28 Years Later | Full-Length Reaction
Added 2025-08-23 04:41:16 +0000 UTC
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Only just catching up on this! I'm from Northumberland and live just over an hour away from Holy Island (Lindisfarne). I used to visit the island on school trips, so it's cool to see familiar places represented! And Jodie Comer (as usual) NAILED the geordie accent.
Anya Smith
2025-09-08 11:18:20 +0000 UTCI kinda just wanted to see this because JODIE COMER (although the BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS trailers were brilliant and got me excited). Still wasn't expecting it to hit like this! They really made some wild choices with the camera work and narrative. Great to see that creative risks can still happen in the mainstream (or mainstream-adjacent anyway). Eager for the next two!
melskmelsk
2025-09-02 00:01:55 +0000 UTCThis was really beautiful and interesting! The ending was jarring but not disconnected from the story imo. We saw signs of Jimmy's bizarre and disconcerting presence earlier –the writing on the barn (something biblical) with "JIMMY" added in and that strung up infected with "JIMMY" cut into his torso. I'm with you that everything with Spike and his mom was most impactful and what I most enjoyed and will remember but I think it would be incomplete if Jimmy didn't appear again.
melskmelsk
2025-09-01 23:48:16 +0000 UTCI like that. I'm also worried for a spike but I hope his good nature and his mother's love will prevail
Franklin
2025-08-27 05:41:33 +0000 UTCThe ending was wils lol yap thats our boi Remiick Yeah I heard this is the first of three movies, so hopefully they will expand and give us some more context
Franklin
2025-08-27 05:40:45 +0000 UTComg i saw people talking about how they were weirded out by the end scene but i wasnt expecting that at all lmaooo and also is that remmick? the vampire guy from Sinners? the movie was soooo much better than i actually expected. i'll admit the pregnant zambie threw me off too, i assumed that was a pregnant woman that got infected at some point but the way the alpha looked at her? that was definitely his kid. i wish we had more context! the series idea was so on point even if it might be the TWD effect.
Iris
2025-08-24 23:44:36 +0000 UTCI think is one of my favourite movies of the year, this and Superman. Strangely for similar reasons, there's a lovely emotional story underneath the main plots and I really enjoy them both. I'm very excited to see the next movie of this series when it comes out, I'm very curious (and worried) about what will happen with Spike going forwards.
Moviemuncher
2025-08-24 18:35:27 +0000 UTCSo fuckin weird!!!
Franklin
2025-08-24 02:45:53 +0000 UTCLoved the movie but the end was straight up weird, lol.
Devon Michelle
2025-08-23 21:15:49 +0000 UTCGreat to have you back. I'm so excited for all the binge-watching you're gonna do. A lot of the shows we've been watching that I know you really like. So many amazing things have happened. I can't wait for you to catch up
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:37:42 +0000 UTCGod damn. So sorry to hear about your hand🙏🏽💛 Yes I know about the movie but I haven't seen it yet. Also I haven't seen John Wick part 4. I've heard the new one is amazing. I think I'll throw it up on the next movie poll. Thanks for bringing it up
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:36:19 +0000 UTCGlad to see you back Laura💛 I'm with you that third part of the movie with him, his mother, and a doctor was absolutely my favorite. You are so right I didn't even put it together that Jimmy and his gang were probably the ones who strung up that person earlier. I hope in the next movie the boy is able to resist their corruption
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:34:17 +0000 UTCWow even without knowing that history he seemed pretty fucking weird. I'm glad places you recognize are getting featured on the big screen. Yo when I watched a breakdown after this film and saw that that was Remick I almost lost my mind😆
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:30:05 +0000 UTCMuch much love and highly appreciated Devon🌻💛
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:27:40 +0000 UTCSounds good
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:27:05 +0000 UTCHoly shit, I found out I looked right after watching the movie. How disgusting.
Franklin
2025-08-23 19:22:14 +0000 UTCI also found the ending quite jarring, but I know 28 Years Later is just part 1. There will be 3 parts. As a Brit, the guy being called Jimmy and being in a tracksuit is a little scary because Jimmy Saville, also known for wearing similar outfits, was a prolific paedophile here, for decades. It only came out in the news once he'd died, but the BBC had essentially known about him and kept him on Jim'll Fix It and other shows. With 28 Days Later being from 2002, people in the universe generally wouldn't have known about Saville. And I know this group were kids growing up in this mess, but it was still way over the top of an introduction... I'm interested to see how Danny Boyle continues the story. He was the mind behind Trainspotting as well, and I know that film was trippy, which I think is just Boyle's style.
