Verbouwing voor Backstage Media

In de komende week zal er het één en ander veranderen aan de website. Achter de schermen zullen er een paar dingen verbeterd worden maar ook het grafische deel van de site gaat op de schop. Niets drastisch, maar wel een paar details waardoor de site er over het algemeen wat strakker uit ziet.

Als het dus lijkt alsof er een bom is ontploft op de site dan hoef je je niet druk te maken. Dat betekent alleen dat ik op dat moment druk bezig ben dingen te veranderen.

Meer info als alles klaar is!

Robin

Dutch Power!

Bad news for the selected few who currently follow my blog unless you speak Dutch. I’ve decided to continue writing this blog in Dutch. Not only is this my native language, but it’s also much more fun for me if other people from the school can actually read what I’m writing (the Dutch aren’t exactly famous for being good at English, hehe).

I do want to thank all English readers who have bothered to read some of my articles and took the time to leave a comment. I still very much appreciate it but there simply is no real reason for me to write my adventures in English anymore.

Over the course of this week I will slowly be changing all non-post text (such as headers and text on static pages) from English to Dutch. Also all posts from this point on will be written in Dutch. Thanks again to everyone who has shown an interest in my ramblings.

Robin

28 Days Later

You know what my favorite kind of movie is? Virus movies. I think this fascination for viruses started when I first watched the movie Outbreak when I was a kid. The idea that something as small as virus can spread around so fast and give us such a hard time dealing with it fascinates me a lot, especially since it isn’t just a movie story. Take the influenza outbreak we have going on right now, it’s spreading so fast we can’t even keep up with the numbers anymore.

After watching Outbreak there have not been a lot of movies that dealt with the contagious virus idea. At least non that I felt were decent. Then in 2008, game developer Valve released the game Left 4 Dead, which revolves around a highly contagious Rabies infection that turns people into mindless killers. The story is told during the course of the game in the form of wall writings by other non-infected who try to make their way to safety as well as other details integrated in the maps that tell you what happened. Ever since the game came out I have been loving Left 4 Dead. Each time I play through a location I notice new things and a new part of the story gets revealed. Then I found out about the movie this game was partially based on.

28 Days Later

Apparently there has been an awesome movie in existence since 2002 which I had no clue about. 28 Days Later tells the story of the incredibly dangerous Rage Virus. Originally meant as an experiment in primates, the virus is unleashed onto the United Kingdom when animal activists try to set the animals free. From there the virus spreads incredibly fast and within two weeks the government starts a nationwide evacuation. The UK is left abandoned, now home to thousands of infected and just a handful of survivors. 28 days after the initial infection we meet Jim, who wakes up in a hospital after having been in a coma for over a month.

Besides having a story I really like, this movie has other qualities I can respect. For instance the shots of a completely deserted downtown London are creepy to look at to say the least. Especially because there were no sets used for a large part of those shots. They actually sealed off parts of downtown London for 20 minutes at a time to shoot the footage.

Also the music in this movie is extremely good and well placed throughout the movie. It really sets the mood in a lot situations, particularly the mansion scene near the end of the movie. I love it when image and audio come together like that and the director of this movie, Danny Boyle, did an outstanding job on it. I have just found another favorite director.

28 Weeks Later

Obviously I’m not the only one who thought this movie was great, otherwise it would not have spawned one of the best movie sequels I have seen in a long time. Normally a sequel sucks compared to the original, this sequel is probably even better than the original! I will not give away too much of the story for those who still want to go and watch it, but you’ll be pleased to know that the awesome London scenes are still there, the awesome music is still there and the amount of gore in this movie has been increased quite a bit from the original. I loved it and hated it at the same time, haha. The only grudge I had against this movie was the ending, which was kept open and incredibly sucked. When they were making this movie they did not even know if there would be another sequel, so making it that open ended really pissed me off.

28 Months Later

Luckily Boyle is not done with the 28 movies yet. A third movie is said to be in development and is likely to hit the theaters in 2011. What it will be about is unknown up to this point, but Boyle has stated that it will try to move the story forward from where the second left off. If Boyle stays up to his standards then we can expect a movie which is even better than the second one, which should be great.

Trailers

Words can not really describe the mood these movies are set in though, watch the trailers below if you really want to experience what these movies are about.

Robin

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