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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Better Late Then Never

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The premise of the movie (about first 5 minutes) seemed to be interesting. Then there was totally improbable catastrophe (all people on Earth blinded by Sun including those on night side, in the metro, in the mines, just one guy who sleeps in plane with hat on his eyes and another one who has few layers of bandage is not blinded... huh).Then all strange and extremely implausible things start to happen. Then there are some characters with unlikely motivation start to do bizarre things like guy who tries to arrange military coup in the middle of chaos. Unfortunately ALL characters behave in very absurd ways: They constantly fire obviously useless weapons on plants, shout "STOP SHOUTING! STOP SHOUTING!", try to save obviously dead people and so on. In general they seem to fight among themselves than to take a stand and find some reasonable solution to the plan infestation.This movie is almost completely brain dead and painful to watch. I'm simply not able to survive the second part, the first one was bad enough. The King's The Mist may have some crazy characters too, but overall it is worlds better than this.

The people who made this adaptation assumed the following:That the average British punter watching this is so thick, that if you cracked open his or her skull with a claw hammer, ate their brain, and crapped it back into their head their IQ would be increased billions of times. Take this piece of script for example:"The Triffids have escaped!" "What are the Triffids?" "They are bad and they escaped!" "The Triffids ESCAPED!?" "YES The Triffids ESCAPED!" "TRIFFIDS ESCAPED!" "TRIFFIDS ESCAPED!" "That means the Triffids have got out!" "Yes, the Triffids have got out. The Triffids are BAD, and now they've GOT OUT!"Of course, I can't quite convey it as stupidly in writing. Dumbing down doesn't begin to describe the depth and magnitude of this level of cultural ruin. The TV adaptation of the early 80s was infinitely better in every way. Not just the script and direction. Even the camera work, the special effects, were vastly better. Our only hope is to cull those in our population who think this sort of guff is worth the license fee, and bring back the death penalty specifically for the sort of muff-botherers who make this drivel. Scrap the BBC if it can make excrement like this, sacrificing Radio 4 may be hard, but it would be worth it so that this sort of thing would no longer come into the world. We need to see the scriptwriters, directors, producers and funders publicly tortured and executed on TV instead, it would be a great moral improvement on this level of depravity.

When I was little I saw the 1981 triffids version on TV. We are now a couple of years later and arrived in remake hell. So before I start mumbling that in the old days things were better ( in most cases they were) and showing everybody I am getting old lets begin.What I remember from that "old" version was the sense of dread when ordinary people are confronted with extra ordinary things. Combined with the helplessness the blind had confronted with the scary looking plants that so slowly but so surely came and came was enough to keep the memory vivid even after all these years. Ah well, you know how it goes when you are about 8 or 9 and you managed to convince your parents to stay up just for a little while.anyway, back to remake hell, or in other words the 2009 version of the triffids. Away are the Venus flytrap like plants that were - I confess- rather rubbery like but still very menacing. We now have triffids that are pure cgi and have tentacles. I guess a new and improved model. We have the regular band of nobody's you don't give a crap about and the most cursed sin of all, not enough triffid action. Basically the triffids feel like an afterthought..stumbling around here and there but never menacing. No this film focuses on the breakdown of the world as we know it which is good but basically the only thing that happened was that everyone who saw the comet went blind. This of course isn't a pleasant fate but where are my beloved triffids. This whole affair felt like a soap opera most of the times. a couple of good scenes in the beginning and a good villain hamming it up makes a rather long and boring watch. and what the hell was that guy from 90210 doing in this film?? Good thing he brought his leather pilot jacket because, well he is a pilot of course.. bleh.And a rather noteworthy choice.. in the old film they used flamethrowers on these nasty triffids. In this film however they use handguns and machine guns on them... I mean, if you do that you deserve to be whipped by these plants. There is a hilarious scene near the end where the bad guys empty clip after clip on these plants with little result but they keep doing it anyway. CGI fire a bit too expensive people?And realize that if you are in an airplane that is about to go down in an urban area the only thing you have to do is to steal life jackets, inflate them in the bathroom of the plane and you are all set...which leads to a funny scene with a plane in the background broken in half after crashing a building and our main villain leaving with a couple of scratches on his face.. give me a break here!!The final head shake came when the remaining survivors escape the triffids by... ah well.. the hell with it, its so crap you have to see it to believe it. it is kinda heartwarming however that our main character connected to his inner child just in time..ooh the terror of remake hell.So a warm advice, for the people who love the 1981 version, rent or download this version and have the fast forward button handy.. and just ponder while fast-forwarding how old you are with a smile.

I started with all possible good intentions: it was a BBC production and I am a fan of Doctor Who and even Torchwood; I have seen the original Day of the Triffids and I liked it (even if I thought the premise to be pretty hard to believe) and I was prepared to enjoy it as a holiday release, with not much substance in it.This being said, I really enjoyed the start, even if clearly beset with budget issues. I replaced the set in my mind and went on. The premise was a bit ridiculous, but that was in the book, so OK. Then Joely Richardson entered the scene and it all went bad. I have seen her in other movies and she was a decent actress. So either my memory plays tricks on me or the director messed it up. Badly! All her lines were out of place, her behavior like taken from a blond girl joke and her acting appalling. Eddie Izzard did a decent role as the psychopath trying to take over London, the rest of the stars just played average and mostly pointless roles, roles which could have been played by any other actor.The ending was a chaos of irrational behavior, bad acting, predictability and pointless narration supposed to "open our eyes". The ending really messed things up, both from the standpoint of character development and end feeling.Bottom line: decent effort, but ultimately a failed one.