NiamhVT
2025-08-23 17:24:46 +0000 UTCA couple of things I thought after: - I was listening to a podcast by a couple who went to see the movie, and for them a big part of it was the debate on whether/how to have children in the middle of a violent world. They genuinely cried about it in the podcast. I think it's also a relevant dimension. - For women, it's all about physical life and death. I will tsk that they aren't represented creating culture and art, and I hope we get that in the sequel, but I didn't mind much, because I do think the willingness to look at masculinity in an unflinching way (and not just as 'default human') makes up for it. - I heard the Boots poem wasn't originally in the movie. But they did a teaser trailer while they were still editing, and the person who did the trailer put it in the background (for the trailer only), and Boyle thought it was so fitting that he spliced it in the movie afterwards.
Lola Lirola
2025-08-23 15:41:12 +0000 UTCI certainly did!!
Lola Lirola
2025-08-23 15:36:45 +0000 UTCOkay, some notes I wrote, inevitably scattered because I don't have time for more, but I do have an explanation about the ending, the tracksuits and Jimmy! I guess let's start at the end (also prologue): Jimmy is named and styled after Jimmy Saville, who was a children's tv presenter in the UK, who always dressed in a shiny tracksuit with gold jewelry, and long blonde hair. He was very beloved until... *BIG TRIGGER WARNING* It was revealed after he died that he was a prolific child sexual abuser, and he took advantage of the access his status as a children's tv personality gave him. He visited hospitals, he had a foundation, kids wrote to him, parents took their children to see him. He poisoned all that. The movie takes place in a world where all that information was never discovered, because in the world of the movie, British culture stopped in 2001 (when the 1st movie happened), so this was never discovered. I admit during the first 10 minutes I thought I wasn't going to like this movie, but I have ended up loving it, and I love how deep it is willing to go. I heard that Danny Boyle wasn't interested in continuing the franchise until he saw what happened during Brexit and that sparked the idea. So here are my notes: The movie as an exploration of how to be a man during difficult times: - The way "becoming a man" means killing (and the Boots poem says "there's no discharge in the war", you take the violence home) - Men who seek pleasure and numbness to forget (the dad) - Men who seek violence and superiority (the Nordic dude) - Men who seek power (the Jimmy Saville gang) vs - Men who care about others (the kid, caring for his mom and the baby) - Men who heal (the doctor) - Men who build things to remember (the doctor and kid, the artist who did the Angel sculpture) The movie as an exploration of how to make art and culture while the world around you is violence and death, and what kind of art will result from those times. There are many art references throughout: - A man here in Madrid, Justo Gallego Martínez, has spent 60 years building a cathedral by himself, made out of trash. The stained glass is made of cut broken bottles, the stairs are fruit wooden pallets. - There's a chappel made entirely out of bones in Évora, Portugal. - Marina Abramovic has an art piece where she filmed herself washing her parents' bones - The Angel of the North, by Antony Gormley (I love love his sculptures) - The "Boots" poem, by Rudyard Kipling in 1903, about the marching of soldiers during the Boer War, and recorded by Taylor Holmes in 1915 right during World War I - Paul Célan found himself unable to write normal poems after losing his mom in the Holocaust, so his poems are full of gaps, and a deconstruction of language because he found normal words insufficient to express the depth of his loss The movie as an exploration of legacy and what remains: - The baby who doesn't carry the violence her parents carried - The Angel that will last thousands of years - The cathedral of bones that won't last, but it's important to build it anyway - The way a culture emerged, both on the human side, and on the zombie side, over time, building meaning to carry forward - The way the reputation of Jimmy Saville is a big part of British cultural legacy, and what to do with it going forward - The way the Boots poem is also part of British colonial legacy - The image of a tree between two hills near the end references the Sycamore Gap in Hadrian's Wall (a relic from Roman times), a famous tree in Northumberland that was cut by some assholes as a "prank" in 2023. The tree had survived for 150 years. Cultural legacy can be destroyed if we don't care for it There's two more movies announced continuing this story, and now I'm very interested! I think this was a gutsy movie (in more ways than one, ha!) and I love that Boyle really wants to examine what is going on with men, and with Britain.
