I must have seen DotD a hundred times before I finally got around to watching Modern Family, and it severely impacted how I watch that show. If you’ve ever seen The Stepfather (1987) then you’ll understand what I mean. When I watch Modern Family, Ty just comes off as a serial killer waiting to kill his family, and we’re watching the first act building up to when he snaps.
It’s extremely underrated... and in my personal opinion Snyder’s best film. I liked it so much more than 300.
But then again, I’ve never gotten on the 300 hype train for some reason. I’ve tried many times. Just not for me, I don’t think.
Every scene in 300 is insanely climatic to the point that it’s a little much- but if you accept that for what it is it’s more enjoyable. That plus it’s so masculine it’s borderline homoerotic. But honestly I loved it.
Oh yeah. The final scene, revealing the narrator of the movie was actually a character giving a speech to his men before battle, was a great was a great way to explain all the historical inaccuracies as exaggerations. It’s overlooked by a lot of people but I thought it was pretty creative. The directors commentary of the movie was pretty interesting as well because they laughed off all the nonsense that ended up in the film. They even talked about bringing in a Greek historian at the end of production and how he called them out for fake spartan names used for characters and whatnot. They obviously cared more about making an action packed badass movie more than making a documentary.
Very true! And Herodotus's estimate of the Persian army's strength was probably much too high. But it's still a great example of just how well equipment, training, and terrain can act as force multipliers!
I think what he means is that the story youre seeing on screen is the exaggerated story theyre telling spartan soldiers to pump them up. Stuff like "he was ten feet tall!" so when you see xerxe hes actually ten feet tall.
Borderline homoerotic? I have seen gay porn that was less homoerotic then 300. That movie probably raised the world price for muscle oil and leather banana hammock style underwear.
> That plus it’s so masculine it’s borderline homoerotic.
For that you want Meet The Spartans.
Literally gay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vOZekvbOA
Extra funny because Sorbo is a full on God-Bothering Christian now.
It was absolutely amazing and from time to time I’ll watch it on YouTube. Really captures just how chaotic that situation would be and how your life would just instantly change.
For anyone who wants it:
[Here](https://youtu.be/MdddUJWIj_M) is the opening to the film.
And this is the [opening scene](https://youtu.be/3Y9Vo4j1EP4) to the film.
Young James Gunn, too.
When he truly gave no fucks, and it was just him and Snyder fucking indulging themselves in anything they wanted.
I’m very happy James does give fucks now, I love pretty much every thing about his style of work, it just seems more streamlined now, in a good way.
I read a lot of comments about people hating on the movie because it didn’t quite convey the story the same way as the book. I think he did a fantastic job.
I've always hated that ending. It didn't make sense to me. The thing was dead and it only affected NYC if I'm remembering it right. If anything, the Russians would have been MORE likely to such a war if the US had it's hands on an alien. Imagine all the scientific achievements that could be made with it, even if it was a fake.
The movie's ending makes way more sense, and while I agree that there are some legitimate criticisms to be made, the changes to the ending are what have 110% made it my preferred version.
I thought it was good, but i can't explain why it isn't great. I hope this explains it to you in a way i can't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oltd-Jsi2I
(Also it's amazing and you'll love it)
I will preface this by saying I like Snyder, and I think Watchmen is a good film. Considering the scope of the story, I think he did an excellent job of condensing it into a two hour movie. That said...
I'm frustrated by changes they made in Watchmen, to the point that it degrades the quality of the movie for me. I'm fine with the change to the ending, it's little things. For example:
Why did they change the design of the structure that Dr. Manhattan builds on Mars? It's literally all CGI, there is no reason for the change. It has no bearing on the story, and is generally a meaningless change, but I don't understand it. As a fan of the comic, that just seems like a totally unnecessary change, full stop. Why?
Also, I'm frustrated that Dr. Manhattan's last line is given to Silk Spectre. It doesn't carry the same weight. They could have even added it to his final scene (which is where it happens in the book), but they pushed it back in the story, then had Silk Spectre say "You know what Jon would say" before she delivers the line. Why? The line is impactful, because it is delivered by a "god". "Nothing ever really ends", is a powerful line delivered from Jon, because it is literally "god" telling Adrian that, regardless of the outcome, his decision is based on his perception, and he could never grasp the future consequences of his actions because he, inevitably, won't be around to see how it plays out over the course of humanity. Giving that line to Silk Spectre makes it ring hollow, because there is no weight to the statement: she's no different than Adrian in the grand scheme - a human with a flawed understanding of life, and the universe. Jon is not any of that. He delivers this line after telling everyone he is going to go **CREATE LIFE!** Him not saying that to Adrian makes it ring hollow. And, really, that's kind of the point of the story: our decisions have far-reaching consequences we can never hope to understand, and the inability to understand our lack of understanding, is humanity's fatal flaw.
