guylyons I am only completing my required five lines, all because this was such a dreadful effort of a remake. Having the early work as a template to work with, its simply incredible that this effort was even made. Boy oh boy is it bad, and probably one of the worst re makes of a science fiction story i have ever seen. Sorry giving it a 1/10 is far too generous.

the_wolf_imdb The premise of the movie (about first 5 minutes) seemed to be interesting. Then there was totally improbable catastrophe (all people on Earth blinded by Sun including those on night side, in the metro, in the mines, just one guy who sleeps in plane with hat on his eyes and another one who has few layers of bandage is not blinded... huh).Then all strange and extremely implausible things start to happen. Then there are some characters with unlikely motivation start to do bizarre things like guy who tries to arrange military coup in the middle of chaos. Unfortunately ALL characters behave in very absurd ways: They constantly fire obviously useless weapons on plants, shout "STOP SHOUTING! STOP SHOUTING!", try to save obviously dead people and so on. In general they seem to fight among themselves than to take a stand and find some reasonable solution to the plan infestation.This movie is almost completely brain dead and painful to watch. I'm simply not able to survive the second part, the first one was bad enough. The King's The Mist may have some crazy characters too, but overall it is worlds better than this.

Claudio Carvalho I started seeing "The Day of the Triffids" with great expectations of a good sci-fi film. The beginning of the story recalls "Blindness" with most of the population blind. However, differently from José Saramago's novel, London and the rest of the world do not have a mysterious outbreak of blindness but they are affected by a solar storm that blinds everyone that was looking at the phenomenon. Therefore the story is too ridiculous from the very beginning, disregarding that part of the worldwide population would be sleeping or in places protected by the sun. How a scum like Torrence could become a leader? The lame dialogs and situations seem to be written by morons or believing that the viewers are morons. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "O Dia Final" ("The Final Day")

kali-haircut The people who made this adaptation assumed the following:That the average British punter watching this is so thick, that if you cracked open his or her skull with a claw hammer, ate their brain, and crapped it back into their head their IQ would be increased billions of times. Take this piece of script for example:"The Triffids have escaped!" "What are the Triffids?" "They are bad and they escaped!" "The Triffids ESCAPED!?" "YES The Triffids ESCAPED!" "TRIFFIDS ESCAPED!" "TRIFFIDS ESCAPED!" "That means the Triffids have got out!" "Yes, the Triffids have got out. The Triffids are BAD, and now they've GOT OUT!"Of course, I can't quite convey it as stupidly in writing. Dumbing down doesn't begin to describe the depth and magnitude of this level of cultural ruin. The TV adaptation of the early 80s was infinitely better in every way. Not just the script and direction. Even the camera work, the special effects, were vastly better. Our only hope is to cull those in our population who think this sort of guff is worth the license fee, and bring back the death penalty specifically for the sort of muff-botherers who make this drivel. Scrap the BBC if it can make excrement like this, sacrificing Radio 4 may be hard, but it would be worth it so that this sort of thing would no longer come into the world. We need to see the scriptwriters, directors, producers and funders publicly tortured and executed on TV instead, it would be a great moral improvement on this level of depravity.