Lola Lirola
2025-08-23 15:31:27 +0000 UTCI haven't yet seen any of the movies in the 28 Days Later franchise. Before I watch this, I'll have to view the original 28 Days Later (2002) and the sequel. Then I'll come back and hit your reaction and view this one.
KimM
2025-08-23 13:13:22 +0000 UTC@FrankFreezy I am feeling a lot better now. I have a lot of binge watching to do. I am home now and a lot more comfortable. I hope your travels to your new home was adventurous and that you are settling in well. I saw that you posted that you had your teethpulled. I hope you’re healing well. It’s good to be back.
Laura Thate
2025-08-23 12:50:55 +0000 UTCHey Frank!! I hope it's okay with you and Val and the cats jejeje. Have you ever watched Ballerina from the same universe as John Wick? If you didn't see it, is there an opportunity to have a reaction from the film? On 28 years later, you said that you liked the style of the camera that seemed like an anime. I really wanted your feedback on the film, I think you would like it. Anna de Armas is the protagonist of the movie in this new likely spin-off. Sorry if any typo happened, my dominant hand literally burned with hot oil and English is not my native language. It's truly hard to hype someone about a movie, controlling myself as much as possible not to say anything to spoil it. If you have already done the react, my mistake... LOL. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Sergio Luiz
2025-08-23 12:42:22 +0000 UTCI’m back! I wasn’t gonna watch this because I don’t do gory horror movies but I decided to fast forward the gore and so glad I did. I’m feeling much better now. Got some energy back. I really loved the beauty of how the doctor helped the young man in his beautiful mother face death and coexisted with Love. That entire portion of the movie was exquisite. The storyline the Way they shot the movie And how the young man faced his mother towards the sunrise. The young man, even though having a trying time in his transition into being a young man, found some very great foundational truth that he can carry on throughout his life, but must make a choice since him meeting Jimmy. We see Jimmy character. He reminds me of Jimmy Savile a horrific human being from the UK the Jimmy character even looks like him in his younger days. I won’t go into what he did as I t’s easily found on the Internet. His horrific crimes were allowed to be perpetuated for decades in service of the UK elites who covered up the crimes and even utilized in certain circles of the elite. If you remember the first part of the movie where the young man and his father came across a man hanging upside down with the plastic bag on his head and a word carved into his body as a warning, now flash forward to the end of the Jimmy and followers fighting scene, you will see plastic bag was used over the head of the infected, and they hung upside down the infected as executed this is who hung up the guy in the beginning of the movie. The upside down cross on Jimmy seems to reference the priest who was creaming to the boy to run and told him not to ever lose the cross, well I believe that is the now Jimmy and his crew these people are very, very evil and bad. This is setting it up for another movie! Were possibly the young man being raised by these horrific Jimmy humans may pervert the young teen and his anger towards his father may lead the young man to bring Jimmy‘s crew to the island! Just a thought.
Laura Thate
2025-08-23 12:35:53 +0000 UTCHaha it's not just you, many people thought it was Cillian Murphy when the trailer came out!
Kaho
2025-08-23 10:15:04 +0000 UTCIm happy you’ve finally been able to watch this! I’m from the North East where it’s set and it’s great seeing it represented in a bigger franchise. Jodie comer nailed the accent tbh, and it was awesome seeing the Angel of the North featured too. If you were confused about the ending at all, “Jimmy” is portrayed the way he is because he never really grew up during the apocalypse. His whole personality is based on children’s TV (such a teletubbies, powerangers and Jimmy Saville). Saville was known for hosting things such as Jim'll fix it, where he worked with lots of kids & charity. After he died it came out that he was one of the worst (TW) pedophiles in the Uk, which a lot of people did suspect but nothing really came of it until he died. In the movie, the outbreak happened before he died, so it never came out about what he did in the film, but it symbolises to the (UK) audience that jimmys character is not to be trusted. Also, jimmy saville looked almost identical haha, with the blonde bob and horrible tracksuit! bit morbid but quite interesting they decided to include it. (Also jimmys character is played by Remmick from sinners 😆)
Lailaaa
2025-08-23 08:14:05 +0000 UTCI’ve never seen this! So excited!!! I even upgraded to the 10 dollar tier with you and Fox Taco. Anything to keep your channels running smooth so we can continue to receive excellent content! You guys are the best!
Devon Michelle
2025-08-23 05:57:09 +0000 UTC
