Sadly Over-hyped

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

One of my personal favorite movies of all times is the cheap and often clumsy 1962 version of "Day of the Triffids". Admittedly it's a flawed and heavily altered version of the acclaimed story, but it made an everlasting impression on me thanks to the unequaled atmosphere of hopelessness (during the first half of the film) in combination with the original nature of mankind's opponent (during the second half of the film). Most of the praise should undeniably go to the novel's author John Wyndham, of course, but there's also that typical apocalyptic atmosphere that only worked effectively in late fifties/early sixties Sci-Fi movies. I haven't read the book yet, but apparently the 1962 film adaptation modified a large number of elements, which is probably why the BBC produced two much more elaborated and faithful adaptations in the form of TV mini-series. I can't speak for the 1981 version, but this newer and supposedly "technologically advanced" 2009 version only made me regret to have wasted three long & precious hours of my life and sparked the desire to re-watch that charming old movie again.Thinking back about my viewing experience now, only one day ago, I already wonder how they even managed to fill three hours of running time, as there's actually very little happening in "Day of the Triffids". Here, the Triffids (a unique species of carnivorous plants) already exist as genetically engineered organisms and their oil is used as a more than welcome alternative fuel resource. Their hunger for flesh is stilled and supervised in humongous laboratories of the Triffoil Corporation, but when solar flares blind the entire world's population, the ravenous vegetables break free and feast themselves on the poor and helpless blind. Speaking of which, the whole "world gone blind" aspect is scandalously neglected in this version. There are really a lot of people who apparently missed the once-in-a-lifetime light spectacle and there are only a few sequences of (implausible) mass hysteria in the center of London. There's also very little Triffids-horror, for that matter, and it seems that the entire film revolves solely on the dire romance between a Triffid milkman and a BBC journalist and one idiot's quest for world domination. Only one sub plot is worth mentioning, in my humble opinion, and it involves a monastery community run by Vanessa Redgrave that the Triffids don't attempt to invade for some mysterious reason. The final half hour is unendurable and nearly impossible to struggle through, as the main couple adopts two siblings and reunites with the man's father who has thought up a cross-pollinating solution. Fake sentiment and family drama is the absolute last thing I'm looking for in a Sci-Fi flick about murderous plants. As a fan of old-fashioned special effects and the power of suggestion, I also certainly cannot recommend watching "Day of the Triffids" for its lackluster CGI effects and pitiable post-apocalyptic landscapes. Please, explore and re-discover old Sci-Fi cinema … or, in my case, take the time to read a good book.

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.

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")

Not sure if this is a spoiler, but in this remake of John Wyndham's book, the sap of Triffids is a source of energy-rich 'Triff-Oil' which solves the worldwide energy crisis and burns so cleanly it reverses global warming, even though the Triffids are carnivorous mobile plants with deadly stingers. Not a big problem until the world is struck blind and people become easy prey to the triffids. But here's my WTF moment: If Triffid sap is so flammable, why doesn't anybody use a torch on them? Or Napalm from an airplane? There must be at least ONE pilot who wasn't flying when the world went blind. All we ask is a little internal logic.