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eruvadhrilIn chemistry today, the teacher gave out these brochures about, like, medical seminars and stuff, and there was this totally kick-ass forensics seminar that goes for two days at the University of Nottingham. I want to go.
We got the first series of Linda Green, 28 Days Later and I Robot. We're waiting for Dad to get home before we watch I Robot. We only watched the first episode of Linda Green, because Christopher Eccleston was in it, and the show wasn't that good that we wanted to watch the rest. She's a woman who is 'too intense' in relationships, and 'tries to cram the twelve stages of Man into a fortnight'. Whatever that means. She's been going out with Neil (played by Christopher Eccleston) and he leaves her because he is an ass, and then he buggers off to Tahiti for two weeks or something, and she goes out with his much nicer identical-except-that-he-doesn't-have-a-tattoo twin brother Tom, and things go nicely until Neil comes back. She's a singer at a nightclub or something, and she goes out with her friends and Tom and he's really nice and doting so that it gets annoying, and when they get home she says that they can't go out because he reminds her too much of Neil. He's like "... You're still in love with him, aren't you?" and she nods. AND MAKES HIM CRY. Erica and I hate her- it's like she's kicked a puppy. And she's like "I'm sorry-" and he turns around and he's actually laughing. And Linda's like "WTF?" and pulls up his shirt and he's got the tattoo. She's like "YOU BASTARD!" and he says something about the way he acted tonight was the way that Tom actually acts, and he gives women what they want, "Except, that's not what they want, is it?" Linda considers this, then headbuts him a la Princess Fiona in Shrek 2. And he has a bloody nose. Then Tom comes to the door because he was working late that night, and runs into Neil as Linda chucks him out, and they start fighting each other. It's really bizarre, seeing Christopher Eccleston fighting Christopher Eccleston, because you don't quite know who to be going for. Linda leaves them to it and goes to a party. I must say, though, that the leather jacket that Neil wears looks awfully familiar.
28 Days later is a zombie movie. Fun. It starts with these animal-rights people breaking into this research lab and trying to free all the chimps who are locked in these glass cages, which would normally be really upsetting, but we know that the Zombie Virus is transmitted by apes, so we're all for them staying locked up for now. They also have this chimp hooked up to electrodes and stuff, and watching TV with war and famine and whatnot. The Activists go to open the cages but this scientist bloke shows up and tries to call security, and then tells the Activists not to free the chimps because they are infected with "Rage". O-kay. The woman opens the cage anyway, and this chimp goes mad and attacks her, and the Scientist is all "YOU HAVE TO KILL HER NOW!" and then she goes mad and attacks everyone else, and the disease is transmitted to the human race, so thanks, Gung-Ho Activists. If a medical scientist guy told me that there was a highly dangerous disease and they were trying to cure it, I'd listen rather than pull a gun on him. Oh, and we find out that the virus is transmitted by blood and saliva.
28 DAYS LATER...
Some Guy wakes up in a hospital from a coma and OH, MAN, DID WE REALLY NEED THE FULL FRONTAL? What kind of hospital leaves coma patients on the bed completely naked, anyway? AHH! STOP THAT! He unhooks himself from the various drips and machines and stuff, and, Oh, thank God, he's got a hospital gown. And he walks through the hospital going "Hello? Hello!" but it's completely deserted, and he breaks into a bunch of vending machines because he hasn't eaten in 28 days, so I suppose he'll be detoxed if he was ever on anything. Turns out the whole of London is deserted. There's this huge wall thing around the statue of Eros, with memorial letters and photos and stuff stuck to it, and he finds some newspaper somewhere that says the country's been evacuated. Yay. Every time he goes past an Underground entrance, Erica and I shout "DON'T GO INTO THE SUBWAY!" and he doesn't. He goes into this church instead. He walks above the pews (which are full of dead people) on this balcony, and after he goes past a couple of people are not dead yet and look up and they are all pale and covered in blood, but their movements aren't as slow and shambolic as one might expect. They actually move really quickly. They are kind of squirrely. Then Father Zombie bursts out of his room and starts attacking Coma Guy, and he shoves him away and flees out of the building and he runs for a while and, for someone who's been in a coma until about half an hour ago, he's a really good runner. Then, just when it looks like the zombies are about to get him, a couple of people in gas masks (MUUUUUUUUM-MYYYYYY...) turn up and start chucking Molotov Cocktails at the zombies, which doesn't slow them down that much. The Maskateers grab Coma Guy and shove him into a corner newsagent or something and bolt the doors and pull down those steel bars that they shut shops with, and the Male Maskateer says "A guy goes into a bar with a giraffe. The giraffe gets drunk and falls on the floor. The guy gets up to leave, and the bartender says 'You can't leave that lying there!' and the guy says 'That's not a lion, it's a giraffe.'" Coma Guy is like ". . ." and Mr Maskateer says "Completely humorless. You two should get along fine." We see the female Maskateer is a very grim and pessimistic black woman who is obviously going to be Coma Guy's love interest. She gives us the exposition, i.e. The whole of England has been infected by this virus, and last they heard there were also cases in Paris and New York. They also swap names, but I can never remember names.