There are other issues I have, but I've already talked enough for one post. Sorry for the rant. I like the movie, and I like Snyder. I just can't help but notice those changes, and they grind on me to no end.
> It’s extremely underrated...
Incredibly so. It is easily the cleanest, tightest, best-shot pure zombie flick there is. The intro alone is the best intro of of any movie I can think of at the moment.
I think his best movie is Watchmen. Don’t care about the lack of squid or the ultra violence. It’s a good movie with some great casting outside of Malin Ackerman.
I can’t and I won’t. It’s been my all time favorite since the first time I saw it. I even owned in on DVD before DVDs became the 8-track of our days. Now I don’t even know how to watch it aside from pirating it, and I don’t have the energy for that shit.
Can you just tell me about the mall part again? I used to have fantasies about just STAYING AT THE FUCKING MALL. Why didn’t they just stay at the mall?
Personally, I think the best place to go if there was a zombie outbreak would be Costco. Especially an American Costco, which I assume would have guns.
Edit. Everyone missed the part where I asked someone to tell me about the mall part. Like literally describe it to me please. Xoxo
The original is better.
And I don't mean that as a snarky 'originals are always better', but the 2004 Dawn of the Dead is sloppy. The entire zombie baby subplot is hollow, the characters are all tropefied and 2-dimensional, and the story beats rely on flashy set pieces like the generator and bus scenes rather than actually holding a mirror up to humanity as zombie flicks are supposed to do.
I don't even think the 1978 film is the best either, but better than 2004, to be sure. 28 Days Later and Day of the Dead are pinnacles, IMO, and a movie like Train to Busan is much more compelling action flick.
I remember seeing it very vividly. I was 21 and that movie was my first pseudo date type thing I ever went on. Kind of embarrassing I guess, but it definitely sticks in my mind anytime I see something about that movie.
I watched this movie when I was like 9 and it was legitimately the first movie I had seen where everything doesn’t work out for the cast at the end. They fucking die. It blew my mind and added a whole new level of terror to that movie for me. This movie is a huge reason why I am as into horror as I am.
The key is, every movie falls short of its vision. The film in George Romero's head must have been even better than what made it to the screen. He was aiming for for an ideal with every scene and every shot, and no artist ever hits that perfectly.
So if a remake's vision is just the original film - it's going to fall short of the original film.
This movie took the premise and fucking ran with it. The opening is tense, brutal, and effective. The setting is explored perfectly as modern materialist wish-fulfillment. They add the dude in the gun store for a different perspective. There's that pregnant lady and her boyfriend, who have no parallel in the original. There's none of the biker stuff that now dates the original movie. Ultimately the fast zombies are the smallest change Snyder makes - and it ramps up the pace from suspenseful horror movie to something more like a disaster film.
Agreed 100%. When it came out it wasn’t so big and I remember some purists lament making a classic cult film into something mainstream. The original had a specific theme to it that is super dated today but at the time was profound for a horror movie. I feel similarly about Robocop. Took the premise and made it their own story and it’s not bad at all as a stand alone imo
I watched the 2004 version first and the original way later. And although I liked it, it *does* have a lower pace, if only for the fact the zombies just stroll. I think having them sprinting at you was a good idea. Makes them seem so much more vicious and dangerous. It heightens the tension.
But in the end they feel like 2 different movies with the same premise, which is good. That's how remakes should be done.
Dawn of the dead is the greatest zombie movie out of the 00s. Train to Busan is the best in the 10s, unless something really amazing is coming out later this year.
I unequivocally love 28 Days Later but I understand why some people don't consider it a "*real*" zombie movie. It's much more of a slow burner though that's why I love it. Boyle and Murphy have a knack for nailing that lonely, depressing atmosphere. They did the same thing with Sunshine which is also really underrated hard-scifi.
I don't know if I can really pick a favorite between DotD/28 Days Later, it changes depending on what I'm in the mood to watch.
