My buddy called me crazy today for liking these. I was like screw spending 50 bucks at a movie theatre an sittin for 90 mins. This is way quicker an just as satisfying
Wait so you're telling me some guy was asleep on a plane, used life vests to survive the plane crash, and then decided to take over a random survior colony like some mastermind?
@@migovas1483 Yeah for sure. Also don't forget about..."Hey. IRS. I made this movie and it cost me $40m but it tanked at the box office. It's been 1 year now and only got 12m. Can I get a tax break or tax exemption?".
I imagine this movie was written with just the “humanity turning blind” plot line in mind, and some hotshot movie exec read the script and was like- “hmm kinda boring. There needs to be more blood… I’ve got it. Blind people AND killer plants. Big money here we come!” And then this movie ends up flipping so hard that the only time people actually watch it is some random movie recap vid on UA-cam.
Yeah they should really just film the book one day, it's not a huge one. It would make far more sense if they made it a period piece taking place at the time the novel was written with the plants everywhere as decoration. It was quite scary in that one.
Considering how much of the planet stays indoors online or playing video games, or I side windowless offices , like me, I doubt you'd get so many going blind. Let alone the fact half the world faces away from it
Well, you wouldn't be safe either. Speak to any welder about flash eyes, but light can bounce around walls. You don't ever weld with a white hood, because the light can be reflected in the hood and right into your eyes. So yeah, you can stay in your room. But it won't make a difference. Not to mention, X-ray can pass through walls either way. The only radiation you'd be sort of safe from is heat radiation.
A giant, intelligent, carnivorous plant that can move. At the same time a random Coronal Mass Ejection blinds nearly the entire populace? Really weird combo.
In the book, Bill gets stung in the eyes (what the triffids seem to aim for) as a kid, being one of the first in the UK to come across a triffid. This means he has a resistance to the venom when he gets stung working on a farm as an adult so it didn't blind him completely and he was able to recover just in time for the events of the film.
Fire is not an automatic win against plants. People tend to forget that many large plants evolved to withstand and even profit from recurring forest fires
@@Wonzling0815 that's on a generational basis, in 5 years the fertile soil ash will grow a new generation but in the next 30 seconds that plant is nothing but ash and dust, you don't get immune to fire, that's impossible or we'd have extremophile bacteria living in lava
Yes, because as we all know, flamethrowers are readily available to the public. You can find them just lying around in the street like you're playing Call of Duty. 🙄
In the original book it's implied that both the plants and the bright green meteor showers that cause people to go blind are because Cold War governments were experimenting with bioweapons and it went wrong. It makes a lot more sense anyway.
@@dontcare7086 The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham. Published in 1951 The meteor shower that cause people to go blind is implied to have hit a weapons satellite as it travelled past earth. The weapons satellite contained a substance that when activated caused an army to go blind. However, when the meteor hits it, the meteor is covered by the substance, circling the earth, hence why the whole earth goes blind. (well, everyone who sees it at least). The Triffids - Are a genetically modified plant secretly developed by the Russians (USSR at the time) for the production of oil. The West, gets wind of this and espionage, attempt to steal seeds but the plane that is carrying the seeds is shot down and the seeds (spores) travel around the earth's wind currents and plant themselves around the world. It is discovered later that they kill people by blinding them. That they also move. And they produce oil. But if you really want to find out about it, read the book. It's pretty good. And I am tired of typing and writing a book report. I haven't seen this adaptation but the 1980's BBC series was much closer to the book than the 1960's film. Both of these adaptations are not technically great but I preferred the 1980's series. Cause it was closer to the book.
how tf did MOST of the population go blind if only half of the earth can be facing the sun? even if every single person was outside and looking directly at the sun it wouldn't be "most" of the population
So the only way you can make your killer plants threatening… is to literally remove people’s ability to avoid them by blinding the entire planet? And side note, what about people on the other side of the planet? Shouldn’t they be fine?
This movie is based on a book that came out in 1951 (and has had a previous film and TV series), so I think it can be forgiven for any lack of scientific fidelity it happens to have. Heck, I still think it's a neat idea regardless, we humans are quite reliant on our eyes. The triffids themselves are considered a classic horror movie monster, albeit on the more obscure side of that spectrum.
In the book the event looked like a Star shower that eventually turned people blind. It didn't consist of a single flash of light that only part of the World could see
I was thinking the same thing bro ! 👍 Maybe it was just London or Europe that was affected. Maybe Asia was still safe. Maybe that's where the " Survival Islands" are and where the heroes will be going.
coker was a good guy in the book whereas the whole torrence story line was basically made up as torrence in the book is extremely minor (torrence is a bad guy though)
It was a metaphor about socialism, likely. And the triffids were the oppressed people (foreigners whose language is incomprehensible) who, in their masters moment of weakness, rise up. And so the oppressed throw off the oppressors (whose comfortable socialism relies on oppression) and inherit the Earth.
The book is much better than any movie or tv series ever made of it. It's a bit old fashioned and very British, but well worth your time. See also Noah's Castle, The White Mountains (Book One of the Tripods series) and Chockys Children. The 70s were a golden age of British apocalyptic fiction.
1960's actually. In the late fifties J G Ballard wrote a disaster novel (Wind From Nowhere) about how earth's atmosphere starts rotating with increasing speed, so at the end, everything on our planet is literally blown away, except at the poles. and the massive superstorm even starts to "eat" Earth's outer crust. Ballard's description of this is quite horrifying. At the time I found it the ultimate in disaster novels. But he distanced himself from the book as being too cliché. He started another disaster series that is much more interesting, particularly in psychological terms: The Drowned World, The Burning World and The Crystal World. The protagonist in his novels is always a divorced Doctor, who comes across as a nihilist and a masochist and his nemeses are always ruthlessly powerhungry men. In relation to the space opera of Clarke and Asimov and Heinlein who were less socially engaged, Ballard created a New Wave in sci fi. I found the books a revelation. He also wrote Crash (filmed by David Cronenberg), and High Rise, about a luxurious, self-supporting flat block where the upperclass tenants slowly sink into a state of barbarism. They should make a movie of that one too.
