' like the rest of her great acting family from now & all the way back in time....
Enjoyed this movie kept me on my toes intrigued
Eddie is even more terrifying without makeup and fancy clothes.
I didn't realize that they had made a new version of this the last one I saw had Howard Keel in it!
Me too. That's why I'm here. This is closer to the book.🌱🌾
Ive heard grown men discussing their 😱 over this original. Keel was handsome too.
Really enjoyable remake.Great cast.
I mean.... Acting in this movie is still like 150% wat better then today... You can clearly tell the actors are terryfied and their scream sound genuine and they act very naturaly when scared and hurt, not like 100% of actors seeing like an alien or a monters in todays movies... The acting realy stood up in this movie, noticibly better than todays horrors...
9.5/10
Day of the triffards one ends in an annoying cliffhanger but this is day of the triffards 1 and 2 together. really good acting not too over the top and the triffards aren't too fake looking, the way they were filmed helped.
I love Dougray Scot in this film
Nice movie , i really liked it❤😊
This more recent adaptation of the Wyndham novel - which is one of my Top Five Favorite Novels of All Time - IS a vast improvement over the previous film and TV versions, although it's still suffers from some imperfections in transition.
It's darker, more fast-paced, more epic in scope (I always felt the novel was epic in the David Lean mold), IS helped largely by its larger budget (something the first 1981 BBC miniseries suffered from at times, as its limited budget showed) and does a largely good job of updating the novel and condensing the characters and events while staying true to the source material. Joely Richardson is a great Jo Playton and Eddie Izzard is creepy as Torrence. And although the Triffids here are almost entirely depicted using CG, they are pretty intimidating and even seem to be augmented with some details of the Triffids from the 1962 film - there are even certain scenes lifted from that film. And I like the inclusion of a failed attempt to create a Triffid that would breed sterility into the rest and the depiction of the massive Triffid sporing, something the novel merely hinted at.
Having said all that, my only complaints - and I'm not including Dougray Scott, who was miscast but really was doing his best, despite the fact that his Bill Masen comes off as more sinister and seemingly less sensitive and compassionate compared to John Duttine from the '81 version - is that the narrative here seems more contrived, with the use of flashbacks to his childhood; I know it's supposed to serve a purpose later on the final act, and Masen in the novel WAS exposed to Triffid venom during childhood AND during adulthood while working on a Triffid farm, but it seems to smack more of convenience than an actual authentic set-up and payoff. Then there's Madame Durant - Vanessa Redgrave is good, but making her look and act like a deranged cult leader - with shades of her Sister Jeanne from THE DEVILS - over her community is somewhat off-putting. In the novel, film and first BBC version, she was simply misguided; the real terror there was that her good intentions weren't enough, and the lack of subtlety with her character's approach here is pretty annoying and sometimes unintentionally hilarious.
Most bothersome was the substitution of a solar storm, which while visually effective and leads to a good set piece, makes the same mistake as the film did. In the novel, a massive faulty global satellite network - some satellites containing biological warfare - caused the supposed "meteor shower" that blinded everyone on Earth while also leading to the spread of a mysterious pandemic that gradually killed off the vast majority of people witnessing the lights outside who were blinded - except those who either missed the lights, or were blinded but protected by being indoors while witnessing the event from behind windows, and that the meteor shower was used as a public government gesture to cover up for their failure, both in creating the satellite weapons network out of political fears and failure to utilize and control it properly like the Triffids. The point was that the Triffids as experimental plants were enslaved by people when they were sighted; when they were blinded by the faulty satellite network, the Triffids broke free and proved harder to control, adding further to the horrors of the resulting apocalypse.
The message of both the novel and first BBC version, which is far more effective, was that human civilization is capable not only of exploiting nature by creating the Triffids more out of avarice than the betterment of humanity, but also capable from said hubristic corruption of creating an element that brought about its own downfall, which the Triffids merely compounded, as the more civilized sighted humans including Bill, Jo, Susan and Coker had to contend not only with them but the more regressive, savage nature of their less-civilized counterparts. It's a far more important and terrifying message that made the novel a successful parable; substituting the faulty satellite weapons network with a random interstellar event like the film did - an act of nature rather than man - compromises the artistry of the novel and defeats the purpose of both Wyndham's original story and moral.