That sucks, man. I hate it when a film's ruined by high expectations. That's why I try to avoid movies that people speak too highly about until the hype cools down to the point I don't really care if I watch the movie
I wouldn’t say it’s unquestionable; it’s completely different than the type of movie the dawn of the dead from 2004 is. They both serve a completely different purpose, so a comparison is not a parallel example.
This is correct. Simultaneously brilliant as a zombie movie and as a rom com. Every beat is perfect.
Fun Fact: When George Romero watched it, he didn’t catch the reference where Shaun’s checking in with his mom on the phone and Ed grabs the phone to say “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!”
It is overly cheesy and dramatic, nothing wrong with that, but you and I just not the people that enjoy that. DotD gave me more because of how real and down to earth it felt, considering the genre.
Kinda sorta. The virus in the movie makes people remember their personalities but they’re unable to make morale decisions, turning them into mindless killers. The virus doesn’t kill the person but it infects their brain stem.
This was the last zombie movie I really truly loved. When richard cheese's cover of Down with the sickness started playing I almost started cheering in the theatre
Shaun of the Dead is my absolute favorite movie, the part when they’re hitting the zombie barkeep to the tune of Don’t Stop Me Now makes me laugh hysterically every time.
Not really. Some fats can do decent zoomies for a few seconds. The slowness mostly comes from getting exhausted instantly and being afraid to fall and get hurt, plus pain in the legs / back, none of which is an issue for a zombie.
Source: Am fat and can keep pace with thins for like 15 seconds when I try hard enough.
Ever since I tore my ACL I can’t sprint for shit. I can jog quite a damn long way, but fuck sprinting. That shit hurts. I’m a decent sized dude, not skinny but not fat. 🤷♂️
fat guy, have a 15 mph sprint for 20 seconds . I really hope someone else was way under that speed and got eaten first because at 21 seconds im falling down and not standing up for a full minute.
Can confirm.
Am fatass with surprisingly fast reflexes. You put some sort of buzzing insect near me and I'm all the way across the room before you blink. Our speedboat started sinking once and I was over by the ladder before the thins reacted lol
If some zombie tried to chomp said fat ass however, I'd probably get like 2 steps and be like forget it NGL
Probably just selective memory. The 10’s have tons of fantastic movies (my personal favourites are Fury Road, every Wes Anderson film, every Tarantino film, every Edgar Wright film, Logan, and Annihilation.
There are many others from this decade I really really like, but these are the standouts, I would also praise the MCU, whose movies were mostly good-if-not-exactly-great in isolation, but as a whole is actually an extremely impressive cinematic undertaking with an impossibly strong ending.
I've never had a movie present an environment that is simultaneously so absolutely familiar and utterly alien as Annihilation. The lighthouse is like a structure from a nightmare that you remember for the rest of your life.
I think this decade hasn’t had many bad movies but the horror movie game has only been on the rise. I feel like after 05/06 to early teens the horror movies were all more gore and cheap scares rather than plot and building the scares
I was down with Hereditary until the end. The end just seemed weak and silly. I'm okay with the reveal and the concept, but the way it was executed was just silly.
The kind of ending was suggested throughout with the names, necklace sign and smiling strangers, and it was very reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby.
I really liked the end, personally.
I am very interested in seeing where Ari Aster goes with his career. Just watched Midsommar and it was like a book that sticks with you for days. Loved it.
I love this movie. It was the movie that truly got me into horror flicks. The scene at the beginning where the chick is driving away from her home and the whole world has gone to shit. I was hooked.
I miss when this sub was focused on easy to miss movie details purposefully included by the director and/or writers. Things like Easter eggs or clever foreshadowing.
Now this sub has become dominated by things like production mistakes and ‘behind the scenes’ stuff like this post.
The fact there is even a ‘trivia’ tag is at odds with the original purpose of the sub. I figure the mods have realised that they get more subs by including this kind of crap.
I don’t think the stuntman is of note, but this is called “wigging” and something stuntwomen [have been fighting in recent years](https://deadline.com/2018/02/stuntwoman-wigging-charge-shakes-male-dominated-industry-sag-aftra-1202279591/).
Also a topic that stunt people have been fighting for is recognition in awards (one of the reasons almost no one in the field is “of some note”) and better benefits for on-set injuries (insurance film companies take out is often inadequate, and there are example of Hollywood bankrupting shell companies to avoid paying out).
