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These DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS Clips Will Blind You

post #1 of 24
12/18/09 at 8:03am
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/21...YOU/Page1.html
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post #2 of 24
12/18/09 at 8:11am
Between this and Dr Who the BBC have done a steller job of giving us some original programming over Christmas.

Can not wait.
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post #3 of 24
12/18/09 at 8:27am
Looks good.

If they're looking for something to do next, they should really look at reviving Dr. Quartermass.
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post #4 of 24
12/18/09 at 8:43am
They already did....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qua...ent_%282005%29
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post #5 of 24
12/18/09 at 9:31am
I always imagined the novel to have more of a 28 Days Later feel. It's one of my favourites, so I hope the series does it justice.
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post #6 of 24
12/18/09 at 7:32pm
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Really is an amazing story, one of my faves as well. I've been digging through my apartment trying to find the book I thought I owned, which not only came with the novel but a cd with the BBC audio play. That was excellent as well.
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post #7 of 24
12/27/09 at 1:49am
That first clip looks pretty impressive and tastefully handled. Nice touch to address the satellites going blind as well. Certainly plays up the horror of the sequence in a way that the original film was too trite for and the BBC version couldn't afford.

I'm a big fan of that 80s BBC production. It knew enough to trust to what the best zombie films know, the threat is less the creatures and more the humans themselves. Cynical and grim, it was the kind of sci-fi that just doesn't get made too often anymore (at least not very well). Here's hoping they hang on to that dark quality.

And there's always the hope that if this goes over well it could light a fire under someone to get an attempt at The Tripods off the ground.
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post #8 of 24
12/27/09 at 2:34pm
Yeah, this looks great. IIRC conventional weapons are useless, right? They fashion some gun which fires CDs at the teriffids?

I wouldn't mind seeing Quartermass either, but what I'd really like to see is another great 60s sci-fi writer, John Christopher, get some of his work redone...that 80s Tripods series doesn't cut it.
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post #9 of 24
12/27/09 at 4:57pm
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It was fucking boring.

But I'm looking forward the Triffid remake. EDDIE IZZARD!!!!!!
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post #10 of 24
12/28/09 at 7:34pm
SWEET GIBBERING CHRIST!!

'Day of the Triffids' (2009) = The WORST bits of 'Aliens vs Predator' + Uwe Boll's 'Alone in the Dark' + 'Deadly Spawn'* **...and whilst that may sound entertaining to some of you...it ain't!

* I was going to throw in '28 Days Later', except, yeah, I KNOW where the opening from that film was knicked from...
**Oh, and 'Koyanisquaatsi' for all its time-lapse and fucking filters...
All on a BBC budget.

...I'm STILL watching it tomorrow, though...
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post #11 of 24
12/28/09 at 10:23pm
Sorry to hear it. I wouldn't hold the lack of budget against them, but it'd be a shame if they screw up the story. I'll still be watching it as well.
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post #12 of 24
12/28/09 at 10:52pm

Did they at least keep the book's reason for both blindness and Triffids?

In the novel the Triffids are created by Man...Russians specifically, to create an organic source of oil (or oil like substance)

And the Weird lights in the sky that cause people to go blind? Clever Attack Satellites created by both USSR and USA

Oh and in the novel the hero can't wait to get his girlfriend somewhere safe so she can cook and wash the dishes!

I'd really like to see someone adapt Out of the Deep/The Kraken Awakes, also by Wyndham. That was one kick ass disaster story.
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post #13 of 24
12/29/09 at 12:01pm
Yeah, it was pretty uninspiring... real shame. I'm still watching tonight's episode, but I've got a horrible feeling there is going to be an awful lot of the "Eddie Izzard is the Prime Minister" subplot, and less of the "save the world from the triffids".

