I remember seeing 28 Days Later in the theater in 2002 and recall it being pretty good

Now they have a sequel set 28 years later and the poem being read is really creepy and fitting, it's a Rudyard Kipling poem named "Boots" and they used an old recording of it:



Boots
By Rudyard Kipling

We're foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin' over Africa
Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin' over Africa
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
2
Seven—six—eleven—five—nine—an'—twenty mile to—day—
Four—eleven—seventeen—thirty—two the day before
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
3
Don't—don't—don't—don't—look at what's in front of you.
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again);
Men—men—men—men—men go mad with watchin' 'em,
An' there's no discharge in the war!
4
Count—count—count—count—the bullets in the bandoliers.
If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o' you!
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again)
There's no discharge in the war!
5
Try—try—try—try—to think o' something different—
Oh—my—God—keep—me from goin' lunatic!
(Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again!)
There's no discharge in the war!
6
We—can—stick—out—'unger, thirst, an' weariness,
But—not—not—not—not the chronic sight of 'em—
Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again,
An' there's no discharge in the war!
7
'Tain`t—so—bad—by—day because o' company,
But night—brings—long—strings—o' forty thousand million
Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again
There's no discharge in the war!
8
I—'ave—marched—six—weeks in 'Ell an' certify
It—is—not—fire—devils, dark, or anything,
But boots—boots—boots—boots—movin'up an' down again,
An' there's no discharge in the war!

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Originally posted by PASig:
the poem being read is really creepy and fitting, it's a Rudyard Kipling poem named "Boots" and they used an old recording of it

Apparently, this same 1915 spoken-word recording of the poem has been used for its psychological effect in U.S. military SERE schools, according to https://finance.yahoo.com/news...38.html?guccounter=1 :

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Anyone who has ever attended the US Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape school will never forget Rudyard Kipling's poem "Boots," according to SERE graduate and Navy veteran Ward Carroll.

Carroll, who attended SERE in 1984, particularly remembers Kipling reciting his poem "Boots" over and over again in a very haunting voice while he was detained in a small cell.

SERE school is designed to train US troops on how to survive if they are captured and tortured.

Recruits enter a simulated prisoner of war camp that retired Navy SEAL Brandon Webb explained was a "boot camp on steroids," in his book "The Making of a Navy SEAL." "It was far and away the most intense training I'd encountered so far," Webb wrote.

The poem is about the endless marching the British infantry did while colonizing parts of Africa. Soldiers would march for weeks with no known destination and would frequently "go mad" watching the boots in front of them.

Since the war was still on, they couldn't take leave — or, as Kipling put it, "there's no discharge from the war."

Looks decent.

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Originally posted by kkina:
Looks decent.

We'll see.

The first film was great. The second one less so.

So I'm cautiously optimistic.

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I’ll watch it.

This stuff is usually not my style however I highly enjoyed the first and did not mind the second.
I’ll see this one probably in the theater.

Enjoyed the first 2, have been waiting for the 3rd.

I typically don't care for sequels/prequels, but this was 1 of the ones I've been waiting for. The other is the sequel for District 9.

I remember taking my wife to see 28 days later in the theater. She hates gore and horror movies, how I got her to go is beyond me.

Am I understanding that 28 years later is the third film? What was the second?

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
I remember taking my wife to see 28 days later in the theater. She hates gore and horror movies, how I got her to go is beyond me.

Am I understanding that 28 years later is the third film? What was the second?

28 Weeks Later

Thanks man ^^

I disliked 28 Weeks later. I saw it a single time, when I was much younger, and found the main characters (the kids) extremely annoying. Robert Carlyle was good. I did not find their story interesting, like the protagonist in the first film. I have not revisited them since.

Yeah, it's a far cry from the original.

I have 28 days later on DVD, and it was ok, I have 28 weeks later on BD and much prefer it, better people and much better action. I will have the new one on disc, looking forward to it.