Weekly Z movie

ladypip

Ok weekly movie is on. Here are the rules:

1. Movie will be posted on a Friday (time not important since we have a week to view it)

2. Ill start and anyone else who wants to pick a weekly movie can throw their name down here ill make a list.

3. Next in line picks next weeks movie.

4. Zombie, Post apocalyptic and infection movies ONLY. (obviously there will be exceptions but try stay in that vein)

5. We will then discuss the movie (you don't have to sign up to suggest to take part all are welcome)


List of those picking the movies

1. Ladypip.
2. Degrassinoel.
3. Tallon.
4. ChaseThisLight.
5. Leeg17.
6. Asot.
7. Tzar chasm.
8. Kash.

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Peeps: Movies picked so far

1. Ladypip : Original Night of the living dead.
2. Degrassinoel. : 28 days Later
3. Tallon. : La Horde
4. ChaseThisLight. : Retreat
5. Asot : Resident evil
6. Leeg.17
7. Tzar chasm.
8. Kash.
9. Mickeydolenz
10.Hootananny

degrassinoel

count me in

Tallon

Count me in

ChaseThisLight

Me, as well.

Leeg17

Gowan so

ASOT

Im also in

ladypip

Week One: My choice for this week is the original and classic Night of the living dead. If you havent seen it in a while or maybe not at all it is a good jump of point for us. Enjoy :)

degrassinoel

Night of the Living Dead Eh?

Awesome! and.. it just so happens to be on google as it's copyright is no longer valid.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2956447426428748010

No excuses now

Tzar Chasm

Can I play?

ladypip

Of course.

Kash

Always room for one more, right?

Tzar Chasm

I tried to watch that last night but the sound didn't synch right, i'll give it another go later.;)

Eh can we call dibs on movie suggestions ahead of time? I've just thought of a great one

ladypip

Ah bad Luck I was also going to watch it lastnight, but ended up with a migraine so myhaps tonight.

I don't think there is any point in calling dibs then people will know what your gonna suggest. Just hold tight and cross your fingers nobody else picks it

Micky Dolenz

seen it recently.

The whole way through I just keep thinking to myself. Walk away at a fast pace and you'll be grand

ChaseThisLight

Watched it last night.

If I were Ben, I'd have thrown Barbra to the zombies and gotten out of there.

FlyingIrishMan

Count me in, I'll watch the movies and join the discussion but I don't know of that many zombie films so don't put me in the ring for picking one.

degrassinoel

watched it last night.

Zombies dont pick up up rocks to smash windows! Lots of little errors like that, though it was Romero's first shot so i can forgive him, plus it was made in 1968!

The house being sieged and the arguments of where to defend, the cellar or the room upstairs was brilliant if not a little repetitive. Weak female lead, possibly scripted that way. As far as the story went, I enjoyed it a lot more than i've enjoyed some more recent Z movies. Romero has a knack of making a great story crap overall but with some hidden treasure in the dialogue.
Almost everything about the film screams THIS IS SH1T, but it keeps you watching and the conversations are quite realistic given the situation.

If i had to rate it.. and i will!
out of a posible 10, it gets a solid 7 for being a groundbreaker and opening the worlds eyes to the zombie threat!

ChaseThisLight

degrassinoel wrote: »

watched it last night.

Zombies dont pick up up rocks to smash windows! Lots of little errors like that, though it was Romero's first shot so i can forgive him, plus it was made in 1968!

I caught a lot of errors, too, and then there were little things that were just bad because like you said, it was made in 1968. Like the body at the top of the stairs - that was so laughable, but back then, that would have been enough to scare someone. Didn't help that I watched it with my daughter, who kept making comments, like, "Where's the blood splatter?"

The house being sieged and the arguments of where to defend, the cellar or the room upstairs was brilliant if not a little repetitive.

Yeah, the repetitiveness of it was a tad annoying - especially when the bald guy would repeat himself, he was great at portraying someone unlikable - but they were good arguments. I really liked Ben, seemed to me to be very level headed and a true survivor.

Weak female lead, possibly scripted that way.

What a waste of space. I think she was written that way, but oh my god, I wanted to slap her.

As far as the story went, I enjoyed it a lot more than i've enjoyed some more recent Z movies. Romero has a knack of making a great story crap overall but with some hidden treasure in the dialogue.

