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Krohm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1857 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-24 10:35:55
May 24 2008 09:55 GMT
#1
DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE.

If you plan on watching this, I would avoid reading this. I am not adding spoiler tags.

Now I'm a huge fan of most zombie flicks. The few that I can exclude would be RE:2,RE:3. Plus a few others. I've always just been fascinated with the idea behind a zombie holocaust.

So today I was watching T.V, and a commercial for this movie came on. Right away I was like sweet another zombie movie. So I went and downloaded it right away... Sadly, my friend actually bought it today. I pity him...

Anyway, on with the movie. Now this movie starts off not to bad to be honest. But then it quickly turns into crap. You get overwhelmed with shitty acting. Very cliche characters. It's just very bad in that aspect.

Good old George A. Romero tried to be witty and copy the whole Cloverfield handy cam idea. However I can say that he failed. It just didn't do any good.

I really disliked the zombies in general too. In this movie, the zombies were dumbasses. Now thats not a bad thing. Thats not what got me. It was the fact, that almost every zombie encounter involved them doing a "Surprise Attack" on a survivor. They'd constantly leap or creep out of the shadows all silent like and attack... I mean come on, it wouldn't be doing that. Zombies are straight forward. They don't hide in the dark and wait for you to walk by. It fucking bugs me so bad when movies do that. (Now you could really argue that maybe they still have hunter instincts which would give them that ability to wait in the dark for prey. But I'd have to disagree, since some zombies did no such thing.)

Now, you get onto the plot. It's also all bad. The plot is very basic, and straight forward. But I can agree that most zombie plots are the same. It's a group of characters trying to reach a specific location. Meanwhile they slowly die off.

The events of the movie, is what really bugged me though. Things just happen way to fast. The characters are off in the forest filming a movie when a radio broadcast announces about "The dead coming back to life." So they group decides to go off to this specific location. On the way, bad shit happens. One of the characters shoots herself in the face, but she doesn't die. So they take her to a hospital... Lo-and-behold, the place is empty... Now this is what really bugged me. In the event of a zombie holocaust just starting. A hospital would be packed. It wouldn't be deserted unless it was probably a couple days into the said event. Hospitals just need to keep running, and they would. Either way, of course there are a few lingering zombies around. (I'd like to really make it clear, that they just started hearing reports of the dead coming back to life. It wasn't a long time into it.)

Then of course they leave the hospital, you get bombarded with more shitty acting. To be honest, the acting only gets worse as the movie goes on.

The band of survivors jump around place to place. Meeting new people, losing people, and Etc.

Finally after sitting through and hour and a half of this painful movie. It ends, with some very horrible analogy's and outlooks.

I can't even really begin to explain how horrible this movie is. I mean picture this. You take a nice sticky dump, then after you wipe your ass. You look at the toilet paper. You see how shitty it is? That's about how shitty this movie is. If not worse.

I feel like I've been robbed of my time. Whats gets me though, I was dumb enough to sit through this entire thing.

Weak.

Not bad for a cat toy.
ZBiR
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
Poland1092 Posts
May 24 2008 10:30 GMT
#2
On May 24 2008 18:55 Krohm wrote:
I can't even really begin to explain how horrible this movie is. I mean picture this. You take a nice sticky dump, then after you wipe your ass. You look at the toilet paper. You see how shitty it is? That's about how shitty this movie. If not worse.



Haha, this analogy is golden
besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
May 24 2008 10:38 GMT
#3
will watch, thanks for the recommend
A weak will coupled with delusions of grandeur
Nazarene
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Denmark996 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-24 10:51:23
May 24 2008 10:45 GMT
#4
I'm a HUGE zombieflick fan too, but I was very disappointed with this one, I expected much more from Romero .

Got any recommendations for good zombieflicks?
Movies I've already watched are:

Land of the dead
28 days/weeks later
Night of the living dead (1990 remake) + the new shitty night of the living dead
Dawn of the dead (2004 remake)
Resident evil 1,2,3
Grindhouse
The evil dead movies
Braindead

That's all I can remember right now.
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
May 24 2008 11:20 GMT
#5
flight of the living dead?
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7218 Posts
May 24 2008 11:28 GMT
#6
i love zombie movies, but seeing the commercials/reading the summary for this one just sounded really shitty to me
guess it's a good thing i didn't pay for it ;p
Entusman #12
Spenguin
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia3316 Posts
May 24 2008 11:34 GMT
#7
Zombies on a plane?
March of the undead?

Well maybe Krohm your idea of the living-undead is much different to that of the moviemaker's.
< TeamLiquid CJ Entusman #46 > I came for the Brood War, I stayed for the people.
Skew
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States1019 Posts
May 24 2008 12:19 GMT
#8
I saw this movie about 2 months ago and I thought the hospital scene was dumb, but for the reason that if dead people are coming back to life wouldn't a hospital be the last fucking place you'd want to be...?

If they ever make a zombie movie where the survivors stock up on food and sniper rifles, go to the top floor of a building and barricade the stairwell(s), I'll probably die of overwhelming nerd happiness.

BTW 28 ____ later is the best goddamn zombie movies ever made, watching anything after seeing those is like krohm's analogy.
grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
May 24 2008 12:34 GMT
#9
On May 24 2008 18:55 Krohm wrote:
Good old George A. Romero tried to be witty and copy the whole Cloverfield handy cam idea. However I can say that he failed. It just didn't do any good.