I have no doubt that a far superior, bigger-budgeted and FAR more faithful - not to mention R-rated - cinematic version of the novel and its original message is still possible in terms of brilliant storytelling adaptation AND authentic execution (including but not limited to practical FX for the Triffids). The various versions including this one have their merits and despite their setbacks are effective, but a truly far more impressive, faithful and profound adaptation of the greatest apocalyptic disaster story involving killer plants has yet to be made.
Excellent Review, thanks. Now I'll have to read the book.
I beg to differ. The 1981 version, which featured John Duttine and Emma Relph, is superior and did an excellent job of telling the story and remaining true to the book in many ways. I will say, however, that I enjoyed this version and agree that it would be nice when the producers, directors, writers etc decide to remain true to the story line of a book and deliver a film that represents the full and authentic nature of what Wyndham wrote.
When does a film ever faithfully follow a book?@@ianraper4304
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finally the apocalipse with no zombies !
Apparently the popular game app - “Plants vs Zombies” was prophetic.
Or vampires
Thank you for uploading ☺️
This triffids soooo crazy 😧😧😧. Great casting 👌
I remember reading the novel at school in the 60s...really enjoyable, as same as this film version of it Thank you very much for sharing this movie. Definitely a keeper. 🪴
a really enjoyable remake , worth the watch
wow.. this is a beautiful movie love it..
What a sweet movie I can never be tired of watching
Let me enjoy 😊 then
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Had a good time. Thank you very much. F-
Watched this on a whim....thinking it would be another C horror movie...not even a B movie. I was quite surprised by how good this one was. Only gripe is not one person had a weed-eater or chainsaw.
This is a great movie miniseries. It's just too bad that this doesn't have a US dvd release.
Awesome movie, wonderful acting.
Do u read gospels
I saw this years ago and enjoyed it as much this time as I did originally. ✌
It's worth watching.
Thank you
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I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH
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41:38....still no vanessa redgrave. Did the Triffids get her?
She played the old blind lady in the hospital!
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Good movie. Worth watching. Great lesson of do good have good do bad get bad. I enjoyed it was a nice movie.
The triffid sound effects were great😁
I remember watching parts of this movie many years ago. It felt like a fever dream.
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WOW! what a movie!!👌👍👏
Fantastic film .. like the first series
What a spastic movie. Can't believe I watched it all.
Very nice Movie, Thanks for Sharing 🥰🥰🥰
Good movie thanks for the upload
Very good flick! Thank you!
Great movie 🎉 thanks
There was a TV series in the 80s about the Triffids, and a WW3 Brit thing I think was called Spiders Web about people in Sheffield trying to survive...
Anybody knows what I mean?
Can I find it on YT?
Search words?
Anyhow, I've seen this before (Eddie Izzard as the villain, right?) so I'll enjoy this one...
Thanx for sharing 🙏
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The apocalyptic Sheffield movie you're talking about is called "Threads".
@@johnnyjohn-johnson7738 Thanx👍
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lunch and dinner watching it ! good movie .
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amazing movie thanks :)
Awesome... thanks for the upload
45:23 If you burn stuff, you pollute. That's the end of it. The only possibility of 'pollution-free' energy is to find ways of harnessing and exploiting natural energy (e.g. tidal, solar, wind, geo-thermal, etc), besides which there is NO energy source that does not generate pollution - and that goes especially for nuclear energy.
Nuclear below sea level or a dam
Geo thermal would be great. Even if pre warm the water for gas coal or nuclear. Tunneling tech RnD should get a big chunk of carbon taxes.
Geo thermal would be great. Even if pre warm the water for gas coal or nuclear. Tunneling tech RnD should get a big chunk of carbon taxes.
@@nikitaw1982 Condensate water doesn't need 'pre-warming'. Once a thermal generation system is operating, the water coming from the condenser is hot. Even so, thermal generators are historically inefficient - whether nuclear or fossil fuel.
What I am interested in, though, are your ideas for the disposal of nuclear waste. So far, nobody I've spoken to who's in favour of nuclear power wants it dumped anywhere near them. Also, have you considered the risks of nuclear power in the event of catastrophes of either natural origins (e.g. Fukushima) or 'man-made' ones (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl)?
@see ya the enrichment process waste is used as anti tank ammunition. ITS GREEN PEOPLE!
Surprised at how enjoyable this was ,
When I selected this, I didn’t realize it was a remake. But though I remember seeing the old one, I didn’t remember anything more about it than killer plants. Interesting that it’s about the consequences of our hubris and meddling when we have no way to predict the actual outcome. Overall, not a bad movie, but WAY too long. A whole lot more of it should have ended up on the cutting room floor.