I love how it makes you question the morality. No one is truly right or wrong on the stance. Had he just grabbed the kid or barricaded the door instead of arguing they might’ve been able to save the kid and his wife, but in desperation you don’t you just act and he did survive. However his wife had the antibodies and had he saved her she might’ve been able to get a cure out sooner and he wouldn’t have paid for it in the end like he did. It’s really a toss up and you can see it so many ways. Was he right to preserve himself(wether it was for the kid or himself we truly don’t know) or save another and sacrifice. This is why I love the zombie genre.
With a house full of infected and loads more on the way, the dad made the right call at the beginning imo. It makes no sense to sacrifice yourself when everyone there is almost certainly dead anyway. At least one of the parents should do everything they can to survive for their kids.
Exactly. Never why I really judged the dad. I did the first time I watched it, but after thinking about it, I think that's what most people would do if you seriously think there's nothing you could do. It was pure luck/her genetics being the reason she even survived. No one can really truly know what they'll do in that situation unless they're in it.
In the military you would have to prioritise taking down the threats before you can save a wounded in the open of enemy, if you get hit and wounded you'll just be another person another person has to save too.
Ok, I agree with everything people are saying, but did he really leave cause he was worried about the kids? In that moment, it seemed like he bailed on his wife cause he didn’t wanna die
@@SeraphicBeing17 He could barely fight one off with a weapon, if he tried to fight one unarmed hes 100% getting bitten, and more come up right after the single one. I bet money if you were unarmed, and I tried to bite you, YOU COULD NOT STOP ME.
Yes!!!. The opening scene haunts me. It's the most stressful moment I've ever seen. There was nothing the guy could do to save his wife. They both would have died. It was such a heart wrenching moment
@@Gnossiene369 yes I watched it loser. That was their opinion. I shared my opinion lol. We are different people you troll. I said "yes!!!" To the fact that they are watching the movie
I think the implication is that the kid infects the rest of Europe now. They fought so hard to save this kid because he's immune, never stopping to consider the risk he poses the world if he gets infected and things go wrong and he can pass off as a non infected because he's immune. And that's likely what happened. After he became a carrier, even something like a cheeks kiss from his sister could potentially infect her. A sneeze, maybe. Or he could be getting a checkup from a nurse or doctor. Sympathy, unfortunately, allows a ticking time bomb to escape the UK. This movie truly is a tragedy. It's a chain reaction from the moment the dad leaves his wife of the worst and best human characteristics, that lead to the worst outcomes.
The doc should had lock down and guards and full NBC suits required soon as she saw them bites. Infact why weren't they in suits the entire time? That's what they are for. She knew how important the wife was yet did nothing like she had no power. Nobody enters that room, shoot on site anyone trying to enter until they get a setup to figure things our and cure the world. Then even working with it is so dangerous. I see why the general is gun ho but stupid. Listen to the doc but give her the code red protocol to cook her ass and the cure and the entire building soon as one thing goes wrong. They got civis walking around like they own the place too. The entire island on lock and willing to blow it but command HQ open without military escort? Where was the doc at? No thought of the danger of infection spreading when that lady is the only immune. That's just a few what if's and stupids of people who should know better as it's their field.
More ranting . . . Yet reality check as we seen how that has gone with incompetence and corruption. Bureaucrats refused to listen tor even allow the doctors to debate like they had it planned as their agenda was sent from god on high and it had to be followed no matter the risk. I've seen people ignore all dangers and just follow orders without thought. To even question had people acting nuts even after they found out some of the genetic sequence already had a patent on it. So I guess it all is believable. People are just that dumb no matter where they are at in life. I shoulda known too. General or doctor. I've seen it enough but still think people are like me and I'm like them. Some in the comments maybe but I've tried to get high level professionals from multiple disciples to work as a team before and it's just as hard as herding cats or any yahoo off the street. It can be done but you get the same facepalm moments you'd think shouldn't happen. Even seen the Pope have to deal with some rival denominations or something as if they were children competing for his affection or just to twist words trying to be called favorites. Sometimes it feels like nobody in the world ages past 12. I'm sure I can be the same way you just gotta find whatever it is that makes me so.
@@aj897 well yes but the point of the ending, what it is showing, is that the kid himself IS the reason the virus has spread to France. It was, up until this point, contained to the UK. So the tragedy of the movie is that everyone tried to get the cure, this kid, to safe hands and it ends up being a catastrophe. He likely infected his sister or someone close to him hy accident, so likely the cure is dead. Everything about the ending is ominous. Its not hopeful. More a showcase of failure due to one of the most human of feelings: sympathy. The friend of Jeremy Renner's character takes the kid on board not knowing he's dooming an entire continent. And the sister doesn't say anything because she doesn't want to lose her brother. Fear, probably the most human of feelings.
Honestly, I did too, not only that she intentionally infects Don when they meet up again, watch her expression after she kisses him. She didn't really think that through too good because since she was strapped down, she was completely vulnerable with an Infected Don, she ends up getting herself & hundreds of people killed & infected because of her actions. She could've told Don that she was infected or even argue with him but infecting him like that caused soo many deaths & ultimately ends up getting her son infected as well. Crazy movie but I love this & 28 Days Later and I'm still waiting for a 28 Months Later. Hope it happens one day.
@@TheBraunMachine2011 She couldn’t speak. If you remember the movie, she was mostly screaming when someone tried to separate her from the kids and clean her. I’m guessing she was traumatized. In that instance, it’s the father’s fault for kissing a patient without checking the information.
you guys were lso talking about how he left his wife, like what would you do in that situation? she gave up her life for a kid she never knew, at first he did everything to protect her, but at that point hes was cut off from her with serveral infected, they're stupid fast and he had no weapon, and you get infected so fast from blood getting in your system, at that point its every man for them self lol
@@BlairPeron they were boarded up for at least three weeks, they should’ve known not to let people in, keep quiet and how fast this infection spreads. Don is an asshole for sure but it makes it more realistic that he just didn’t bother helping her
Yeah. Everyone is always like "I would have stayed and helped". Right. As if he could've done anything against them all. I bet I would've done the same thing. And tbh their children had still one of their parents with that decision. Even if that didn't last long and screwed up everything lol
@@BlairPeron It's one of those things no one will ever know for sure... It was a split second decision and besides an infected tried to jump right at him so it is a natural reflex to retreat and the only way to do it was by closing the door, and after that, even if he regreted that decision there was nothing he could do, and the kid not being his son, he had his own son and daughter in a safe zone so perhaps it was something that came to his mind either. That's a good scene, it shows people don't always "play the hero" like most movies like to pretend they do.
i would really recommend Dead Set ,its a mini series 5 episodes, but its 2 and a half hours fully, so you could watch it like a movie it's by charlie brooker the creator of Black Mirror and it's probably one of of the best zombie projects EVER!!
I caught the first episode on TV at some bizarre time of day then never managed to find it anywhere again since. I'm still hoping to watch the full series at some point, but obscure British TV series aren't that easy to access here (Sweden)
25:50, actually everything is the mothers fault, literally everything, if she hadn't been driven by emotion and gone for that kid in the attic then she wouldn't have been caught in the bedroom like she was, and then her going back to her home and the kids doing the same and then alerting the military to their presence, all emotion driven decisions, it's all good and well to be emotional but it's obviously not survival instinct number 1, as shown when the husband tries kissing his wife and then becomes infected, emotional decision.
You can't always control how you respond in a life or death situation. She's a mother - which means it's very likely that her natural drive was to protect children. She may not have had control over that; not enough people seem to understand that in a situation like that, your body can literally just DO things without your brain ever making a conscious decision. Your body is designed to do that, because you don't always have time to consider your options in a situation like this. So it literally just takes over and does stuff, and you have NO control over it.
Fr, and the fact that they put all of the living people in one big room lmao, when I feel like separating them into multiple different rooms would work a lot better, or if not, then yeah, get some guards in there, and the fact that there's some back door with no one there is just laughable.
"in The House in a Heartbeat" is the title of the track played throughout this entire movie and honestly on its own it is an amazing piece of music for an amazing zombie movie. So happy you guys reacted to these ones (:
Just to clear it up: the infected cannot talk. The clip you heard in the last movie was an error - apparently they used temporary sound clips during the scenes, to get the feel of the scene across, and they forgot to remove the voice clip of the boy saying "I hate you". That's not supposed to be significant.
Yes, this was the comment I was looking for. Indeed they do not talk, and that scene with the kid was just a case of erroneous audio as you said. I hope they remove that in any re-release because I think it's something I think a lot of people hear and then believe to be a fact.
