I'm twenty minutes into it, and with the dialogue and the hipster soundtrack, I'm getting a strong hipster vibe to it.
"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!!"
Yes, but I'd call it more of a hipster zombie soundtrack with barely a movie playing behind all those insipid songs.
shareYes, it's a new genre called Zipster Horror...or Borror. This was the first and last film in the genre because the hipsters realized that the whole zombie fad is losing steam so they're moving on to political documentaries, or something.
But seriously, this film was so damn stupid. It should've been called 2 Morons vs. the Slowest Zombies in the World. If I were with them in that scenario I would've left or killed them. Most zombie shows/movies usually follow relatively smart characters during their struggle to survive but here we get two losers. I don't think that was intentional...the type of people who actually listen to the terrible music in the soundtrack would probably do exactly as they did...ie the filmmakers. The director (also the lead actor) obviously thinks he's some sort of film genius to throw in a useless scene of himself bathing in the nude. Bitch please. You never earned a place in filmmaking to produce such self-indulgent garbage. Self-indulgence is for legends... but just because you do it it doesn't mean you will ever be one.
Anyway, best to skip it.
My sentiments exactly! This movie was pretty damn horrible. The lack of a story made this a tiresome experience. Watching the talentless actors trying to make the best of what their given was as painful as a nail in my eye socket. Also, the cheap look of the movie (DSLR *beep* gave the impression of a college thesis project.
shareHaha the whole movie had a 'shoegazer' vibe to it, I agree. The music was freaking awful, and literally unbearable in some places - we had to turn it down until it stopped. The characters were too annoying for me to care about too, both cardboard cutouts from other movies with better writing. They could both die and i'd say 'ok, cool, now what.'
I found the whole thing very amateur and cheap - my friends and I made the same movie in high school several times over and never thought it was deep or worthy of a real release...
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The music was freaking awful, and literally unbearable in some placesYou want unbearable?
my friends and I made the same movie in high school several times over and never thought it was deep or worthy of a real release...Well, congratulations. Because this movie is better than any zombie movie I've seen since the problematic (but frequently brilliant) 28 Weeks Later. For six thousand dollars. So yeah, it was cheap. But it's not defeated by its own budgetary limitations.
Was 28 Days Later the last zombie movie you saw? Because this one is abysmal.
shareWell, congratulations. Because this movie is better than any zombie movie I've seen since the problematic (but frequently brilliant) 28 Weeks Later. For six thousand dollars. So yeah, it was cheap. But it's not defeated by its own budgetary limitations.
I thought World War Z was terrible but it was better than The Battery, that much is for sure.
shareI really hate that..."This isn't a zombie movie because the creatures in it are not this or that and so-n-so.".
Traditionally, a zombie is neither undead nor does it eat human flesh. Traditionally, a zombie is a living person drugged/brainwashed to the point of being a mindless drone that does whatever its master(the person who drugged/brainwashed them) says. This, the original zombie, has its origins in the Vodou(commonly mis-referred to as 'voodoo') religion.
Then Romero made "Night of the Living Dead" and the definition changed to an "undead, flesh-eating human who will attack anything living"(with "Return of the Living Dead" adding in the "Mmmmm, brains" aspect) and now that definition is being superseded by the current one of "a former human infected with some kind of virus/disease/whatnot that makes them rage at and attack uninfected humans".
So, in fact, at least two of your three examples of "good zombie movies" actually fall into that last definition: in "WWZ" it's theorized as being a virus that causes the infection(although it's never definitely proven...at least in the movie) and in "Zombieland" it's a mutated form of mad cow disease. I haven't seen "Dance of the Dead" so I can't comment on it.
What choice do I have? It is as if you have grabbed me by the base of my snarglies!
...and now that definition is being superseded by the current one...Welcome to living language. Terms change over time. I personally can't stand people who use literally for things they are saying figuratively but, if I have to get over it, I'm sure you can get over this. share
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Most zombie movies/shows follow dumb characters. Somebody does something stupid that lets the zombies in and all hell breaks loose. It's one of the major issues people currently have with The Walking Dead. The show has full blown reached the point where it requires people to make a stupid decision to move the story along and for anything to happen.
shareyeah it was like an indie hipster zombie movie lol
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