I remember when this aired on TV - for some reason it was over Christmas and we had to get rid of the Christmas tree afterwards as it was upsetting a younger relative.
In the original there was a spectacular astronomical display, like a gigantic meteor storm, seen right across the planet over the course of a day. Anyone who could watch, even if only for a minute, went outside, or to the windows to view it - as they would IRL.
@@bradtorville5526 close your eyes and look at a bright light source and you will understand that it's still possible to go blind even if your eyes are shut. Also, they don't talk about other countries. Maybe some countries were affected less since they were on the dark side of the Earth during the Sun flares.
@@bradtorville5526 in the book they saved their vision. Even if sighteds were minority, there were enough of them to create a community where blinds enslave sighteds to make them their guides and a community where sighted enslave blinds to build a feudal society.
I'd say the most unbelievable part of this film was the idea that we would immediately abandon the blind populace like a group of eliteists, and that all the blind people would walk around in gang mentality like a pack of zombies. If I went blind and a state of emergency was declared, the last thing i would want to do is go outside. If i ran out of food i would find my way to the grocery store one block at a time. The lack of survival instinct in this whole story doesn't add up. The 1950s book was a whole different time, but still.
Tv tropes, notes that kind of dated, the whole being blind is hopeless kind of deal. Through the basically zombies explain why being blind was too bad. Triffids are easy enough to deal with a tech base and modern military but they are basically kicking you while your down so one can simply get back up
@@Illier1 fiction played with humanity tendency to rally together in a disaster since we are pack animals. I know being dark is a thing and their is the whole theme of humans are the real monsters. A well written story of good vs evil still has an appeal. I loved the Martian and the closest thing that film had to bad guy was merely burned once
the plant is not that dangerous when it being control and in the farm the problem is that more than half of the world population is struck blind that why we are losing to the slow moving plant.
It basically how do we make zombies a realistic threat, first explain away there absurd toughness and peptual motion nature as they being plants, and second unleash another apocalypse so the military does not kill them all.
@@brendenhawley2225 with proper train soldier and steady supply of ammunition and other stuff. we can wipe anything in this world. Like movie call Army of the dead, the part that soldier drop in with parachute but only to drop into swarm of zombie. well I suppose the unit path finder doesn't exist. There is so much modern army that people ignore that make them proper army. Heli attack or artillery strike also dont seem to exist in this world as well some how. It just too funny that people go out of their way to make mistake after mistake.
@@Benz2533 Also recon never seems to exist, in world war z book, Usa somehow fails to realize the amount of zombies in battle of Yorkers, guess the UAV, satellites, jets and hot air balloons were all down I guess, somehow the USA does not bring enough bullets, even through it would of been in character for USA military to set up a McDonalds for moral reasons. Seriously medieval tactics can bust most zombie apocalypse , just set up a little palisade or other barricade, than stab a spear in zombie heads when they try to reach through it or tear it down, it like shooting fish in a barrel. Tanks can just run over the zombies to save ammo. Really a lot of sci fi armies would either lose to modern air force or only win because of orbital bombardment, the space fighters fight like world war 2 planes, the solders sometimes do not even understand cover, let alone combined armies and so on. As far as I concerned a zombie apocalypse, is much more realistic if it the cherry on top of another apocalypse. A meteor hit the earth, nuclear war breaks out, but humanity survived and is capable of rebuilding, than the zombies show up and the military already over stretched taking care of the disaster already on hand.
Bill blames humanity causing global warming for the Triffids... Except companies would have used the Triffids anyway to make money. Stupid premise for an otherwise decent movie.
I feel like the plant parts of this movie could be the sci-fi channel sequel to The Ruins. Smart, man eating plants that are too dangerous to be left alone.
There have been two TV adaptations, this one and a six part serial in the eighties faithful to the book but contemporary to the eighties. Also notable is the 60's film where the Triffids are spawned by the meteor fall but whether it's an invasion or coincidence is left ambiguous, said movie wisely had a naval base organise humanity's survival given the crews were submersed and didn't see the storm, it also shown London engulfed in flames before the characters leave, the book and other serials never touched on that possibility.
Just read the book a few months ago. My dad has a big collection of paperback novels, much of it sci-fi. He goes through a book roughly every two days and this was one he had recently read and recommended.
If your monster requires everyone to be blind, perhaps it is not a very good monster. Maybe a bit more subtlety could’ve made the plants a better monster. Doesn’t have to be apocalyptic, you could simply focus in on a smaller cast in one of the plant refineries that has lost power or something. Then you could get the effect of the monsters without the extremely convoluted and disruptive solar flare plot. This is so uninspired I couldn’t even find the patience finish the movie recap version.
I guess, the plants were prisoners and were at the mercy of the humans who could neutralize them and once humans were blinded the plants could escape and attack
The point of the book is the peiole are more concerned about whst they can get out of the triffids rather than the triffids are dangerous. The sting is what many plants do to disable their prey
Ok I feel I am missing something or maybe I understood something wrong, but... If the female triffid is steril, how exactly will it spread it to the other triffids?
I presume they just did their research incorrectly. It’s not that it’s sterile but the children it will have will be sterile and therefore won’t be able to reproduce causing that bloodline to cease. If that is done enough times to enough triffids then the species will go extinct
probably just a misunderstanding or something idk. I'm assuming what was meant was that the female had a gene that made her offspring infertile so they couldn't reproduce so then the race would then die out.
Either the plan was to have the "sterile" triffid produce other sterile children so that eventually all you have is a whole lot of sterile triffids, or the script writers completely mis-understand how using sterile mosquitos work, which is you sterilize MILLIONS of them so that the males make with steriles and there's no offspring so the population decreases. Either way, your question is 100% valid.