They go to Coma Guy's house and find that his parents have drugged themselves to death rather than become infected, and the mum was clutching a photo of Baby Coma Guy with something like 'We left you sleeping, and now we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up.' written on the back. Coma Guy is woeful. That night, some Infected break into the house and the Maskateers kill them, except Mr. Maskateer gets some Infected blood into a cut in his arm, so Mrs Maskateer kills him. She tells Coma Guy that, once someone gets infected, you have about twenty seconds to kill them. She also says that if Coma Guy got infected, she'd kill him "in a heartbeat." Coma Guy is like, yeah, thanks for that.
They leave the house and stuff happens, and they see Christmas lights flicking on and off in a window of an apartment block, so they go to the appartment block and the first flight of stairs is covered in trolleys and stuff but the rest of the stairs are clear, and about halfway up Coma Guy gets tired and Mrs I-Qualified-As-A-Chemist Maskateer gives him headache tablets and says that he's been running on sugar and has no fat, so he needs more sugar. And then some Infected start chasing them up the stairs. Maskateer runs up the stairs, and Coma Guy is running very slowly going "HELP ME! PLEASE DON'T LEEEAVE MEEEEEEE!" and he just bearly makes it to the top of the stairs but the Infected are about to get him, and then this guy in police riot gear comes out and says "Go to room 507!" and beats off the zombies, and the girl in room 507 won't let them in because her dad isn't with them, and Police Riot Gear Man comes back and tells 'Hannah' that it's alright, and to let them in, and they break out the Creme de menthe, which belonged to Hannah's mother, who is not here anymore. Then Coma Guy finally gets a shave, and he cuts himself because there isn't enough water or something, and OMG IT'S BOONE! HI, BOONE! I didn't know you were English, Boone! Say hi to Snicker Bitch for me, Boone! Blah blah water collection blee.
The next day, they check this hand-held radio which is apparently powered by winding it. According to Hannah, they've never picked anything up, but today they do! They pick up a radio transmittionwhich has been running for sixteen years with Christopher Eccleston(!) saying "There is an answer to Infecton! We've got this military set-up past the Forty-Second (ha!) blockade, about 27 miles out of Manchester! COME FIND US!" so they decide to go for it. Manchester is up the other end of the country from London, but they decide to go for it. They drive out in Mr Riot Gear's taxi. So Mr Riot Gear is Mr Policeman Taxi-Driver. After some time they get to a massive food shop in a completely deserted town, so they're all like "WHOO! FOOD SHOPPING!" Mr Policeman Taxi-Driver goes past crate upon crate of spoiled fruit, until he gets to a crate full of perfect apples, and goes "Mmm. Irradiated." The girls stock up on chocolate. Boone goes straight to the booze and picks up a random bottle of wine, and Mr Policeman Taxi Driver lectures him on not just picking up any old crap, then shows him a bottle of very expensive and exclusive scotch, which he SHOULD be picking up. They drive off again and stop at some old ruins on grassy hills to have a picnic, and they see a symbolic family of symbolic horses which are running symbolically in symbolic, uninfected freedom. Boone has a nightmare in which they drive off and leave him behind, and, yeah, they're really going to do that, Boone. Of course, they wake him up before they leave.