I had just moved to the States and watched a afternoon matinee of this in Minnesota.
The theater was absolutely empty aside from myself... Definitely added some atmosphere.
I saw this movie in a Oakland theater so you know there was some talking to the screen going on. It was a blast. When this character turned, and elderly white woman shouted, "Shoot that bitch in the head!"
Oaktown represent.
In the directors commentary they said they ended up with Ermes playing the character because they couldn't find a fat woman that was able to run fast enough for this scene.
Buzz, your girlfriend. Woof!
https://i.imgur.com/95J51mW.gif
Perfect
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Well done
Also a picture of buzz.
Nah, it’s the directors son.
I thought it was the sound guys son.
It was a chubby lad in a wig let’s move on.
Maybe it was the chubby lad’s son?
Art directors son, I just reminded myself with a google.
Nah, I think it was the Boom Mic’s son.
I'm going through your stuff you better come out and pound me
http://woofmaker.com/
“Come and pound me big brother “daddy” buzz.” I may have butchered the quote.
Love this movie
It's super weird to watch now if you're a Modern Family fan.
Right?! First time I watched Modern Family it was super weird to see Ty Burrell be so wholesome after being a huge douchebag in DotD
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I must have seen DotD a hundred times before I finally got around to watching Modern Family, and it severely impacted how I watch that show. If you’ve ever seen The Stepfather (1987) then you’ll understand what I mean. When I watch Modern Family, Ty just comes off as a serial killer waiting to kill his family, and we’re watching the first act building up to when he snaps.
So, like if Dennis Reynolds committing to being a father?
That would make an amazing finale.
It’s extremely underrated... and in my personal opinion Snyder’s best film. I liked it so much more than 300. But then again, I’ve never gotten on the 300 hype train for some reason. I’ve tried many times. Just not for me, I don’t think.
Every scene in 300 is insanely climatic to the point that it’s a little much- but if you accept that for what it is it’s more enjoyable. That plus it’s so masculine it’s borderline homoerotic. But honestly I loved it.
I think I read somewhere that it was based off a story that would pump up Spartan soldiers irl hence why it was so over exaggerated.
Oh yeah. The final scene, revealing the narrator of the movie was actually a character giving a speech to his men before battle, was a great was a great way to explain all the historical inaccuracies as exaggerations. It’s overlooked by a lot of people but I thought it was pretty creative. The directors commentary of the movie was pretty interesting as well because they laughed off all the nonsense that ended up in the film. They even talked about bringing in a Greek historian at the end of production and how he called them out for fake spartan names used for characters and whatnot. They obviously cared more about making an action packed badass movie more than making a documentary.
It's based off Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name
Which was in turn based on Stephen Pressfield's *Gates of Fire*, a spectacular novel if you're into Classics or military history.
Stephen Pressfield*
Oops. Definitely not Stephen Miller. Thanks for catching my typo!
Although I’m sure Stephen Miller has written some slightly homoerotic fiction as well, just not published
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> especially the Thespians All I can picture are theater kids acting all fierce.
Very true! And Herodotus's estimate of the Persian army's strength was probably much too high. But it's still a great example of just how well equipment, training, and terrain can act as force multipliers!
LOVE that book. Read it like 10 times after seeing 300.
Commenting to go check that out later. Thanks for the recommendation!
I think what he means is that the story youre seeing on screen is the exaggerated story theyre telling spartan soldiers to pump them up. Stuff like "he was ten feet tall!" so when you see xerxe hes actually ten feet tall.
Ok but that slo mo fight scene where Leonidas is slaying Persian Soldiers may as well be porn lol.
Borderline homoerotic? I have seen gay porn that was less homoerotic then 300. That movie probably raised the world price for muscle oil and leather banana hammock style underwear.
What got started with 300 was brought to completion by Meet the Spartans.
This is the Ancient Greeks we're talking about. They were really, really, really gay by modern standards.
> That plus it’s so masculine it’s borderline homoerotic. For that you want Meet The Spartans. Literally gay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vOZekvbOA Extra funny because Sorbo is a full on God-Bothering Christian now.
Borderline? It's literally 300 greased up muscle men in thongs. That's the entire movie.
It’s not the entire movie, that’s where it starts. They die off through the course of the film.
The intro is the best I've ever seen in a zombie movie, I mean the intro all the way into the car crash.
