What is wrong with humanity?

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2007)

I loved 28 days later, but almost walked out of the theater when watching 28 weeks later. The entire movie is just showing innocent people being bloodily killed... and that's it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy many ultra-violent movies such as Sin City or Pulp Fiction... but those movies actually have a plot, and they purposely try to make it not incredibly realistic looking as 28 weeks later does. They also keep some of the main characters that the audience cares about alive in the end. It makes me wonder what is up with people's psyches to actually take pleasure out of not only seeing all the human bystanders slaughtered in this fiasco, but also all of the main characters be brutally killed (ie.- close up of a man tearing the eyeballs out of his wife's head, a 5 minute montage of the US military tearing innocent people up with bullets, one of the main character's face being smashed in then her child companion looking at her flattened head under a night scope). I can understand getting a kick out of a cheesy horror movie, but this is far too realistic to pass as entertainment. It's like if somebody had graphically filmed the most gory parts of the Rwandan genocide, put it on big screen, then millions of people paid $7.50 to watch it for fun.
The violence probably wouldn't have bothered me as much if the plot was more than just "I know, let's put all these people back into the epicenter of where the outbreak began... then the virus will be unleashed again...then there will be a bunch of people killed again... then the virus will infect the one hope for humanity, carrying it to the mainland... then everyone will die." It is so predictable it seems the only reason why they made this movie was to show "cool" ways that zombies and people can kill people and zombies.
Maybe I'm just getting old or something, but 28 weeks later is poison to the brain and a sad outlook on humanity.