Santa buddies part 1 full movie

Santa buddies part 1 full movie

b-tuned writings/misc. ramblings I just finished watching 28 Days Later for the first time since its theatrical run. I remember disliking it initially but really enjoyed it this time. Its possible the reasons it left such a negative impression has less to do with the film and more with me: at the time I was a zombie purist, believing anything mimicking George A. Romero films or maneuvering into the surreal in this genre was banal. I think Ive outgrown this sentiment, explaining my enjoyment this time around. Danny Boyles zombie film does sometimes retreat into the absurd with the visuals fields of pastel looking flowers, animated windmills, etc. but where this bothered me before its now just part of the films aesthetic and doesnt really bother me. The film itself is more interesting than these few moments I disliked before; the way it presents sadism and humanitys primal instincts, whether the characters are humans or zombies, is aptly accomplished. 28 Days Laters final act is a sublime investigation of humanitys violent nature, showing whats perceived as a violent other and the violence inherent in familiars. After finding the military blockade Jim, Hannah, and Selena end up with a group of soldiers who initially seem benevolent but end up being sexually frustrated and keen on raping Jims female companions even though Hannahs only about 12 or These characters embody both sex and violence willing to commit violence for sex. What really makes them any different from the infected zombies? Their willingness to torture and harm women, women who survived a gruelingly violent new world and who are potentially the last few people alive anywhere, is appalling. After the soldiers realize Jim doesnt condone their plans hes targeted for death, barely surviving. This leads into his revenge strategy, where he acknowledges his primal nature and systematically forges the demise of the offending soldiers. Boyles male protagonist embraces the nature of the soldiers and the millions, if not billions, of zombies outside the blockade in order to save his friends. Once again, what makes him any different from the zombies? Jims adherence to the ethics and morals of a deceased world are admirable and separate him from the amoral soldiers; his loyalty to his friends is also commendable, but engaging in cold-blooded murder, even against the guilty, still places him in the cruel category. Of course, I could say everybody is capable of murder and Boyles film comments on how people are all the same regardless of how we classify them; that despite national boundaries and the us and them world we inhabit everybody is capable of barbarism regardless of creed, national origin, or beliefs. 28 Days Later does state this, but it also delves deeper into the motivations for violence, exploring justifiable violence. In the case of Jim his actions are credible because from the audiences viewpoint the protagonists are justified and the soldiers arent. The soldiers actions are deplorable and the zombies are obviously enemies but the actions Jim implements place him in the same category as the two foes; he becomes what he morally objects to. I personally object to the death penalty and dont believe in vengeance but I dont think Jims situation falls into this category. He was placed into a kill or be killed situation; only a few hours before his revenge he was targeted for murder by the soldiers, taken out into a secluded part of the blockades forest area and almost assassinated. His motivations survival operate outside of a death penalty debate but he still gives agency to vehement actions, placing him alongside the films antagonists. Like Barbara Patricia Tallman states in the Tom Savini helmed remake of the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, theyre us; were them and theyre us. After watching the film I perused the three alternate endings on the disc and was really annoyed; the original ending, where Jim dies in an abandoned hospital, is much better than the sappy finale geared for the moviegoing public. Considering the films low-budget I was expecting a few more zombies. That was the first thing that went through my mind after watching Danny Boyles 28 Days I mean, when somebody reinvents the zombie movie, you kind of figure there are going to be a fair number of zombies about. But the very fact that the living dead who arent even properly dead, incidentally are kept off-screen most of the time in this film has much to do with that reinvention. Rather than focusing on the horror of the zombies themselves, as is generally the plan with such movies, 28 Days concerns itself mainly with the question of what it would take to survive and go on living not quite the same thing under the conditions traditionally posited by the post-Romero zombie flick. Those who come in looking for Day of the Dead will probably be disappointed, but anyone who enjoyed I, Zombie: A Chronicle of Pain will find much to appreciate. Lets begin by clearing up one obvious source of potential confusion. 28 Days is less a zombie movie than a successor to The Crazies or Cannibal Apocalypse. When a trio of animal rights activists break into the Cambridge Institute for Primate Research with the intention of liberating the experimental subjects, it never occurs to them to look into just what kind of experiments the chimps theyve come to free have been subjected to. A scientist from the laboratory catches them in the act, and tries to warn them, but to no avail. The activists have no room in their worldview for the idea that the animals have been inoculated with a virus the scientist calls rage, that the disease is contagious, or that it is of paramount importance that the chimps remain safely caged and restrained. One of the activists trips the latch on the nearest cage to her, and is immediately attacked by the animal inside. Her colleagues kill the chimp evidently even animal rights partisans are sensible enough to compromise their principles in the face of a direct assault, but she has already been bitten several times by the ape. She turns feral herself, and goes murderously berserk. 28 days later, a bicycle courier named Jim Cillian Murphy emerges from the coma in which he has lain ever since he was run down by a motorist about a month ago. His hospital room is empty, and strangely quiet.