The Day of the Triffids
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Movie Reviews of The Day of the Triffids
Movie Review: Needs more stuff
Summary: 4 Stars
This version is far superior to the 1962 version. The scenes in which the triffids first reveal themselves is chilling. The long length gives the viewer a chance to really understand what John Wyndham had in mind when he wrote the book.
My only problem with this DVD is there are no extras. DVD's were practically made for pouring on the extras. This one, however, has nothing, which is a real dissapointment.
Movie Review: Faithful adaptaion of novel
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD may seem a little dated but it is a very faithful adaptation of John Wyndham's novel. I think is very well done and would love to see them do one of The Kraken Wakes (Out of the Deeps).Movie Review: Great remake
Summary: 4 Stars
Few remakes ever really enjoy the original's status, but this remake was actually as good as or better than the original movie The Day of the Triffids.Movie Review: The Day of the Triffids: The Original Was Much Better
Summary: 2 Stars
In the 1983 filmed remake of the John Wyndham novel DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, director Ken Hannam tries to present the same sort of nihilism that permeated both the book and the original version released in 1963. What emerged in both the book and the 1963 film was a sense that the world had lost both its physical vision as well as its moral vision. The concept of walking carnivorous plants seemed almost an afterthought. The blinded world under Hannam's direction seems small, ratty-looking, and full of predatory people who thoroughly deserve their ungodly ends. John Duttine is a scientist who is one of the creators of Triffids. He is blinded by one of them and winds up in a hospital for needed eye surgery. When no one answers his calls for help, he unwinds his bandages to discover a world gone massively blind with only those like himself who missed some truly spectacular celestial fireworks that scorched the retinas of all who witnessed them. Now this collective loss of sight would have been, by itself, sufficiently weighty to carry the film. The introduction of the Triffids adds interest only when the interaction between human and Triffid adds dramatic conflict as it did in the original. Here, the ambulatory plants seem no more than rubberized palm trees pulled along by scarcely hidden puppet strings. Emma Relph is Duttine's love interest, and she, like him, is flat and unconvincing. Part of the problem I had with accepting the basic premise of a dual plot of mass blindness and stalking Triffids is that there was nothing in the plot, the script, or the acting, or the directing that made me care. I cared when Howard Keel was the blinded hero. I did not when John Duttine was.Movie Review: Worse than the original movie....
Summary: 2 Stars
I waited sooo long for this movie, just to be dissapointed. What we have
here is not a movie...its like a teleplay shot on video, lousy music(mostly a piano score)... long long boring scenes dweeling into the human
mind instead. Yes the British are good at this kind of stuff. Im not saying that its bad..im just saying that it kills the movie momentum.
The movie is about killer plants...well in this film, we see one here and
one there....with today's special effects they could have done much better. Some will welcome this new movie, but some like me will request
the movie makers to make a true remake of this movie or dont bother at all. Im also ticked off at the precious time ive lost looking at this
soap opera... Gime the original movie anytime..at least its fun.