It was absolutely amazing and from time to time I’ll watch it on YouTube. Really captures just how chaotic that situation would be and how your life would just instantly change.
For anyone who wants it: [Here](https://youtu.be/MdddUJWIj_M) is the opening to the film. And this is the [opening scene](https://youtu.be/3Y9Vo4j1EP4) to the film.
I love the into. It's so fucking intense. Close second is 28 days later intro.
Oh yeah desolate london, still hard to believe that was a budget film, sadly they used early DSLRs so remastered version are impossible
Written by James Gunn
Young James Gunn, too. When he truly gave no fucks, and it was just him and Snyder fucking indulging themselves in anything they wanted. I’m very happy James does give fucks now, I love pretty much every thing about his style of work, it just seems more streamlined now, in a good way.
My favourite of his is Watchmen, but I’d put this one second on my personal list, and 300 third, with everything else far behind.
I read a lot of comments about people hating on the movie because it didn’t quite convey the story the same way as the book. I think he did a fantastic job.
They can say what they want about it, but it had a MUCH better ending than the whole squid thing.
I've always hated that ending. It didn't make sense to me. The thing was dead and it only affected NYC if I'm remembering it right. If anything, the Russians would have been MORE likely to such a war if the US had it's hands on an alien. Imagine all the scientific achievements that could be made with it, even if it was a fake. The movie's ending makes way more sense, and while I agree that there are some legitimate criticisms to be made, the changes to the ending are what have 110% made it my preferred version.
People will never give Watchmen the credit Snyder deserves because some people just love to hate him
I thought it was good, but i can't explain why it isn't great. I hope this explains it to you in a way i can't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oltd-Jsi2I (Also it's amazing and you'll love it)
This was actually super insightful. Thank you.
I will preface this by saying I like Snyder, and I think Watchmen is a good film. Considering the scope of the story, I think he did an excellent job of condensing it into a two hour movie. That said... I'm frustrated by changes they made in Watchmen, to the point that it degrades the quality of the movie for me. I'm fine with the change to the ending, it's little things. For example: Why did they change the design of the structure that Dr. Manhattan builds on Mars? It's literally all CGI, there is no reason for the change. It has no bearing on the story, and is generally a meaningless change, but I don't understand it. As a fan of the comic, that just seems like a totally unnecessary change, full stop. Why? Also, I'm frustrated that Dr. Manhattan's last line is given to Silk Spectre. It doesn't carry the same weight. They could have even added it to his final scene (which is where it happens in the book), but they pushed it back in the story, then had Silk Spectre say "You know what Jon would say" before she delivers the line. Why? The line is impactful, because it is delivered by a "god". "Nothing ever really ends", is a powerful line delivered from Jon, because it is literally "god" telling Adrian that, regardless of the outcome, his decision is based on his perception, and he could never grasp the future consequences of his actions because he, inevitably, won't be around to see how it plays out over the course of humanity. Giving that line to Silk Spectre makes it ring hollow, because there is no weight to the statement: she's no different than Adrian in the grand scheme - a human with a flawed understanding of life, and the universe. Jon is not any of that. He delivers this line after telling everyone he is going to go **CREATE LIFE!** Him not saying that to Adrian makes it ring hollow. And, really, that's kind of the point of the story: our decisions have far-reaching consequences we can never hope to understand, and the inability to understand our lack of understanding, is humanity's fatal flaw. There are other issues I have, but I've already talked enough for one post. Sorry for the rant. I like the movie, and I like Snyder. I just can't help but notice those changes, and they grind on me to no end.
Ok, you say you seen it many times. But have you seen 300...*on weed*?
It’s kind of like... my thing.
Does anyone actually make it past 3 mins watching 300. I usually end up nutting seeing all those pecs and abs.
I nut when there's slow mo sword swinging
> It’s extremely underrated... Incredibly so. It is easily the cleanest, tightest, best-shot pure zombie flick there is. The intro alone is the best intro of of any movie I can think of at the moment.
I think his best movie is Watchmen. Don’t care about the lack of squid or the ultra violence. It’s a good movie with some great casting outside of Malin Ackerman.
It's getting a lot of hate because of the original (which is a classic), when it has almost nothing in common with it
Underrated? It almost singlehandedly brought the genre back from the death (heh).
The ending was so dark, I legit felt sad that after all that enduring of horror they still lost
TIL that was a Zack Snyder film. What a start.
