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DakotaYoda wrote: »Niiiiiiiiice! Started my own list sometime ago for the ones I wanted to acquire/watch. I have it in a googledoc currently. Maybe share it out later. That site you posted is pretty nifty tho - thanks!!
your welcome, im watching La Horde tonight and ive got some beers chilling, im on a movie blitz as im on my summer leave from work
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DakotaYoda wrote: »Yeah I plan on checking out REC2 for sure.
I'm really enjoying Dead Set. Had noticed it before but the idea of the series didn't grab me as I positively HATE reality TV. But they way they handle it is very well done. Couple episodes left. Zombies are fast movers, which I don't care for but it seems to work ok.
you dont like that fast movers ? i love them. nothing gets me more petrified then a few hundred zombies charging towards the camera and always inches away from someone 0 -
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DakotaYoda wrote: »Nah I'm a slow and steady zombie fan. I'm ok w/ fast movers like 28 weeks later as they aren't zombies, per say. But REAL zombies outta be slow IMO.
Simon Pegg sums up my thoughts better than I ever could... Exert from the full article found here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set
"...More significantly, the fast zombie is bereft of poetic subtlety. As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.
However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares - the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles.
Another thing: speed simplifies the zombie, clarifying the threat and reducing any response to an emotional reflex. It's the difference between someone shouting "Boo!" and hearing the sound of the floorboards creaking in an upstairs room: a quick thrill at the expense of a more profound sense of dread. The absence of rage or aggression in slow zombies makes them oddly sympathetic, a detail that enabled Romero to project depth on to their blankness, to create tragic anti-heroes; his were figures to be pitied, empathised with, even rooted for. The moment they appear angry or petulant, the second they emit furious velociraptor screeches (as opposed to the correct mournful moans of longing), they cease to possess any ambiguity. They are simply mean."
very interesting. you know Romero got his ideas for his zombies from watching people in supermarkets, he said they walked around hopeless like the living dead (something like that)
ya i see your point, still love my sprinters though
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Watched La Horde Last night
unfortunatley I couldnt figure out the aspect thingy on my TV so I couldnt see most of the subtitles
However it was feckin Great still, I could really picture cyberwolf as trhe french cop on the Roof of the Car in the Basement, EPIC Death, or the Aulfella with the GPMG :D:D
Overall very good, even the Sprinter detail didnt bother me too much.0 -
Mahatma coat wrote: »Watched La Horde Last night
unfortunatley I couldnt figure out the aspect thingy on my TV so I couldnt see most of the subtitles However it was feckin Great still, I could really picture cyberwolf as trhe french cop on the Roof of the Car in the Basement, EPIC Death, or the Aulfella with the GPMG :D:D
Overall very good, even the Sprinter detail didnt bother me too much.
i liked it, there are just one or 2 bits i had a few problems with. suppose i shouldnt post and spoil it for everyone else :-) i think i was a little harsh on the story line. i liked the old man in it myself0 -
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Watched Day of the Dead remake last night and while I was expecting it to be bad I wasn't ready for the absolute cringe inducing awfulness of it. This was without doubt one of the worse zombie movies I have ever seen and I have watched some stinkers in my time.
I have no idea what the director of this turd was even thinking. He had a great premise and opportunity to make something good or at least passable but he decided to go down the well worn path of the teeny horror movie circa 1995. Every bad movie cliche is included in this celluloid abortion, every tired and over used horror trick done and redone. It looks like something that an unsure first timer, who has been thrown in at the deep end would produce, a scared kid who realises that he is in over his head and thus rips off b-movie staples of the signposted cheap scare and the absurd plot contrivances in the hope that he will reach the end of the shoot still in a job.
If this was the case then it could be forgiven but the director Steve Miner was nearly 60 when this turd was polished and shipped out the door. There is absolutely no excuse in this day and age when talented filmmakers are chomping at the bit for a chance to make a film with a decent(ish) budget and I hold the financiers and producers of this film wholly responsible for giving this hack control of this project. Heres what imdb had to say about the man:
I won't put this man in charge of a parking lot never mind let him helm a movie production. About a third of the way through I honestly though that the director was making a spoof, that he was taking a swipe at the movie industry by making a parody that included some of the worst offenses in moviemaking. Two minutes later I came to the sad realisation that no, this guy is being serious and is actually trying to make a straight up horror movie to the best of his ability, sweet jesus.Steve Miner is not one of Hollywood's most popular directors, but has had a very popular career in making films and remains one of Hollywood's most prolific directors
What were the thought processes that led the people behind this movie to think it was going to fly. They had a good premise, isolated small town that has become infected with zombie making stuff, military quarantines the area (the Crazies anyone), go from there. Where did they go, well they changed the nature of the zombies so that nearly anyone at anytime could turn, when set on fire they go up like tissue paper and oh yeah they can climb walls and ceilings like they are Jackie fooking Chan, oh and the infection will turn you into a ravenous monster unless you were a vegetarian or "nice" guy before you were infected.