I actually didn't think the budget restraints were that bad. Some of the post-meteor show setpieces were pretty spectacular, and the triffids themselves weren't that ropey for a BBC show. As is nearly always the case with British drama shows, it's just the story has absolutely no sense of pacing.
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post #14 of 24
12/29/09 at 1:13pm
I was quite enjoying the first 20 minutes...(apart from the corperation called 'TriffOil'; damn that name just SCREAMS 'BBC/Dr Who'-type bollocks...I can imagine their slogan: "Use 'TriffOil'!!...It's TriffIc!!"). Oh...and triffid oil is what has helped the human-race triumph over global-warming!

It was also the 'Shaun of the Dead' pub-takeover and the 'let's pretend 'Triffids' are 'Aliens'' that REALLY lost me...There's even a 'Harry Dean Stanton picking up shucked alien-skin'-type moment, except I believe it was a seed-husk.

This thing is all over the place, and as flint said, the pacing stinks...I hope it improves when Cox turns up!
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post #15 of 24
12/29/09 at 7:34pm
Unsuprisingly, a naff finale. Really dissapointing, I actually quite liked the idea of Izzard's character, a kind of a nobody who becomes a Stalin like figure, but they made nothing of it. It seems his entire motivation for his character was to get into Joely Richardson's knickers.

Three hours of post-apocalyptic vegetable peril, and they wasted 2 hours of it dithering about. Real shame...
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post #16 of 24
12/29/09 at 7:47pm
I was strangely enrapt with the second episode for the most part. Everything was much more charactor driven and also you had Redgrave and Cox to beef things up...then in the last 5 minutes they use a MaGuffin that even 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' would be offended by.

Such a WASTED opportunity...

6/10
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post #17 of 24
12/29/09 at 8:46pm
Crap.
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post #18 of 24
12/30/09 at 1:48am
Christ!
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post #19 of 24
12/31/09 at 8:47pm
Didn't hate it, but it could've been much better, especially considering the talent involved. The petty schemes of a crackpot dictator don't mean much when you're faced with the extinction of humanity. Solid performances, though.
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post #20 of 24
12/31/09 at 9:11pm
Ah it was pretty shit. Izzard was great entertainment though, and clearly enjoying himself. Still, I don't know what it is with the BBC and shit Sci-Fi, between this and 'Survivors' they have a lot to answer for.
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post #21 of 24
1/1/10 at 10:02pm
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Looks good.

If they're looking for something to do next, they should really look at reviving Dr. Quartermass.
I'd pay full price to see a revised version of the climax from The Pit.
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post #22 of 24
1/2/10 at 8:38am
THE GOOD:
- Intense apocalyptic horror
- The look: visually fascinating but oh so creepy
- The Triffids: they look like a nightmare and the attack scenes are terrifying
- Izzard, Cox, Redgrave, Richardson

THE BAD:
- Pacing is way too sluggish too often
- Mind-numbingly dull and pointless voiceover narration by Scott, telling you shit you already know over and over
- Scott is generally a monotonous drip. I felt a head cold coming on just from watching his performance.
- A deux-ex-machina that someone should be smacked for writing. Preferably it's a Triffid doing the smacking.
- Way too many contrivances in general (Does anyone really believe that's how you can survive an airline crash right in the middle of London?!?)

Ultimately, it got a lot right but was a disappointment anyway. Still, I think it's worth a try for those scary fucking Triffids.
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post #23 of 24
1/2/10 at 1:26pm
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- Way too many contrivances in general (Does anyone really believe that's how you can survive an airline crash right in the middle of London?!?)
HEY! It's Izzard!

The way he's presented in this he should of stumbled his way up the aisle, ripped the door to the cockpit off it's hinges and then stood between the blinded pilots, arms held out in a cruciform pose, as London was brought up to meet him.

Izzard (mutters): "Hey, bring it ON!!"

SMASH-CUT TO WHITE.
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post #24 of 24
1/2/10 at 3:32pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Phibes View Post
Ultimately, it got a lot right but was a disappointment anyway. Still, I think it's worth a try for those scary fucking Triffids.
Yeah, they did get the triffids right, at least. Scott was decent as a protagonist; the surprise was Priestley, who didn't suck. I knew Luke Perry had some acting chops, but Priestley wasn't bad.
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