@@BlairPeron I found SOME enjoyment in the sequel, but it's been years and I have yet to see the first film, which I'm sure is leaps and bounds better with the budget/premise lol.
this is my favorite Zombie movie besides Train to Busan or Dawn of the Dead, the cinematography of the first scene and all of the intense scenes really encapsulates the anxiety they make you feel. I recommend watching Cargo! It’s less action based & more emotional but still a really great watch
I prefer 28 Days Later but this one had amazing, heart-pounding scenes (like the "Abandon selective targeting" and helicopter bloodbath scenes), but I felt so annoyed at that entire family who were completely at fault for this second wave (dad AND kids). I always understood that they were the ones who spread the infection on the continent so I expect that the helicopter pilot and sister at least are dead. It was nice re-discovering it with you guys.
Agreed, and if the pilot and sister are dead, it's most likely because one of them was accidentally infected by the boy, and they would've killed him after they turned. Like dad did with mom. So yeah. Shit show.
The movie "The Crazies" is kinda in the neighborhood of the "28 Days/Weeks" series (Even World War Z) in the sense that the Zombie type people are not necessarily referred to as such during the course of the film but "Zombie" is still the best category to stick it in. Also another interesting one to analyze on trying to figure out how it spreads, wtf is going on, and how people react as the world falls apart around them. Worth a look!
There is an un-produced screenplay I saw online a while back called 28 Hours Later, set right at the beginning of the outbreak and witnessing the downfall of society and the infection spreading. I read part of the beginning and it actually seemed decent.
I'm willing to bet that this role is what got Robert Carlisle his job on once upon a Time playing rumpelstiltskin. Killer TV show with a killer character that you guys should watch by the way. Even if it did slowly tumble into mediocrity and stupidity. Like many a TV show of course.
Hi from Spain. I love your reactions. I think you must see REC, spanish zombie/infected movie. I found it really well done for spanish cinema standards and with some really scaring secuences. Keep doing such a great job.
I'm not from spain, I don't even speak spanish, but I can confirm this recommendation. It's really good, make sure to watch the original REC and not the american remake.
There's been rumour on it since after 28WL in 2007, but over the years both Boyle and Garland have said it would go ahead , and then also said there were issues to it being made (at one stage there were rumoured rights issues from 28DL). They have said they had a story for the 3rd film but nothing has been mentioned post 2019 , or anything of a screenplay.
The way to contract the infection is yes, through spit and blood. The obvious bite and scratch might work as well, but is deffos transmitted through saliva.
This is the first infected I've watch when I was 5 years old, since then I'm obsessed to every horror/scary/jumpscare/gore, brutal movies. It's like there's monster inside of me that got released as a kid.
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland was working on a script for 28 Months Later last update and is ready for them to be made when they have a good time/schedule.
I am really surprised at how harshly you judged the dad. He wasn't that bad. He would have died if he tried to save his wife and him going to see her wasn't that dumb of a decision because he had no reason to believe she was infected. No one did. Him omitting that he left her is understandable since he still wants to have a relationship with his kids. I feel like you overreacted to the whole dad situation. He was by far my favorite character and my biggest gripe is that they killed him off without giving him an actual arc. I wanted to see him with his kids and then at the end see him sacrifice himself for them. That would have been a far better movie. As an aside, I love the way this movie is filmed plus the score is amazing. Looking forward to your reactions to future movies!
James always overreacts to literally every single morally gray decision. Dude pretends like he would be a perfect hero in every single scenario possible, ignoring facts at every step. Like he ignored how it was 100% the mom’s fault for bringing the kid in the first place, then not grabbing her husband’s hand when he reached out to grab her, instead choosing to save the random kid instead of going to her own family. Then intentionally infecting her husband and killing thousands.
my god is that the one on the right i know what you mean every time something not so pleasant happens he jumps into white knight mode" come on guys" "you cant do that " and everyone who acts human is dumb when you know for a fact the little prick would be crying and pissing the whole time.@@SnailHatan
You should absolutely watch the infected/zombie film Quarantine. It's the shot-for-shot American remake of the Spanish film REC, which is also fantastic and a recommendation of mine. In fact, the whole REC series is worth watching. On a side note, the lead in Quarantine is Jennifer Carpenter who played the role of Emily in the awesome horror movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I think you two would really enjoy that one.
The first movie set up an interesting question: could the virus ever cross an ocean? It seems unlikely because of the speed of infection. It’s hard to imagine a pilot taking off as people are biting each other onboard his plane and then calmly flying to his destination. This movie explains one way it could happen. The mother was immune to the virus, but she still carried it and could spread it to others. When her husband kissed her he became infected and started the outbreak all over again. Then he spread it to his son, who like his mother is immune but can still spread it. In an effort to learn about the virus and develop a cure or a vaccine he’s transported to France. Some simple mistake happens, and the son spreads the virus to someone else. Maybe somebody shares a glass with him. And now all of Europe, Asia and Africa will probably be infected soon.
There's the possibility of the infected overrunning the tunnel that goes under the English Channel to France? That's one way for the virus to potentially make its way to continental Europe and beyond. Though I think it could be slowed by the time the outbreak reached further inland in like Germany or Switzerland.
I was lucky enough to watch this movie at the cinema at Canary Wharf (where the 1st half of the film is set) so was very eerie leaving movie at 11:30pm and walking out to the exact spot I had just seen overrun then fire bombed.
U guys definitely must check out “The Road” - which was also a novel. The road perfectly fits in with this “apocalypse” marathon you guys are doing. It’s definitely a deep meaningful film with tons of discussion and realism to it that is definitely up your guys alley. You’ll love it, please give it a reaction
28 weeks is a decent sequel but I still find 28 Days later to be far superior. The characters in 28 Days are fantastic, the gritty tone of how the film is shot, the atmosphere, etc. Masterpiece. Iconic opening tho.
I love the opening to this movie and it always makes me giggle when people get mad at the dad. I noticed this after watching this movie a few times but the dad didnt have a weapon. Just his hands which would not work at all with these infected. So they would ve all died. Fight or flight kicked in and he had to go. I get it. I felt really bad for him to be honest even though he did lie to the kids and what not. I was like damn that sucks.
Great reaction! Personally I blame the military for the reinfection. Why was the mother not being guarded? Even if they'd let the dad in to see her and he'd become infected, they could have immediately taken him out. Also when I first watched the movie I assumed the implication was the infected who'd escaped London had run all the way through the channel tunnel into France but that is very implausible because it's like 50km and there's no way the French wouldn't have seen them coming.
Know this is a year late,but genuinely suprised how harshly you guys and other's in the comment's judged the dad,like what did everyone expect him to do? Single handedly fight the horde of infected rushing the house that was between him and his wife? His brain made a split second decision on autopilot in survival mode.
I liked this one better than “28 Days Later”. It was creepier, to me. I didn’t really blame the father (not as much as I did the kids)…if memory serves, he wouldn’t have been able to save his wife had he stayed or run back. He would have surely died. And, the guilt was killing him. (I mean, if I was in the same ship, and it was, like, my mother being attacked…I would def be dead trying to save her.) Again, if memory serves, I think I blamed the kids for the infection getting into the safe zone. If they hadn’t behaved like spoiled brats, breaking the rules and going past the border, the infection wouldn’t have made its way inside the safe zone. The kids had been there, what, one night…? And they brought death to everyone who lived there and followed the rules. Did the kids ever realize and acknowledge and feel bad about that?
Shouldn't really blame the kids either. Spoiled brats? They were doing it because it was important to them, to get stuff from their home to remind them of their mom. Not like they wanted to get back an iPhone or something like that.
@@mothermedusa9921 yeah…but it’s not like they hadn’t seen their mother long enough for the boy to forget what she looks like. He’s not 2. And seriously, were they not there for only one or two nights before taking off? I mean, how is it mot being bratty to do something as stupid and dangerous as going past the border for photos? Putting everyone else in jeopardy. Like, wait until after the freaking virus has passed. The pictures will prob still be there. Although, I can’t remember…was there also a pet they went back for? Because that would make a lot more sense and I could understand that better than pictures.
He gets a hard time for leaving his wife in the beginning and it is fucked up. I do think though that there's no other scenario were he lives. it is fucked up but she should have left the kid honestly no one knows how they would truly react in such situations.
Such a classic. If you ask me, i don't think the dad was entirely wrong for leaving her. Seeing everyone in the house get taken by the zombies, he was in survival mode to protect his wife- but she was trying to put them in jeopardy for someone they don't know and just met. Yes it was her motherly extinct to protect the child, but those zombies were on their asses. That being said, she should've went out the widow with the husband. Honestly. i like this one more than the first one🔥🔥🔥🔥
Too bad she didn’t have the motherly instinct to protect her own children. Or the wifely instinct to take her husband’s hand when he reached out for her. Or the familial instinct to say “We’ve been safe for 7 months, maybe I shouldn’t bring a complete stranger who is being chased by rage filled maniacs to my family.”
