Dear Director, Producer, Writer, Whoever was responsible for the madness... (spoiler alert!)

Mar 13, 2009 02:09

You must not have gotten the memo.  Don't make me hate a protagonist!

Big sisters not only strive to comfort their little brothers when grief strikes, they protect them as well.  Teenaged Tammy (28 Weeks Later) sneaking outside of a safe zone (safe from the horrible rage virus and possible rage-infected zombies) with young Andy just to retrieve a family picture and mementos was too stupid for me to swallow.  I mean, really.  It would have been better to have Andy try that craziness on his own, and a terrified Tammy go after the kid to save him.  Or perhaps Tammy might have gone alone, willing to risk herself but not her little brother in case there be zombies, and Andy secretly follow and refuse to go back.

The actress was great.  But you made the girl look so bad, I couldn't have cared less what happened to her after that.  And having her save Andy from their raging father at the end did NOT balance out having her stupid actions re-start the original 28 Days Later virus and cause thousands of innocent people to be infected, eaten, or callously mass-exterminated by the military.  Not to mention it spreading to another country.  Yes, in real life, a teenager probably would have been this lame (and I mean that lovingly).  But this was fiction.  Push the envelope, but don't make your audience completely write off a heroine, okay?  Ugh.

Sincerely,
Your dynastic one

P.S. Robert Carlyle was right gnarly.  I didn't know he could play such a good zombie!

bad writing, entertainment

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