The Reel Rejects - 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE – THAT CULT FIGHT HAD US SCREAMING! – MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:16 watching including um maybe this movie do we have questions we'll see um but let's go to one of you two first so you give me your thoughts on the movie go uh i loved it i think this is honestly we i've watched a few horror franchises on this channel and this is one of the more consistent and awesome franchises and i also love how different each film is as well but incredible performance to from ray finds he was amazing i love how complexity is and i love how you can feel how everyone's very isolated obviously in a world like this but especially him he's by himself and then i love the angle they take in this i think aaron said it best but i really have not seen in a zombie, you know, whether it's a TV show or a movie,

Starting point is 00:02:09 I'm in a video game that I can think of where you have an angle of not only trying to try to cure the, you know, the infected, but taking that angle too of befriending like that. And it just, it really was very heartfelt and genuine and I really cared about that. That was probably my favorite thing to see in the movie. As much as I grew to care for Spike and the last. last film and he was my favorite character in the last film and I loved him in this one too that was probably my favorite thing in this film I thought is it Jimmy or what's the actor's name Jack O'Connell thank you Jack O'Connell who plays Prime. Yeah yeah who plays Prime Jimmy he's an incredible actor he is so good at playing sadistic evil villains in in films and

Starting point is 00:02:55 perspective wise I can understand why he would come this is a cautionary tale of what can happen when you are also like isolated to a point and we saw what happened in the beginning of the first film. And when I say cautionary tale as well, like what could have happened to Spike? Granted, he went out on his own and this could have happened to him. He could have turned into Prime Jimmy. Thankfully, he's never hopefully going to. But, yeah, Jack O'Connell from Sinners to this, he's one of my favorite villains to watch on screen. He's just an incredible actor.

Starting point is 00:03:29 He's so versatile. But I want to hear from Aaron. What did you think? Yeah, man, I absolutely love this movie. I think it's wild how much intention and vision they started this re-vitalization of the franchise with, you know, Alex Scarlin wrote the first one, he wrote this one, but directorially very different between the first 28 years later than Bowen Temple. And I feel like it really served this story in a way that was, I don't know, but beneficial. to, you know, the type of story it was because it's weird because I said it during the reaction. I don't know how you would describe this in like a bite size kind of plot because it's very unconventional.

Starting point is 00:04:17 You know, I feel like a lot of the stories that we watch are some variations of, you know, things we've seen in different things. And, you know, there's these different archetypes. But I can't think of one that this particularly falls under. This is when a weird way feels more. And I mean, it's in a good way. Feels like the continuation of a series more so than it does a movie. But it's formatted like a movie because of the arcs that we experience and go through. Performances were fantastic from start to finish.

Starting point is 00:04:49 You know, Ray Fines really stepped up in this one. He was great in the last one. And the little bit we got to see. And they don't tell you too much about him in this movie. But it's a lot of the storytelling with him is subtextual or it's visual. You know, you don't get a lot of. exposition as to what has happened with these people. You don't really need it either.

Starting point is 00:05:07 I feel like the way that they were able to showcase how seductic, how seductive, sadistic, thank you. I know words. How sadistic that the jimmies were. And, you know, you see that they formulated this sense of community, but it's through, you know, nefariousness and Satanism and how his own. lust for power kind of

Starting point is 00:05:36 was his undoing how Jimmy's undoing because he ran into someone like Dr. Kelson who is, in spite of the, you know, the visual atmosphere he surround himself with is someone who has a big heart is someone who cares and who loves

Starting point is 00:05:51 and who wants better for people. And that shows most with the main story with him and Samson. You know, he took the time to invest in this guy who other people be like just run for the hills but he's like

Starting point is 00:06:08 no I'm gonna sit with you when they form a relationship over time and eventually he heals him and now he seems like he's gonna be a character going forward in the next movie which I hope that we get soon because I didn't even know that Bone Temple was coming out as soon as it did after we watched the first one I didn't either so I imagine in some form they either shot them really close

Starting point is 00:06:27 together or shot all the movies back to back which I hope is the case because I really would like another one soon But yeah, I've talked long enough. Tara, how you feeling? Yeah. So I agree with what they said. I think the main thing that I took from this movie is that in the lines that we remember when Dr.

Starting point is 00:06:45 Ian says, nothing is, no one is, it's just us. And we cut to not only Spike goes off with just him and now Kelly. We also cut to our OG with in him seeing, you know, Spike and her. And do we help them? Of course we do. Why? Because it's just us. It's a statement piece about like even when the world to me is burning down, you're almost left with, with nothing. You get stuck in a group of jimmies. And all you have is just us, meaning how can you find the humanity and the people that you are surrounded by to help you get to the place where it's like, none of you have. this of this wakadoos stuff, it doesn't matter because it really does just come down to just us. And I really like that. That like super stuck with me. And I think that's why when we cut to our original OG, you know, Killian, you're like, that's that they're giving you the exact example of like, it's just us.