@@cockneycharm3970 I just checked and it's not on Prime. Apparently it's been a series twice, though- in 1981 and 2009 (this is the 2009 one). Interestingly, it's been a radio drama *three* times.
Man-eating plants escaping + solar radiation causing near global violence is cool, but I don't think there's enough going on. Maybe throw in an alien invasion and insects that feed on the plants to become monsters the size of skyscrapers to really round this movie out.
"How do we make our shitty slow moving plants threatening? Oh I know! Let's just blind 94 percent of the population with a random solar flare totally unrelated to anything else in the plot. Also random guy survives plane crash in a cartoonish way, then immediately becomes a supervillain. "
This sounds like a soap opera mashup of many other sci-fi and fictional works including Day of the Triffids, Lord of the Flies, Watership Down, See, Lost, and others.
Cuz Jo interviewed one scientist and he said it was safe. So the entire world gobbled up that garbage- load of BS if you ask me. This entire thing reek of plotholes.
I'm already 3 minutes in this video and the movie sounds needlessly complicated: Starts with a flashback of protagonist's mom dying to man-eating plants. These plants can kill and poison people, but they are eco-friendly so its ok, and of course the general public doesnt know about it. Why didnt these plants terrorize humanity before this happened? How did they somehow managed to farm these dangerous plants with laughable security measures? (Also tribe people for whatever reason). Protagonist tries to stop activist only to get spat by venom in the eyes. Turns out there's a chance he might go blind so they rush him to the hospital to fix it. Meanwhile almost everyone in the whole world of America watched a meteor shower event, during the day, only to get blinded by some Sun BS, even to those who werent really watching it. And conveniently protagonist 1 had his eyes covered by bandages, protagonist 2 was apparentally the only survivor in the subway, other guy survive a plane crash because he can, and now the plants are free and now their food are just sitting ducks. Like I said so convenient. I know its a bit unfair to judge the movie like this, but somehow even this video summary lost me with the logic and science, or it had any. The blinding part is what really confuses me since it doesnt fit imo
"whole world of America"? the movie isn't even set in America. It is set in the UK. In the adaption, the other adaptations and the book it is based on explain that the event that causes people to go blind is a once-in-a-lifetime event that happens worldwide. The meteor shower (in the novel) starts over California and then makes its way around the world. As it goes it blinds people. Due to the blindness and the panic as a result of mass blindness the warning spreads around the world too late to stop other parts of the world from going blind. Also, people make a big deal about it on the lead-up to the event so it becomes a social trend to see it. Also, the adaptation never says she is the only survivor of the subway. However, overall, as you said, the massive flaw is that the entire world goes blind. After all, clouds would block out the meteor shower in other parts of the world. This is never discussed in the book or adaptations - to my knowledge. However, I imagine if certain parts of the world were for the most part left sighted it will take them time to set up a global response. Especially, if those countries are only left partially sighted.
3 things are funny to me, the guy in the toilet while plane crash, the girl crashed her car when theres no one around, and the dude getting jump by plants hahahaha. good shit.
I honestly love Tiffids as a monster. The films Day of the Triffids and Empire of the Ants were my favorite monster flicks as a kid that spooked me but kept me watching.
Some people like to watch the story unfold, some people like to know the endings in a bit more detail. I myself like a bit of both, I have watched the full series and its a bit odd to understand in some areas, like the trifidd oil saving the world from global warming? Thousands of farms world wide and no one knows how dangerous these things are? Also, the really, really stupid activist character that releases them, sigh, I feel sorry for that actor, his character has died a lot in a bunch of movies he has been in. Also the way some people avoided the blinding light was a hard one to handle, how come the half of the world not facing the sunlight, or the thousands of people who generally stay home and have curtains closed watching the event on t.v.'s, instead of directly staring at the event. The triffid design was cool, especially when you look at the other versions in different eras and reproductions of this story. Lastly they noticed sound draws their attention, so how come no farms playing music to calm them, instead of shock repelling them? Would be neat to see some more on this series maybe, nifty science.
Everything you said is correct except the "sounds" part. The "sounds" is not any random sounds but the Triffid sounds and more than likely not just any random Triffid sound but maybe either a specific "attack" sound as the implication is that the Triffid communicate probably primarily through sounds as well as maybe scent? The venom in the eyes specifically that kept Bill protected as a child as well as the 5 of them at the end does not really give a clear picture as to WHY the venom needs to be specifically in the eye [seems like the pupil of the eye] for the Triffid to then believe the humans and them are now the same species. That explanation is a ridiculous Deu ex Machina [white rabbit] garbage to get the main characters out safely in a very dicey inescapable situation.
@@nathaliewilson1817 you know using what you just mentioned, if this was natural, the venom could be a type of marker for the plants, it could be reactive to the outside air and maybe enzymes in your eyes so when mixed it causes a particular pheromone to be released or a chemical mark that might be confusing. Similar to spiders that hide as ants to get into the colonies......makes you wonder if the writers and creators actually thought of the real science to make the creature, because the more believable it is the scarier it is sometimes.
@@andrewvarcoe4741I am curious to know what type of pheromones or chemical marker that works in the pupil of the human eyes temporarily [since it obviously wore off Bill as he attacked as adult when trying to protect the guard]... for however long we do not know [minutes, hours, days, years, until the person shed tears, until the person sleeps, etc.]? Yes, the humans camouflaging themselves to trick a very smart plant life is ingenious. I am unsure if the writer got it all figured out though... but then again, I have not read the book. Neat analysis you brought forth in both comments on this thread.
Imagine waking up on a plane full of blind people and blind pilots and you're like yeah I'm gonna bet on life jackets in the bathroom saving me. Then when you survive you're like looting time!!!
DANG... its like weird, one thing they are talking about man eating plants, then they are blinded by a light... whats next? (i just got 3 and a half minutes into the video-)
Imagine spending like $25 million on a movie just to have most people Find out about it on Movie Recaps.
