Really, really bad. It's not bad in that classy style that can sometimes happen to the low budget horror movies. In that particular piece everything simply SUCKS. I'm disappointed, I wasted my time and... You know. P.S. I saw that director and screenwriter is a real scientist (. That's cool. Dude, stay in science, get Nobel prize or something. You are an awful movie maker. Send yourself into the black hole, that would be awesome, but movies are just not your thing.
... View MoreFirst off, you need to know that Dadatuuexx has no idea what he's talking about to a worrying degree, in fact he appears to be personifying the same ignorance and fear of science that Decay (clever title - both people and particles decay - geddit?) is attempting to satirise in the first place. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should" and all that nonsense. The LHC, stem cell research, Bruce Banner, Mary Shelley, it's been going on forever. What it comes down to is ignorance versus rationality and I know which side I'd rather be on. But then again this is a zombie film, and obviously zombies aren't real, couldn't be real. Bad science and THE BEST science coexist here and the contrast is I think intentionally obvious, the effect of which highlights just how silly all the death-by-a-thousand-black-holes and similar theories patently are. But people do believe them, and that's a problem.But anyway, that's about the extent of the satire as far as I can tell. The next thing I need to mention is the filmmakers could not have wished for a better location. The LHC is incredibly impressive to look at, and we see more of it here than I've seen in any of the documentaries about it. Not only does it look amazing, and it's HUEG, but the weight of its importance, and the genius not only of its architecture but of what it does, is constant, it makes you proud to be a human in the 21st century. Atmospheric.The acting is - not always - but sometimes - a bit dodgy, and a few scenes lack the emotional depth and sense of urgency they could have done with. But these are physicists, not actors, and anyway what's cooler, pretending to be someone else for an hour or FINDING OUT HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS? (The clue's in the caps.) A scientist would deck an actor nine times out of ten.Okay okay, actually, yes they're physicists, which would make you think they'd get the physics of a pipe through a skull or a hand through an abdomen a bit more...right. Both these things were done with seemingly little effort and no resistance (but the technique they use is potentially a smart one). Also the state of severed limbs and stuff like that reminds you that they're not biologists. Which is a slight shame, but it's still nice to see a pipe going through a skull and a hand going through an abdomen. And severed limbs.We spend quite a lot of time looking at computer screens, and it would be nice if one day we'll get a proper representation of what a computer screen actually looks like in situations like this - but saying that, it was a lot better than we've come to expect. Yes there's green-text-on-black-background flashing around for no reason, text bleeps as it's displayed (that would be my vote for the main thing to sort out, the first thing I do when I install a new OS is to stop it making annoying noises unless I tell it to), and on one occasion a character's username flashes for no other reason than to tell us to look at it. But it's fine, they're using Bash v3.95 Beta and I'm using v4.2.45 and I don't even have an LHC so I'm happy. The joys of the fourth dimension.They made the right choice leaving it at 75 minutes, it may have started to wear its welcome by the 90-minute mark, but overall I really enjoyed the film, I watched most of it with a smile on my face, so well done, you lot, seriously.
... View MoreShot on a minuscule budget, this is a zombie chase movie, set in the bowels of CERN, Switzerland. To my knowledge, all of the cast are physicists as opposed to actors, so you have to excuse the somewhat leaden delivery of lines and expressions. The zombie makeup is OK, £2000 doesn't buy a lot of latex and fake blood. So, a group of 5 student types have to survive an accident with the reactor, which causes a maintenance team to be transformed into zombies. There is a subplot about the Higgs particle having a detrimental effect on human tissue, which leads a mysterious person to sabotage the reactor, causing the accident in the first place. The editing is largely very good, the direction is OK to good, and you get to have a look at miles and miles of dark, pipe filled corridors at the CERN complex. As the group inevitably get whittled down, leaving one survivor to figure it out and try to get help. It's worth a look, even if it is to inspire potential novice film makers to get off their backsides and have a go.
... View MoreRemember This is costing you Nothing to get and watch. For a Free to download movie I have to give credit to the makers and actors.You have to take in account that these are not professional actors but physicists! & it was made for under $2000! (REALLY?) And to be fully honest I've seen MUCH worse on the SCFI channel!!!! Watch it with an Open mind and its rather enjoyable some of the effects are pretty good too. The guys in it are certainly not what the public idea of physicists are, and im sure there will be plenty of girls out there routing for the high IQ (in real life) actors. The plot is in theory plausible, because of the unknown nature of the subject matter.....we simply don't know enough about it to dismiss it, very clever as expected. All in all We liked it thanks to everyone involved :)
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