Movie: "Zombieland"

Revi · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:33 pm

Anybody seen it yet?

Consensi · **Joined:** Wed May 28, 2008 12:00 am **Posts:** 111

Revi wrote:

Anybody seen it yet?

LOL, looks like a news scene of the terrified pedestrians running from
the collapsing World Trade Center. Yeah, I've seen it already.

frankthetank · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:28 pm

That is a clip taken from the first outbreak of superbug h1n1...

i want to see it...looks good

PrestonSturges · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:00 am **Posts:** 635

Dude in the foreground needs some torso makeup

Carlhole · **Joined:** Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 3977

Couldn't think of a more boring way to spend 2 hours.

I never understood the staying power of vampires or zombies in literature or movies. Some themes are just way too old and hackneyed to suspend one's disbelief long enough to sit through a whole movie's length.

Nefarious · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:57 am

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Couldn't think of a more boring way to spend 2 hours.

Watch golf.

Carlhole · **Joined:** Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 3977

Nefarious wrote:

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Couldn't think of a more boring way to spend 2 hours.

Watch golf.

Ya thought you had me there, didn't ya?

Bit I thoughtfully considered which would be more boring to me - a zombie movie or a watching golf - before I posted . And I concluded that I would be more bored watching zombies.

pstarr · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:10 pm

Carlhole wrote:

Couldn't think of a more boring way to spend 2 hours.

I never understood the staying power of vampires or zombies in literature or movies. Some themes are just way too old and hackneyed to suspend one's disbelief long enough to sit through a whole movie's length.

I don't think we will every see a Zombie/Vampire movie. The paradigms are too different. The Zombie by nature is an uncouth and uncaring creature--very American--whereas the Vampire is typically an effete sexually questionable sort--French? it would be like pairing Maurice Chevalier and vin diesel

Jotapay · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:08 pm

Carlhole wrote:

I never understood the staying power of vampires or zombies in literature or movies. Some themes are just way too old and hackneyed to suspend one's disbelief long enough to sit through a whole movie's length.

I love me some zombie movies. Love 'em. They are so campy but creepy/guy turning at the same time. My favorite is the Resident Evil series.

Maddog78 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:00 am **Posts:** 1083

Zombie moves are cool. I'll probably go to this.
I like the Romero classics and the newer ones too, like Resident Evil.

Revi · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:58 am

I Am Legend was a great zombie movie. What's not to like? Deer hunting from a Mustang in NYC.

Revi · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:17 pm

Well I finally got to see the movie. The first 5 minutes were a bit gruesome, and then I became accustomed to the gore.

Woody Harrelson plays the superbad zombie killer who is always looking for a twinkie.

I don't think it will win any awards, but it was a pretty funny movie.

pstarr · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:30 pm

I liked it. It did take a little getting used to. Watching the glee with which Woody whooped Zombies was a bit disconcerting until you emotionally and spiritually got into the swing of things yourself.

I love a good zombie movie as much as the next guy but, believe it or not, I could not finish "I Am Legend." The one thing that all great zombie movies share is iconoclasm and that home-made feel. "I am Legend" felt too self-important and serious. Like I give a sh$t about another hard-ass, ripped-abs, smarter-than-me Will Smith Superhero. F@ck 'em.

hardtootell-2 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:34 pm

the best Woody movie IMHO is "the cowboy way"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109493/

sorry for going off this serious topic Mod :roll:

Jellric · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:50 pm

Carlhole wrote:

Couldn't think of a more boring way to spend 2 hours.

I never understood the staying power of vampires or zombies in literature or movies. Some themes are just way too old and hackneyed to suspend one's disbelief long enough to sit through a whole movie's length.

With the best movies of the genre it's not about the monster.

It's about people's reaction to the monster. The crisis allows the director to turn the lens on the character's psyche and the cultural attitudes that shape them.

I really enjoyed the 1968 classic 'Night of the Living Dead' for doing this so well. The two leads, a black man and a white man, had opposite ideas on strategy and their conflict held the movie together in spite of not-so-good special effects.

Interestingly, the zombies were never actually called "zombies" in the movie- just "those things".

Movie: "Zombieland"

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