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My buddy called me crazy today for liking these. I was like screw spending 50 bucks at a movie theatre an sittin for 90 mins. This is way quicker an just as satisfying
Hahaha!!! You nailed it 👍
But if you just heard about this film, it doesent mean millions of other people didn't
I usually end up watching about half the movies I hear about from this channel.
Wait so you're telling me some guy was asleep on a plane, used life vests to survive the plane crash, and then decided to take over a random survior colony like some mastermind?
I swear, WTF comes up with these movie plots? This entire movie was a troll job
This is probably Hollywood money laundry practices... go figure..
@@migovas1483 Yeah for sure. Also don't forget about..."Hey. IRS. I made this movie and it cost me $40m but it tanked at the box office. It's been 1 year now and only got 12m. Can I get a tax break or tax exemption?".
I have read the book. It was much better.
I survived a plane crash, time to loot and riot.
Man eating plant + humanity blinding solar radiation should be two different movies.
i kept thinking the same thing
I imagine this movie was written with just the “humanity turning blind” plot line in mind, and some hotshot movie exec read the script and was like- “hmm kinda boring. There needs to be more blood…
I’ve got it. Blind people AND killer plants. Big money here we come!”
And then this movie ends up flipping so hard that the only time people actually watch it is some random movie recap vid on UA-cam.
@@rachelc.641 It's based on a classic novel from the 50s that went on to inspire 28 days later
Handcuffed to blind people... this movies all over the place.
@@rachelc.641 yeah they goofed on this one pretty bad, so much wrong with this movie, it's like a beautiful little trash fire
Read the book. "The day of the triffids". The book is unbelievable. I read it in 1978 and still have it.
Is it available in Amazon
Yeah, the book is much, MUCH better than this pile of crap
U can found it online for free
Yeah they should really just film the book one day, it's not a huge one. It would make far more sense if they made it a period piece taking place at the time the novel was written with the plants everywhere as decoration. It was quite scary in that one.
I seen this movie late night as a child. It was like a 60s or 70s movie.
Considering how much of the planet stays indoors online or playing video games, or I side windowless offices , like me, I doubt you'd get so many going blind. Let alone the fact half the world faces away from it
And maybe you can even watch the meteor shower online😂
@@glorysolomon7299 yes! Exactly! A very 2022 likely activity!!!
Well this was in 2009 ❤
@Beckoning Cat ok, cut streaming then. Still got millions of gamers, and half the planet facing the other way 😀
Well, you wouldn't be safe either. Speak to any welder about flash eyes, but light can bounce around walls. You don't ever weld with a white hood, because the light can be reflected in the hood and right into your eyes.
So yeah, you can stay in your room. But it won't make a difference. Not to mention, X-ray can pass through walls either way. The only radiation you'd be sort of safe from is heat radiation.
A giant, intelligent, carnivorous plant that can move. At the same time a random Coronal Mass Ejection blinds nearly the entire populace? Really weird combo.
A good rework of a creative early 60s HAMMER (?) film, THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
I was thinking they could add more problems, but it's just me. Something like chain reaction disasters the humans bad luck.
I actually thought the CME would affect the truffids via ultra photosynthesis.
@@nealbradleigh5069 It's a 1951 novel. Worth a read. It's where many zombie apocalypse tropes began.
On the same day Trump is re-elected President, Darth vader decides to invade earth and Skynet goes online.
In the book, Bill gets stung in the eyes (what the triffids seem to aim for) as a kid, being one of the first in the UK to come across a triffid. This means he has a resistance to the venom when he gets stung working on a farm as an adult so it didn't blind him completely and he was able to recover just in time for the events of the film.
12:27 A helicopter? That made me smile!
Ah yes, my favorite helicopters are those that can’t hover
@@bigwatermelon4487 it all depends on a planes horsepower vs. weight ratio. . . .
Ahhhh yes my favorite helicopter scene in the whole movie lol
Yeah, that's an interesting way to pronounce aeroplane
The real Triffids were the friends we made along the way
lmfao my friends be like
LOL
😂😂😂
What??? 😂
The book is an amazing post-apocalypse story, better than any zombie story I've read or watched, everyone should read it.
The audiobook is great too
This movie should be called a "World without flamethrowers"
In the original book flame throwers didn't work.
Fire is not an automatic win against plants. People tend to forget that many large plants evolved to withstand and even profit from recurring forest fires
@@Wonzling0815 that's on a generational basis, in 5 years the fertile soil ash will grow a new generation but in the next 30 seconds that plant is nothing but ash and dust, you don't get immune to fire, that's impossible or we'd have extremophile bacteria living in lava
Yes, because as we all know, flamethrowers are readily available to the public. You can find them just lying around in the street like you're playing Call of Duty. 🙄
Would be great to have seen the scene with a bunch of blind people running around with flamethrowers.
This is like a zombie movie without zombies. I highly doubt that large groups of blind people would aimlessly be walking around a city..
It be fun they said
Exactly thy r blind not mad
@@akshaykumarak8735 of course they are mad they are mad that they are blind wouldnt you be? lol
@@majinvegeta420
Mad is the British word for mentally ill.
@@gabe6281 yeah i assumed that was the case but as an idiotic american i wanted to try and make a stupid joke lol :P
In the original book it's implied that both the plants and the bright green meteor showers that cause people to go blind are because Cold War governments were experimenting with bioweapons and it went wrong. It makes a lot more sense anyway.
I don't think any of this makes sense.
Wait this is a book? I've seen this and it was soooo bad.
@@dontcare7086 The book is much different from this movie.
@@dontcare7086 The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham. Published in 1951
The meteor shower that cause people to go blind is implied to have hit a weapons satellite as it travelled past earth. The weapons satellite contained a substance that when activated caused an army to go blind.
However, when the meteor hits it, the meteor is covered by the substance, circling the earth, hence why the whole earth goes blind. (well, everyone who sees it at least).
