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The Day Of The Triffids

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To me this adaptation has some good points and some not so good points.
On the plus side, the depiction of the "event" in the sky is pretty cool, and the scenes of London burning and general apocalypse are well done.

However, the triffids look synthetic in their movements, the voice-over narration from Dougray Scott is wooden, and the modernization of the plot is cheesy. The idea is that triffids are being harvested because they produce oil that can replace fossil fuels; this is about as cheap a plot device as the changing of the King Kong plot in 1976 to make it about an oil company safari to Skull Island. I gather this wasn't a feature film - it was a made-for-TV movie by the BBC.

Moreover, to me a good deal of the appeal of the original story was the depiction of the fight to survive against nature, given the sudden removal of all the benefits of civilization and technology. Well that's pretty much all gone in this version - replaced by a standard fight between humans (the good guys who are trying to save humanity and the bad guys who want to take power).

To me this took away the majesty and impact of the original idea and watered it down into a sci-fi western.

I liked this movie the first time I watched it on TV and had to get it for my movie collection. It's a great movie.

A great remake to a classic story. I didn't think I would like the remake but I was wrong. The story, characters, and scenery, make this movie probaby one of the best remakes I have seen in years. If you are looking for a great movie to add to your collection, this is the one to buy.