At some point they stop to get some petrol from an abandoned petrol truck near a service station in the middle of nowhere (like there are any middle-of-nowheres in England) and Boone goes into the house thing and beats a little Infected boy to death. So... Good for you, Boone.
They drive through a dark and scary road tunnel instead of going ten miles out of their way on open road. The tunnel has cars randomly parked all through it, and then there's this barricade of cars about halfway through, and Mr Policeman Taxi Driver drives over it and blows a tire out, so they have to change it. Hannah goes under the car to put the carjack in, and then RATS come streaming toward her and there are RATS EVERYWHERE and they are ALL OVER HER OMGWTFRATS, and then we see silouhettes of Infected running into the tunnel, and the rats were running away from the Infected, and they lift up the car with their bare hands and Hannah changes the tire and they only just get away, like we knew they would.
FINALLY, they get to blockade number 42 (ha!), except there's no-one there. They wander about, and there's a dead Infected on the roof, and a drop of blood falls into Mr Policeman Taxi Driver's eye, and before he goes crazy he tells Hannah that he loves her, and then he's like "Stay away! StaY aWay! STaY AWAy! STAY AWAGHUGHH!!!" and Maskateer is going "Kill him, Boone!" and Boone's just about to kill him, when gunfire starts up and Mr Policeman Taxi Driver dies. RIP. Thanks for not showing up about thirty seconds sooner, Army Guy.
They drive Boone and Co. to their stronghold, which happens to be a mansion/castle in the middle of a wide flat area of ground, run byDoctor Major Henry West. We get a tour and see the High Walls With Floodlights, and the Flat Surrounding Area Which Has Been Rigged With Landmines And Tripwires, and a wood-fire boiler, so they can have hot water, "the first step toward civilisation." Because the English can cope with anything, as long as they have a nice hot cup of tea. There is also an Infected soldier chained up out the back, because they want to see how long it takes for an Infected to starve to death. Unfortunately, Chris has a Poncy and/or Upper-Class English accent.
Crap happens. I think that Boone and Maskateer actually officialise their love-interest status. Then the soldiers start feeling up the women or something, and a Nice Soldier pulls a gun and tells them to back off, and Major Eccleston comes in and gets everyone to back off, and asks Boone for a word. He tells Boone that he promised [the soldiers] women. Apparently he found one of them about to shoot himself a while back, so he was like "Look, it'll be okay! We'll send out a radio broadcast! People will turn up! I mean, some of them are bound to be women! There is still hope!" He doesn't seem very happy about it, though. I don't think he was actually expecting people to turn up. Now that women have turned up, things are screwed. As it were.
There was a punch-out somewhere, and Boone and the Nice Soldier are now being led out into the bush to be shot. There was a 'you're either with us or against us' choice in there somewhere, and the Nice Soldier thinks that Major Eccleston has gone bonkers. Anyway, they shoot the Nice Soldier, but get distracted, and Boone pretends to run away but hides in a pile of dead bodies, and runs in the other direction after the two executioners run off. There is some cutting back and forth between the women, who have been told to pick out nice dresses from the lady of the house's wardrobe, and the soldiers are making unsavoury comments, and Major Eccleston really doesn't look comfortable with this, and Maskateer gives Hannah some Prozac or something. Boone, meanwhile, has gotten back to Blockade 42 (ha!) and is setting off a siren or something to draw the soldiers out, so that he can kill one of them and steal his gun, and then get back to the house without being caught. And then he... shoots through the chain which holds the Infected soldier in the backyard? So that he can run through the house and infect everyone else? Including his friends, who are still inside? Whatever, Boone. You're the one who runs the business. There is much running about and soldiers getting infected and/or getting killed, and Boone, Maskateer and Hannah narrowly avert death repeatedly. They finally get out of the house and Hannah gets into the driver's seat of the taxi, and Boone opens the passenger door, and Major Eccleston is sitting in the backseat! He says "You killed all my boys." He sounds sad. Then he shoots Boone in the gut. Hannah then puts the taxi into reverse and puts her foot down, so that the car slams into the doorway of the house, and the back window smashes. Infected Soldier sees this, and drags Major Eccleston out the back window and eats him, or something. Boo.
