Triffids

[Diver]

Reasonably good, just annoyed that script writers still have a tendency to make the characters eminently gullible and therefore irritatingly stupid.
Even the main character who is supposedly an intelligent man is portrayed as borderline incompetent, something that John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, the writer of the the SciFi novel The Day of the Triffids , did not do.
I have a fervent wish that script writers would avoid or at least limit the extent to which the audience is goaded into screaming at the screen because the supposed Hero is portrayed as behaving like a total dunce with no sense of self preservation.

Or maybe I just get too involved

 

[OwlHoot]

I have it recorded on my Sky Box to watch later. So, please, no one say who wins.

Unfortunately the original Triffid film was shot on some horrible cheap media that seems to have turned livid red over the years, and IMHO that makes it practically unwatchable.

 

[Diver]

I have it recorded on my Sky Box to watch later. So, please, no one say who wins.

Unfortunately the original Triffid film was shot on some horrible cheap media that seems to have turned livid red over the years, and IMHO that makes it practically unwatchable.

You'd know who wins if you'd ever read the book you Philistine

 

[VectraMan]

I have it recorded on my Sky Box to watch later. So, please, no one say who wins.

Okay, but you won't see any goals.

I enjoyed it. It'd be great to see intelligent, well written, well acted scifi, but well this is the BBC so you have to count your blessings. And the plot holes, wooden acting and dumbing down weren't anything like on the scale of Dr Who, Torchwood, or Spooks. So yes actually by the end I was really quite enjoying it and looking forward to part two where it looks like Vanessa Redgrave plays a nun.

 

[Diver]

Yes, that's a good idea - once the disaster strikes you'd try to get firearms from like the only people who have them and who also were trained to use them. Might as well shoot yourself, oops - you'd need a gun for it also!

Any idiot can use a gun, it's not using one that takes intelligence

 

[Sysman]

Are there guns in this movie? If so, where they got them from?

Nicked from the police and army.

I note that they couldn't resist working global warming into the plot.

 

[Sysman]

WHABS

The original was a book, people... one of those things made out of cardboard, paper and ink

More informative than the Amazon link, Wiki to the rescue.
Also John Wyndham.

I recognise the title The Chrysalids but not the plot (though I note that he managed as far back as 1955 to predict global warming).

 

[Sysman]

Actually, I was referring to the original BBC TV series.

And now you know how to make your own Triffids (though not quite in Blue Peter style).

 

[EternalOptimist]

I like the bit where edward Izzard surrounded himself with inflated life jackets to protect himself in the plane crash, a bit of cross-pollination from LOST that sort of made me scream at the telly a bit

 

[VectraMan]

I note that they couldn't resist working global warming into the plot.

I think I'd rather have a couple of degrees warmer temperature than being eaten alive by walking plants after days of stumbling blind and starving through an urban wasteland. Just shows how trying to stop global warming could be worse than letting it happen.