The 28 Days Later time jump: The director didnt want to show all of the ensusing riots and mass exodus and blood and gore. It didnt progress the story or add to it. It would have detracted from the end story of the survivors trying to find out what happened and where everyone went.

I meant the jump at the END of the movie, not the beginning. Anything in between there would have made the movie alot more enjoyable, instead it made us draw our own conclusion, which is that 3 people fought off god knows how many "zombies" with little to no form of defense. Not bloody likely.

I did know who Pete Jackson was before LOTR, because I saw Dead Alive in 1995. He did a few more zombie/cult flicks both before and after Dead Alive. Only recently did I make the connection. His early zombie flicks, Dead Alive especially, are heralded as the goriest ever.

I don't get it. I think Fox Searchlight would have found it;s audience a little better somewhere OUTSIDE of the mainstream? This movies doesn't belong in theatres nationwide, for the exact same reasons you've provided. It;s not a popcorn movie. It's going to appeal to maybe 3% of movie goers, those being "occult/supernatural/zombie/gore" fans.

Directors that want to "share their vision" and crap like that belong at Cannes, or Sundance, where they can "prove" they aren't selling out, and just want to make people aware of their artistic visions and what not. Trouble with people like that is, how do they eat? How do they budget films? They sell out and go Hollywood, like "28 Days Later" did.
It will probably be considered a box office bomb, because it's not appealing to the general movie going public like I said. But, whats your beef with movies in general? Thats what they are, high bdget "blockbusters", gered to excite and blow away the crowd. Thats just what movies are these days. Fun. Nonsensical, yes. Fun to watch, yep. People don't want to go see thought provoking 2 1/2 hour long CGI wastes like Matrix: Reloaded.

In closing, 2 Fast 2 Furious is in fact very original, and a hell of a lot more fun to watch than some modernized, recycled conglomeration of movies that should have stayed in the UK, or just been released straight to video in the U.S.

Guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree because feuding over a conflict of interest won't get us anywhere.

Oh My God! This movie sucks!!! I can't believe the false advertiseing of this movie- the scarriest movie of the summer, don't see it alone, the commercial where they show people jumping out of their seats, ect. What a bunch of BULL! There was nothing in this movie to even make you jump, fall asleep maybe. It was so dull.  

I found this movie very, very, very, boring. I would recomend to people to save their money and not see this lame movie.

It was a waste of time and money.

I usually have at least one positive for every movie I see, but not this one.

Thank You!!!!!  

Ok, Im not going to argue over opinions, hey, if you hate it ok, if you love it thats cool too. Just one little point:

There is a big difference between false advertising and hyping a film. This is not a case of false advertising; if it was, media be damned because about 99.9% of advertising would be considered false under the same rules.

-Edited-

Nevermind, Im going to take this up with Fettish personally instead of littering up a fine board...

As I stated earlier, I like this film more for what is wasn't than what it was. It wasn't a huge special effects extravaganza! It wasn't a mind-numbing bombardment of over-the-top music and sound effects! It wasn't a film that had too many main characters to keep track of! It wasn't just another run-of-the-mill popcorn flick! I haven't enjoyed a movie this much in a very long time.

I really appreciate a film that doesn't rely on a rediculously huge budget or the most expensive visual effects in the industry or the most popular music composer or having a big-name star attached to it. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the typical "popcorn flick" but sometimes I like to loose myself in thought rather than nothingness. Maybee that explains why I haven't seen CA Full Throttle, T3 or Hulk yet (I want to though, just no hurry). I already know what I'm gonna see. At least with 28DL I didn't know what in the hell to expect from the film PLUS I was pleasantly surprised. This wasn't the best film in the world (not even close) but personally I think it was very, very good.  

I do agree with Jango Fetish that the ads calling it a modernized zombie flick was just plain rediculous! Fortunately for me I went into that theatre NOT expecting another zombie film.  

I bet this merge in just a second will answer your questions...  

Seems to be some very mixed opinions on this one!

A buddy bought this on DVD so we watched it... Some spoilers ahead.

I really can't say how impressed I was with the movie. You know, I think that before the family shows up in the movie, the movie was one of the best I've seen in a while... Once the family came into play, it was still pretty good... once the soldeirs showed up, it dropped a bit, but, I still really enjoyed the movie.

I think, if I could have fixed something, I would have made the latter parts of the movie a tad more understandable. Maybe I missed something while I was explaining to the friend why the women had to dress up.  

Good movie - go see it and make a judgement on your own, don't let a bad review scare you off... I mean... Cory said that Fargo was boring, for example.