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WHAT WENT WRONG

Review - 28 Years Later

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Hollywood, Acting, Directing, Blockbuster, Movie, Flop, Film, Disaster, History, Tv & Film

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Join Chris and Lizzie as they discuss their thoughts, fan theories, and critical reactions to Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a two-decade in the making, waiting, three-quel sequel, continuation of a beloved early

0:44.5

a cult zombie, no, not a zombie, kind of a zombie film by Danny Boyle. As always, I am Chris Winterbauer,

0:52.8

joined by Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie. How are you doing

0:55.9

tonight? I'm great, and I'm very glad that we decided to collectively go see 28 years later.

1:03.1

Of course, we are doing this because we just covered 28 days later. Chris did an excellent job,

1:08.4

so make sure you've listened to that episode if you haven't already. And we thought, you know what? Why don't we get our butts in some seats and go see the,

1:16.5

you know, as you pointed out, sequel slash maybe a bit of a little bit of a leapfrog over 28 weeks later.

1:23.6

Before we get into anything, there will be spoilers pretty much from this point forward.

1:28.1

So, Chris, what did you think?

1:29.7

I loved that everyone died.

1:31.4

No, I'm just kidding.

1:33.0

I, so, okay, so I had very, I actually had not low expectations, but tempered expectations

1:38.6

going into it, because who knows, I haven't really liked a zombie movie in quite some time outside of like the first 10 minutes of Zach Snyder's Army of the Dead, which is a fantastic opening 10 minutes and then a very long movie after that.

1:52.4

And I sat in the theater by myself on a Friday next to a complete stranger.

1:58.2

And I was not expecting to cry an hour and a half into this movie.

2:01.6

Yeah.

2:02.6

And I absolutely was crying an hour and a half into this movie.

2:06.6

I loved it.

2:07.6

I thought it was an unusual film in the sense that there were, I thought it was very flawed in a lot of ways.

2:12.6

There were a lot of things where I thought either that didn't work or that's odd or that feels like it's ripping something

2:18.2

off I've already seen. And yet the whole of the movie, I absolutely loved. And I thought it's

2:22.6

fantastic. I also absolutely loved it. I agree there are some elements of this that if you take them

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