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Re: 28 Days Later (second ending spoiler)
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 12.203.249.58
Date: Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 17:21:01
In Reply To: 28 Days Later, over 28 days later posted by Faux Pas on Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 09:09:44:

> Question the second: What was 28 Days Later's second ending?
>
> -Faux Pas

I'm assuming the second version was the one Dave and I saw a while ago. It had a HORRIBLY obvious tacked-on happy ending. The movie came to a natural end, it went to a black screen for a couple of seconds, and then all of a sudden WHAMMO, it's A Road Outside The City, Much Later. Demolishing the assumption that all the characters died at the REAL end of the movie, they are now living the happy lives of rural hippies in homemade knit sweaters in a small cottage somewhere in what looks like Scotland, and all the evil killer zombies have died naturally, and the rescue plane from Europe or someplace comes over and spots them. Happy waving, hugs, triumphal music, exeunt stage left.

AAAAAARGH.

I've never found a "this is the version for the sentimental Americans" ending so blatantly added in, or so insulting to the intelligence. I thought it was a terrific movie in all other ways, but you need to get up and leave as soon as that obvious final scene is over. Gah.

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