I thought it was very good.
Anyone else just see Day of the Triffids?
It went on a bit!
Got good towards the end.
Saw little bit. Dying to see it!
I liked the way they kept the monsters in the shadow for so much never has a flash of purple been so scary (inuendo joke please)
Plus Eddie Izard as a dead good villain.
This and Children of Earth, is the BBC getting it's scifi mojo back?
Awaits inevitable Dr Who disapointment.
It looked stunning, especially the first part. You could see Eddie Izard had an agenda though. I think the original BBC series still looks good.
I wish the Triffids had been real. CGI is never, ever as scary.
Quote: zooo @ December 28 2009, 10:50 PM GMTI wish the Triffids had been real. CGI is never, ever as scary.
What real carnvierous plants attacking London? And I thought I was insane.
Your wish is my command, scary innit?
Ooooooh!
*wets self*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/triffids/attack.shtml
Now in the 80s we f**ked those Triffids shit up with a...Triffid gun!
I still have one and have been known to drive by any especially mouthy orchids.
I thought it was pretty good; I didn't even realise it was him from 90210 until the very end! They did a good job of making big plants scary too, by keeping them in the shadows. I thought the effects were very good, and Izzard was just ace. Him staggering a bit blackened from a completely destroyed plane was a tad silly though! Whenever you watch a take on this story, you realise how many other things ripped it off. (Yes I'm looking at you 28 Days Later!)
Are you the sod who's been stalking my neighbour Mr Days Later's wife 28?
He stole everyone's life jackets!
That'll save you from anything.
Quote: zooo @ December 28 2009, 11:12 PM GMTHe stole everyone's life jackets!
That'll save you from anything.
Why did they have to make it so that the entire plane was in tiny bits! Izzard was very good in this though.
I would not have thought it possible, but this adaptation achieved the feat of making John Wyndham's characters even less interesting than in the book. So that our heroes should not be tainted with any moral ambiguity, a pantomime villain was interpolated for us to hiss.
The old adaptation with John Duttine was not only truer to the intelligence of the book, it also did a far superior job of ratcheting up the tension.
And I am no astronomer, but just how exactly was everyone in the world blinded at precisely the same moment by looking at a solar flare?
Haven't seen the new version, but the old BBC TV version was incredibly creaky, far too long, but seems to be remembered as far better than it actually was. The source material is rubbish in the first place. Walking bloody killer plants...? The fact it was meant to be some kind of vague Cold War satire as well didn't help it much. 