Army of the Dead [Zack Snyder, Netflix]

Take a good 90's or early 2000's heist/assemble team movie, throw even more money at it, but write and cast a team with no charm or reason to care whether they live or die and just vomit so much on screen to bamboozle the audience into thinking they are on a whirlwind ride is all I got from it. Basically any other heist movie is better than this and any other Zombie movie too.

Awful ****e altogether. I gave up after an hour. Jesus, the dawn of the dead remake was infinitely better than this. Horrible characters, lazy storytelling plus it looks awful. How do they spend so much to produce so little? Romero had tiny budgets for his movies and yet made something horrifying yet absorbing. Plus Snyder's choice of music makes me wish him ill. Some sappy sounding bird warbling Bad Moon Rising while picking a guitar? No thanks. Netflix is where talent goes when it dies.

rob316 wrote: »

So much potential, I loved the premise and plot but terribly written. I didn't give one **** about what characters lived or died. That WWE is fella, is one awful actor, like a pound shop Dwayne Johnson without the charm.

To be fair his character in Guardians of the Galaxy has probably been more successful than anything The Rock has done to date ,

I found the movie very entertaining and fun. Jaysus, it's a zombie movie, don't go looking too deep and complaining about how certain things make no sense, just sit back and enjoy it for what it is.

Hurrache wrote: »

I found the movie very entertaining and fun. Jaysus, it's a zombie movie, don't go looking too deep and complaining about how certain things make no sense, just sit back and enjoy it for what it is.

I'm more than capable of doing that but it simply wasn't enjoyable.

It lacked tension, full of ridiculous plot holes and stupid family and romance dramas and was pretty boring at times.
Just because it's a zombie movie does not automatically mean it has to be poor and allowances made for.

When can we expect the Joss Whedon cut?

Saw it last night. I mean, yeah it's a bad film, but not in a frustrating or aggrevating way. It's just confusing. I found myself wondering why certain shots were included. The Japanese guys hand after explaining the plan for instance. What was that about? Or why certain plot points happened the way they did, like the love story out of nowhere that lasted less than a minute to try and give some gravitas to a death. Why not just make more of an effort to establish that earlier? The most interesting character of the lot was the first one to die (excluding the guard fella). Someone who seemed to be more than they originally seemed and was actually pretty clued in rather than a total idiot. And yet that individual managed to survive the impossible only to die with everyone watching on when they could have, you know, helped. But nope, script requires characters death. And what about the woman in the opening credits montage. I was sure that was going to fit into the story someonhow. Nope. Also, how could the guy who owned the safe not have any way to get into the safe?

Then we had some of the standard nonsense like the safe cracker who had never shot a gun before being a perfect shot from the moment he laid hands on a gun. Headshots everywhere. The female tag-a-long character who couldn't make a headshot from 1m one minute but was making headshots from distance time after time almost immediately after, like she unlocked that skill in a computer game. Either make her proficient or don't. And why do handguns make standard bullet holes in zombies sometime and literally blow their heads in two others? The Alphas just reminded me of Ghosts of Mars.

After watching the prevailing word was "why". A bunch of recycled ideas cobbled together and executed badly. None of the laughs were funny, none of the drama hit the right tone, none of the deaths mattered as they were all by the numbers. I've seen that film before. Loads of times. And without the shallow focus or bloated run time. It passed the time and wasn't offensively bad, but I've seen plenty of films deliver the same on a much, much smaller budget.

Also, can anyone explain to me why anyone would take on a job to liberate $200m dollars, take all of the risk and put in all of the effort for a mere 25% of the overall score? How was Bautistas first reaction (because I'm fecked if I can remember any of the characters names) not "make it 50% and we'll start talking"? Again, why? This one will have me scratching my head for the next day or two before I ultimately forget everything about it.

Army of Thieves arriving on Netflix, October 29th

No sign of Zombies..

I get the feeling this Expanded Universe might have a very wide range of potential