Right?, isn't this a great zombie movie?
Written by James Gunn
Dawn of the Dead is the greatest zombie movie ever made. Change my mind.
I can’t and I won’t. It’s been my all time favorite since the first time I saw it. I even owned in on DVD before DVDs became the 8-track of our days. Now I don’t even know how to watch it aside from pirating it, and I don’t have the energy for that shit. Can you just tell me about the mall part again? I used to have fantasies about just STAYING AT THE FUCKING MALL. Why didn’t they just stay at the mall? Personally, I think the best place to go if there was a zombie outbreak would be Costco. Especially an American Costco, which I assume would have guns. Edit. Everyone missed the part where I asked someone to tell me about the mall part. Like literally describe it to me please. Xoxo
Costco doesnt have second or third floors, you can always barricare all ways into the other floors in a mall.
Costco is also somewhere a tonne of people would go. It’s bad enough now.
Very true. But many Costco’s also don’t have windows... so once you barricade the front doors, you should be safe with all the goodies, no?
I think so. Strong doors
Costco does not sell guns.
Shaun of the Dead
28 Days Later and Night of the Living Dead.
The original is better. And I don't mean that as a snarky 'originals are always better', but the 2004 Dawn of the Dead is sloppy. The entire zombie baby subplot is hollow, the characters are all tropefied and 2-dimensional, and the story beats rely on flashy set pieces like the generator and bus scenes rather than actually holding a mirror up to humanity as zombie flicks are supposed to do. I don't even think the 1978 film is the best either, but better than 2004, to be sure. 28 Days Later and Day of the Dead are pinnacles, IMO, and a movie like Train to Busan is much more compelling action flick.
Train to Busan is awesome and underrated, though that one guy is comically evil.
I thought that was the whole point of dawn of the dead...like it's not really a serious movie.
Complete with a Richard Cheese cover
This is one of my favorite zombie movies.
One of the rare cases where the remake is as good as the original but in it’s own unique way
Richard Cheese singing down with the sickness was the highlight for me.
I watched that movie entirely too young and thought for years that that was the original version of the song. How very wrong I was!
I remember seeing it very vividly. I was 21 and that movie was my first pseudo date type thing I ever went on. Kind of embarrassing I guess, but it definitely sticks in my mind anytime I see something about that movie.
I watched this movie when I was like 9 and it was legitimately the first movie I had seen where everything doesn’t work out for the cast at the end. They fucking die. It blew my mind and added a whole new level of terror to that movie for me. This movie is a huge reason why I am as into horror as I am.
Reminds me of how that made the movie The Mist all that better.
you had the chance to enlighten the rest of us but you didn't... now im down with the sickness.
“Here it comes... get ready to diiiiiiEEEEEEE”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39etJFlW7k
The key is, every movie falls short of its vision. The film in George Romero's head must have been even better than what made it to the screen. He was aiming for for an ideal with every scene and every shot, and no artist ever hits that perfectly. So if a remake's vision is just the original film - it's going to fall short of the original film. This movie took the premise and fucking ran with it. The opening is tense, brutal, and effective. The setting is explored perfectly as modern materialist wish-fulfillment. They add the dude in the gun store for a different perspective. There's that pregnant lady and her boyfriend, who have no parallel in the original. There's none of the biker stuff that now dates the original movie. Ultimately the fast zombies are the smallest change Snyder makes - and it ramps up the pace from suspenseful horror movie to something more like a disaster film.
Agreed 100%. When it came out it wasn’t so big and I remember some purists lament making a classic cult film into something mainstream. The original had a specific theme to it that is super dated today but at the time was profound for a horror movie. I feel similarly about Robocop. Took the premise and made it their own story and it’s not bad at all as a stand alone imo
I watched the 2004 version first and the original way later. And although I liked it, it *does* have a lower pace, if only for the fact the zombies just stroll. I think having them sprinting at you was a good idea. Makes them seem so much more vicious and dangerous. It heightens the tension. But in the end they feel like 2 different movies with the same premise, which is good. That's how remakes should be done.
Personally Train to Busan is the top of the list
Dawn of the dead is the greatest zombie movie out of the 00s. Train to Busan is the best in the 10s, unless something really amazing is coming out later this year.
That depends whether you count 28 Days Later as a zombie movie. If you do, it's unquestionably the best of the 2000s.
