Kingzjester Posted July 26, 2003 Share Posted July 26, 2003 I have a fetish for understated movies. This is one-a-them. Yes, there are zombies, and yes, it is "scary" - but it is miraculously free of great many trite conventions of the scary zombie genre. A good, subtle movie. Hey, remember that Half-Life movie we were senselessly speculating about? How about Danny Boyle for director? 28 Days Later and Half-Life have some superficially similar stories too... T'would be ****ing wicked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted July 26, 2003 Share Posted July 26, 2003 i saw this a few weeks ago. liked it, especially the sequences with the tense music (i.e. when he's walking around at the beginning at can't find anyone, and near the end when the zombie sh*t is happening in the bunker). the main character's hot, too. although there were some teenagers in the audience who kept snickering when they saw him naked. emily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamandMax Posted July 26, 2003 Share Posted July 26, 2003 Quote Originally posted by Kingzjester A good, subtle movie. I agree with you, but the last 25 minutes are anything but subtle. That's where I think the movie goes wrong. It turns into just a mindless action movie, completely different than the rest of the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingzjester Posted July 26, 2003 Author Share Posted July 26, 2003 Quote Originally posted by SamandMax I agree with you, but the last 25 minutes are anything but subtle. That's where I think the movie goes wrong. It turns into just a mindless action movie, completely different than the rest of the movie. I don't think it becomes a true mindless action movie. The very end: Reveal hidden contents the thing with the drapes spelling HELO and pretty much everybody being alive ...seems like a play of the annalist who wasn't too happy with the historical ending so he improvised. Reveal hidden contents The action was hardly trite - it didn't feel sterilely coreographed like most action movies nowadays. There was an immediacy, dispair, adrenalin - no clever one-liners, nor gratuitous mushiness. The love story is of the vigorous, miserable, hellbent kind that jews probably had while on train for Auschwitz. I've learned not to let the ending of a movie spoil it for me if the rest of the movie is salvagable. :}P In the end, it must be a good movie because I am still thinking about it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.