Almost everything about the film screams THIS IS SH1T, but it keeps you watching and the conversations are quite realistic given the situation.

Completely agree. It helped, too, that I just read about Romero's idea behind the movie, his vision, and what he was trying to do with it, the original name, why it was changed, etc.

If i had to rate it.. and i will!
out of a posible 10, it gets a solid 7 for being a groundbreaker and opening the worlds eyes to the zombie threat!

Definitely...it holds up, it's a classic.

degrassinoel

Have I to pick a movie to watch now on thursday or friday?

phill106

Whatever you do, do not suggest day of the dead 2! Watched a few minutes and it is horrendous!

degrassinoel

i wouldnt inflict that on my worst enemy! I'm even a bit shocked you'd think i'd even do that

ChaseThisLight

degrassinoel wrote: »

Have I to pick a movie to watch now on thursday or friday?

Says in the OP new movies will posted on Fridays.

Looking forward to whatever you choose.

degrassinoel

Friday it is

ladypip

Yep post on Friday Degrassinoel , Would you believe I still havent had the chance to sit down and watch the movie i picked! Just one of those weeks! Def tomorrow

ChaseThisLight

degrassinoel wrote: »

Zombies dont pick up up rocks to smash windows! Lots of little errors like that, though it was Romero's first shot so i can forgive him, plus it was made in 1968!

I just read that Romero says his zombies can use weapons. He says they retain memory (which we see in later Romero movies). So I guess according to him, that wouldn't be an error at all; the zombie saw the rock, recognized it as a weapon, and picked it up to use it to smash the window.

Also, the little girl in the cellar who was bitten? Romero says it was not the bite that killed her, it only sped up her inevitable death; he says the cause of death is not important but everyone who dies, in any manner, turns into a zombie.

(I'm reading the book, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies, and throughout the book the author highlights "Romero's Rules")

FlyingIrishMan

Personally I don't like the style of zombie.

I prefer to think that a zombie has no thoughts, and their brain doesn't function in any way other than to tell them to eat flesh. Zombies who don't know how to do simple stuff such as open doors and instead just throw themselves at the door. They're the kind I like.
Also they're much scarier when they run.

Haven't got a chance to watch this yet, I planned on doing it Monday but the internet was playing up. I'll try again tonight.

ScumLord

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Personally I don't like the style of zombie.

Agreed, the use of weapons and tools is fairly distinctly human. You can't pick and choose which human traits are gone, either they're as good as brain dead and working on animal instinct or you might as well forget about the whole thing.

ChaseThisLight

ScumLord wrote: »

Agreed, the use of weapons and tools is fairly distinctly human. You can't pick and choose which human traits are gone, either they're as good as brain dead and working on animal instinct or you might as well forget about the whole thing.

Exactly. And this book argues both sides, but tends to agree with them being more animalistic than human. Honestly, I feel like Romero has gone soft towards them as his movies progressed, giving them feelings, memories, etc. I just can't see how something that is for all purposes dead and rotting, having that kind of functionality.

ScumLord

ChaseThisLight wrote: »

Exactly. And this book argues both sides, but tends to agree with them being more animalistic than human. Honestly, I feel like Romero has gone soft towards them as his movies progressed, giving them feelings, memories, etc. I just can't see how something that is for all purposes dead and rotting, having that kind of functionality.

To some people zombies are monsters, monsters are mythical and can be whatever you want them to be in order to get a scare. They're just not taking it seriously damn it!

FlyingIrishMan

Loading the video now, going to watch it on youtube instead.
Much better quality than the google link, and I can't stand watching it with that white bar at the bottom of the screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85C2JnZOY4k

ladypip

Just watched it there, I really do love that movie hate the ending though (I wont spoil it for those who have never watched it.

Im going to disagree with Degrassinoel and Chasethislight and say I like the character of Barbra, well more her place in the film rather than the actual character herself. I think its highly likely that on z day you would come across someone who has gone catatonic, and have to deal with them. Although I would have liked to slap her a few times.

I feel the middle of the film is a bit slow with the repetitive upstairs/downstairs argument.

Allot of it was totally unrealistic, given how slow the zombies were you could have walked from the house to the pump before they caught up and walked back leaving them to follow you.

I also dislike how slow everything is the zeds, the people, the violence and the vehicles. Why is everything SO slow!!

Great film though and id also give it a 7 out of 10.

