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11/11/2003 Archived Entry: "28 days later..."

OKAY JIM, I'VE GOT SOME BAD NEWS: Movie night at Fort Sinatra consisted of "28 Days Later..." Since Dennis Kucinich is on record looking for a "first lady" I may as well get into the act. Conservative ladies...you want to know the way to my heart? Kung Fu movies. Zombie movies. Kung Fu Zombie movies...though I don't know how that would work...Kung Fu fighting zombies? Kung Fu fighters taking on zombies?

At any rate, borrowed "28 Days Later..." from a friend of mine and while it's not a zombie movie, many people have taken to describing it as thus. Basic plot? A man wakes up from a coma in a hospital in England and discovered a deserted London. After learning that some sort of virus escaped into the wild, Jim (Cillian Murphy) quickly learns that London -- and the rest of England -- isn't so deserted. The virus has turned ordinary people into raging monsters. If so much as a drop of blood from an infected person enters your body, within 20 seconds you turn into a raging zombie yourself. Needless to say, that plot device occasionally has you counting the seconds...

The movie was essentially made on a shoe string budget but I have to say it works...for the most part. Not enough "zombies" and the last act, which consists of Jim and a few other survivors meeting up with a British military unit, doesn't work that well. That said, the movie was decent and I can see why a lot of people were hyped on the movie. It's a rental, not a buy.

Interesting trivia: Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) stated that he used topless women to persuade male drivers not to drive on the streets where they were shooting, to keep them free of traffic.

Tomorrow night's movies? "The Matrix" and "The Matrix: Reloaded" courtesy of my friend Neil. I haven't seen the second movie and I wanted to revisit the first before I spent money on the final leg of the trilogy.