Hannah drives Boone and Maskateer through the grounds at high speed and the gates are locked and she has to ram them. They drive to some cottage in the middle of nowhere (another one?) and I-Almost-Qualified-As-A-Chemist Maskateer pumps him full of antibacteria and things, and stitches him up, and apparently she almost qualified as a Kitchen-Implements Surgeon as well.
28 DAYS LATER...
Boone is up and about. Maskateer is using a manual sewing machine to sew some fabric. There is an areal shot of their cottage, with the HELL spelt out in big white letters. That's... nice. Oh, wait, she's sewing an O. Hannah comes running in and says that she can hear a plane, so there's a mad rush to lay out the O, so that the plane will see HELLO and be able to rescue them. The plane sees HELLO and rescues them. The End.
I'm gonna go and tape Lost now.
We got the first series of Linda Green, 28 Days Later and I Robot. We're waiting for Dad to get home before we watch I Robot. We only watched the first episode of Linda Green, because Christopher Eccleston was in it, and the show wasn't that good that we wanted to watch the rest. She's a woman who is 'too intense' in relationships, and 'tries to cram the twelve stages of Man into a fortnight'. Whatever that means. She's been going out with Neil (played by Christopher Eccleston) and he leaves her because he is an ass, and then he buggers off to Tahiti for two weeks or something, and she goes out with his much nicer identical-except-that-he-doesn't-have-a-tattoo twin brother Tom, and things go nicely until Neil comes back. She's a singer at a nightclub or something, and she goes out with her friends and Tom and he's really nice and doting so that it gets annoying, and when they get home she says that they can't go out because he reminds her too much of Neil. He's like "... You're still in love with him, aren't you?" and she nods. AND MAKES HIM CRY. Erica and I hate her- it's like she's kicked a puppy. And she's like "I'm sorry-" and he turns around and he's actually laughing. And Linda's like "WTF?" and pulls up his shirt and he's got the tattoo. She's like "YOU BASTARD!" and he says something about the way he acted tonight was the way that Tom actually acts, and he gives women what they want, "Except, that's not what they want, is it?" Linda considers this, then headbuts him a la Princess Fiona in Shrek 2. And he has a bloody nose. Then Tom comes to the door because he was working late that night, and runs into Neil as Linda chucks him out, and they start fighting each other. It's really bizarre, seeing Christopher Eccleston fighting Christopher Eccleston, because you don't quite know who to be going for. Linda leaves them to it and goes to a party. I must say, though, that the leather jacket that Neil wears looks awfully familiar.
28 Days later is a zombie movie. Fun. It starts with these animal-rights people breaking into this research lab and trying to free all the chimps who are locked in these glass cages, which would normally be really upsetting, but we know that the Zombie Virus is transmitted by apes, so we're all for them staying locked up for now. They also have this chimp hooked up to electrodes and stuff, and watching TV with war and famine and whatnot. The Activists go to open the cages but this scientist bloke shows up and tries to call security, and then tells the Activists not to free the chimps because they are infected with "Rage". O-kay. The woman opens the cage anyway, and this chimp goes mad and attacks her, and the Scientist is all "YOU HAVE TO KILL HER NOW!" and then she goes mad and attacks everyone else, and the disease is transmitted to the human race, so thanks, Gung-Ho Activists. If a medical scientist guy told me that there was a highly dangerous disease and they were trying to cure it, I'd listen rather than pull a gun on him. Oh, and we find out that the virus is transmitted by blood and saliva.
