Posted on 06/03/2013 7:11:06 AM PDT by C19fan
Movies dont come bigger than this, and zombie flicks tend to come an awful lot smaller. In Shaun of the Dead, the undead had to content themselves with snacking off a handful of British actors in a deserted pub. Here, its the future of humanity at stake. This time, Brad Pitt is here to save us, and the skies are soon full of crashing helicopters, screaming jets and stuntpeople being sucked out of aircraft. So whats it like? Well, its awfully like all the epic action films made by Roland Emmerich, ranging from the nearly sublime (Independence Day) to the totally ridiculous (10,000 BC). Its slap-bang in the middle of that quality spectrum, round about the level of Godzilla and not quite as classy as The Day the World Ended.
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I haven’t seen that one. Maybe I was thinking of the most overrated movie, not the absolutely worst.
Please do report back.
Shaun of the Dead is one of my all-time favorites... it’s up there with Galaxy Quest.
This whole global “We have to cater to everybody” in order to capitalize $$$ on the return mentality seems to be ruining everything in life lately.
Got about 4 or 5 Blu-rays that i’m now looking forward to coming out on Netflix in the coming few weeks/months...
From what I am seeing on the previews, this has little to do with the original book. That’s too bad, as the book was absolutely great. If they would have just followed that, they would have had a potentially great flick.
There are some written scenes that don't translate to the screen very well. One such is a narration of a young woman who had been a little girl sent to a camp full of starving people, whose parents did...something they didn't talk about. And then she says in a matter-of-fact voice, "By Christmas there was plenty to eat." I had to re-read it to figure out exactly what she meant, and then, brrrrr...
I heard this thing cost like $200+Million to make
Following the book would have actually been rather cheap, as a series of interviews in eco-friendly communes, talking to the artist in the wheelchair with a CGI mural of the zombie war victory in the back, a dense hospital talking to a Russian survivor. Throw in a few flashback action scenes with mostly interviews, and it is very cheap to make.
Instead, they tried to create a super-fast monster action movie out of a rather sedate but emotionally packed book. You’d think the movie would be closer to the book, with a “WWZ” administrator talking about how he had to dredge up memories of FDR for the war commission, people talking about the environmental damage by both people and zombies, the discussion of appreciating living simply because you’re happy just to be alive.
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Shaun is one of those movies I can watch over and over like:
Animal House
Caddy Shack
National Lampoon’s Vacation and Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Its a Wonderful Life
Goodfellows
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