Triffids.

[hirez]

Fail.

(Fine actors, atmospheric locations... and some surviving bits of Wyndham poking through an utterly mind-buggering 'plot'. With Izzard playing a nutter who'd wandered in from a different film.)

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[ramtops.livejournal.com]

We've watched the first hour - not sure if we'll bother with the rest. I *love* Wyndham's books and read them regularly; as you say, this was just recognisable, but was ponced up with so much over the top CGI it drove me mad.

And many many inconsistencies in the staging ...

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Poor old Eddie seemed to spend the whole thing looking for a Mr Bond to be nasty too (world's most complicated audition?), but apart from that, I liked it.

[dghaem.livejournal.com]

Saw it desribed as 28 Triffids Later which I thought summed it up. Does Mr Izzard have a clause that says 'must wear good suits' cos if I had just fallen from a burning plane a tailors wouldn't be my first choice?

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Much preferred the 80's series.

This seemed to have had changes made purely for the sake of it, the timeline was very fast, and I didn't like the triffids.