Wednesday, March 11, 2009

This should be fun..

After all these discussions on great movies I figured I'd talk aobut a bad movie, a really bad movie. I like zombie films, there fun to watch and they don't require much effort or thoughts to enjoy or make, but a few actually hold powerful metaphors about human life. Such films are George A Romero's classic's Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead. Unfortunatly these movies were profittable enough to spawn a sequel that in no way even supports the events of the past films. The horid film is of course Day of the Dead 2: Contagium. This film was so bad that the only thoughts that went through my mind were "suicide is a viable option"and "I cant move!". Not only do zombies not appear throughout most of the film, but the main characters who are infected develope a mental link with each other, and manage to impregnate a young girl so effectivley that in 5 days she gives birth. Literally in one scene she appears normal, and as son as they enter a room suddenly shes massive pregnant. Am I the only one who thinks someone screwed up in the continutiy department? This movie is one big trainwreck right fro mthe start. It starts in the 50s with a Russian voice heard talking about how he defected. Then the military is called in and starts killing everyone. A scientist manages to take a vial and leave. Now lets think about his thought process shall we? "Oh my god theres an infectious diseas that raises the dead... I should try to sneak it out!". So he gets shot and the vial falls where it is picked up in 2005 by a work crew from the local mental institution (aka the writers). Now to begin deriding the movies effects we must look at this scene. A 2d computer genated helicopter flys across the screen. Oh god here we go! Then the army begins to fire on the horde of mindless undead, but theres something wrong. There are no muzzle flashes. A closeup of a gun reveals the barrel to not even be hollow. O wait it gets worse. Now normally in a movie (an the real world) when you shoot someone the blood spatters come out of the persons head. This movie is so cheap that a man of stage throws the fake blood AT the dead zombie. So fast foreward to 2005, a group of crazy peopel find the vial and think its treasure and when they open it a bright light appears, and that night little while flying dots fly over their heads. ????????? Excuse me???So then they begin to roam around and try to eat, but begin throwing up orange and black goo. You think in a mental institution someone would notice right? Nope. So it is eventually revealed that the original infected crave human flesh and once they taste it become zombies, who talk and give long eloquent speeches!!! How did i manage to get through this movie? To sum things up the infection spreads and the world becomes infected thus beginning the events of the first film, but wait isn't their a problem? the prequel is set in 2005, and the original film, night of the living dead was in 1968. Again score one for the continutiy guys. Basically this movie is the worse sequel and worst movie I have ever seen. It makes Jaws the Revenge look like an achievement in film making. The makers of this film must have saw Forrest Gump and thought "Wow lets make an entire cast of the mentally retarted and turn them into zombies!! Because the public lovescharacters that have problems" You idiots. You mindless bafoons. The writers directors producers and actors should be black listed and never again allowed to work in film again. To end this review I will qote a good movie "The horror, The horror". Day of the Dead gets 1 out of 100.

5 comments:

  1. I am so angry at this film my grammer suffered

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  2. Armadillo. A big Armadillo. My brother is a big fan of these slasher/horror pics. He said the two films 28 Days Later and its earlier incarnation were very good.

    You know that the line, The Horror comes from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad?

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  3. I feel, your pain Rob. Usually, I enjoy some of the mindless horror/zombie movies that are never in short supply, but mostly for laughs. Some of the worst I have seen would probably be the sequels to The Evil Dead, which surprisingly were worse than the original. I didn't think it could get much worse than a woman getting raped by trees and then proceed to become a zombie from the encounter. But it did...

    Another horrendous zombie-esque movie (I'm not positive if this is the right name) was called House or The House. I watched it after a recommendation from my grandfather (big mistake no. 1). This was several years ago so I am not certain of the exact details. From what I remember, the movie was about a possessed house. Anyone who entered the house was perceived to be a giant, hairy, brightly-colored, tellytubby-resembling creature by the owners of the house. Needless to say, I only watched long enough for the laughter to stop before I shut it off.

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  4. Good stuff Rob.
    I'm not a zombie film expert. I've seen a couple like the '70s Dawn of the Dead, and bits and pieces of other ones. Shaun of the Dead was great too. They are fun to watch, but that's not why. I like them because it helps me plan for when the zombie attack really does come. I'm not saying I believe in zombies, but what if? I like to be ready for anything. I look at my house, my job, school, etc. and think about where i would go and what i would do. I would definitly go to Staples. We have glass window, but all are barred. We have soda pop and chips now for food. And if they get in, I can run into the cash office with two locking steal doors. I think that I'll be safe.
    I truly feel that others think about zombie attacks as well. I've had many a conversation about the subject. I've done my research. I think I'd make it.

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  5. The zombie apocalypse is coming who will be ready?

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