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My world, my rules

July 29th, 2003 | Category: Uncategorized

Alright in the sadistic world of Rob land work suck my left testicle. I mean seriously, I went through the whole day just kicking ass and taking names, I was on the ball. Nobody had to wait for food or anything, but I still got crappy tips. The majority of people tipped $2 on $17-$30 checks. Yeah, shit faced fuckbrains that'll feed my family. So, I essentially made no money and then had a harrowing bus ride home. The bus kept stalling and was just weird. Everybody was calm and cool, nobody was freaking out, making threats, or even raising their voices. Everybody handled it like me, as long as I get there sometime Im kewl. A normal 15 min bus ride became a 30 min experience quite fun actually. I figured I deserved a beer after that so I bought some at the store, then I didn't want to cook, so I headed to our neighborhood chinese place. Mmmmm good eats. Yeah I wonder this late at night. So yeah I saw 28 days later…GREAT FLICK!

28 days later
The movie starts off pretty good ata nice clip and well you just can't help but give a lil shudder. When the main character Jim comes too, he's alone in the hospital and luckly sealed in his room. This of course sets him ona search for what the hell happened while he was out. I think it's great how they were able to gloss over what he was there for. He cruises on meets some “infected” people and gets saved by humans. YaY! To the Human cave! They talk, he wants to go home to make sure his family is alive, they agree to travel with him. They hit his casa where he discovers mum and dad dead deadsky. He tries to cope and they stay the night.
As the night progresses an attack happens and poof realy uber cool male savior type is infected and dispatched with cold efficiency. Our hero and friend move on and make small talk of their situation, when they see a beacon in the night. They run to it and find a father and a daughter. They stay and move on the next day because it doesn't rain in London anymore. They travel to an army blockade, good times to be had as they travel. They get there and almost get munched, by the father who gets infected. The army saves them and brings them back to the fort. The leader is a likeable guy with huge ear lobes and the problem of trying to keep a group of men from going insane.

As our intrepid adventurers get comfortable they realize the army blokes aren't really playing with a full deck. The main character and one of the men in the unit try to save the girls' chastity and in doing so get tied up by the army guys. They get taken out the next day to get taken care of. Jim manages to get away as the army guys squabble. Good army bloke gets it and the executioners realize that they lost Jim. Whoops. Well you know our hero gets pissed. He starts to move like an infected and plots to save his “family”. Yeah rage! Well, with the help of a couple infected he clears the house and manages to get out with Selena and Hannah. The movie ends with warm fuzzies.

Alright, so I've ruined the whole movie for you, but I needed to write that just to say this movie rocked, it had a great story and it didn't need gore to get its point across. I especially like how one of your first jumps is just from a car alarm. How bleak the landscape is the whole time Jim is exploring, and the family dynamic they find. They also examine the ways differet groups would cope with this.

I would probably deal with the same situation like Jim. Naive, not really wanting to believe it, but taking everything at face value. He refuses to give up his scruples and his beliefs as the story progresses. As the movie progresses, he realizes he needs to alter a few but he clings even tighter to his want for a future. You see him realizing there is more out there when he sees the contrails of a jet overhead after his escape from the army doods. He finds what he needs at the end and keeps it safe, his family that he found in “nothingness”

Selena is a kewl hard bitch, and just kind of survives. Jim shows her a different perspective and in turn falls for him and his idealism. Great and they just work, she's tough but she needs help as well as shown near the end.

The father tries to keep things normal for he and his daughter before Jim and Selena show up, but when they meet he decides its time to move out of the city and try to get a better life for his daughter. He dies trying to get there, but he manages to show his daughter the way and save her.

The army blokes well they deal with it as any testosterone infused male would. Just wanting companionship and to blow things up. By the time they are met almost all semblence of discipline is gone. As time progresses they reveal their true nature, just wanting to have women and procreate. They become no match for JIm and his rage when they threaten his family. I can see how they would survive, yet even with all their discipline and weapondry they are just as susceptable if not more than a common man to just take what they want, rather than try to build a community together. I was pretty happy when most of them were taken out.

Did I mention the crazy zombie people? They were supposed to be infected bya virus which caused total rage. This was kewl in the fact that they were just insane and ran full out, as opposed to normal slow moaning zombie types. Kudos on a new type of flash eater!

On the whole this movie just rocked, crazed zombie like people, explosions, a tough bitch, more explosions, and someone finding his niche, just made this a very enjoyable movie.

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