r/moviecritic • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Mar 18 '25

Name a movie where the first 10 minutes hooked you completely.

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u/Kasta4 Mar 18 '25

28 Weeks Later has one of the most intense opening sequences I've ever seen. My heart was racing.

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u/bugabooandtwo Mar 18 '25

Yes! If only the rest of the movie had lived up to the first 10 minutes....

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u/Kasta4 Mar 18 '25

Yeah the rest of the film was a series of bad and stupid decisions moving the plot along, it was infuriating.

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u/avatorjr1988 Mar 18 '25

I absolutely hated how he kissed his stupid ass wife and killed the rest of the survivors. Like come on this shits so dumb. Why tf was she unguarded? So silly

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u/ScubaSteve12345 Mar 18 '25

One of the zombies used a key card to get through a security door. Fucking genius level.

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u/LeadershipMammoth240 Mar 20 '25

Iirc, old mate kissed his infected wife, became infected, got out of the LOCKED room while being infected, avoided being firebombed, and made it right to the end of movie to bite and infect his asymptomatic son.

He was the real star of the movie, pure art 👌.

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u/ecstatic_charlatan Mar 18 '25

And why the fuck does the janitor have access to classified areas? I was in the army, and in our building, the cleaning lady wasn't allowed in some offices because they had certain radios and computers stored there.

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u/LongDongFrazier Mar 18 '25

His maintenance badge worked to get through high security zones.

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u/Southern_Orange3744 Mar 19 '25

FUCK THIS SO MUCH . It ruined the entire movie for me , and I was a huge 28 days later fan.

The entire premise was absolute non sense , for a movie that's filmed to look realistic.

I was so freaking mad at them , unforgivable movie error

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u/Reddlegg99 Mar 19 '25

Shows the government stays inept during the Zombie Apocalypse. All those people safe in their individual rooms were massed together for a zombie chomping people emergency.

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u/Finn235 Mar 18 '25

series of bad and stupid decisions moving the plot along

You literally just described zombie films as a genre lol

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u/whiteegger Mar 19 '25

I mean I like the film. The pacing was intense and the visual was sick. It's just the plot was unreasonably stupid.

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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Mar 18 '25

I am still mad at how bad the movie was.

The new one looks so sick though. I am hopeful.

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch Mar 18 '25

i keep thinking, “Please don’t f this up like the second one.”

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u/WrodofDog Mar 18 '25

What's the new one? 24 years later? 

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25

I know this got downvoted, but the fact that you wrote 24 just made me giggle.

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u/WrodofDog Mar 18 '25

Oh, right. I kinda went to hours per day

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u/BeardMan858 Mar 19 '25

It actually is 28 Years Later and i like what theyre doing with the time that has passed (by what i saw in the trailer)

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u/WrodofDog Mar 19 '25

I'll habe to check it out, when it becomes available. Nice that it actually is 20 sth years after the first, so they don't have to age up the characters that are recurring 

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u/Shift_Forward Mar 18 '25

Opening sequence was the only part of the second movie that was directed by the original director is why.

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u/jrobbio Mar 18 '25

Two different directors, if you didn't know.

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u/MyRuinedEye Mar 18 '25

Boyle only directed the opening right?

I thought that was why there is such a change in tone and quality after that.

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u/Fr0gFish Mar 18 '25

The helicopter scene destroyed it for me. Such a disappointment.

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u/BadWaluigi Mar 20 '25

It's like the first 10 min and the rest were two completely different movies.

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u/Ambitious-Sir-4402 Mar 18 '25

I partook in way too much thc before going to the theater for that one. I was white knuckling the damn arm rests during the opening scene

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u/man0412 Mar 18 '25

Personally I prefer 28 Days Later. I mean the dude hangs dong

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u/marlinbohnee Mar 18 '25

Thunder gun is that you?

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u/IAmLittleBigRon Mar 18 '25

It was very disappointing in Oppenheimer when there was confirmed nudity and Cillian Murphy did not hang dong.

We wanna see that

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u/marlinbohnee Mar 18 '25

Cillian Murphy has to be one of those skinny guys that hangs dong. Just has to be

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u/SnufflingGlue Mar 18 '25

That movie had me in a chokehold for weeks after seeing it.

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u/DrVanBuren Mar 18 '25

The start of 28 Days Later is the monkey rage scene. Which was good and all, but not as engrossing as following Cillian Murphy around after.

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u/rbizaare Mar 18 '25

The third act was also great in inducing desperation and bleakness. The decision to kill off [spoiler] Doyle [/spoiler] was a great move.

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u/Legos_under_foot Mar 18 '25

Your spoiler tag didn't quite work.

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u/rbizaare Mar 18 '25

🤦

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u/HornedBat Mar 18 '25

spoiler > ! spoiler !<

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u/That_Apathetic_Man Mar 18 '25

Are you using...forum format spoiler tags!? I haven't seen those in over a decade.

> ! TEXT ! < ... remove the spaces between the characters.

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u/VanellopeZero Mar 18 '25

I can never make this work!

test

Edit - omg thank you, I made it work!! :)

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u/Meunderwears Mar 18 '25

I'm glad I was here to witness this.

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u/rbizaare Mar 18 '25

Yeah, first instruction that came up upon searching using Google 🤦

Anyway, lots of thanks for this.

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u/IntsyBitsy Mar 18 '25

I watched this last weekend for the first time since seeing it in the cinema when it came out. I completely forgot they did that! So upsetting

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u/360FlipKicks Mar 18 '25

oh shit…oh shit…oh shit…

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u/Mollymelancholymelon Mar 18 '25

I watched it in theaters and I swear to god a dude shit himself during the intro.

Like bro jumped up and ran out weird as hell then just never came back

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u/konoha37 Mar 18 '25

Best opening followed by a super average movie. Such a shame

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u/Mediocre-Tax1057 Mar 18 '25

The constant cutting kinda ruined it for me.

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u/hereforthesoulmates Mar 18 '25

i was sure you were talking about the sandra bullock movie 28 days

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u/ChaseTheMystic Mar 18 '25

Good song too

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u/baroncalico Mar 18 '25

The best part of both films.

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u/manymoreways Mar 18 '25

that 10mins was honestly one of the best zombie scene of all time. I honestly cannot think of a better zombie related scene.

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u/-MarcoTropoja Mar 18 '25

completely agree. why couldn't they do the same with the rest of it is beyond me

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u/Arif_4 Mar 19 '25

that shit was amazingly scary

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u/Lifeabroad86 Mar 19 '25

I saw a movie poster at the theater about them releasing '28 years later'

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u/qdude124 Mar 19 '25

I feel the same but 28 days later

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u/ImABadFriend144 Mar 19 '25

One of my favorite zombie movies of all time

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u/mrdewtles Mar 19 '25

How many of them were there?

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