That makes no sense, that tunnel would have been sealed as soon as the initial outbreak happened. Clearly the infected kid started the outbreak in Europe
I became a huge fan of Robert Carlyle after I seen him on the ABC series Once Upon a Time which he is absolutely amazing in as Rumplestiltskin You guys should check it out on your own on Disney + if you want. You won't be disappointed.
I read that they are working on a third film, titled 28 Years Later. I just hope that they don't wait until 28 years after the original to release it (although we're getting pretty close to that point).
I watched this movie in grade 2 and it scarred me for literal years man. I couldn’t sleep alone for years. Every time I heard something outside at night I would just imagine all these infected running out. Really intense movie.
My theory about the ending is that the brother and sister shared a water bottle or something and then she turned and killed him. Then she and the now-infected pilot went on to infect Paris.
@@nahqiv Because the kid is carrying the virus like the mom did. Accidental blood or saliva swap and BOOM. And more importantly, the kids didn't know about mom being a carrier and infecting dad, so they didn't know that that's what happened to Andy when his eyes changed after the bite. They didn't know he could infect people so they wouldn't have exactly been taking precautions. I suppose the tunnel is a thought as well, but considering they went through with nerve gas and flame throwers, I didn't really give it much thought that infected got away. Other than the dad...he had some weird extra cognitive abilities or something.
@@nahqiv that makes no sense, the tunnel would have been long sealed, no way they would leave that open when a virus that just killed off most of Britain
I love the way you guys discuss the movies you watch. To me, art is always best when it makes us feel and forces us to consider things outside of our normal daily experience. For a more light-hearted zombie film, I highly recommend "The Dead Don't Die."
Glad to see so many comments defending the dad, yes he made mistakes but in the moment in the beginning there wasnt anything he could have done for her, and frankly her surviving is so unlikely its the most egregious plot convenience in the movie..
As i have mentioned the storyboard made by the fans from the first movie you guys did the fans also did 28 weeks and beyond and it said the french military did use nukes to halt the spread of the infected and it didn't make any difference.
I hope you guys do space horror/thriller action movies: Event Horizon Sunshine Red Planet Sphere Pandorum Mission to mars Life Of course the Alien movies and Prometheus would fall into this category as well.
Haha this is one of my favorite childhood movies 🥰 This reaction was fantastic, can't wait to see more! I like how you have pointed out how the virus as a seeming metaphor, especially with our main characters' family. It's really fun to break it down in the context of toxic family dynamics and/or toxic individualism (or whatever their professional terms are). I'm thrilled that you hate Don as much as I do. In a family unit where one parent has the most power, oftentimes that power can be mishandled and misguided. The external power in this series with the most influence is the Rage Virus, obviously, and this means the most dangerous character is the father. He wields this infection like a hammer to be a malignant force on his own family. He's selfish in the most individualistic way, and in this series that means he's unredemptive. Selfish characters are fun to explore, there's a whole range of them to pick a flavor. Depending on the universe, they're either loved, celebrated, tolerated, or hated. We were asked to hate this selfish man and find his actions deplorable 🥰 and i will 🥰 Selfish people can still prioritize their families in hard times--he did not. He used his family as a cover for his individualistic selfishness and when they were no longer useful to him, he abandoned them and then tried to kill them. Unlike one infected father we've seen in this series (that guy from 28 Days Later i forgot his name lol 🙈), he tries to protect his daughter from himself all the way to the end of his consciousness. He's sympathetic even when he's a threat to the group ❤. There was none of that tragic heroism with this movie's father. The dad here is actively seeking out his family to harm them! The first victim of his 😡rage😡 is his wife: he abandons her when she needs him most to further his own agenda (self-preservation); and then runs back to her for forgiveness (self gratification), where he immediately kills her after he's infected (self gratification). And while the case can be argued that as 🤕infected🤕 he did not willingly choose to murder his wife, he, while under this terrible influence, still killed his wife in a very drawn out, horrific way that is distinctly different from how most infected kill their victims. 🙈He pushes his thumbs in her eyes and then beats her to death🙈 That's not a standard way to die in this series! He had chosen this way to end his wife!! As the person who's supposed to be on equal footing with her own husband, it's clear that he did not care about her life as his own. He's a muderous hypocrite, she deserved to at least die divorced. He's shown that when times are rough, he chooses himself at the detriment of his marriage, and this directly affects his relationship with his kids. He continues to wear his wedding ring to show that he's "widowed" to gain sympathy from the part of his life that isn't uprooted (his kids are alive and ignorant of his choices) and this works out for him for a while... Until they find out that he lied. Your reaction was great at this part 17:22 . That's exactly how it was! He lied about his actions because he knew they were wrong! And when his kids pointed it out, he deflects and walks away. He would not have taken the initiative to be honest if he wasn't guilty, and even then he wants to apologize under the veil that he's a good father and husband and he was helpless in the sitiation. When he's infected, all the people who were non-familial died by bites and he moved on like every other infected person. But when facing his TWELVE YEAR OLD SON, a not even a teenager kid, he stares him down like a predator, as someone who's t h i n k i n g about the pain he could inflict on his own child. We know how the rest of that scene played out, and it's clear that from this point forward he's not a mindless victim following the whims of this mind altering disease, he's using this destructive virus to hunt his kids because he wants to. And he's successful for the most part. He kills his children's support network (Scarlet, and let's throw in Doyle there since this new wave of infection is Don's fault), traps them underground where he has the upperhand, and then attacks his son! He only stopped biting his son (a drawn out bite, once again non-standard way to die by infected), because his daughter reminded him about his wife so he was going to attack her instead. This guy is the worst. I can't imagine being married to someone like that!! 🤮🤬🤬🤬 [Note: another Don-induced death that shows that he has some control over his muderous tendencies is Scarlet's. For some reason, he didn't bite her, and I'm willing to bet that it was because he wanted to be the only one that was hunting his family and didn't want competition] On that end, I think you guys would really like reacting to 30 Days of Night and Silent Hill! 😝 Their both anxiety inducing and heart racing, I can't recommend them enough 💖💖💖
I mean the dad tried to save mom and she chose suicide with that new kid. Only took one bite though and she left that kid to die just like the father. lol
Y’all should watch some more comedy zombie movies like ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ or ‘Cooties’ or ‘Little Monsters’ or ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ all of which have great takes on zombies.
That makes no sense, the tunnel would have been sealed as soon as the initial outbreak happened, no way they would just leave it open. And as someone commented above, that tunnel shown at the end is not the same as the England to France tunnel, totally different area.
The boy was infected. An asymptomatic carrier of the virus like his mother but could still infect people. It shows that the Helicopter was empty hinting that he probably got his sister or the military guy infected. Now they originally were talking about making a third film called 28 months later last discussed in 2019. But because of a dispute regarding the rights of the original it was never made. Which is to bad, I for one would have liked to see what they would have done with the third installment. Anyway thanx for the reaction take care..xx
@@nahqiv It litterally says word for word plausible reasons why the infection spread. Andy is the reason why the infection spread to the mainland, As they travelled to the mainland with Andy as a carrier. His mother was also a carrier and spread it to her husband with a simple kiss. But in the comic book series there were other carriers that could have spread it as well..Anyway thanx for your imput. I appreciate it. Have an awesome weekend..xx
28 days later, one of my favorites infected/zombie film ever, this one doesnt work for me, I mean, the beginning it's amazing but then it just falls down
It’s not. It is known to having the dumbest group of survivors in a zombie film ever. And our two mates already hate dumb decision making in the other zombie films they reacted to. Watching Black Summer would make them throw a chair through the wall 😅
If I was in the position of the mum and i'm surrounded by zombies and whichever way i turn, I'd get attacked, I'd rather that my loved ones run away and abandon me. Though I do understand the look and feeling of betrayal from the mum. Because though I want my family to be safe, I think I'd feel betrayed too if I say "help me" and they give me a look that says "nope" then run off. But that's only an initial reaction. If I survive and look back, I think I'd still be more thankful that they escaped and hope that they are safe somewhere.
It did not spread somehow. The boy was bitten, showed no sign of aggression and Doyle told his friend to bring the kids across the channel. That would be France or Belgium or Netherlands. Well, it's a brilliant ending to a brilliant movie.
If they did then somebody wanted that to happen. How could they say it was cut off otherwise. Although they did say it was safe and brought people near the infected across the river.
No. Why do so many people think that? That makes no sense, that tunnel would have been sealed off since the initial outbreak. The kid started the outbreak in Europe, he was a carrier.
