Apparently "Eddie Izzard is in it" is enough for me to put movies in my queue

[james_davis_nicoll]

What do people think of the 2009 BBC version of Day of the Triffids?

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[terheyt.livejournal.com]

It's awful. Utterly atrocious. Hour-long-rant-worthy.

Great production values, but the changed the story to involve magical mystical jungle shamans, emo eye make-up induced by self-poisoning, and triffid tentacles so strong that handlers need to carry tazers.

Right. Not getting started again. But do yourself a favour and re-read the book.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

magical mystical jungle shamans, emo eye make-up induced by self-poisoning

I'd managed to completely blot that part from my memory until you reminded me :-/

do yourself a favour and re-read the book.

Or catch the old BBC six-parter. I got the DVD a couple of years back and was pleasantly surprised by how well it had held up (one or two visual FX aside).

Honestly, 28 Days Later is probably in the running for second-most faithful screen adaptation of DotT.