FlyingIrishMan

Okay just watched it. The ending was extremely dissatisfying...
Won't ruin it for anyone else.

Whilst watching the movie I kept asking myself why am I watching this, its so bad.
But towards the end of it, I really got into it and somehow the rest of the movie doesn't seem so bad now.

I thought it was hilarious how when Tom and Judy's body's were in the exploded truck, the zombies all lined up one by one to walk up to the truck and take themselves a piece of the bodies :P

Also laughed when he spilled the petrol all over the truck.

Barbra = Stupid Betch. I thought Ben punching her was very extreme at the start of the movie, but I now realise he should have just shot her in the head there and then. She was also a horrific actress, I can understand the editing not being so hot because of how old it is, but there is no excuse for acting that bad.

And if I wasn't told before watching it that the zombies were zombies, I would have just thought they were drunken homeless men. For the first half of the movie at least.
But the variety of costumes the zombies wore was great, I saw one zombie wearing a tunic!

Overall I enjoyed it, glad I watched it, it was my first time watching it.

Looking forward to the next movie

ChaseThisLight

ladypip wrote: »

Im going to disagree with Degrassinoel and Chasethislight and say I like the character of Barbra, well more her place in the film rather than the actual character herself. I think its highly likely that on z day you would come across someone who has gone catatonic, and have to deal with them. Although I would have liked to slap her a few times.

That's part of why I hated her, the fact that there is bound to be someone like that when it happens, and they'll be useless. Too much of a risk.

I feel the middle of the film is a bit slow with the repetitive upstairs/downstairs argument.

+1

I also dislike how slow everything is the zeds, the people, the violence and the vehicles. Why is everything SO slow!!

Yeah! Even when Ben was killing the zombies, he moved like he was stuck in quicksand. Looked very awkward and unrealistic.

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

I thought it was hilarious how when Tom and Judy's body's were in the exploded truck, the zombies all lined up one by one to walk up to the truck and take themselves a piece of the bodies :P

That was hilarious, all the zeds got a cooked meal! Also, and this really has nothing to do with anything, but since you brought Tom up, I couldn't stop giggling at how small Tom was compared to Ben; nowadays, they make actors stand on stuff to make size not so noticeable.

Also laughed when he spilled the petrol all over the truck.

Not only that, but who the hell puts fire right next to the truck where you're going to gas it up? Oh yeah, Ben.

And if I wasn't told before watching it that the zombies were zombies, I would have just thought they were drunken homeless men. For the first half of the movie at least.

Yeah, I thought that as well; really shows how things have changed since then. Makes you think, "People were scared of that? Really?"

But the variety of costumes the zombies wore was great, I saw one zombie wearing a tunic!

Did you see the dude in the toga?

Did anyone watch the color version? I almost picked it up, but went with the original black and white instead.

FlyingIrishMan

ChaseThisLight wrote: »

Did you see the dude in the toga?

Gah, toga. Thats what I meant to say :pac:

ladypip

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

ChaseThisLight wrote: »

Did you see the dude in the toga?

Gah, toga. Thats what I meant to say :pac:

Toga toga toga!!!!

Did anyone else notice the sound effect when the naked woman walked by?, hard to discribe that wierd spacey sound. Hilarious!!.

degrassinoel

This week's Z movie!

28 Days Later

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/

And here's a trailer to whet your appetites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H-T7RPvt2k

Bon Appetite!

DakotaYoda

Bah - sorry I missed the first week's project. Too much work. I should be able to make the next one!

ladypip

Good call Degrassinoel!!!

ASOT

Finished watching it for easily the 10th time, such a good movie. Love the part when the dad gets infected when a drop of blood gets in his eye from the crow!

Cillian Murphy is a class act. 8.5/10 for me.

FlyingIrishMan

This is another one of those movies that I've heard so much about, but never actually watched. Yes, I am ashamed

Tried twice during the weekend to watch it, but was forced to stop 20mins in because of people who didn't like that sort of stuff walking into the room...

ASOT

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

This is another one of those movies that I've heard so much about, but never actually watched. Yes, I am ashamed

Tried twice during the weekend to watch it, but was forced to stop 20mins in because of people who didn't like that sort of stuff walking into the room...

Id advise to watch it asap, that and 28 weeks later for me are two quality films! Defo rank highly!

FlyingIrishMan

ASOT wrote: »

Id advise to watch it asap, that and 28 weeks later for me are two quality films! Defo rank highly!