Have either of you guys by chance not seen I Am Legend? Probably a long shot but i think it would be an awesome video. One of my favorite apocalypse infected/zombie type movies ever
Heroes movies teached people what you can do any hero shit and get away with it cause you're immortal. But in reality you probably just die trying. So when movie do the realistic trope, showing despair situation where all you really can do except diying is run, people now considering it as a hated cowardness. Unreasonable mindless hero death is a choice of them, i guess, but somehow doubt what it's would really be thier brave actions in the horrifying reality.. hope not, and at least some of them will survive, not all bravely die in the one room. It's like toxic positivity, only toxic bravery, wich leads only to more unnecessary deaths))
Toxic bravery? I’m not sure that’s a thing. Hero’s show us what we should strive to be even if we do fail. And many hero’s are mortal and do fail. Here’s our problem, if he had made that decision to save his kids, or referenced that in any way, totally ok with it. What he did do, was abandon his wife, not because he wanted to save the kids but to save himself. He made an oath, before friends and family, and God, to protect that women, and to act TOGETHER, as a single unit till death. His failure to do that for seemingly selfish motives was our problem. As far as toxic heroism? That’s not heroism, so there shouldn’t be such a thing. There is either heroism or not. If it’s “toxic” then it isn’t heroism
@@whitenoisereacts "Toxic bravery? I’m not sure that’s a thing." Sure it is, ever seen the backwards American flag? No retreat no matter what just mach straight into death because you can no longer use your brain and retreat. That's what is stands for. lol Regular flag is a field of blue on the left. The backwards, I've seen in black with the stars on the right. Upside down people use to signal distress even though that ain't official.
The “umm actually, it’s an ‘outbreak’ movie” people need to be shoved into a locker. If we’re going to get nit-picky about it then the only zombie movies are the ones pre-Night Of The Living Dead/The Last Man On Earth and are about Voodoo-style zombies. Australian zombie movie that I would recommend is the Netflix film Cargo. Fantastic film, stars Martin Freedman (plays Watson in the BBC Sherlock series w/ Benny Cumberbatch and was Bilbo in the Hobbit movies.) The intro to 28 Weeks is great, but it kind of starts to fall apart in the third act. Harold Perrineau (Lost and Romeo + Juliet,) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, Arrival, & The Avengers,) are better in the film than I had anticipated when I originally saw it. Robert Carlyle is great as usual, since it seems like y’all aren’t as familiar with him I highly recommend checking out the Horror-Comedy Ravenous (1999,) Period, Action-Comedy Plunkett & Macleane (1999,) & the infamous Irvine Welsh adaptation Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle also directed 28 Days Later, BTW.) Anyway, 28 Weeks Later is a great allegory for the occupation in Iraq, (notice the prominent use of the term “green zone”,) but I also think that may have harmed the film a bit. Americans occupying London and messing that up as well doesn’t project the good vibes people going to the theater looking for an escape would’ve wanted. Then again, it was a pretty bad year for Horror in general. 2007 brought us most notably George A. Romero’s Diary Of The Dead, (the found-footage, 5th installment of his Dead series,) and the first of the Rob Zombie Halloween reboot movies. I think something that people probably got turned off by was that even if his wife was immune [to rage *rolls eyes*] wouldn’t the infected have torn her apart anyway? Also, that “how did he get in” & “I didn’t expect that to work out so well,” moments, they had me like, “really?!” 😒 when I first watched it as well. I also think the end annoyed a lot of people. I think you’re definitely meant to believe they spread the “Rage” into France, (how far from the British Isles do you expect their helicopter to fly?” Anyway, if you were to watch any one of the films I mentioned here, I would say Ravenous over and over again, it’s worth it. Let me try and sell it with this log-line: Civil War era, frontier cannibals. ( Maybe try gaming the algorithm by using hashtags for films the actors in the movie were in: Lost, Trainspotting, Scream, Ferris Bueller, How High, Band Of Brothers, What If, Memento, Prometheus, etc. 🤷🏻♀️ ) *Just crossed my mind but George A. Romero’s The Crazies is another film similar to this in that it is about the government’s response to an outbreak that causes people to go crazy-Not an “outbreak” movie in that there’s a zombie-like thing that is technically an outbreak but just an outbreak, lol. 2008’s The Happening is basically The Crazies meets Day Of The Triffids (book, not film,) both being very influential on these genres.
There's a Spanish "zombie" movie called REC (like the record button on a video camera), and a US remake called Quarantine. Either one is good as they're basically the exact same movie, except for one being in English and the other in Spanish. Also, it's been so long since I've seen this movie that I didn't even realise that Heimdall was in it.
Not sure if the word red herring is right but the scene of showing the son eyes and the medical officer saying “it’s hereditary” meaning it’s genetic and later see the mom not turning, you think the son is immune too. It isn’t at the end since it’s slowly spreading but he isn’t immune. The ending isn’t clear but assumingely the helicopter piloted either need to refuel, head to check point or something happened with the son with it being blatant what happened. He, the boy and his sister are infected and turned. With them in France now or basically the mainland of Europe they now can spread it to other countries since it isn’t contained like the island of England/Scotland. The letter that says for dad assumingely the sister went truly insane, knew what was gonna happened but let it happening since to her it’s pointless now.
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The beginning scene with the attack is one of the most brutal and intense openings EVER in a horror film imo!
The opening is the best part of 28 weeks, along with a few other key moments. I just find 28 Days to be better for the most part but hey 🤷
Brutal? Watch more films.
along with Zack Snyder's Dawn of the dead and A Quiet Place 2
I'd say it's more reminiscent of 2004 Dawn of the Dead.
I love how it makes you question the morality. No one is truly right or wrong on the stance. Had he just grabbed the kid or barricaded the door instead of arguing they might’ve been able to save the kid and his wife, but in desperation you don’t you just act and he did survive. However his wife had the antibodies and had he saved her she might’ve been able to get a cure out sooner and he wouldn’t have paid for it in the end like he did. It’s really a toss up and you can see it so many ways. Was he right to preserve himself(wether it was for the kid or himself we truly don’t know) or save another and sacrifice. This is why I love the zombie genre.
With a house full of infected and loads more on the way, the dad made the right call at the beginning imo. It makes no sense to sacrifice yourself when everyone there is almost certainly dead anyway. At least one of the parents should do everything they can to survive for their kids.
Did they expect him to just die and leave his kids as orphans?
Exactly. Never why I really judged the dad. I did the first time I watched it, but after thinking about it, I think that's what most people would do if you seriously think there's nothing you could do. It was pure luck/her genetics being the reason she even survived.
No one can really truly know what they'll do in that situation unless they're in it.
In the military you would have to prioritise taking down the threats before you can save a wounded in the open of enemy, if you get hit and wounded you'll just be another person another person has to save too.
And he had no weapons to kill them with, punching zombies usually don't go too well.
Ok, I agree with everything people are saying, but did he really leave cause he was worried about the kids? In that moment, it seemed like he bailed on his wife cause he didn’t wanna die
For Don's defense, the F was he supposed to do at the beginning? He would have died if he tried to save them.
Yea that's pretty obvious lol
I thought he was gonna survive till the end. He was doing the most in the beginning buying all of them time to escape
He did try to save her. She ran to the random ass kid who endangered her entire family instead.
There was 1 zombie only, he can fight it while his wife run and the kid
@@SeraphicBeing17 He could barely fight one off with a weapon, if he tried to fight one unarmed hes 100% getting bitten, and more come up right after the single one. I bet money if you were unarmed, and I tried to bite you, YOU COULD NOT STOP ME.
Yes!!!. The opening scene haunts me. It's the most stressful moment I've ever seen. There was nothing the guy could do to save his wife. They both would have died. It was such a heart wrenching moment
I still have nightmares about it. Running as fast I can and waking up sweaty.
@@Gnossiene369 yes I watched it loser. That was their opinion. I shared my opinion lol. We are different people you troll. I said "yes!!!" To the fact that they are watching the movie
it was her fault. He tried to pull her with him.
especially as he's running and you see all of them coming over the hill. I would shit blood lmao
The eye gouging scene was scarier.
I think the implication is that the kid infects the rest of Europe now. They fought so hard to save this kid because he's immune, never stopping to consider the risk he poses the world if he gets infected and things go wrong and he can pass off as a non infected because he's immune.
And that's likely what happened. After he became a carrier, even something like a cheeks kiss from his sister could potentially infect her. A sneeze, maybe. Or he could be getting a checkup from a nurse or doctor. Sympathy, unfortunately, allows a ticking time bomb to escape the UK.
This movie truly is a tragedy. It's a chain reaction from the moment the dad leaves his wife of the worst and best human characteristics, that lead to the worst outcomes.
The doc should had lock down and guards and full NBC suits required soon as she saw them bites. Infact why weren't they in suits the entire time? That's what they are for. She knew how important the wife was yet did nothing like she had no power. Nobody enters that room, shoot on site anyone trying to enter until they get a setup to figure things our and cure the world.
Then even working with it is so dangerous. I see why the general is gun ho but stupid. Listen to the doc but give her the code red protocol to cook her ass and the cure and the entire building soon as one thing goes wrong. They got civis walking around like they own the place too. The entire island on lock and willing to blow it but command HQ open without military escort? Where was the doc at? No thought of the danger of infection spreading when that lady is the only immune. That's just a few what if's and stupids of people who should know better as it's their field.