Starting point is 00:07:58 And yes, we're going to do the right thing. Let's get to the questions. First off, Captain Fernandez. The Bone Temple Sam's story was the first time ever seriously considered how the virus had stripped the humanity from the infected. Before, they were just fast. Scary zombies to me. Did you guys stop and think about the impact the rage of virus had on its victims prior to this movie? I had not really thought about it too deeply.

Starting point is 00:08:21 I was more thinking just about the survivors and the humanity and just how we had to survive. So I wasn't really thinking about it from the infected side. So I'm glad that we didn't rinse and repeat And we explored it from a different perspective And I think the most one of the most heartbreaking things about this film too Is you know when Dr. Ian Kelson died You know kind of like the possibility of a cure I know he said that he was running out of the

Starting point is 00:08:50 What was it? The morphine and he only had enough supply for two more weeks But I wonder if he could have construed To be able because he was dealing with the psychosis That's what he was uh he said He was working on with Samson, but I wonder if he could have come up with something to deal with this on a large scale, even though supplies were really low. But I think that's also a tragic thing for this as well as not only the character that we grew in, but that's why I said I love this angle that they played at because I had not even thought about it. Yeah, I thought it was a very interesting take that this wasn't a all-consuming thing, but the virus itself or the primary thing.

Starting point is 00:09:31 thing of it was something that was a physical ailment and previously we perceived it to be obviously all all encompassing mind body everything that person you know was gone and we've seen variations of um it was like this nicholas holt movie that came out years ago where he was a zombie um but he still had like some semblance of consciousness but i feel like this version of it was unique in the sense that it treated the the rabidness of zombie as a form of psychosis. And he didn't treat, you know, the virus itself, but he treated that psychosis.

Starting point is 00:10:06 And the psychosis is what causes them to be so rampant for, for other people and for going after any and everything that's moving, essentially. So I feel like that was an extremely unique take that I hadn't considered before. And I feel like we've seen things play with the possibility of a cure,

Starting point is 00:10:26 but the possibility of people being immune, but consciousness reversion, while still technically remaining infected is something that is unique that I haven't seen too much of. Yeah, it's a very close metaphor to like dementia Alzheimer's. When you look at it, your brain is inflamed. You're still there underneath. There's a lot of people who don't know how to, I guess, communicate with people in the way

Starting point is 00:10:54 or even think about it. It's sort of like, oh, that person is, I don't think everybody treats it. but it's almost as if that person is dead to them in a way because they've lost the way to communicate. And I think this was a really good example of that, no, we hadn't, I mean, at least I had not thought about when you look at a zombie movie, you're like, rage virus. They start barfing blood. I don't want it. Now they've turned. They're going to eat people.

Starting point is 00:11:20 You don't think about the really the true impact of like the victims. You're like, well, that freaking sucks, right? especially if it's a family or something. Like the dad turns and the kids still alive. That sucks. But I think this movie, obviously, is the first time that I think they've really dug deep in that. And I think made a really close tie to not only just the zombie life. But I think it has a metaphor and ties to a lot of other things, not just psychosis.

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Starting point is 00:13:42 who he was before infection, thanks to Ian, do you think that changes everything about what the rage virus actually does? And now that Ian is dead, what does that mean moving forward? Are we heading toward evolution or something even more dangerous? you guys think yeah I I think that

Starting point is 00:14:02 there's a possibility that you know that the option of a cure or something to that effect is possible because if you remember

Starting point is 00:14:12 at the beginning of the first movie it's only like England that's in quarantine the rest of the world is fine like we saw the soldier with his phone

Starting point is 00:14:19 showing like the spike his girlfriend so I feel like if Sam can communicate somehow with somebody connected to the outside world that if they can treat the psychosis, if he was like fully conscious of when Kelson was telling him that, then that's a new angle and approach that the outside world can take to then affect the inside of where England is. So I don't know. I'm that to me as an optimist.

Starting point is 00:14:46 I hope that is something that can happen. But, you know, I feel like you run the possibility of defusing some of the tension if you take it out too early. maybe this is something we work towards. But yeah, I think it's a very interesting direction for the movies. Right. Well, now that Samson is still alive. I know I just said possibly with Dr. Ian Kelson dying, it could die with him because he's the one who came up with it. But, I mean, if they see with what has happened with Samson, there is a possibility that, you know, as you said, that Spike could get it out to someone and they let him know.