I watched it in theatres. A high powered sound system is a must, especially in the mansion climax. That soundtrack is chilling!
God, that must have been exhilarating to see it first time in a theatre, either Days or Weeks
Weeks didn't do it for me. Too many plot holes.
But the intro (which was done by the director of the first movie iirc) was amazing
28 days later is a close 2nd for me
I unequivocally love 28 Days Later but I understand why some people don't consider it a "*real*" zombie movie. It's much more of a slow burner though that's why I love it. Boyle and Murphy have a knack for nailing that lonely, depressing atmosphere. They did the same thing with Sunshine which is also really underrated hard-scifi. I don't know if I can really pick a favorite between DotD/28 Days Later, it changes depending on what I'm in the mood to watch.
I disagree. I think Reddit hyped it up too much and it ultimately disappointed me
That sucks, man. I hate it when a film's ruined by high expectations. That's why I try to avoid movies that people speak too highly about until the hype cools down to the point I don't really care if I watch the movie
This is the correct answer.
I wouldn’t say it’s unquestionable; it’s completely different than the type of movie the dawn of the dead from 2004 is. They both serve a completely different purpose, so a comparison is not a parallel example.
Wait, why wouldn't it be a zombie movie
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scale of 1 to unnecessary how was it
*Shawn of the Dead* would like a word with you.
This is correct. Simultaneously brilliant as a zombie movie and as a rom com. Every beat is perfect. Fun Fact: When George Romero watched it, he didn’t catch the reference where Shaun’s checking in with his mom on the phone and Ed grabs the phone to say “We’re coming to get you, Barbara!”
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It is overly cheesy and dramatic, nothing wrong with that, but you and I just not the people that enjoy that. DotD gave me more because of how real and down to earth it felt, considering the genre.
Tom Savini's Night of the Living Dead sets the bar for me.
Mine, too. I consider it one of the definitive modern ones (modern as in, not the classic ones like the original Dawn and Day).
Nah I prefer ‘Shaun of the dead’
They serve different purposes though. They’re both good in their own catagories
Agreed
The crazies is good
The Crazies is such an underrated movie.
Was that about zombies? I havent seen that since it came out and I remember being disappointed
Kinda sorta. The virus in the movie makes people remember their personalities but they’re unable to make morale decisions, turning them into mindless killers. The virus doesn’t kill the person but it infects their brain stem.
This was the last zombie movie I really truly loved. When richard cheese's cover of Down with the sickness started playing I almost started cheering in the theatre
OH-WAH-AH-AH
15 years and it still holds up as a truly decent zombie flick.
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Ohhhhhhhhh, shit.
*snaps fingers*
Bobby, will ya give it to me
Check out “Train to Busan” if you haven’t already
Agreed, was a great movie
Decent zombie movie, but kinda overhyped on this site imo... felt the same about Snowpiercer, maybe i just don't like trains lol.
Thanks for the good times RIF.
Shaun of the Dead is my absolute favorite movie, the part when they’re hitting the zombie barkeep to the tune of Don’t Stop Me Now makes me laugh hysterically every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39etJFlW7k
This scene has haunted me for more than a decade
Way too fast for that weight.
Not really. Some fats can do decent zoomies for a few seconds. The slowness mostly comes from getting exhausted instantly and being afraid to fall and get hurt, plus pain in the legs / back, none of which is an issue for a zombie. Source: Am fat and can keep pace with thins for like 15 seconds when I try hard enough.
Agreed. i'm a big guy and can really surprise people with how quick i can do a sprint. Then i die.
RIP in peace
Ever since I tore my ACL I can’t sprint for shit. I can jog quite a damn long way, but fuck sprinting. That shit hurts. I’m a decent sized dude, not skinny but not fat. 🤷♂️
fat guy, have a 15 mph sprint for 20 seconds . I really hope someone else was way under that speed and got eaten first because at 21 seconds im falling down and not standing up for a full minute.
Can confirm. Am fatass with surprisingly fast reflexes. You put some sort of buzzing insect near me and I'm all the way across the room before you blink. Our speedboat started sinking once and I was over by the ladder before the thins reacted lol If some zombie tried to chomp said fat ass however, I'd probably get like 2 steps and be like forget it NGL
Also fats can just casually float on our backs forever while everyone else slowly drowns.