More ranting . . .
Yet reality check as we seen how that has gone with incompetence and corruption. Bureaucrats refused to listen tor even allow the doctors to debate like they had it planned as their agenda was sent from god on high and it had to be followed no matter the risk. I've seen people ignore all dangers and just follow orders without thought. To even question had people acting nuts even after they found out some of the genetic sequence already had a patent on it. So I guess it all is believable. People are just that dumb no matter where they are at in life.
I shoulda known too. General or doctor. I've seen it enough but still think people are like me and I'm like them. Some in the comments maybe but I've tried to get high level professionals from multiple disciples to work as a team before and it's just as hard as herding cats or any yahoo off the street. It can be done but you get the same facepalm moments you'd think shouldn't happen.
Even seen the Pope have to deal with some rival denominations or something as if they were children competing for his affection or just to twist words trying to be called favorites. Sometimes it feels like nobody in the world ages past 12. I'm sure I can be the same way you just gotta find whatever it is that makes me so.
If you saw the ending, the virus already got to France, so him being the cure is what the movie intended him to be
@@aj897 well yes but the point of the ending, what it is showing, is that the kid himself IS the reason the virus has spread to France.
It was, up until this point, contained to the UK. So the tragedy of the movie is that everyone tried to get the cure, this kid, to safe hands and it ends up being a catastrophe. He likely infected his sister or someone close to him hy accident, so likely the cure is dead.
Everything about the ending is ominous. Its not hopeful. More a showcase of failure due to one of the most human of feelings: sympathy. The friend of Jeremy Renner's character takes the kid on board not knowing he's dooming an entire continent. And the sister doesn't say anything because she doesn't want to lose her brother. Fear, probably the most human of feelings.
@@sriver004 uhhh no. There's a tunnel linking England to France, and a bunch of infected got away. It doesn't have to be related to the kid.
i blame the wife, they were good for weeks then she had to open the damn door
Truth.
Agreed!
Honestly, I did too, not only that she intentionally infects Don when they meet up again, watch her expression after she kisses him.
She didn't really think that through too good because since she was strapped down, she was completely vulnerable with an Infected Don, she ends up getting herself & hundreds of people killed & infected because of her actions. She could've told Don that she was infected or even argue with him but infecting him like that caused soo many deaths & ultimately ends up getting her son infected as well. Crazy movie but I love this & 28 Days Later and I'm still waiting for a 28 Months Later. Hope it happens one day.
@@TheBraunMachine2011 i see wym but i was referring to the opening of the movie
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She couldn’t speak. If you remember the movie, she was mostly screaming when someone tried to separate her from the kids and clean her. I’m guessing she was traumatized. In that instance, it’s the father’s fault for kissing a patient without checking the information.
Fun Fact, The Director of the first film directed the opening. I think that’s why it’s the best part of the film imo.
That's not true 😂
@@RodAnOc it’s on the commentary track. He guest directed the intro
I don’t think that’s true
you guys were lso talking about how he left his wife, like what would you do in that situation? she gave up her life for a kid she never knew, at first he did everything to protect her, but at that point hes was cut off from her with serveral infected, they're stupid fast and he had no weapon, and you get infected so fast from blood getting in your system, at that point its every man for them self lol
i agree with you
As a father I'd like to think I'd die before leaving a child to be torn apart. But its easy to say that not having experienced something like that.
@@BlairPeron they were boarded up for at least three weeks, they should’ve known not to let people in, keep quiet and how fast this infection spreads. Don is an asshole for sure but it makes it more realistic that he just didn’t bother helping her
Yeah. Everyone is always like "I would have stayed and helped". Right. As if he could've done anything against them all. I bet I would've done the same thing. And tbh their children had still one of their parents with that decision. Even if that didn't last long and screwed up everything lol
@@BlairPeron It's one of those things no one will ever know for sure... It was a split second decision and besides an infected tried to jump right at him so it is a natural reflex to retreat and the only way to do it was by closing the door, and after that, even if he regreted that decision there was nothing he could do, and the kid not being his son, he had his own son and daughter in a safe zone so perhaps it was something that came to his mind either. That's a good scene, it shows people don't always "play the hero" like most movies like to pretend they do.
i would really recommend Dead Set ,its a mini series 5 episodes, but its 2 and a half hours fully, so you could watch it like a movie it's by charlie brooker the creator of Black Mirror and it's probably one of of the best zombie projects EVER!!
I caught the first episode on TV at some bizarre time of day then never managed to find it anywhere again since. I'm still hoping to watch the full series at some point, but obscure British TV series aren't that easy to access here (Sweden)
Yes, it's awesome!
Watched that on Netflix a while back, it is pretty great.
@@Lannisen it's on netflix in quite a few countries, though not sure if it is in Sweden
For me the dad made the right call, survive at all costs for your children.
Then he made the stupidest call in human history by kissing his infected wife.
25:50, actually everything is the mothers fault, literally everything, if she hadn't been driven by emotion and gone for that kid in the attic then she wouldn't have been caught in the bedroom like she was, and then her going back to her home and the kids doing the same and then alerting the military to their presence, all emotion driven decisions, it's all good and well to be emotional but it's obviously not survival instinct number 1, as shown when the husband tries kissing his wife and then becomes infected, emotional decision.
If she woulda left the kid he probably would lived too. She made it with one bite and now that kid is dead. Saved only by her immunity.
You can't always control how you respond in a life or death situation. She's a mother - which means it's very likely that her natural drive was to protect children. She may not have had control over that; not enough people seem to understand that in a situation like that, your body can literally just DO things without your brain ever making a conscious decision.
Your body is designed to do that, because you don't always have time to consider your options in a situation like this. So it literally just takes over and does stuff, and you have NO control over it.
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Welp, the body made a dumb ass decision.
Even 1 soldier in the civilian room would solved everything
Or you know, a guard on the room with the woman with a bite mark 😅
Yes!!!!
Fr, and the fact that they put all of the living people in one big room lmao, when I feel like separating them into multiple different rooms would work a lot better, or if not, then yeah, get some guards in there, and the fact that there's some back door with no one there is just laughable.
"in The House in a Heartbeat" is the title of the track played throughout this entire movie and honestly on its own it is an amazing piece of music for an amazing zombie movie. So happy you guys reacted to these ones (:
Its the one song that will always be in my head during any zombie chase scene
Just to clear it up: the infected cannot talk. The clip you heard in the last movie was an error - apparently they used temporary sound clips during the scenes, to get the feel of the scene across, and they forgot to remove the voice clip of the boy saying "I hate you". That's not supposed to be significant.
Yes, this was the comment I was looking for. Indeed they do not talk, and that scene with the kid was just a case of erroneous audio as you said. I hope they remove that in any re-release because I think it's something I think a lot of people hear and then believe to be a fact.
Not a zombie movie but please react to 30 Days Of Night. Excellent vampire movie.
Fantastic movie, just don't watch the sequel. One of the worst films I've ever seen.
@@BlairPeron I found SOME enjoyment in the sequel, but it's been years and I have yet to see the first film, which I'm sure is leaps and bounds better with the budget/premise lol.
@@DraculaTepes420 its definitely due to the budget, it goes from a decent franchise to feeling like a cheap student movie haha
@@BlairPeron I know. It was awful!!
@@BlairPeron Wait, it has a sequel?!
this is my favorite Zombie movie besides Train to Busan or Dawn of the Dead, the cinematography of the first scene and all of the intense scenes really encapsulates the anxiety they make you feel. I recommend watching Cargo! It’s less action based & more emotional but still a really great watch
I prefer 28 Days Later but this one had amazing, heart-pounding scenes (like the "Abandon selective targeting" and helicopter bloodbath scenes), but I felt so annoyed at that entire family who were completely at fault for this second wave (dad AND kids). I always understood that they were the ones who spread the infection on the continent so I expect that the helicopter pilot and sister at least are dead. It was nice re-discovering it with you guys.
Agreed, and if the pilot and sister are dead, it's most likely because one of them was accidentally infected by the boy, and they would've killed him after they turned. Like dad did with mom. So yeah. Shit show.
The movie "The Crazies" is kinda in the neighborhood of the "28 Days/Weeks" series (Even World War Z) in the sense that the Zombie type people are not necessarily referred to as such during the course of the film but "Zombie" is still the best category to stick it in. Also another interesting one to analyze on trying to figure out how it spreads, wtf is going on, and how people react as the world falls apart around them. Worth a look!
Yes!
I love The Crazies.
you should react to the zombie spanish film REC 2007. the only zombies imo that combat these 28 days/weeks later infected in terms of fear factor
Don was the only one that survived the opening because he was only one that did the ACTUAL right thing
And his the only one in the house who fought the infected off to buy the others time to escape
Saw this movie like 10 times. My favorite Zombie ( Infected ) movie.