28 DAYS LATER...
Some Guy wakes up in a hospital from a coma and OH, MAN, DID WE REALLY NEED THE FULL FRONTAL? What kind of hospital leaves coma patients on the bed completely naked, anyway? AHH! STOP THAT! He unhooks himself from the various drips and machines and stuff, and, Oh, thank God, he's got a hospital gown. And he walks through the hospital going "Hello? Hello!" but it's completely deserted, and he breaks into a bunch of vending machines because he hasn't eaten in 28 days, so I suppose he'll be detoxed if he was ever on anything. Turns out the whole of London is deserted. There's this huge wall thing around the statue of Eros, with memorial letters and photos and stuff stuck to it, and he finds some newspaper somewhere that says the country's been evacuated. Yay. Every time he goes past an Underground entrance, Erica and I shout "DON'T GO INTO THE SUBWAY!" and he doesn't. He goes into this church instead. He walks above the pews (which are full of dead people) on this balcony, and after he goes past a couple of people are not dead yet and look up and they are all pale and covered in blood, but their movements aren't as slow and shambolic as one might expect. They actually move really quickly. They are kind of squirrely. Then Father Zombie bursts out of his room and starts attacking Coma Guy, and he shoves him away and flees out of the building and he runs for a while and, for someone who's been in a coma until about half an hour ago, he's a really good runner. Then, just when it looks like the zombies are about to get him, a couple of people in gas masks (MUUUUUUUUM-MYYYYYY...) turn up and start chucking Molotov Cocktails at the zombies, which doesn't slow them down that much. The Maskateers grab Coma Guy and shove him into a corner newsagent or something and bolt the doors and pull down those steel bars that they shut shops with, and the Male Maskateer says "A guy goes into a bar with a giraffe. The giraffe gets drunk and falls on the floor. The guy gets up to leave, and the bartender says 'You can't leave that lying there!' and the guy says 'That's not a lion, it's a giraffe.'" Coma Guy is like ". . ." and Mr Maskateer says "Completely humorless. You two should get along fine." We see the female Maskateer is a very grim and pessimistic black woman who is obviously going to be Coma Guy's love interest. She gives us the exposition, i.e. The whole of England has been infected by this virus, and last they heard there were also cases in Paris and New York. They also swap names, but I can never remember names.
They go to Coma Guy's house and find that his parents have drugged themselves to death rather than become infected, and the mum was clutching a photo of Baby Coma Guy with something like 'We left you sleeping, and now we're sleeping with you. Don't wake up.' written on the back. Coma Guy is woeful. That night, some Infected break into the house and the Maskateers kill them, except Mr. Maskateer gets some Infected blood into a cut in his arm, so Mrs Maskateer kills him. She tells Coma Guy that, once someone gets infected, you have about twenty seconds to kill them. She also says that if Coma Guy got infected, she'd kill him "in a heartbeat." Coma Guy is like, yeah, thanks for that.
They leave the house and stuff happens, and they see Christmas lights flicking on and off in a window of an apartment block, so they go to the appartment block and the first flight of stairs is covered in trolleys and stuff but the rest of the stairs are clear, and about halfway up Coma Guy gets tired and Mrs I-Qualified-As-A-Chemist Maskateer gives him headache tablets and says that he's been running on sugar and has no fat, so he needs more sugar. And then some Infected start chasing them up the stairs. Maskateer runs up the stairs, and Coma Guy is running very slowly going "HELP ME! PLEASE DON'T LEEEAVE MEEEEEEE!" and he just bearly makes it to the top of the stairs but the Infected are about to get him, and then this guy in police riot gear comes out and says "Go to room 507!" and beats off the zombies, and the girl in room 507 won't let them in because her dad isn't with them, and Police Riot Gear Man comes back and tells 'Hannah' that it's alright, and to let them in, and they break out the Creme de menthe, which belonged to Hannah's mother, who is not here anymore. Then Coma Guy finally gets a shave, and he cuts himself because there isn't enough water or something, and OMG IT'S BOONE! HI, BOONE! I didn't know you were English, Boone! Say hi to Snicker Bitch for me, Boone! Blah blah water collection blee.
The next day, they check this hand-held radio which is apparently powered by winding it. According to Hannah, they've never picked anything up, but today they do! They pick up a radio transmittion
At some point they stop to get some petrol from an abandoned petrol truck near a service station in the middle of nowhere (like there are any middle-of-nowheres in England) and Boone goes into the house thing and beats a little Infected boy to death. So... Good for you, Boone.