First of all this movie has been in the planning stages since Land of the Dead was finished, that's like three years ago so George didn't try to copy anything, second of all Cloverfield wasn't the first movie to use the handycam style, might as well say that Cloverfield tried to copy Cannibal Holocaust.


On May 24 2008 18:55 Krohm wrote:
In the event of a zombie holocaust just starting. A hospital would be packed. It wouldn't be deserted unless it was probably a couple days into the said event. Hospitals just need to keep running, and they would. Either way, of course there are a few lingering zombies around. (I'd like to really make it clear, that they just started hearing reports of the dead coming back to life. It wasn't a long time into it.)


Lol, i may not be as experienced as you when it comes to zombie holocausts but i would assume that most hospitals have no idea how to handle a shitton of zombies walking in, if anything keeping a hospital under control would be the hardest thing to do in a situation like that, but of course thats just pure speculation.

The movie is not bad but it's still not awesome, few zombie movies are. When i watch a zombie movie i don't want to see Robert DeNiro acting his ass off, i don't want to follow some Citizen X story, all i want is gore and nudity just like the good old horror/cheese movies from the 80s. Greg Nicotero's effects were awesome as usual (can't expect any less from the man who was taught by Tom Savini himself), the acting wasn't flawless but they got the job done.

I liked it.
We make signature, then defense it.
Metallingus
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Philippines468 Posts
May 24 2008 12:52 GMT
#10
On May 24 2008 19:45 Nazarene wrote:
I'm a HUGE zombieflick fan too, but I was very disappointed with this one, I expected much more from Romero .

Got any recommendations for good zombieflicks?
Movies I've already watched are:

Land of the dead
28 days/weeks later
Night of the living dead (1990 remake) + the new shitty night of the living dead
Dawn of the dead (2004 remake)
Resident evil 1,2,3
Grindhouse
The evil dead movies
Braindead

That's all I can remember right now.


Zombi/Zombi II
Dead Alive (if you haven't watched it already)
Night of the Living Dead '68 <-- the one that started it all, way better than the remakes bar none
Dawn of the Dead '78
Overcome all. Especially plateaus.
grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
May 24 2008 12:56 GMT
#11
On May 24 2008 21:52 Metallingus wrote:
Zombi/Zombi II


This one needs to be seen if only for the famous "splinter in the eye"-scene
We make signature, then defense it.
Ozarugold
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
2716 Posts
May 24 2008 14:53 GMT
#12
Shaun of the Dead was pimp. Favorite zombie flick ever.
this is my quote.
Nazarene
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Denmark996 Posts
May 24 2008 16:15 GMT
#13
On May 24 2008 21:52 Metallingus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2008 19:45 Nazarene wrote:
I'm a HUGE zombieflick fan too, but I was very disappointed with this one, I expected much more from Romero .

Got any recommendations for good zombieflicks?
Movies I've already watched are:

Land of the dead
28 days/weeks later
Night of the living dead (1990 remake) + the new shitty night of the living dead
Dawn of the dead (2004 remake)
Resident evil 1,2,3
Grindhouse
The evil dead movies
Braindead

That's all I can remember right now.


Zombi/Zombi II
Dead Alive (if you haven't watched it already)
Night of the Living Dead '68 <-- the one that started it all, way better than the remakes bar none
Dawn of the Dead '78

I made a little research, and isn't Zombi and Dawn of the Dead '78 the same movie? I already watched Dead Alive, it's also known as Braindead. I'll definitely check into Zombi and Zombi II, thanks.
besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
May 24 2008 16:32 GMT
#14
i keep forgetting, whats the zombie flick where some chemicals spill from a truck and make zombies start popping up, then a bunch of people barricade into a house to survive the night, and in the morning a bunch of rednecks come and play games like zombie pinata or zombie cage fighting, that movie kicks ass.
A weak will coupled with delusions of grandeur
Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
May 24 2008 17:41 GMT
#15
Is it Return of the Living Dead II?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095990/

or it could be part one...not sure.
Krohm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1857 Posts
May 24 2008 19:00 GMT
#16
On May 25 2008 01:32 besiger.cry wrote:
i keep forgetting, whats the zombie flick where some chemicals spill from a truck and make zombies start popping up, then a bunch of people barricade into a house to survive the night, and in the morning a bunch of rednecks come and play games like zombie pinata or zombie cage fighting, that movie kicks ass.

That's the remake of Night of the living dead (1990). The chemical spill was just a theory though.

I didn't mind the remake. I honestly liked it more then the original.


One movie I didn't mind. It's sort of a zombie/vampire/alien type movie. Is "Lifeforce". I don't remember how old it is exactly. But it was pretty decent. Then again, I seen it when I was about 12. So who knows it might be a piece of junk.

Skew, I'd have to agree with you on the 28 XXXX Later series. They are really good. I mean the first 15 minutes of 28 weeks later. Is by far the great scene in any zombie movie. I can't wait for 28 months later.

Another movie I can't wait to see, is going to be. Dawn of the Dead 2. I really liked the remake. I also liked the original.
Not bad for a cat toy.
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