If you compulsively read the movie threads and commit everything therein to memory, you'll remember how impressed I was with the British film "28 Days Later". In fact, it's probably the best movie I saw this summer. Over here in the States, it's very strange to have a foreign film become available in general release a year after the original was released. (Limited release, yes. General release?) It's even moreso strange to have a foreign film enter general release months after the movie was made available on DVD.

But that -- and the advertising campaign purporting the movie to be "scary as hell" when it wasn't frightening at all -- didn't change my impression of the movie. I had already seen the whole movie, satisfied with the $5.75 ticket price I paid for it (and still wishing I still had about two dollars from my Daredevil ticket back), when, a few weeks later, the new series of ads came on television. Come back and watch the movie again and you'll see a second ending after the credits.

Of course, by this time, there were several other movies I wanted to see. Am I really going to spend another matinee entry fee to watch maybe three extra minutes of new footage? No. I'm going to spend that same amount on watching 92 to 113 minutes of new footage.

Two questions then.

How many of you return (or would return) to rewatch a movie when a studio releases a new version of the movie during the same theatrical run? I can't remember too many movies that did this -- "A Bug's Life" had "outtakes" added after the credits during it's run; I think "Monsters, Inc." did the same thing.

Question the second: What was 28 Days Later's second ending?

-Faux Pas