Early Access: 28 Years Later - Group Reaction+Uncut
Added 2025-08-16 14:30:04 +0000 UTCUncut: https://thenormies.com/uncutmovies/
Edited reaction is in the thumbnail above!
Comments
It's a very British movie, Danny Boyle said he was worried about how American audiences would take it. I think fundamentally Garland is expressing his concerns with Britain as someone who has watched it change. He's showing how Britain itself is a dying zombified corpse of a nation that was once a healthy prosperous nation. In recent years we've isolated ourself from Europe with Brexit and other isolationist policies and we're almost devolving back to some primitive past and being left behind the rest of Europe. Using a nationwide quarantine as a direct metaphor for this. It's even referred to as the "unconditional isolation zone". Which perfectly captures our economic status with the EU. I think Spike is how Garland is trying to show that new generations being brought up are navigating this chaos as they come of age. He had a fairly sheltered life in his early childhood but at 12 he's now being exposed to the harsher reality outside of the cocoon of the island. I think Sir Jimmy's cult is meant to stand in for the sort of twitter/4chan meme incel culture that preys on people like Spike. The sort of people who appropriate innocent gifs of teletubbies or power rangers to spread misogyny, racism and just general hate to ideologically indoctrinate. They're underdeveloped adults who uses childish symbols with no real meaningful cultural attachments. They're almost not to blame because they themselves are products of this chaos. The specific use of Jimmy Saville is just an intentional culture shock to express this more vividly to British audiences as well as leaving us with a discomfort for Spike's future. (SIDENOTE: Something I remembered is that Saville himself famously owed a holiday home in a cabin in the Scottish highlands where Jimmy was in the scene at the beginning so I supposed there could be a more direct connection.) There are definitely understandable structural criticisms with the ending. It was jarring but I think they were trying to capture modern social media culture as real modern 12 years old see it on their phone. It's loud, in your face and using corrupted symbols of childhood with a nefarious underbelly. I think I can forgive the cliff hanger because they've already filmed the sequel and have release of Jan 2026. I had the same problem with Dune but I feel it was worse in that situation because when they wrote that ending they had no guarantee of a sequel. Luckily that didn't happen but it would have been a very frustrating adaptation of Dune with only half of the story.
DC
2025-08-22 07:58:32 +0000 UTCBro Pat's shirt is killing me π€£π I have to know where he got it
Joe Bahogan
2025-08-18 20:48:22 +0000 UTCI thought it was by far the best and one of the best movies I've seen in years but it does seem to be very divisive, people either love it or hate it
Macs
2025-08-17 14:48:50 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry you guys had to sit thru that this was clearly the worst one out of the three. And by the way there not zombies there alive but infected with a virus called rage
Paul Mayes
2025-08-17 11:14:40 +0000 UTCoh dang I thought I was watching part 2 28 weeks later but I search it up the franchise that's when I realize not only is there a new one but I get to watch it with the Normies sweet :)!
Nitrous Camaross
2025-08-17 01:55:37 +0000 UTC
