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Like the recent remake of The Hills Have Eyes, serious Horror fans and especially filmmakers need to take note. Both films are in 1080p, 85 X 1 AVC digital High Definition presentations on their respective Blu-rays 38 MBPS for the first, 37 MBPS for the sequel and both mix various film and video formats throughout. This holds back Days more than it should, but it still looks better here than it did on its DVD from a few years ago. Weeks looks decent in its anamorphically enhanced DVD-Video version, but the Blu-ray is the best of the lot of two films in two formats, coming across sharper, clearer and richer than the other three, making for a solid picture performance despite purposeful distortion and stylization. Anthony Doo Mantel, , may have set the style for the first film, but Enrique Chediak really knows how to run with it small soldiers trailer tighter editing and more prominent use of film. The first film used low def video, 8mm and 35mm film, while the sequel used more low def, some HD, 16mm and 35mm. As for sound, the first film was Dolby Digital al the way from the theater to DVD, but the Blu-ray adds and in English, only offers a DTS HD Master Audio 1 mix that is most welcome and despite showing the limits of the audio, performs nicely. The sequel was issued in DTS, Dolby SDDS in theaters, but the DVD only has Dolby 1 and though it is not bad, the encoding limits a great soundmaster whose greatness is obvious in the DTS HD MA version. Better than the original, we could not play the full MA lossless signal as of this posting, but if it is even better than what we could hear, the sound may rate higher. The extras are the same on the first film Blu-ray as they were on the old DVD, while the sequel DVD and Blu-ray share the same extras though the Blu-ray better interactivity. Extras include the original theatrical trailer, audio commentary by the director with co-producer Enrique Lopez-Lavigne, deleted scenes of note with optional commentary by the same, animated chapters from 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, a making of featurette, The Infected featurette and Getting Into The Action featurette. What a pleasure to have so many great extras to go with such a good film. At my 35mm premiere screening of Weeks, every seat in the house was full, people were turned away and there were an unusual number of older people there. I found this puzzling and so did my friends, plus some other we knew who were not happy others they knew did not make it. Then we started watching the film and started to realize that the unusual number of elderly did not realize it was a Horror film. As a matter of fact, some of them seem to have thought they were there for a Sandra Bullock film despite the passes have not picture of her, her name did not appear on the passes and the toxic motif did not give them a clue about the film. As a result, when the first bloody, gruesome, massive attack kicked in, a bunch of them suddenly got up and left, much to the amusement of the audience. The punk rock fans even applauded and laughed. I felt bad, but it was a mistake. Fortunately, the film is not and whether you have seen 28 Days Later or not, I cannot recommend 28 Weeks Later enough. It might even be a minor classic. A sinister cabal of superior writers. The Day After Tomorrow is supposed to scare you into thinking the world could plunge into a massive, deadly winter sometime around, well, the day after tomorrow. It doesn t. Instead, audiences are given a ridiculous, hilarious, campy tale of a father looking for his son amidst the worst storm mankind has ever experienced. Wisely spacing out the key moments of destruction, Day After does a fine job of keeping audiences in their seats for at least 60 minutes. The CGI here is generally unforgettable, producing sights that most of the 70s disaster films tried so hard to produce with their limited resources. Never has worldwide devastation been shown in such a form. Sadly, once everything calms down and Dennis Quaid begins his trek from Pennsylvania to New York on foot to rescue his child, the movie becomes absurd. Swallowing some of the slapped together science is expected, but when this intrepid group comes across small soldiers trailer after body frozen to death and they seem to have little trouble surviving, it s flat out stupid. Worse, there is little reason for him to even make the journey. He really has to figure his extremely intelligent kid is smart enough to start a fire. The best the writers could come up with is a meager promise made during a phone call that Quaid swears to keep. This is a ridiculous attempt at adding depth to shallow characters. Logic is also at a premium. In a scene in which Sam Jake Gyllenhaal makes an attempt to secure penicillin from a ship that has rolled into the middle of the street conveniently just outside the library where they are trapped due to the tidal wave, where the water is frozen completely solid, all of the liquid medications are not. It is entirely baffling how Jack manages to contact the president in the end. Considering the president has now evacuated to Mexico, how did Jack get the number? Better yet, how did he even find a working phone? Any and all realism is lost thanks to the second half of Day After turning this decent disaster movie into a lackluster version of Cliffhanger. This one is admittedly worth an overnight rental; just don t watch the entire thing. You ll come away one point lower. Day After is a typical showcase disc for the Blu-ray format. It s ridiculous contrast looks great on a store set up, but at home, it s hitting the highs and lows too hard. The black levels are incredibly deep, to the point that they begin blocking out details. Likewise, the whites are blistering, causing washed out faces and backgrounds.