Who did they think would want to see this, zombie fans would be appalled and the dumb teeny date movie crowd probably won't go see it anyway. I am amazed that this embarrassment of a script was even written let alone filmed.
Everyone, from the teaboy to the stars (Vign Rhames, why oh why) to the "director" should be wholly ashamed of themselves for their part in this project and if there was any justice in the world they should have been sent back and told to remake it so it was slightly less sh!t. This movie actually made me angry and I didn't even pay money to see it, if I had I would probably have thrown the DVD out the window in a fit of rage. In this day and age how can this be seen as acceptable, how can they justify asking for money for this without feeling a twinge of remorse.:mad:
*END RANT
Edit* I did like the idea behind the sickeningly obese DJ though, how he would have fared would have been an interesting concept to explore but the director focked that up too:mad:0 -
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Sticky_Fingers wrote: »Watched Day of the Dead remake last night and while I was expecting it to be bad I wasn't ready for the absolute cringe inducing awfulness of it. This was without doubt one of the worse zombie movies I have ever seen and I have watched some stinkers in my time.
I have no idea what the director of this turd was even thinking. He had a great premise and opportunity to make something good or at least passable but he decided to go down the well worn path of the teeny horror movie circa 1995. Every bad movie cliche is included in this celluloid abortion, every tired and over used horror trick done and redone. It looks like something that an unsure first timer, who has been thrown in at the deep end would produce, a scared kid who realises that he is in over his head and thus rips off b-movie staples of the signposted cheap scare and the absurd plot contrivances in the hope that he will reach the end of the shoot still in a job.
If this was the case then it could be forgiven but the director Steve Miner was nearly 60 when this turd was polished and shipped out the door. There is absolutely no excuse in this day and age when talented filmmakers are chomping at the bit for a chance to make a film with a decent(ish) budget and I hold the financiers and producers of this film wholly responsible for giving this hack control of this project. Heres what imdb had to say about the man:
I won't put this man in charge of a parking lot never mind let him helm a movie production. About a third of the way through I honestly though that the director was making a spoof, that he was taking a swipe at the movie industry by making a parody that included some of the worst offenses in moviemaking. Two minutes later I came to the sad realisation that no, this guy is being serious and is actually trying to make a straight up horror movie to the best of his ability, sweet jesus.
What were the thought processes that led the people behind this movie to think it was going to fly. They had a good premise, isolated small town that has become infected with zombie making stuff, military quarantines the area (the Crazies anyone), go from there. Where did they go, well they changed the nature of the zombies so that nearly anyone at anytime could turn, when set on fire they go up like tissue paper and oh yeah they can climb walls and ceilings like they are Jackie fooking Chan, oh and the infection will turn you into a ravenous monster unless you were a vegetarian or "nice" guy before you were infected.
Who did they think would want to see this, zombie fans would be appalled and the dumb teeny date movie crowd probably won't go see it anyway. I am amazed that this embarrassment of a script was even written let alone filmed.
Everyone, from the teaboy to the stars (Vign Rhames, why oh why) to the "director" should be wholly ashamed of themselves for their part in this project and if there was any justice in the world they should have been sent back and told to remake it so it was slightly less sh!t. This movie actually made me angry and I didn't even pay money to see it, if I had I would probably have thrown the DVD out the window in a fit of rage. In this day and age how can this be seen as acceptable, how can they justify asking for money for this without feeling a twinge of remorse.:mad:
*END RANT
Edit* I did like the idea behind the sickeningly obese DJ though, how he would have fared would have been an interesting concept to explore but the director focked that up too:mad:
i really enjoyed reading your rant stickey fingers
have you ever thought of becoming a movie reviewer
im going to take your advice and give this one a wide berth0 -
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I wasnt impressed with Dead Snow to be honest. On the note of Nazi Zombies, I watched outpost (not technically zombies) a few nights ago and thought it was pure muck
Thanks everyone for some great suggestions on here. I'm gonna check out La Horde, The quiet earth, dead next door, undead or alive and last of the living over the next few days. I doubt my missus will be too impressed. As for my choices, I loved NOLD, Return of the living dead, braindead, Dead set and both versions of Dawn of the Dead. I agree with Simon Pegg's sentiments posted earlier about Sprinters but I dead enjoy them in dawn and dead set0 -
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