Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
I hadn't seen this in years. The film that spurred the zombie revival of the 2000s, what I most remembered were its amazing shots of an empty London: Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes in hospital to find the city seemingly deserted, having been ravaged by a zombie plague while he lay in a coma.
I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to bring myself to watch it again given the awful decision at the time to film on digital video records capable of only a 480p resolution. The final sequence (on 35mm) looks spectacular, but the first 90% looks like an upscaled SD turd. I probably first saw it on an SD TV, where it was "DVD quality"; in 2025 it's unbearable, with none of the charm of the documentary footage it was intended to evoke.
Solid script, dated a little by the years of zombies to follow and its intrusive use of Godspeed You! Black Emperor post-rock in the score.