Day Of The Triffids (1981)
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This fine adaptation begins a repeat run on BBC 4 on Sunday 23rd November, beginning at 8pm. They are showing two on Sunday. Not sure if that will continue.
Anyway, if you've not seen it, I recommend it. Slightly ropey effects aside, it's excellent.
Watch and then realise just how bloody awful the Eddie Izzard attempt was.
Anyway, if you've not seen it, I recommend it. Slightly ropey effects aside, it's excellent.
Watch and then realise just how bloody awful the Eddie Izzard attempt was.
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on DVD. Re the Eddie Izzard one, yes it
was awful,but Eddie was about the best
thing in it!
I blamed the whole piss poor fiasco on
Dougray and the woman who was his
GF,who had NO chemistry whatsoever
between them,and a piss poor script and
director!
But yes,the Duttine one is true to,if not
the book itself,at least to the SPIRIT of
the book!
I must have watched, and forced, at first at least, the kids to sit thriugh it, a good half dozen times.
Always worth revisiting.
There doesn't seem to be a way to set the time to start when the 4:3 ratio starts.
Been debating whether to watch this again this time around. I seem to recall it was not brilliant especially with changes to the storyline from the book towards the end.
The Humax HDR.
It is not a problem when watching on the HDR, but if I try to convert the file to an MP4 I have to make sure I set the right Aspect ratio flag or else it comes out as a 16:9 stretched image.
I'm recording the HD version (probably upscaled though)
I'd avoid them at first.
It depends. Are Girls Aloud blind?
No but you'd have to be.
Only joking.
I'd help them out if they all became blind.
I still get nervous about it.
Almost got my zombie fix watching this
Of course the effects are dated, but that's unavoidable and easy enough to ignore. Besides, it's offset by the fact that beards like that are now back in style!
That is often repeated on Radio 4 Extra
JD turned up at my local supermarket shopping away one time with, I presume, his wife.
It was quite chilling - and was probably the better for a low budget. I can't bear overblown CGI and focus on special effects. This was more about confusion and terror.
The blind people were very sinister and John Duttine was excellent. So much time allowed to build up a character thanks to the focus on the script.
Looking forward to next week.
I was delighted to find that I still loved the production. Yes the Triffids themselves weren't the most convincing, but the conviction of the actors and the sheer sense of dread that the show builds up overcomes this.
I loved the slow pace and the almost documentary approach to the location filming. And, oddly, despite the fact that very little actually happened in part one I found that half an hour absolutely whizzed by. In fact, although part two had more going on, I still couldn't believe that an hour had elapsed. I found it to still be gripping and tense and the shots of deserted London were wonderfully eerie.
I watched last night with my 16 year old daughter - a fan of all things sci-fi/ fantasy - and she enjoyed it too. She found it a bit slow, but was gripped nonetheless - she was fascinated by the very understated presentation. There was very little music, especially compared to today's TV. But used sparingly the music and sound effects were superbly scary and unsettling. Even the titles were freaky and disturbing. It's also interesting to see people smoking, without it being a Big Deal. It's easy to forget how commonplace smoking was. And that jump suit that Emma Relph was wearing! Very Sheena Easton...
Anyway, I loved it. And I'm so looking forward to the rest.
That was it exactly!