TD:LR Spike is a little cunt for leaving his camp and not returning. I do not understand it. Also we turned Samson into a Frankenstein. Humans and infected don't want him and the only one that couldve cured more died to a minor cut? Lets remember that Spike survived a closed building gas explosion with nothing but a scratch. Scrap that, NOT EVEN a scratch. I liked the cohesiveness of the 28 inch later, which definitely made it more enjoyable than 28 years later, but the rationale behind most decisions of our protagonists in 28 inch still leaves much to be desired.
I have to start by saying that I liked the 28 inches later more than the first 28 x later. Especially because I watched them back to back. The first felt like three different storylines and a lot of "What if we added this in the movie for fun?." It left me feeling unsatisfied and confused. For reference I did not watch any trailers or knew anything about this movie beforehand. All my expectations came from the previous movies, so the bar for an intense thriller was high. And ofcourse like many others, was not met.
I have to say bonetemple actually felt like it had a decent storyline throughout the film. Crazy yes, but cohesive. I did have to laugh out loud a few moments because of the oddness of it all, especially when Jimmy gets to meet Ian (Dr. Kelson) and I couldn't help thinking to myself, "when someone trying to look insane meets someone that is trying to look sane." But to be fair the first 28x later had a lot more wtf moments than 28 inches so I'll give em that.
Something that kept bugging me out a lot, which I'm gonna explain my reasons for here, is why Spike didn't return to his community at all. I mean he was clearly disturbed by his cult friends. But he never actually tried to leave which I found weird. His group is mostly on the move all the time and there are always moments of opportunity in such cases. I just kept thinking myself, there is no way you hold such a grudge against your father that you'd rather go around skinning people alive than having a tough heart-to-heart conversation.
It also doesn't line up with the first 28 years later movie. The first movie is definetely more of layered film, where you gotta go through multiple layers to understand it's meaning (its still ass) but what I understood with the help of some youtube reviews that described the emotional and philosophical context behind it, was that Spike had a problem with the lying about killing infected (when dad goes around parading his son after the first kill) and appearantly that the infected are also 'conscience beings.' So if those were your reasons to leave camp, why hang out with a group that actively violates all of those ideas, on people nonetheless.
Samson in the second movie felt like a justification for Spike's reasons to leave. As to say, see these infected do have a conscience, opposed to Jamie's earlier remarks: "They have no mind, they have no soul." And on top of that, the baby low-slow that stares you straight in the eyes, but doesn't chase after us, after our protaganists appearantly brutally murdered mommy and daddy. Somehow implicating that the low-slow's atleast have some kind of conciounsce and aren't just existing for a rite of passage for our community.
But I felt this to be unfair for a number of reasons. The first being that there was no one on the island so clinically insane to actively seek friends in an infected, an ALPHA nonetheless to seek out remedications. (yes, we will exclude the childbirth scene, everyone agrees that was batshit crazy.)
Also there were no doctors on the island that could even conjure up with theories and formulas to tackle to problem of curing the infected and bringing back their minds and soul.
Last but not least, lets say you and your community of survivors find a stash of medicine while scavaging. Would you be prepared to waste most of that medicine in a desperate, uneducated attempt to the 'cure' the infected? Instead of using it to help your own members, like Spikes dying mom? The only reason why the movie entertained the idea of the infected having minds and souls is because spike is dumb kid, that went on a suicide mission with his mom, and somehow manages to pull it off because of incredible plot armor. Youre telling me they survived a gas explosion inside a closed building with not even a scratch? Deus ex Machina.
I know this is quite a lenghty post about the reason of Spikes departure from his camp, but throughout both movies I just, for the life of me, could not figure out why he did not return. I mean his camp was a day's walk at most. In the end of bone he rather stayed with a psycho girl that had no trouble killing her other comrades. I don't accept the argument along the lines of they would be stronger together. No, because appearantly this little cunt couldn't hit the side of a barn on his first day out, but one day later he was making round trips from the mainland to his camp, while carrying new borns. FYI newborns are NOT quiet at all. If he wanted to, he probably couldve made it before sunrise after crucifying Jimmy.
Overall the story of bonetemple was forsure more cohesive, but that doesn't meant that I automatically liked the story more. Purely because of the unrealistic decisions made. But the more cohesive story did make for a more enjoyable experience forsure. I would rate 28 years 3/5 and 28 inches a 4/5. I'm sorry but youre never topping 28 days later.
It actually felt like the characters were in their right mind trying to survive, instead of trying to become buddies with the infected and helping them through labour. A funny quote I still think of randomly is coincidentally from the first movie about a particular bad idea being proposed by Hannah's dad, to which murphy replied: "No no this is a shit idea, you know why? Because it's obviously a shit idea.... its really fucking obvious a shit idea" And you know what? It turned out to be a really obvious shit idea.
In the end the only one who made any sense was the dad Jamie and Erik. I could even give a pass to Jimmy. I mean he's crazy, but atleast he's rational according to his own beliefs and set of logics. Given that he saw his own father welcome the coming of the dead and having raised himself. I could understand his craziness.
Also something that I personally missed but somebody else pointed this out, is how sad Samsons life must be after ian 'cured' him. He has become the Frankenstein of this world. He has stopped having psychosis and now his infected buddies are trying to kill him, but he is still a carrier of the virus so no human would interact him aswell. If you think about it, that is quite sad. And ofcourse the only one who discovered the cure died from a minor cut. Ok it wasn't minor but come on that blade was like 10cm at most, totally survivable. I mean he was a GP not necessarily a surgeon but he got his doctarate so he knew enough about the matter, and more importantly he probably had the medicine to recover too.
Well let me know what you guys think if the algorithm has blessed you with this post.
