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Could've been a lot better.

posted 10 years ago by Cobb05
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The movie felt lazy to me. No explination to why she came back or why it stopped. Was it happening all over? Why wasn't there doctors, reporters, government officials/military all over the town? Later on it seems like there was more of an outbreak, but you never see any of it. It just seemed like a lot of odd choices and omitting of key plot.

And just my own personal preference, I hated all the improv. You can tell (at least I can) when they are improvising, cause there's a tone in the voice and a lot of times the dialogue feels unnatural.

[–] doggie_rodriguez 10 years ago

I agree. Such a talented cast, but the script felt so lazy. They had no interest in finding out why this was happening and then it just stopped. So then what? The townspeople learn nothing and it happens again? I think that someone would be looking into this.

I kind of feel like they were pushing that Haitian curse thing, but maybe at a test screening people wanted that out so they took it out. B/c once that was out of the picture then never addressed the "why" again. Maybe they were too close to it being finished and didn't want to re-shoot a bunch. I don't know. Just felt weird that they led us down the curse path and then just abandoned it completely and never heard another word as to "why" this stuff was happening.

Oh well, one good thing about renting this movie is I saw the trailer for Warm Bodies. Rented that a few days later and loved it.

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[–] Cobb05 10 years ago

I'm ok with not explaining why it happened, but where was the news, the army, scientists, the CDC? I mean I get that the movie was made with a small budget, but if you couldn't afford to make the movie right, they shouldn't have made it. I expected so much more.

[–] doggie_rodriguez 10 years ago

Or they could have just made it on a smaller scale. Honestly, only Beth needed to come back as a zombie.

No one else really needed to (unless they were going to explore that scenario more thoroughly, which they did not).

I thought the movie was going to be just about some freak thing where Beth came back. Then it turned into many zombies. It just wasn't necessary.

[–] goonies383 10 years ago

The entire scenario was explored in the background but wasn't the focus of the film. Zach's brother joined the anti-zombie militia that had been sweeping the streets killing all the other zombies and burning the bodies. There was an emergency broadcast at one point in the film showing the government had taken notice and it is mentioned at the end the zombie outbreak had been mostly contained. All this stuff was covered it just seems you missed it.

[–] goonies383 10 years ago

The Haitian thing was just an exploitation of a stereotype. He assumed because she was from Haiti she put a curse on Beth's family. The joke is he was just being a racist. Stereotypes are often used for darkly humorous purposes where people make assumptions about people because of their race or where they're from often to be very wrong that is what happened here. The fact you think that was supposed to be explored further shows some preexisting tendencies within yourself to stereotype people. To sum up the joke was that Zach was being racist by assuming she was behind the zombie thing because she was Haitian.

[–] Steamboy 9 years ago

You're completely missing the point. We didn't need explanations because it wasn't about the zombies and the why, it wasn't that kind of movies, it was about him and his girlfriend and their relationship (beyond the grave) in the weirdest circumstances. Zombies were the context, not the purpose.

And I don't think there was much improv, most of it felt written and rehearsed. I can't stand those stinking movies with lots of improvs like those directed by Joe Swanberg. You know most of it is improvised because everything made up by the actors is flat. Definitely not the case here.

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