The Triffids - Are a genetically modified plant secretly developed by the Russians (USSR at the time) for the production of oil. The West, gets wind of this and espionage, attempt to steal seeds but the plane that is carrying the seeds is shot down and the seeds (spores) travel around the earth's wind currents and plant themselves around the world. It is discovered later that they kill people by blinding them. That they also move. And they produce oil.
But if you really want to find out about it, read the book. It's pretty good. And I am tired of typing and writing a book report.
I haven't seen this adaptation but the 1980's BBC series was much closer to the book than the 1960's film.
Both of these adaptations are not technically great but I preferred the 1980's series. Cause it was closer to the book.
how tf did MOST of the population go blind if only half of the earth can be facing the sun? even if every single person was outside and looking directly at the sun it wouldn't be "most" of the population
true lmao it makes no sense, plus the fact that majority of the population is in asia and the sun would only be directing towards most of the west
Maybe it happened again 12 hours later. But yeah it doesn't make sense considering a lot of people stay indoors.
"Most" of the "world's population" really just means a small section of Britain. Apparently. People have no concept of SCALE.
The movie makes no sense, but the book "The day of the triffids" was really good imo and didn't have plot holes like that.
because the sun never sets in the empire... especially since the earth is flat, and that it's a movie.
So the only way you can make your killer plants threatening… is to literally remove people’s ability to avoid them by blinding the entire planet?
And side note, what about people on the other side of the planet? Shouldn’t they be fine?
This movie is based on a book that came out in 1951 (and has had a previous film and TV series), so I think it can be forgiven for any lack of scientific fidelity it happens to have. Heck, I still think it's a neat idea regardless, we humans are quite reliant on our eyes. The triffids themselves are considered a classic horror movie monster, albeit on the more obscure side of that spectrum.
It's the inspiration for 28 days later, believe it or not.
In the book the event looked like a Star shower that eventually turned people blind. It didn't consist of a single flash of light that only part of the World could see
I was thinking the same thing bro ! 👍 Maybe it was just London or Europe that was affected. Maybe Asia was still safe. Maybe that's where the " Survival Islands" are and where the heroes will be going.
@@harrypotterwannabe5892 Probably just London, the strange food of the locals was offensive.
This really seems like two different movies that were slapped together and they don’t really match up
funnily enough this is a remake of an old movie I remember watching on late night TV years ago, it made just as little sense then as it did now
Actually, this was originally a really good book. Over the years, the story has been made into a number of movies and tv shows / mini series.
Tbh the "villian" guy didn't seem that bad? He just wanted to get rid of the invasion faster and help the blind people unlike the main characters
coker was a good guy in the book whereas the whole torrence story line was basically made up as torrence in the book is extremely minor (torrence is a bad guy though)
@@distributistbriton that's my name lol
The blind people were acting selfish though. And some even wanted to hurt the main character
It was a metaphor about socialism, likely.
And the triffids were the oppressed people (foreigners whose language is incomprehensible) who, in their masters moment of weakness, rise up.
And so the oppressed throw off the oppressors (whose comfortable socialism relies on oppression) and inherit the Earth.
@@IAMKT1OF1tory
The book is much better than any movie or tv series ever made of it. It's a bit old fashioned and very British, but well worth your time. See also Noah's Castle, The White Mountains (Book One of the Tripods series) and Chockys Children. The 70s were a golden age of British apocalyptic fiction.
1960's actually. In the late fifties J G Ballard wrote a disaster novel (Wind From Nowhere) about how earth's atmosphere starts rotating with increasing speed, so at the end, everything on our planet is literally blown away, except at the poles. and the massive superstorm even starts to "eat" Earth's outer crust. Ballard's description of this is quite horrifying. At the time I found it the ultimate in disaster novels. But he distanced himself from the book as being too cliché. He started another disaster series that is much more interesting, particularly in psychological terms: The Drowned World, The Burning World and The Crystal World. The protagonist in his novels is always a divorced Doctor, who comes across as a nihilist and a masochist and his nemeses are always ruthlessly powerhungry men. In relation to the space opera of Clarke and Asimov and Heinlein who were less socially engaged, Ballard created a New Wave in sci fi. I found the books a revelation. He also wrote Crash (filmed by David Cronenberg), and High Rise, about a luxurious, self-supporting flat block where the upperclass tenants slowly sink into a state of barbarism. They should make a movie of that one too.
Try The Death of Grass by John Christopher. An adult book by the Tripods author. Fantastic.
I remember when this aired on TV - for some reason it was over Christmas and we had to get rid of the Christmas tree afterwards as it was upsetting a younger relative.
Man fuck that little kid, thats a vibe kill. You should of glued leaves all over yourself and scared that little shit
Upsetting a younger relative sound like a spoiled person
Omfg
Rip lol
kids ruin everything lol
How did all those people go blind while in buildings? Did like 99.99% of people were looking at sun at same time from any location at given time?
In the original there was a spectacular astronomical display, like a gigantic meteor storm, seen right across the planet over the course of a day.
Anyone who could watch, even if only for a minute, went outside, or to the windows to view it - as they would IRL.
And how about anyone that was asleep at the time? Not everyone has the same 9-5 routine in their lives.
@@bradtorville5526 close your eyes and look at a bright light source and you will understand that it's still possible to go blind even if your eyes are shut.
Also, they don't talk about other countries. Maybe some countries were affected less since they were on the dark side of the Earth during the Sun flares.
@@bradtorville5526 in the book they saved their vision. Even if sighteds were minority, there were enough of them to create a community where blinds enslave sighteds to make them their guides and a community where sighted enslave blinds to build a feudal society.
or in bunkers, caves, mines, ect ect
or what about in a submarine?
“FEED ME, SEYMOUR!”
Looks like Audrey II spawned a new colony.
I was thinking more along the lines of The Ruins but that works as well.