Just watched it there, was very enjoyable. I've already seen 28 Weeks later, just haven't seen this one.

I'll write more on what I thought of it tomorrow, but its late now and I have school in the morning...


Quick question though, I was wondering this the whole way through the movie.
Since the infected aren't actually zombies, and are just filled with the "rage" disease, what were their actual goals when they got a person? Seems they never actually killed anyone otherwise the infection would die out very fast, and they didn't eat them either, its as if they just took one bite and then backed away.

DakotaYoda

If I remember correctly the Rage Virus massively jacks up aggressiveness and shuts off other parts of the brain that would regulate such things. They kill to kill. Some may be for sustenance but that is accidental. Really they are just designed to kill and spread the virus.

ChaseThisLight

FlyingIrishMan wrote: »

Since the infected aren't actually zombies

They're the first of what is classified as "living zombies", same as in Zombieland.

DakotaYoda wrote: »

If I remember correctly the Rage Virus massively jacks up aggressiveness and shuts off other parts of the brain that would regulate such things. They kill to kill. Some may be for sustenance but that is accidental. Really they are just designed to kill and spread the virus.

That's it exactly; they have only an overwhelming urge to kill, for no other reason than killing.


Just watched this recently, and since I'm home today with nothing to do, I'm going to watch it again, because it truly is a great movie. Love Cillian Murphy, and the female lead is, IMO, awesome. My fave scene with her is at Jim's house, when the guy they are with gets infected and she doesn't hesitate, she just does what needs to be done to survive.

Micky Dolenz

Easily in my top ten movies. I'd often have it on in the back ground. The tone and mood is just right. With it being a British movie it just seems more gritty.

I love the part when they enter the underground tunnel and Jim says," no.no, no. See, this is a really **** idea. You know why? Because it is really obviously a **** idea."

Great reference to when you watch "horror" movies and think the same thing.

I preferred it to the sequel.

degrassinoel

Watched it last night for the first time in a long time.

Some spoilers ahead if you plan on seeing it for the first time.


Jim says "HELLO" far too often! ..but he does manage to say it with a lot of different emotions all through the film. From a desperately panicced loneliness to an aggressive challenge. To me that one word, often spoken meant a lot more than most of the dialogue in the film which was also quite good.
The scene where Selina's friend spoke about escaping from a station where he climbed over people onto a kiosk was brilliant.

The two irish heavyweight actors, Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson stole the show from the rest of the cast. I was originally devastated by Gleeson's character getting infected, and was again last night. He played a very stoic role.

In the final half hour, as i was watching i felt that Jim's escape and Sgt.Faro's execution was the last straw of humanity being sapped from the military force.
Jim's transformation into an uninfected rage driven revenge machine and Selina's callousness dissapating and hesistation in the final moments proved to me that these two characters had more humanity despite everything, than the dozen or so army remenents.

As far as Zombie movies go, on my scale of 10, this one gets an 9.

btw.. the priest in the church near the start when he bursts through the door and you can see a sillouette of him standing in front of Jim, he looks EXACTLY like Father Jack!

Tzar Chasm

The one issue I have with it is how did he survive for 28 days without any form of medical attention, surely he'd have died of dehydration after 3 -5 days if he was comatose.

Other than that it was an excellent flm

degrassinoel

I think he was on a drip (IV solution) which basiclly keeps long-term coma patients alive. Reason being was the note he found in his parents mentioned him being left to sleep, and never to wake up. To me that would suggest he was in a coma after the operation he got from his bicycle crash.

At the start there are a bunch of tubes, monitors and probably the machine that goes PING! and other paraphenalia around him in what looked like an operating theatre.
Not a medical expert by any means, but there is a specific name for that drip and i just dont remember it.

FlyingIrishMan

I may be wrong, but I think he means at the end, after Jim gets shot and they drive away, it says 28 Days later, and then it shows Selena putting him on a hospital bed trying to revive him..

degrassinoel

Not sure myself at that point, without proper medical attention he was pretty much done-for. I suppose it could be possible that his wound/s were bloody enough to look terrible but given the help he had and the hospital facilities he made it.. barely!

Tzar Chasm

No I meant at the start, I've been on an IV drip a few times in Hospital and AFAIR they changed my IV fairly regularly, more than once a day.

also the machine that goes Ping wouldnt be doing much without electricity