There is an un-produced screenplay I saw online a while back called 28 Hours Later, set right at the beginning of the outbreak and witnessing the downfall of society and the infection spreading. I read part of the beginning and it actually seemed decent.
I think there is an alternative ending too. In comic form.
I'm willing to bet that this role is what got Robert Carlisle his job on once upon a Time playing rumpelstiltskin. Killer TV show with a killer character that you guys should watch by the way. Even if it did slowly tumble into mediocrity and stupidity. Like many a TV show of course.
Begby.
Hi from Spain.
I love your reactions. I think you must see REC, spanish zombie/infected movie. I found it really well done for spanish cinema standards and with some really scaring secuences.
Keep doing such a great job.
I'm not from spain, I don't even speak spanish, but I can confirm this recommendation. It's really good, make sure to watch the original REC and not the american remake.
There has been discussion about a 28 months later movie by Danny Boyle and writer Garland. Not sure when though
There's been rumour on it since after 28WL in 2007, but over the years both Boyle and Garland have said it would go ahead , and then also said there were issues to it being made (at one stage there were rumoured rights issues from 28DL). They have said they had a story for the 3rd film but nothing has been mentioned post 2019 , or anything of a screenplay.
@@ED-jy1de i live in hope though 🤞😊
1 year later and now it is finally in production!
The way to contract the infection is yes, through spit and blood. The obvious bite and scratch might work as well, but is deffos transmitted through saliva.
This is the first infected I've watch when I was 5 years old, since then I'm obsessed to every horror/scary/jumpscare/gore, brutal movies. It's like there's monster inside of me that got released as a kid.
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland was working on a script for 28 Months Later last update and is ready for them to be made when they have a good time/schedule.
I am really surprised at how harshly you judged the dad. He wasn't that bad. He would have died if he tried to save his wife and him going to see her wasn't that dumb of a decision because he had no reason to believe she was infected. No one did. Him omitting that he left her is understandable since he still wants to have a relationship with his kids. I feel like you overreacted to the whole dad situation. He was by far my favorite character and my biggest gripe is that they killed him off without giving him an actual arc. I wanted to see him with his kids and then at the end see him sacrifice himself for them. That would have been a far better movie. As an aside, I love the way this movie is filmed plus the score is amazing. Looking forward to your reactions to future movies!
But also if the dad did try and save the mum and we’re all killed then there might not have been a second outbreak at all.
@@jimmy2k4o And who the fuck would want a second outbreak
James always overreacts to literally every single morally gray decision. Dude pretends like he would be a perfect hero in every single scenario possible, ignoring facts at every step. Like he ignored how it was 100% the mom’s fault for bringing the kid in the first place, then not grabbing her husband’s hand when he reached out to grab her, instead choosing to save the random kid instead of going to her own family. Then intentionally infecting her husband and killing thousands.
my god is that the one on the right i know what you mean every time something not so pleasant happens he jumps into white knight mode" come on guys" "you cant do that " and everyone who acts human is dumb when you know for a fact the little prick would be crying and pissing the whole time.@@SnailHatan
@@SnailHatan she did not intentionally infect him, the hell dude 😂. HE kissed HER, while she was traumatized and sedated.
He did what he had to do. He made the smartest decision while she made dumb decision after dumb decision.
You should absolutely watch the infected/zombie film Quarantine. It's the shot-for-shot American remake of the Spanish film REC, which is also fantastic and a recommendation of mine. In fact, the whole REC series is worth watching.
On a side note, the lead in Quarantine is Jennifer Carpenter who played the role of Emily in the awesome horror movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I think you two would really enjoy that one.
Just watch REC. it’s better.
@@patrickfoster8335 Much better.
The first movie set up an interesting question: could the virus ever cross an ocean? It seems unlikely because of the speed of infection. It’s hard to imagine a pilot taking off as people are biting each other onboard his plane and then calmly flying to his destination.
This movie explains one way it could happen. The mother was immune to the virus, but she still carried it and could spread it to others. When her husband kissed her he became infected and started the outbreak all over again. Then he spread it to his son, who like his mother is immune but can still spread it. In an effort to learn about the virus and develop a cure or a vaccine he’s transported to France. Some simple mistake happens, and the son spreads the virus to someone else. Maybe somebody shares a glass with him. And now all of Europe, Asia and Africa will probably be infected soon.
There's the possibility of the infected overrunning the tunnel that goes under the English Channel to France? That's one way for the virus to potentially make its way to continental Europe and beyond. Though I think it could be slowed by the time the outbreak reached further inland in like Germany or Switzerland.
The kid probably infects his sister just by sharing a bottle or water or something an then she goes postal
that scene with the night vision in the subway gives me chills every time
I was lucky enough to watch this movie at the cinema at Canary Wharf (where the 1st half of the film is set) so was very eerie leaving movie at 11:30pm and walking out to the exact spot I had just seen overrun then fire bombed.
U guys definitely must check out “The Road” - which was also a novel. The road perfectly fits in with this “apocalypse” marathon you guys are doing. It’s definitely a deep meaningful film with tons of discussion and realism to it that is definitely up your guys alley. You’ll love it, please give it a reaction
You've seen The Road?! 🤚 You rock.
I just watched that movie and read the book in class lmfao its pretty good
@@brittgames1644 Viggo did such an awesome job. That movie felt realistic
@@ShesBats agreed
One of the more rare occurrences when both book and adaption are great.
Depressing af tho lol.
28 weeks is a decent sequel but I still find 28 Days later to be far superior. The characters in 28 Days are fantastic, the gritty tone of how the film is shot, the atmosphere, etc. Masterpiece.
Iconic opening tho.
I wont get tired of saying this, you MUST react to REC 1 and REC 2 (spanish original version)
I love the opening to this movie and it always makes me giggle when people get mad at the dad. I noticed this after watching this movie a few times but the dad didnt have a weapon. Just his hands which would not work at all with these infected. So they would ve all died. Fight or flight kicked in and he had to go. I get it. I felt really bad for him to be honest even though he did lie to the kids and what not. I was like damn that sucks.
Omg. Lol. I was like I wonder if he will say an infected not zombie movie. Made me so happy. Lol.
Lmao!
Great reaction!
Personally I blame the military for the reinfection. Why was the mother not being guarded? Even if they'd let the dad in to see her and he'd become infected, they could have immediately taken him out.
Also when I first watched the movie I assumed the implication was the infected who'd escaped London had run all the way through the channel tunnel into France but that is very implausible because it's like 50km and there's no way the French wouldn't have seen them coming.
Know this is a year late,but genuinely suprised how harshly you guys and other's in the comment's judged the dad,like what did everyone expect him to do? Single handedly fight the horde of infected rushing the house that was between him and his wife? His brain made a split second decision on autopilot in survival mode.
Everyone seems to judge the dad for that but anyone else would have done the same thing. He would be dead otherwise in that situation.
I liked this one better than “28 Days Later”. It was creepier, to me.
I didn’t really blame the father (not as much as I did the kids)…if memory serves, he wouldn’t have been able to save his wife had he stayed or run back. He would have surely died. And, the guilt was killing him.
(I mean, if I was in the same ship, and it was, like, my mother being attacked…I would def be dead trying to save her.)
Again, if memory serves, I think I blamed the kids for the infection getting into the safe zone. If they hadn’t behaved like spoiled brats, breaking the rules and going past the border, the infection wouldn’t have made its way inside the safe zone. The kids had been there, what, one night…? And they brought death to everyone who lived there and followed the rules. Did the kids ever realize and acknowledge and feel bad about that?
Shouldn't really blame the kids either. Spoiled brats? They were doing it because it was important to them, to get stuff from their home to remind them of their mom. Not like they wanted to get back an iPhone or something like that.
@@mothermedusa9921 yeah…but it’s not like they hadn’t seen their mother long enough for the boy to forget what she looks like. He’s not 2. And seriously, were they not there for only one or two nights before taking off? I mean, how is it mot being bratty to do something as stupid and dangerous as going past the border for photos? Putting everyone else in jeopardy. Like, wait until after the freaking virus has passed. The pictures will prob still be there.
Although, I can’t remember…was there also a pet they went back for? Because that would make a lot more sense and I could understand that better than pictures.
@@CMinorOp67 dude, it had been 6 months, they were literally told that all the infected had been dead for months.