Finally a remake. I’ve enjoyed the previous movie so hopefully this doesn’t disappoint
I'd say the most unbelievable part of this film was the idea that we would immediately abandon the blind populace like a group of eliteists, and that all the blind people would walk around in gang mentality like a pack of zombies. If I went blind and a state of emergency was declared, the last thing i would want to do is go outside. If i ran out of food i would find my way to the grocery store one block at a time. The lack of survival instinct in this whole story doesn't add up. The 1950s book was a whole different time, but still.
Tv tropes, notes that kind of dated, the whole being blind is hopeless kind of deal. Through the basically zombies explain why being blind was too bad. Triffids are easy enough to deal with a tech base and modern military but they are basically kicking you while your down so one can simply get back up
Most of the blind people would die within a week at most.
You gotta remember this was really before a lot of modern apocalyptic fiction staples like Dawn of the Dead.
@@Illier1 fiction played with humanity tendency to rally together in a disaster since we are pack animals. I know being dark is a thing and their is the whole theme of humans are the real monsters.
A well written story of good vs evil still has an appeal. I loved the Martian and the closest thing that film had to bad guy was merely burned once
I loved the old movie when I was a kid. Never knew this existed, sad I missed it.
this channel has introduced me to so many projects i'd never heard of and its only been a few hours since i discovered yall
almost exactly as the book. I read the book when I was 18... I'm 56 now ... brings back some memories 🙂
The amount of people sleeping through that must be around at least 30%
I liked that Troy survived, He's one of my favorite characters out of everyone so yeah
Well... The plot in the book is better than the plot in the show.
how's the book called?
Do a recap of the book for us. I believe they call it a "Book Review" 🤔
I think the best film adaptation of Wyndham's classic is actually 28 Days Later. Very different but the important points are the same.
@@sidradeave The book is called The Day of the Triffids. There were also other movies based off the book before this one that were far better as well
@@sidradeave well... The Day of the Triffids.
the plant is not that dangerous when it being control and in the farm the problem is that more than half of the world population is struck blind that why we are losing to the slow moving plant.
It basically how do we make zombies a realistic threat, first explain away there absurd toughness and peptual motion nature as they being plants, and second unleash another apocalypse so the military does not kill them all.
@@brendenhawley2225 with proper train soldier and steady supply of ammunition and other stuff. we can wipe anything in this world. Like movie call Army of the dead, the part that soldier drop in with parachute but only to drop into swarm of zombie. well I suppose the unit path finder doesn't exist. There is so much modern army that people ignore that make them proper army. Heli attack or artillery strike also dont seem to exist in this world as well some how. It just too funny that people go out of their way to make mistake after mistake.
@@Benz2533 Also recon never seems to exist, in world war z book, Usa somehow fails to realize the amount of zombies in battle of Yorkers, guess the UAV, satellites, jets and hot air balloons were all down I guess, somehow the USA does not bring enough bullets, even through it would of been in character for USA military to set up a McDonalds for moral reasons. Seriously medieval tactics can bust most zombie apocalypse , just set up a little palisade or other barricade, than stab a spear in zombie heads when they try to reach through it or tear it down, it like shooting fish in a barrel. Tanks can just run over the zombies to save ammo. Really a lot of sci fi armies would either lose to modern air force or only win because of orbital bombardment, the space fighters fight like world war 2 planes, the solders sometimes do not even understand cover, let alone combined armies and so on.
As far as I concerned a zombie apocalypse, is much more realistic if it the cherry on top of another apocalypse. A meteor hit the earth, nuclear war breaks out, but humanity survived and is capable of rebuilding, than the zombies show up and the military already over stretched taking care of the disaster already on hand.
12:27 that's a cool ass helicopter
Your homophobic! Stop MisGendering that helicopter. It identifies a plane!
The science and logic in this movie is impeccable...
Bill blames humanity causing global warming for the Triffids...
Except companies would have used the Triffids anyway to make money. Stupid premise for an otherwise decent movie.
I feel like the plant parts of this movie could be the sci-fi channel sequel to The Ruins. Smart, man eating plants that are too dangerous to be left alone.
finally, the explanation for where my space-fairing race of sentient plants come from! Stellaris!! My solar empire will rule all!!!!
There have been two TV adaptations, this one and a six part serial in the eighties faithful to the book but contemporary to the eighties. Also notable is the 60's film where the Triffids are spawned by the meteor fall but whether it's an invasion or coincidence is left ambiguous, said movie wisely had a naval base organise humanity's survival given the crews were submersed and didn't see the storm, it also shown London engulfed in flames before the characters leave, the book and other serials never touched on that possibility.
@2:50 brooo this part made me crack in tears lol I'm thinking he gonna fly the plan. Mans said f**k it 😂😂😂😂
I remember see the old film made in 1962. And it’s truly a shocker on how the people get rid of these plants 👍👍👍👍
I had nightmares as a kid from that old film
@@lovelisalliance2032 me too 😔
That 1962 movie and book are as different as night and day!
@@slojoe58 I was talking about a movie not a book 📕
That movie was awful. Even John Wyndham hated it. It’s not even close to the story of his novel.
12:27 that is NOT a helicopter LMFAO
A literal power plant !
Omg i remember watching this movie as a kid but i never remembered the name of it, thank you for the recap!!
“A helicopter flys above the house”
12:27
I only watch these recaps when I feel like its average. Excellent movies I watch online or movie theater.
Just read the book a few months ago. My dad has a big collection of paperback novels, much of it sci-fi. He goes through a book roughly every two days and this was one he had recently read and recommended.
I remember watching this randomly on TV as a kid and it felt like a fever dream
yeah xD me too
If your monster requires everyone to be blind, perhaps it is not a very good monster. Maybe a bit more subtlety could’ve made the plants a better monster. Doesn’t have to be apocalyptic, you could simply focus in on a smaller cast in one of the plant refineries that has lost power or something. Then you could get the effect of the monsters without the extremely convoluted and disruptive solar flare plot. This is so uninspired I couldn’t even find the patience finish the movie recap version.
