Hey, The directing, acting and action of freddy vs jason flogged that of 28 days later. The only scary thing about 28 days later is the thought that one day I might watch it again. Its 120 mins of talking.
I do care about storyline. Freddy v.s jason had a storyline, maybe its storyline isnt as good as that of 28 days later, but still decent. Freddy is in hell and he ressurects jason in the hope that jason will help him get out of hell. Good enough storyline. Just because its storyline is not as good as 28 days laters doesnt mean it is not as good as 28 days later
And freddy v.s jasons action scenes and intensity made up for the bad storyline. But in 28 days laters case, the action and intensity did not make up for the so-so storyline
I don't think the storyline was very plausible to begin with. Since they never clarified the timeline as to when the movie was to take place, couldn't the two just "meet", by way of Freddy invading Jason's nightmares?
The "action" scenes in "F vs J" may have made up for the lack of storyline, as if a storyline were ever important in these movies, but it did NOT make up for some of the absolute WORSE dialogue I have ever heard in a horror movie, especially Kelly Rowland's lines. They made a mistake in killing off Katharine Isabelle, and giving her so few lines.
As for "28 Days Later", the storyline was somewhat haggard as well. A bloodbourne disease originating in monkeys is spread by human contact, in turn infecting the world.
It sounds silly, and yes, I wish there were a different catalyst for the disease, but the scary part of that alone is the social commentary in it.
AIDS, for one, could be "rage". Anger, secondly, seems most likely what "rage" was supposed to imply, and that violence is what will ultimately lead to the downfall of our civilization, since it was violence to begin with that bred the "rage" sickness in the lab animals.
The movie itself was eerily realistic. There weren't people getting their heads sliced off, teens having sex, or clever one liners.
Isolation, desolution, and walking around in a barren wasteland with dead bodies strewn everywhere with a realistic setting is scarier than any "horror" movie I have ever seen. And yes, the cinematography captures all this flawlessly.
It may not have ever set out to be exciting, per se, it was extremely raw and real, and the total embodiment of human nature in extreme situations, especially the final act at the military establishment.
I'd have to say that "28 Days Later" is a far superior film when compared to "F vs J", which was nothing more than a fluff filled appeasement to horror movie fans.
I love "F vs J", even with it's flaws, but it's not a movie that we should be analytical of.
Last edited by Cory Chaos on Jun 3rd, 2004 at 05:52 PM
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Since the reviews stop a couple of pages earlier I'll like to make a final comment on this. I personally love and enjoyed a movie that has tons of gore and violence (whether is a Horror, Sci-fi, comedy whatever! Besides I don't remenber someone establishing rules on what a good movie should be. Is all about opinon).
For me it is pointless to go on with the topic of what 28 days later should have been. Either you hate it or you love it (or maybe don't even care about it. Which is exactly what I'm goint to do after finishing this final post here in this thread). I don't care about the rating or whatever, but this movie had to have a rating R. Simply because it may not be suitable for a younger audience. With that said I still don't like this movie, and I didn't find it interesting whatsoever. Even after watching it twice.
Freddy vs Jason was a good slug fest. probably what Alien vs Predator will be. I mean did you watch that movie for a story or to see Jason throttle Freddy. witch was executed well.
I put the Freddy vs Jason fight over T3's termanator scuffel and Wolvie vs deathstrike. not as visually impressive as Neo vs 100 smiths, but when Jason grabbed Freddy put him threw a window and RAN with him slamming into more windows was down right badass.
but it's clear from every ones else's posts. 28 days later was brilliant. and cheap. when I saw it in theaters and saw Jim walking threw a deserted London...its hard to desribe the feelings you get.
fear,anxiety,depression,sadness,emtyness, even tho the emotions like fear were not intense.
I was never really spooked by anything in 28 days later. but when Jim made that transition you see what Im sure the focus of the movie was
Freddy vs Jason was a good slug fest. probably what Alien vs Predator will be. I mean did you watch that movie for a story or to see Jason throttle Freddy. witch was executed well.
I put the Freddy vs Jason fight over T3's termanator scuffel and Wolvie vs deathstrike. not as visually impressive as Neo vs 100 smiths, but when Jason grabbed Freddy put him threw a window and RAN with him slamming into more windows was down right badass.
but it's clear from every ones else's posts. 28 days later was brilliant. and cheap. when I saw it in theaters and saw Jim walking threw a deserted London...its hard to desribe the feelings you get.
fear,anxiety,depression,sadness,emtyness, even tho the emotions like fear were not intense.
I was never really spooked by anything in 28 days later. but when Jim made that transition you see what Im sure the focus of the movie was
what was really cool about 28 days was that the zombies didnt shuffle around all slow and shit. they ran. fast.
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And the 20 second time limit on when they got turned into zombies.
This destroys the whole element on where a character hides that thier are infected until when story permets them to turn into a zombie or something. And while watching the movie, whenever somebody gets infected i just count down from 20.
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