They drive through a dark and scary road tunnel instead of going ten miles out of their way on open road. The tunnel has cars randomly parked all through it, and then there's this barricade of cars about halfway through, and Mr Policeman Taxi Driver drives over it and blows a tire out, so they have to change it. Hannah goes under the car to put the carjack in, and then RATS come streaming toward her and there are RATS EVERYWHERE and they are ALL OVER HER OMGWTFRATS, and then we see silouhettes of Infected running into the tunnel, and the rats were running away from the Infected, and they lift up the car with their bare hands and Hannah changes the tire and they only just get away, like we knew they would.
FINALLY, they get to blockade number 42 (ha!), except there's no-one there. They wander about, and there's a dead Infected on the roof, and a drop of blood falls into Mr Policeman Taxi Driver's eye, and before he goes crazy he tells Hannah that he loves her, and then he's like "Stay away! StaY aWay! STaY AWAy! STAY AWAGHUGHH!!!" and Maskateer is going "Kill him, Boone!" and Boone's just about to kill him, when gunfire starts up and Mr Policeman Taxi Driver dies. RIP. Thanks for not showing up about thirty seconds sooner, Army Guy.
They drive Boone and Co. to their stronghold, which happens to be a mansion/castle in the middle of a wide flat area of ground, run by
Crap happens. I think that Boone and Maskateer actually officialise their love-interest status. Then the soldiers start feeling up the women or something, and a Nice Soldier pulls a gun and tells them to back off, and Major Eccleston comes in and gets everyone to back off, and asks Boone for a word. He tells Boone that he promised [the soldiers] women. Apparently he found one of them about to shoot himself a while back, so he was like "Look, it'll be okay! We'll send out a radio broadcast! People will turn up! I mean, some of them are bound to be women! There is still hope!" He doesn't seem very happy about it, though. I don't think he was actually expecting people to turn up. Now that women have turned up, things are screwed. As it were.
There was a punch-out somewhere, and Boone and the Nice Soldier are now being led out into the bush to be shot. There was a 'you're either with us or against us' choice in there somewhere, and the Nice Soldier thinks that Major Eccleston has gone bonkers. Anyway, they shoot the Nice Soldier, but get distracted, and Boone pretends to run away but hides in a pile of dead bodies, and runs in the other direction after the two executioners run off. There is some cutting back and forth between the women, who have been told to pick out nice dresses from the lady of the house's wardrobe, and the soldiers are making unsavoury comments, and Major Eccleston really doesn't look comfortable with this, and Maskateer gives Hannah some Prozac or something. Boone, meanwhile, has gotten back to Blockade 42 (ha!) and is setting off a siren or something to draw the soldiers out, so that he can kill one of them and steal his gun, and then get back to the house without being caught. And then he... shoots through the chain which holds the Infected soldier in the backyard? So that he can run through the house and infect everyone else? Including his friends, who are still inside? Whatever, Boone. You're the one who runs the business. There is much running about and soldiers getting infected and/or getting killed, and Boone, Maskateer and Hannah narrowly avert death repeatedly. They finally get out of the house and Hannah gets into the driver's seat of the taxi, and Boone opens the passenger door, and Major Eccleston is sitting in the backseat! He says "You killed all my boys." He sounds sad. Then he shoots Boone in the gut. Hannah then puts the taxi into reverse and puts her foot down, so that the car slams into the doorway of the house, and the back window smashes. Infected Soldier sees this, and drags Major Eccleston out the back window and eats him, or something. Boo.
Hannah drives Boone and Maskateer through the grounds at high speed and the gates are locked and she has to ram them. They drive to some cottage in the middle of nowhere (another one?) and I-Almost-Qualified-As-A-Chemist Maskateer pumps him full of antibacteria and things, and stitches him up, and apparently she almost qualified as a Kitchen-Implements Surgeon as well.
28 DAYS LATER...
Boone is up and about. Maskateer is using a manual sewing machine to sew some fabric. There is an areal shot of their cottage, with the HELL spelt out in big white letters. That's... nice. Oh, wait, she's sewing an O. Hannah comes running in and says that she can hear a plane, so there's a mad rush to lay out the O, so that the plane will see HELLO and be able to rescue them. The plane sees HELLO and rescues them. The End.
I'm gonna go and tape Lost now.
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Date: 2005-09-28 02:05 pm (UTC)V. funny. Hee hee hee!
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Date: 2005-09-29 08:09 am (UTC)