He gets a hard time for leaving his wife in the beginning and it is fucked up. I do think though that there's no other scenario were he lives. it is fucked up but she should have left the kid honestly no one knows how they would truly react in such situations.
u should do The Crazies too
Such a classic. If you ask me, i don't think the dad was entirely wrong for leaving her. Seeing everyone in the house get taken by the zombies, he was in survival mode to protect his wife- but she was trying to put them in jeopardy for someone they don't know and just met. Yes it was her motherly extinct to protect the child, but those zombies were on their asses. That being said, she should've went out the widow with the husband. Honestly. i like this one more than the first one🔥🔥🔥🔥
Too bad she didn’t have the motherly instinct to protect her own children. Or the wifely instinct to take her husband’s hand when he reached out for her. Or the familial instinct to say “We’ve been safe for 7 months, maybe I shouldn’t bring a complete stranger who is being chased by rage filled maniacs to my family.”
@@SnailHatan 7 months? That was only a few weeks into the outbreak
Thinking about Paris, maybe they got there because there is a underground train track that goes from the UK to Paris so maybe they ran through that ??
That makes no sense, that tunnel would have been sealed as soon as the initial outbreak happened.
Clearly the infected kid started the outbreak in Europe
28 Months Later is in the works
28 Years later. But I do wish they made 28 Months Later first.
I love this movie, too! Days and Weeks, the 28dayslater series is brilliant!
I became a huge fan of Robert Carlyle after I seen him on the ABC series Once Upon a Time which he is absolutely amazing in as Rumplestiltskin You guys should check it out on your own on Disney + if you want. You won't be disappointed.
I never fail to plug that show and demand reactions lol. Good choice.
I read that they are working on a third film, titled 28 Years Later. I just hope that they don't wait until 28 years after the original to release it (although we're getting pretty close to that point).
This movie along with Dawn of the Dead horrified me as a kid
I watched this movie in grade 2 and it scarred me for literal years man. I couldn’t sleep alone for years. Every time I heard something outside at night I would just imagine all these infected running out. Really intense movie.
i thought i was the only one 😂
what drink is the guy on the left (your right) drinking? is it mr kon?
Everything is the mom’s fault. She brought that kid in and decides to save said kid instead of running causing her demise.
My theory about the ending is that the brother and sister shared a water bottle or something and then she turned and killed him. Then she and the now-infected pilot went on to infect Paris.
I like that one
The infected got through the tunnel from England to France.
I don't get why people would think that it comes from the kid.
@@nahqiv Because the kid is carrying the virus like the mom did. Accidental blood or saliva swap and BOOM. And more importantly, the kids didn't know about mom being a carrier and infecting dad, so they didn't know that that's what happened to Andy when his eyes changed after the bite. They didn't know he could infect people so they wouldn't have exactly been taking precautions.
I suppose the tunnel is a thought as well, but considering they went through with nerve gas and flame throwers, I didn't really give it much thought that infected got away. Other than the dad...he had some weird extra cognitive abilities or something.
@@nahqiv that makes no sense, the tunnel would have been long sealed, no way they would leave that open when a virus that just killed off most of Britain
It's a beautiful downer. One of my favorites, probably more than the original, which I don't remember much of to be honest.
I love the way you guys discuss the movies you watch. To me, art is always best when it makes us feel and forces us to consider things outside of our normal daily experience. For a more light-hearted zombie film, I highly recommend "The Dead Don't Die."
This movie here ^ /points to headphones... was that the clue? 😂
Glad to see so many comments defending the dad, yes he made mistakes but in the moment in the beginning there wasnt anything he could have done for her, and frankly her surviving is so unlikely its the most egregious plot convenience in the movie..
the opening sequence is the best opening for a zombie movie ever imo
As i have mentioned the storyboard made by the fans from the first movie you guys did the fans also did 28 weeks and beyond and it said the french military did use nukes to halt the spread of the infected and it didn't make any difference.
I hope you guys do space horror/thriller action movies:
Event Horizon
Sunshine
Red Planet
Sphere
Pandorum
Mission to mars
Life
Of course the Alien movies and Prometheus would fall into this category as well.
Haha this is one of my favorite childhood movies 🥰 This reaction was fantastic, can't wait to see more!
I like how you have pointed out how the virus as a seeming metaphor, especially with our main characters' family. It's really fun to break it down in the context of toxic family dynamics and/or toxic individualism (or whatever their professional terms are). I'm thrilled that you hate Don as much as I do.
In a family unit where one parent has the most power, oftentimes that power can be mishandled and misguided. The external power in this series with the most influence is the Rage Virus, obviously, and this means the most dangerous character is the father. He wields this infection like a hammer to be a malignant force on his own family. He's selfish in the most individualistic way, and in this series that means he's unredemptive. Selfish characters are fun to explore, there's a whole range of them to pick a flavor. Depending on the universe, they're either loved, celebrated, tolerated, or hated. We were asked to hate this selfish man and find his actions deplorable 🥰 and i will 🥰
Selfish people can still prioritize their families in hard times--he did not. He used his family as a cover for his individualistic selfishness and when they were no longer useful to him, he abandoned them and then tried to kill them.
Unlike one infected father we've seen in this series (that guy from 28 Days Later i forgot his name lol 🙈), he tries to protect his daughter from himself all the way to the end of his consciousness. He's sympathetic even when he's a threat to the group ❤. There was none of that tragic heroism with this movie's father. The dad here is actively seeking out his family to harm them!
The first victim of his 😡rage😡 is his wife: he abandons her when she needs him most to further his own agenda (self-preservation); and then runs back to her for forgiveness (self gratification), where he immediately kills her after he's infected (self gratification). And while the case can be argued that as 🤕infected🤕 he did not willingly choose to murder his wife, he, while under this terrible influence, still killed his wife in a very drawn out, horrific way that is distinctly different from how most infected kill their victims. 🙈He pushes his thumbs in her eyes and then beats her to death🙈 That's not a standard way to die in this series! He had chosen this way to end his wife!! As the person who's supposed to be on equal footing with her own husband, it's clear that he did not care about her life as his own. He's a muderous hypocrite, she deserved to at least die divorced.
He's shown that when times are rough, he chooses himself at the detriment of his marriage, and this directly affects his relationship with his kids. He continues to wear his wedding ring to show that he's "widowed" to gain sympathy from the part of his life that isn't uprooted (his kids are alive and ignorant of his choices) and this works out for him for a while... Until they find out that he lied. Your reaction was great at this part 17:22 . That's exactly how it was! He lied about his actions because he knew they were wrong! And when his kids pointed it out, he deflects and walks away. He would not have taken the initiative to be honest if he wasn't guilty, and even then he wants to apologize under the veil that he's a good father and husband and he was helpless in the sitiation.
When he's infected, all the people who were non-familial died by bites and he moved on like every other infected person. But when facing his TWELVE YEAR OLD SON, a not even a teenager kid, he stares him down like a predator, as someone who's t h i n k i n g about the pain he could inflict on his own child. We know how the rest of that scene played out, and it's clear that from this point forward he's not a mindless victim following the whims of this mind altering disease, he's using this destructive virus to hunt his kids because he wants to.
And he's successful for the most part. He kills his children's support network (Scarlet, and let's throw in Doyle there since this new wave of infection is Don's fault), traps them underground where he has the upperhand, and then attacks his son! He only stopped biting his son (a drawn out bite, once again non-standard way to die by infected), because his daughter reminded him about his wife so he was going to attack her instead.
This guy is the worst. I can't imagine being married to someone like that!! 🤮🤬🤬🤬
[Note: another Don-induced death that shows that he has some control over his muderous tendencies is Scarlet's. For some reason, he didn't bite her, and I'm willing to bet that it was because he wanted to be the only one that was hunting his family and didn't want competition]
On that end, I think you guys would really like reacting to 30 Days of Night and Silent Hill! 😝 Their both anxiety inducing and heart racing, I can't recommend them enough 💖💖💖
I mean the dad tried to save mom and she chose suicide with that new kid. Only took one bite though and she left that kid to die just like the father. lol
Y’all should watch some more comedy zombie movies like ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’ or ‘Cooties’ or ‘Little Monsters’ or ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ all of which have great takes on zombies.
There's a little known movie called Automaton Transfusion that's insanely gory and well done for how small of a movie it was
Love both movies, especially 'In the House, In a Heartbeat" soundtrack
The infection spread to mainland Europe through the Channel tunnel. You see them emerging from a tunnel in France.
Oh….shoot!!!!
What? They never blew that soon as it all started? Left it completely unguarded? (Facepalm) They deserve it then.
...The channel tunnel doesn't lead to the fucking eiffel tower.
Do you think they would have left is open after the first outbreak?
That makes no sense, the tunnel would have been sealed as soon as the initial outbreak happened, no way they would just leave it open.
And as someone commented above, that tunnel shown at the end is not the same as the England to France tunnel, totally different area.
The boy was infected. An asymptomatic carrier of the virus like his mother but could still infect people. It shows that the Helicopter was empty hinting that he probably got his sister or the military guy infected. Now they originally were talking about making a third film called 28 months later last discussed in 2019. But because of a dispute regarding the rights of the original it was never made. Which is to bad, I for one would have liked to see what they would have done with the third installment. Anyway thanx for the reaction take care..xx
The helicopter was empty because they left it behind lol.
