{"id":151,"date":"2007-05-13T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T05:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-05-13T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T05:35:54","slug":"28-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"28 Weeks Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0463854\/\">28 Weeks Later<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dendy.com.au\/sessions.asp?Cin_ID=15\">Dendy<\/a> in Newtown last night.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, this is a pretty good sequal. The gore level has been upped considerably, but it&#8217;s helped along by some great actors (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001015\/\">Robert Carlyle<\/a> is great, as always, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0126284\/\">Rose Byrne<\/a> is pretty good too). There&#8217;s an unexpected twist early on that sets up the basic conundrum for the film (does &quot;for better or worse, in sickness and in health&quot; cover zombie virus outbreaks?), and an homage to the lawnmower scene in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103873\/\">Braindead<\/a> multiplied by 100.<\/p>\n<p>This was a pretty scary film, almost as good as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0289043\/\">first one<\/a>. Certainly good enough to forgive it the odd predictable plot twist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw 28 Weeks Later at Dendy in Newtown last night. Surprisingly, this is a pretty good sequal. The gore level has been upped considerably, but it&#8217;s helped along by some great actors (Robert Carlyle is great, as always, and Rose Byrne is pretty good too). There&#8217;s an unexpected twist early on that sets up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}