I’m 4 minutes into the recap and I’m already at my limit of stupid
I guess, the plants were prisoners and were at the mercy of the humans who could neutralize them and once humans were blinded the plants could escape and attack
The point of the book is the peiole are more concerned about whst they can get out of the triffids rather than the triffids are dangerous. The sting is what many plants do to disable their prey
90% of movie recaps I did not know until this channel
Reminds me of a lot of the old B-movies I used to watch on Saturday mornings as a kid.
I never knew they made this story into a movie. I wish they would do a movie about the chrysalids as well.
Was originally a black amd white movie and sure they were from space they also defeated them in a different way
- So what do you want in your movie ?
- EVERYTHING !!!
First thing I thought of was, "I wonder how much roundup them plants can handle" lol
Surviving a plane crash by going into the bathroom and covering yourself with life jackets.. Gotcha..
Ok I feel I am missing something or maybe I understood something wrong, but...
If the female triffid is steril, how exactly will it spread it to the other triffids?
I presume they just did their research incorrectly. It’s not that it’s sterile but the children it will have will be sterile and therefore won’t be able to reproduce causing that bloodline to cease. If that is done enough times to enough triffids then the species will go extinct
probably just a misunderstanding or something idk. I'm assuming what was meant was that the female had a gene that made her offspring infertile so they couldn't reproduce so then the race would then die out.
Not the plant, the offspring. There are "gene drives" IRL that have been used to wipe out harmful mosquitoes and reduce populations.
I'm guessing that it will propagate the sterile gene(s) somehow.
Either the plan was to have the "sterile" triffid produce other sterile children so that eventually all you have is a whole lot of sterile triffids, or the script writers completely mis-understand how using sterile mosquitos work, which is you sterilize MILLIONS of them so that the males make with steriles and there's no offspring so the population decreases. Either way, your question is 100% valid.
That's how it ended? It must have sucked to people who really liked it, to have it just end like that.
that's how the book ended too, they get to a safe place and plot revenge against those terrible triffids
12:32 "Helicopter flies over dropping pamphlets" umm that's a plane Budd. Have you never seen a Helicopter?😂😢😂
You know movie recaps you should put the movie name on the description it would be a lot of help
12:27 Heli-helicopter 😌🤣
So many good actors in this movie!
Acting very good. But this is a UK series made years ago. I think its still been shown on Prime.
@@cockneycharm3970 I just checked and it's not on Prime. Apparently it's been a series twice, though- in 1981 and 2009 (this is the 2009 one). Interestingly, it's been a radio drama *three* times.
The sun randomly deciding to blind everyone today
Man-eating plants escaping + solar radiation causing near global violence is cool, but I don't think there's enough going on. Maybe throw in an alien invasion and insects that feed on the plants to become monsters the size of skyscrapers to really round this movie out.
Guy is the sole survivor of a plane crash and immediately thinks of shoplifting
In the present, humans discover plant-eating men that can create poop indefinitely
Wait, vegans actually exist?
Ahhh yes that is a helicopter 🚁 and not a plane ✈️ 12:34
they missed an opportunity to add the soilent green theme... the Plants only produce fuel if they get to eat people.
How to survive a plane crash: cover yourself with life jackets 🤣🤣🤣
"How do we make our shitty slow moving plants threatening? Oh I know! Let's just blind 94 percent of the population with a random solar flare totally unrelated to anything else in the plot. Also random guy survives plane crash in a cartoonish way, then immediately becomes a supervillain. "
This feels like two crazy film premises that were rolled into one even crazier film
The Triffets are slowly waddling their way around and the humans get captured🤣😂😅
lmao imagine you just became blind and one of the first radio message you hear is that giant carnivorous plants are on the loose
The book this is based on was amazing. A worthy read even if you're not SciFi fan
Book name?
@@cj13rules The day of the Triffids. With sequel book The night of the Triffids which was written by different writer and set 25 years later.
@@beemerhead117 Thank u
@@beemerhead117 thanks
@@beemerhead117 The sequel book is terrible tho. I read it, what a waste of paper. Just read the original.
Troy is a real one for not snitching.
Slow moving killer plants= Easy enough
Blinding Solar flare and flesh eating plants =Hard mode
People: I cant see noooo
Blind people: Your first time?
This sounds like a soap opera mashup of many other sci-fi and fictional works including Day of the Triffids, Lord of the Flies, Watership Down, See, Lost, and others.
everyone knows you should wear glasses in an eclipse, why didn't they think to wear protective eyewear for a meteor shower? lol
Cuz Jo interviewed one scientist and he said it was safe. So the entire world gobbled up that garbage- load of BS if you ask me. This entire thing reek of plotholes.
@@nathaliewilson1817 LOL
Classic book, the original 1968 movie still stands as my fave.
I can survive a plane crash by hiding in the bathroom? I'll remember that.
I can believe they remade this movie again. This is like the fourth time.
That "helicopter" looks suspiciously like a plane 😂😂
I'm already 3 minutes in this video and the movie sounds needlessly complicated:
Starts with a flashback of protagonist's mom dying to man-eating plants. These plants can kill and poison people, but they are eco-friendly so its ok, and of course the general public doesnt know about it. Why didnt these plants terrorize humanity before this happened? How did they somehow managed to farm these dangerous plants with laughable security measures? (Also tribe people for whatever reason). Protagonist tries to stop activist only to get spat by venom in the eyes. Turns out there's a chance he might go blind so they rush him to the hospital to fix it. Meanwhile almost everyone in the whole world of America watched a meteor shower event, during the day, only to get blinded by some Sun BS, even to those who werent really watching it. And conveniently protagonist 1 had his eyes covered by bandages, protagonist 2 was apparentally the only survivor in the subway, other guy survive a plane crash because he can, and now the plants are free and now their food are just sitting ducks. Like I said so convenient.