Starting point is 00:15:19 And then, you know, some other doctors somewhere could come up with it. It's not impossible, but yeah, that was one of the more fascinating things, too, throughout the film is watching Samson evolve, whether it was, but visually, you know, through the clothing or actually eating blackberries and then actually seeing that visual cue of going to the past and watching that. So I'd love to see more stuff like that evolve throughout into the next film of watching, like, more infected go through their evolution, whether it be something, whether they are actually healing. going through like something like that or something more dangerous like what jadell was saying but we'll have to see yeah i think jadale something more dangerous would be that we we obviously are getting to a point here and i um where you're you're hiding in plain sight meaning you can operate as a human and get as close to who i would be versus who samson would be but now he has these drugs and is like could switch on a dime right and that would be the more

Starting point is 00:16:23 dangerous situation. It would be how do we mark them as like, well, be careful with this person because he's on a lot of meds. And if he forgets one day, he might want to turn back to eating people. Like, I don't know how that would work. That world would work. It would take a lot of work, but that in my brain, when you ask even more dangerous, I'm like, that's how I would see it would be more dangerous. Resident Z. I was originally hesitant about the movie after hearing it was divisive, but I ended up enjoying it. Here's a fun question for you guys. If you were originally spared by Jimmy and his fingers and you had to choose who to fight,

Starting point is 00:16:57 who would you pick and why? I think I'd go for the craziest person to hope I can out crazy them. Are we just asking like person here or just person in jail? Anyway, anywhere. Uh, the person I would pick. Because he's going craziest person. We assume that what we saw in the movie like, oh, you're going to go for the girl who looks weak. Yeah, you go for the weakest person, right?

Starting point is 00:17:17 I'm the worst fighter ever. Just out of the real rejects, who are you going to fight? Let's just do it that way. No one's going to pick Aaron. Aaron's a teddy, man. He's so nice, though. So you're picking me? Yeah, I would pick you because I would lose so quickly, and it would be over so quickly for me.

Starting point is 00:17:38 You would kill him out of pity, like, quickly. You'd be like, I don't want him to suffer. He's my roomy. Yeah. Then Aaron's like, what about the red damn? I can't do this. Wait, who would you pick? I'm picking Andrew.

Starting point is 00:17:50 You're making each other. Everyone would pick me. It's an easy fight. They picked the weak one. They picked each other. That's what bromances. Okay. Hold on.

Starting point is 00:18:02 Let me think. Just pick me. This is easy. No, no, no. No. I think I'm going to. Who would I want to fight the least? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:13 Like, we can't have a cat fight. Like, me and Roxy, we're not going to fight. We can't. be doing that to the she-jacks. We can't be doing that. So like I'll just, here's the thing. The person that I can go the hardest with in regards to like self-deprecating humor and really just bury him deep as Greg. And Greg does it the same to me. You guys know when we are in a reaction together, he, that's just how a relationship is. We make jokes against each other. So I feel like if we really wanted to make some money on a fight, it would be me and Greg.

Starting point is 00:18:46 I'd be entertaining. How about this? Who'd be the craziest infected of us? I don't know. I think we'd all be crazy in our own right. Yeah, I think we're all a little bit, a little bit nuts, right? Okay, Rev says, what's up, Rejects? I hope all three of you are doing well.

Starting point is 00:19:03 I know the 28 days later likes to use the term infected instead of a zombie. But my question is this. How long do you think you would last into zombie apocalypse? Where would you go? I'm personally bunkering down at a Costco, says Rev. Thanks for the good time. I'd give myself five to ten minutes. I know Tara would back me on that.

Starting point is 00:19:20 But where would I go? I would try to find a bunker or something like that. I think that'd be the safest place. I don't know. Wherever Dr. Ian Kelson is is where I would go. Okay, I like that. What about you? A dog.

Starting point is 00:19:35 Where are you going? How long do you last first off? Oh, shit. I'm not very fast. I don't know if I'd last long. Yeah. Kind of gun shop. But a gun shop would be good.

Starting point is 00:19:46 of maybe a small town or you know what Frick I was thinking of a cruise ship but like there might be infected up in there yeah

Starting point is 00:19:53 you have to inspect it first I guess yeah x-ray guy I was I kind of I was gonna say a bunker too

Starting point is 00:19:59 but we'll share the bunker together we can share the bunker okay I would last obviously many many years and I would go to

Starting point is 00:20:09 I love Costco but I would go to Disneyland okay so here's the thing they have so many snacks there And so many food choices. And so many zombies.

