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unintentionally funny things in this movie..

posted 18 years ago by writelasse
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There are some unintentionally funny scenes in this movie, especially seen from a "modern movie watchers" perspective. For example, when Morgan enters the lab after talking to Ben at his home, he sees the three lab coats carelessly flung around. Then suddenly Morgans boss shows up, and i seriously expected him suddenly to switch over to the vampire/zombie state with Morgan fighting him off, and discovering the three slain bodies of his collagues. Well, maybe its just my imagination, fuelled by years of Hollywood cliches.

What else is there?

1) The "zompires" turning up every night, banging on Morgans door. I mean, every night for f**ng 3 years? Every single night they are coming, banging on the door, going: "Mooorgan, Moooorgan, come out! Do you hear?? Mooorgan we are going to kill you and yada yada yada. No wonder he puts a jazz record on.

2) Morgan wandering around with his espresso pot, slurping coffee with a grim, desillusionised look on his face, checking his generator, mirror and stuff.

3) As suggested elsewhere on this board: The "Looney tunes" security measures of a few pieces of wood randomly put over thin doors.

4) The directors effort to pass Morgans city of as an american city, while every building and exterior shot screams Italy.

5) The Vampire nazis trying to catch Morgan with their harpoons, looking like some kind of french beatnik whalers.

More..??

[–] 17 years ago

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[–] nyjack 16 years ago

"Ruth Collins tells Morgan that he is to be killed, why? Because of his systematic elimination of the infected, but when Ruth's group arrive at Morgans home, what do they do, but start killing the infected with machine guns. Hypocrites!"

Not so. There were two groups of vampires: one, the totally infected, near mindless group and the second, semi-infected, inoculated group who were near human but still had problems with light and tended to stay indoors sleeping during the day. Morgan was unaware of the difference and was killing both types on his rounds during the day. The second group had no more use for the first than Morgan did.

Mattheson wrote the story as an exercise to come up with a "scientific" reasoning for the presence of vampirism. The story has reasons for their aversion to garlic, light, and mirrors, for example. So, as another poster noted, vampires can't enter a closed house unless invited in. They can however come in if a door is open.

[–] tdnasfa 16 years ago

I thought it was pretty funny that the vampire zombies couldn't make it through a few planks of wood with nails in them, but completely dismantled Morgan's car in about 20 seconds.
Also, it was pretty funny that they dismantled his car at all. I mean, that's just mean-spirited. It's like, instead of being blood-thirsty zombies, they're just mean-thirsty zombies.

[–] Beetfields_1 15 years ago

The witless zombies were hilarious. Also, the party in the flashback.

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[–] ajakashyyyk 15 years ago

*The stake sticking out of the cloth used to wrap up the dog was pretty funny.

[–] Jabberwoc 15 years ago

"French beatnik whalers..."

Guffaw! Snigger...

Silly film but enjoyable 90 minutes.

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[–] human37 14 years ago

When the zombie/vampires are trying to break down the door after he just gets home after dark, one of them gets his arm caught in the door...

"ow,...Ow,...OW!"

I believe that is the exact quote

Also when talking to the man during the flashback he says;

"I am a scientist, not an alarmist!"

I almost wished he had said "Dammit Jim" first

"Save me Jebus!", Homer Simpson

[–] MrPie7 14 years ago

His ol' buddy Ben and his dead voice endlessly calling "Moorgan. Come out. Come out MOooorgan." If I were Morgan, I would lasso good ol' Ben and tie the rope to the house so he couldn't leave at daybreak. Then I would WHOMP him over the head with a baseball bat until I was hitting NECK!!! I think I'd have done this the second day.

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[–] mnoe 14 years ago

Why'd it take the zombie-vampires three years to figure out they should dismantle his car?

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[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 14 years ago

They were mindless and the mindless are always doing the same stupid things over and over. Just like the dullards who remake this stale story constantly and it never gets any better.

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[–] Ace19444 14 years ago

In the book, Neville doesn't have time to put his car in his garage because of a quick drive home. He even has to lead the vampires away from his house first so he has time to get to his door and get inside when he parks the car (the vampires are fast, and much more vicious in the book), but the important thing is it's the only time he left his car outside the garage and THAT'S why they can dismantle it. I assume it's the same reason in the movie