The infected got to France vie the tunnel.
@@nahqiv It litterally says word for word plausible reasons why the infection spread. Andy is the reason why the infection spread to the mainland, As they travelled to the mainland with Andy as a carrier. His mother was also a carrier and spread it to her husband with a simple kiss. But in the comic book series there were other carriers that could have spread it as well..Anyway thanx for your imput. I appreciate it. Have an awesome weekend..xx
9:15 Yes, you should absolutely watch Isle of Dogs
Did you get the implication that the child spread the infection to mainland Europe?
Yeah…I think so
28 days later, one of my favorites infected/zombie film ever, this one doesnt work for me, I mean, the beginning it's amazing but then it just falls down
Since you guys are so into zombies, you might as well react to BLACK SUMMER on netflix. A pretty cool zombie series!
It’s not. It is known to having the dumbest group of survivors in a zombie film ever. And our two mates already hate dumb decision making in the other zombie films they reacted to. Watching Black Summer would make them throw a chair through the wall 😅
The kids going off to play in a restricted area basically put everyones lives in danger. Lesson: teach your kids to respect the law 😅
If I was in the position of the mum and i'm surrounded by zombies and whichever way i turn, I'd get attacked, I'd rather that my loved ones run away and abandon me. Though I do understand the look and feeling of betrayal from the mum. Because though I want my family to be safe, I think I'd feel betrayed too if I say "help me" and they give me a look that says "nope" then run off. But that's only an initial reaction. If I survive and look back, I think I'd still be more thankful that they escaped and hope that they are safe somewhere.
man the opening of this movie haunted me for years. its super intense and tragic.
It did not spread somehow. The boy was bitten, showed no sign of aggression and Doyle told his friend to bring the kids across the channel. That would be France or Belgium or Netherlands. Well, it's a brilliant ending to a brilliant movie.
YAY im excited to watch this reaction!
The REC series is pretty interesting but especially the first one!
It’s Hawkeye ! :D
The theme song alone gives me anxiety... great movie
Did the infected use the tunnel between Engand and France to cross into Europe?
If they did then somebody wanted that to happen. How could they say it was cut off otherwise. Although they did say it was safe and brought people near the infected across the river.
No. Why do so many people think that? That makes no sense, that tunnel would have been sealed off since the initial outbreak. The kid started the outbreak in Europe, he was a carrier.
I'd love to see your reaction to isle of dogs
Have either of you guys by chance not seen I Am Legend? Probably a long shot but i think it would be an awesome video. One of my favorite apocalypse infected/zombie type movies ever
13:49 active imagination in a child who misses his mom during a zombie rage virus = bad dreams yo
Have you guys watched the walking dead? I think you would like it if this sort of film is your thing
I think that you two might enjoy these 2 Zombie/Infected movies.
- Land of the Dead (2005)
- Resident Evil (2002)
Resident evil is such a good movie
"A solid sequel!" Cheers!✌️❤️
An amazing opening...... Don did nothing wrong.
Heroes movies teached people what you can do any hero shit and get away with it cause you're immortal. But in reality you probably just die trying. So when movie do the realistic trope, showing despair situation where all you really can do except diying is run, people now considering it as a hated cowardness. Unreasonable mindless hero death is a choice of them, i guess, but somehow doubt what it's would really be thier brave actions in the horrifying reality.. hope not, and at least some of them will survive, not all bravely die in the one room. It's like toxic positivity, only toxic bravery, wich leads only to more unnecessary deaths))
Toxic bravery? I’m not sure that’s a thing. Hero’s show us what we should strive to be even if we do fail. And many hero’s are mortal and do fail. Here’s our problem, if he had made that decision to save his kids, or referenced that in any way, totally ok with it. What he did do, was abandon his wife, not because he wanted to save the kids but to save himself. He made an oath, before friends and family, and God, to protect that women, and to act TOGETHER, as a single unit till death. His failure to do that for seemingly selfish motives was our problem.
As far as toxic heroism? That’s not heroism, so there shouldn’t be such a thing. There is either heroism or not. If it’s “toxic” then it isn’t heroism
@@whitenoisereacts ok just unreasonable hero death without toxicity then
@@whitenoisereacts "Toxic bravery? I’m not sure that’s a thing." Sure it is, ever seen the backwards American flag? No retreat no matter what just mach straight into death because you can no longer use your brain and retreat. That's what is stands for. lol Regular flag is a field of blue on the left. The backwards, I've seen in black with the stars on the right. Upside down people use to signal distress even though that ain't official.
Never gave you guys a chance until recently. Starting to love your reactions. 😉
You guys have watch The Walking Dead series
Oh and the beginning of the outbreak in the building in the dark was terrifying
For sure!
This movie is very well done. Especially the opening scene.
they evacuated exactly who they didn't need from the islands - and the contagion became global.
The “umm actually, it’s an ‘outbreak’ movie” people need to be shoved into a locker. If we’re going to get nit-picky about it then the only zombie movies are the ones pre-Night Of The Living Dead/The Last Man On Earth and are about Voodoo-style zombies.
Australian zombie movie that I would recommend is the Netflix film Cargo. Fantastic film, stars Martin Freedman (plays Watson in the BBC Sherlock series w/ Benny Cumberbatch and was Bilbo in the Hobbit movies.)
The intro to 28 Weeks is great, but it kind of starts to fall apart in the third act. Harold Perrineau (Lost and Romeo + Juliet,) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, Arrival, & The Avengers,) are better in the film than I had anticipated when I originally saw it.
Robert Carlyle is great as usual, since it seems like y’all aren’t as familiar with him I highly recommend checking out the Horror-Comedy Ravenous (1999,) Period, Action-Comedy Plunkett & Macleane (1999,) & the infamous Irvine Welsh adaptation Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle also directed 28 Days Later, BTW.)
Anyway, 28 Weeks Later is a great allegory for the occupation in Iraq, (notice the prominent use of the term “green zone”,) but I also think that may have harmed the film a bit. Americans occupying London and messing that up as well doesn’t project the good vibes people going to the theater looking for an escape would’ve wanted.
Then again, it was a pretty bad year for Horror in general. 2007 brought us most notably George A. Romero’s Diary Of The Dead, (the found-footage, 5th installment of his Dead series,) and the first of the Rob Zombie Halloween reboot movies.
I think something that people probably got turned off by was that even if his wife was immune [to rage *rolls eyes*] wouldn’t the infected have torn her apart anyway?
Also, that “how did he get in” & “I didn’t expect that to work out so well,” moments, they had me like, “really?!” 😒 when I first watched it as well.
I also think the end annoyed a lot of people.
I think you’re definitely meant to believe they spread the “Rage” into France, (how far from the British Isles do you expect their helicopter to fly?”
Anyway, if you were to watch any one of the films I mentioned here, I would say Ravenous over and over again, it’s worth it.
Let me try and sell it with this log-line: Civil War era, frontier cannibals.
( Maybe try gaming the algorithm by using hashtags for films the actors in the movie were in: Lost, Trainspotting, Scream, Ferris Bueller, How High, Band Of Brothers, What If, Memento, Prometheus, etc. 🤷🏻♀️ )
*Just crossed my mind but George A. Romero’s The Crazies is another film similar to this in that it is about the government’s response to an outbreak that causes people to go crazy-Not an “outbreak” movie in that there’s a zombie-like thing that is technically an outbreak but just an outbreak, lol.
2008’s The Happening is basically The Crazies meets Day Of The Triffids (book, not film,) both being very influential on these genres.
There's a Spanish "zombie" movie called REC (like the record button on a video camera), and a US remake called Quarantine.
Either one is good as they're basically the exact same movie, except for one being in English and the other in Spanish.
Also, it's been so long since I've seen this movie that I didn't even realise that Heimdall was in it.
Not sure if the word red herring is right but the scene of showing the son eyes and the medical officer saying “it’s hereditary” meaning it’s genetic and later see the mom not turning, you think the son is immune too. It isn’t at the end since it’s slowly spreading but he isn’t immune.
The ending isn’t clear but assumingely the helicopter piloted either need to refuel, head to check point or something happened with the son with it being blatant what happened. He, the boy and his sister are infected and turned. With them in France now or basically the mainland of Europe they now can spread it to other countries since it isn’t contained like the island of England/Scotland.
The letter that says for dad assumingely the sister went truly insane, knew what was gonna happened but let it happening since to her it’s pointless now.
All it takes is him coughing to hard in her direction and she turns and kills him or spits on the pilot dude and we right back in it.
Silence is golden.
Danny Boyle has confirmed 28 Months Later script is complete so I think a new one will be released soon
Rewatch after 28 Months Later announced, this movie still very intense