Starting point is 00:20:19 Like, I can also be riding, riding, killing them, a dog. I'm trying to also have fun while I'm out here. All right. Okay. So I'm going to stick with Disneyland. It's like zombie land. Where would be your kill spot? My kill spot to kill them.

Starting point is 00:20:34 Yeah. No, I think I would take them in the aerial ride because it's like it's slow. And if I can get them just to like maybe enjoy the ride, then I would hide in the water. where Ariel and Prince Eric are kissing and it's like, shal la la la la la, kiss the girl. And then I would hop out and just slice their heads off because they're being full well entertained in this ride.

Starting point is 00:20:57 And it slows them down. Yeah. Okay, so you're welcome. I know you thought she's not going anywhere with that. And then he decided to ask a question. And I doubled down. J. Dell has some trivia. He says the Bone Temple is expanding the rage virus mythology

Starting point is 00:21:14 beyond pure mindless, as aggression with the director, Danny Boyle, hinting that this chapter explores how time has altered, both the infected and the psychology of survivors, setting up deeper moral questions for the trilogy's future. That's a good.

Starting point is 00:21:27 That's a good. I like that. How do you guys feel about that? What do you said? Any dots on that? No, I think that's a great point. It makes sense. I mean, 28 years later, right?

Starting point is 00:21:35 Because all the films before this, we only had days and weeks, so that makes a lot of sense. And I like seeing the evolution of the characters. And I can't wait to see how, for what they explore to with the infected when it comes to the next film. I'm also excited to see what we're going to see as well when it comes to joining forces with Killingen Murphy and his daughter. And I'm hoping, I said this earlier in the film as well, I'm hoping we get to see Aaron Taylor Johnson back because I really...

Starting point is 00:22:02 We will. Yeah. So I'd like to see that because I like when they reuse characters that we've seen from previous films and bring them back with newer characters that we've grown to. to like. So it's a deep respect for what came before it while infusing it with the new characters that we've grown to love. So I think that would be fascinating. But yeah, I think what they've done with the last two films has really been incredible.

Starting point is 00:22:29 Yeah, it has. What about you, I, Doug? Real quick. Something you said, I think, a couple of questions ago. I don't know how long he's going to last. Maybe Samson, he took the psychosis stuff. maybe that was like a permanent cure because he got bit up by a bunch of zombies and

Starting point is 00:22:46 you know he seemed fine he's going to be able to retake things to help with that but you know and to speak to this question they did kind of talk about both the psychology of the survivors and how time effects he infected because we saw Samson's little boy talking to

Starting point is 00:23:02 the attendant and then we saw him as an adult talking to the attendant and then when Kelson was talking to Jimmy he was like I don't really remember much even though he had these pictures. He just remembers small bits and pieces. So it is interesting how time is affected in both sides of the people that are still left in this world, or at least within this island. But yeah, I'm curious to see how they kind of further expand that mythology

Starting point is 00:23:27 when it comes to, you know, how time is perceived by infected in people. Yeah, I'm with you. That's what makes me think it's like of a really strong tie to like dementia Alzheimer's, which I don't think they're necessarily, uh, they're probably thinking that a little bit in this movie, but it's not the main focus, but I am pulling from that because that is, it can get lonely and isolating, and you're only remembering fragments

Starting point is 00:23:52 of time. And that's pulling us more into, like, us looking at it humanely of like the infected, which is not a thing that zombie movies do. So cheers to Danny Boyle for that. And I do think setting up the deeper moral questions, like for the future, is that

Starting point is 00:24:08 the line that I already said sticks with me, it's just us. And the deeper moral of that is killing, running off. And do we help them? Of course we do. And here we go. Whether or not it means we may lose our life doing it, hopefully, obviously not. They're somewhat built for this.

Starting point is 00:24:26 He's been around for a minute. But I do really like that. I'm excited for more. I think that's it, unless you guys have any last thoughts. One more thing. I wonder now that Samson's a little more conscious and aware, I wonder if they're going to explore, too, with his daughter being in that town. they're going to explore that a little bit too,

Starting point is 00:24:44 like that he gets to meet her and that kind of thing, are they just going to stay away from that? Now that if Aaron Taylor Johnson is going to come back, is he raising her, where are we going to do with all that, right? I'm curious about all that. This one makes me want to go back to watch the original

Starting point is 00:24:57 and maybe we'll get the characters from 28 weeks later as well. I'm going to, before we get into the next one, I think I'm just going to rewatch all of them. That's a good idea. Probably a good idea. We need to do a full-on re-rewatch. We love you guys. Make sure you leave all the cool comments.

Starting point is 00:25:10 Be nice, be cool. be kind we will see you on the next one.

The Reel Rejects - 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE – THAT CULT FIGHT HAD US SCREAMING! – MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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