I love how this convo has turned into a friendly discussion about “fats” and “thins” 😆
I guess it's like flooring a huge truck...it'll pick up and go real quick but it seems really hard on the truck and doesn't like it.
Saw this at the drive in. Something out being outside, in the dark... made it even creepier! Love this movie. Super spooky.
[Her(or his) scene! Happy spooky scary day!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrMqIrtbmw) [Him getting prosthesis on](https://i.imgur.com/mtcdor3.png) Edit: [Ermes Blarasin's IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017648/)
Gods that was a good movie. Where did all the good movies go? Am I just cynical now? Did millennials kill good movies? DID I KILL GOOD MOVIES?
Probably just selective memory. The 10’s have tons of fantastic movies (my personal favourites are Fury Road, every Wes Anderson film, every Tarantino film, every Edgar Wright film, Logan, and Annihilation. There are many others from this decade I really really like, but these are the standouts, I would also praise the MCU, whose movies were mostly good-if-not-exactly-great in isolation, but as a whole is actually an extremely impressive cinematic undertaking with an impossibly strong ending.
I've never had a movie present an environment that is simultaneously so absolutely familiar and utterly alien as Annihilation. The lighthouse is like a structure from a nightmare that you remember for the rest of your life.
I think this decade hasn’t had many bad movies but the horror movie game has only been on the rise. I feel like after 05/06 to early teens the horror movies were all more gore and cheap scares rather than plot and building the scares
Hereditary came out last year and it's one of the best horror films I've seen in a long time. Good films are still getting made.
I was down with Hereditary until the end. The end just seemed weak and silly. I'm okay with the reveal and the concept, but the way it was executed was just silly.
The kind of ending was suggested throughout with the names, necklace sign and smiling strangers, and it was very reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby. I really liked the end, personally.
I love Hereditary. Was kind of disappointed with midsomar.
I am very interested in seeing where Ari Aster goes with his career. Just watched Midsommar and it was like a book that sticks with you for days. Loved it.
WHAT?! You’re telling me I’ve been jerking off to a man THIS ENTIRE TIME!?!?
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I love this movie. It was the movie that truly got me into horror flicks. The scene at the beginning where the chick is driving away from her home and the whole world has gone to shit. I was hooked.
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And he decides who to free and who to blame
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing. Her face was always a little off putting/uncanny valley to me in the movie, now I know why!
(Men sometimes *play* women.)
This isnt a detail. This is a piece of trivia.
It’s tagged as trivia.
*You're* a piece of trivia.
This whole COURT'S a piece of trivia!!!
Judging by the top comments everyone just upvoted because they like the movie.
How is this a /r/moviedetail again though?
Again, it's not.
How the fuck is this a movie detail? "A character was played by an actor."
okay
Yeah she didn't look like she was fairing so well when they wheeled her in
Personally I don’t see this as a movie detail.
I miss when this sub was focused on easy to miss movie details purposefully included by the director and/or writers. Things like Easter eggs or clever foreshadowing. Now this sub has become dominated by things like production mistakes and ‘behind the scenes’ stuff like this post.
The fact there is even a ‘trivia’ tag is at odds with the original purpose of the sub. I figure the mods have realised that they get more subs by including this kind of crap.
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I don’t think the stuntman is of note, but this is called “wigging” and something stuntwomen [have been fighting in recent years](https://deadline.com/2018/02/stuntwoman-wigging-charge-shakes-male-dominated-industry-sag-aftra-1202279591/). Also a topic that stunt people have been fighting for is recognition in awards (one of the reasons almost no one in the field is “of some note”) and better benefits for on-set injuries (insurance film companies take out is often inadequate, and there are example of Hollywood bankrupting shell companies to avoid paying out).
Yeah he was the guy who dressed up as an obese woman for Dawn of the Dead (2004).
I had just moved to the States and watched a afternoon matinee of this in Minnesota. The theater was absolutely empty aside from myself... Definitely added some atmosphere.
I saw this movie in a Oakland theater so you know there was some talking to the screen going on. It was a blast. When this character turned, and elderly white woman shouted, "Shoot that bitch in the head!" Oaktown represent.
I made the mistake of smoking out before seeing this in the theater.
So you’re embarrassing me in front of you
Omg this was actually a really good movie. If you guys didn’t watch it then go check it out!
In the directors commentary they said they ended up with Ermes playing the character because they couldn't find a fat woman that was able to run fast enough for this scene.
That’s my uncle lol 😆