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Awful movie - here's why


- No character development. In Shaun of the Dead, the characters were actually enjoyable. In this movie their acting is over the top, silly, and poorly done.

- Not funny. Seriously, how is this movie funny? Sure, there was the twinkie thing, Bill Murray, and the girls screwing them over... just none of it was amusing.

- No emotion. Since this movie isn't funny; maybe it should be sad, scary, moving - nope. There was really no feeling in this film. You don't know how the outbreak began or how it ended. You don't know the characters besides Tallahassee's son dying or Columbus's parents dying/ being a loner. Again, you could care less what happened to these characters

- Not gory enough or enough zombies. They really should have gone all out, showing much more zombies feeding and extend the gore. The only few gore scenes were brief and at the beginning. Most of the film was them just talking really.

- Unrealistic. Yes, I know its a movie, but Walking Dead does a good job at conveying the fear and making it realistic. Even in Shaun of the Dead they seem genuinely terrified, and they show was happens in the future. In this film they are all calm, happy at times, waste bullets and are loud.

Anyways, I think this was one of the lamest and unfunniest movies I've seen, and I'm a zombie fan. Its not funny, acting sucked, story sucked, and everything sucked. I know it's a succesful movie, however I have no idea how.

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The phrase is COULDN'T CARE LESS - *beep*.

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All fair points and totally what I kept thinking throughout. How it is so highly rated and recommended by people is truly beyond me!

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Go to hell.

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Yep completely forgettable movie, I just can't get into into it.

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Go to hell.

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Not interesting (moving, action, humor, etc) enough.
I stopped watching 2/3 in. I would have stopped earlier, but I only devote partial attention, having multiple screens on my computer set-up.

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Go to hell.

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Agree. Two lame teenagers who think screwing over the only two known humans left in the world is the way to go, more than once, is a laughably bad attempt at comedy.

Not only that, but two teenage girls who not only have zero mechanical skills, but also a general lack of good judgment (oh, by going to a noisy, bright amusement park), but also looked seriously awkward holding weapons. They'd get overrun and defeated by 3 zombies.


Oh, that's right. They were hopelessly trapped in a cellar by 3 fatboy zombies until the cavalry showed up.

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*beep* you. Amazing movie.

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You lost me at no character development. You didn't see the film, obviously.

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I agree with you all of these, except for no character development and not funny. I thought it was typical decent dark humor, especially the Bill Murray scene. However, the moment I saw your avatar icon you lost any and all credibility.

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omg thanks for your dissertation I was wondering what u thought thank u

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