I know its a bit unfair to judge the movie like this, but somehow even this video summary lost me with the logic and science, or it had any. The blinding part is what really confuses me since it doesnt fit imo
"whole world of America"? the movie isn't even set in America. It is set in the UK. In the adaption, the other adaptations and the book it is based on explain that the event that causes people to go blind is a once-in-a-lifetime event that happens worldwide. The meteor shower (in the novel) starts over California and then makes its way around the world. As it goes it blinds people. Due to the blindness and the panic as a result of mass blindness the warning spreads around the world too late to stop other parts of the world from going blind. Also, people make a big deal about it on the lead-up to the event so it becomes a social trend to see it. Also, the adaptation never says she is the only survivor of the subway.
However, overall, as you said, the massive flaw is that the entire world goes blind. After all, clouds would block out the meteor shower in other parts of the world. This is never discussed in the book or adaptations - to my knowledge. However, I imagine if certain parts of the world were for the most part left sighted it will take them time to set up a global response. Especially, if those countries are only left partially sighted.
Bro called a plane a helicopter omg
so like every match in the world just mysteriously disappears?
12:27 says helicopter but clearly a plane
It’s worth noting this is mini series not a film. Their is a film version from the 60s and another tv series
3 things are funny to me, the guy in the toilet while plane crash, the girl crashed her car when theres no one around, and the dude getting jump by plants hahahaha. good shit.
They really have the blind people walking around and reaching their arms out like zombies
i dont know whats more catastrophic, whole world going blind or the damn plants.
GUY SURE LOOKS LIKE PLANT FOOD TO MEEEEEEE!
Communicating them was useless because they only answer was shots. Lmao
Im just imagining walking casually, whistling, with a backpack sprayer full of Roundup and goggles on, laying waste to the oversized weeds.
Remember they used Saltwater from the ocean!!!
do it like Pyro 🤣
The blinding of damn near everyone simultaneously is one of the stupidest things i've ever seen in a movie
I honestly love Tiffids as a monster. The films Day of the Triffids and Empire of the Ants were my favorite monster flicks as a kid that spooked me but kept me watching.
Some people like to watch the story unfold, some people like to know the endings in a bit more detail.
I myself like a bit of both, I have watched the full series and its a bit odd to understand in some areas, like the trifidd oil saving the world from global warming? Thousands of farms world wide and no one knows how dangerous these things are? Also, the really, really stupid activist character that releases them, sigh, I feel sorry for that actor, his character has died a lot in a bunch of movies he has been in.
Also the way some people avoided the blinding light was a hard one to handle, how come the half of the world not facing the sunlight, or the thousands of people who generally stay home and have curtains closed watching the event on t.v.'s, instead of directly staring at the event. The triffid design was cool, especially when you look at the other versions in different eras and reproductions of this story.
Lastly they noticed sound draws their attention, so how come no farms playing music to calm them, instead of shock repelling them?
Would be neat to see some more on this series maybe, nifty science.
Everything you said is correct except the "sounds" part. The "sounds" is not any random sounds but the Triffid sounds and more than likely not just any random Triffid sound but maybe either a specific "attack" sound as the implication is that the Triffid communicate probably primarily through sounds as well as maybe scent? The venom in the eyes specifically that kept Bill protected as a child as well as the 5 of them at the end does not really give a clear picture as to WHY the venom needs to be specifically in the eye [seems like the pupil of the eye] for the Triffid to then believe the humans and them are now the same species. That explanation is a ridiculous Deu ex Machina [white rabbit] garbage to get the main characters out safely in a very dicey inescapable situation.
@@nathaliewilson1817 you know using what you just mentioned, if this was natural, the venom could be a type of marker for the plants, it could be reactive to the outside air and maybe enzymes in your eyes so when mixed it causes a particular pheromone to be released or a chemical mark that might be confusing. Similar to spiders that hide as ants to get into the colonies......makes you wonder if the writers and creators actually thought of the real science to make the creature, because the more believable it is the scarier it is sometimes.
@@andrewvarcoe4741I am curious to know what type of pheromones or chemical marker that works in the pupil of the human eyes temporarily [since it obviously wore off Bill as he attacked as adult when trying to protect the guard]... for however long we do not know [minutes, hours, days, years, until the person shed tears, until the person sleeps, etc.]? Yes, the humans camouflaging themselves to trick a very smart plant life is ingenious. I am unsure if the writer got it all figured out though... but then again, I have not read the book.
Neat analysis you brought forth in both comments on this thread.
Imagine waking up on a plane full of blind people and blind pilots and you're like yeah I'm gonna bet on life jackets in the bathroom saving me. Then when you survive you're like looting time!!!
When you are already tired of making another zombie movie so you replace zombies with plants :)
The book was written in 1951....
The solar eruption thing is just Earth if God turned on Discord Light Mode.
Please read the book. It’s amazing. And has held up surprisingly well with time unlike many of its time
12:29 Funny looking Helicopter….Where I come from we call them aeroplanes!
DANG... its like weird, one thing they are talking about man eating plants, then they are blinded by a light... whats next? (i just got 3 and a half minutes into the video-)
There was a tornado and it picked up sharks.
@@libo2000 i watched the video bud too late... unless ur talking about down the road of the series i watched the full youtube video-
@@Maliniasredmask Yeah it's next seasons threat, it led to an unexpected movie franchise.
@@Maliniasredmask um, it either you are a straight face sarcastic joker or the sarcasm was lost on you. There was no shark in a tornado.
@@libo2000 I know... I am pretty much straight face... 😄😐
and I know he is referencing to Sharknado or something-
These 20min summaries of movies Ive never heard (in most cases) of are better than anything mainstream Ive seen in almost a decade.
No joke.
It's almost like some writers took the concept from this movie and revised it to make a movie of their own... Bird Box
Good observation, they also took some of plot points too such as the church being seen as a safe haven.
@@motoxx007
Like Stephen King did, in The Stand. "Jesus, help us!"
This really felt like two separate movies jammed together.