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Know what current movie that graffiti is from?Saw it yesterday. While I'm not exactly recommending the thing, it was a perfect Sunday afternoon B-grade heat-beater.
You've read that it's a zombie movie. Never mind that. The whole first part is a set-up for what comes next -- the *real zombies*. Damn good, that.
The tone however is often too lighthearted. Escaping town, the survivors go "shopping" in an abandoned but inexplicably-still-fully-stocked supermarket. They dash around with their carts, cracking funny. Nor is there ever any discussion among them about the nature of their would-be attackers. Weird. Plus the supermarket is super-lit, despite all electricity being out; I hate lighting directors!
Still, what do you expact from B?
The sound track has the widest dynamic range I can recall hearing in the theatre. At one point a lullaby is sung in the background *so softly* that it's almost not there, but you can understand every word. Eerie!
clark
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first fifteen minutes, all tension disappears and splatter takes over the director's chair. It's the type of movie where people do things for no apparent reason, even SAYING it's a dumb thing to do. Geesh.
One could go on and laugh at the teen movie morality (these guys were adults, for god's sake...) wherein hero and heroine barely kiss, from some sort of moral unease--but why? A horror/sci-fi movie that has negligible scares and no sense of humor impales itself.
Only a critic completely unfamiliar with any genre films would describe 28 Days Later with hyperbole like "the scariest movie since Rosemary's Baby ". It's an OK movie but it's obviously heavily "inspired" by George Romero's zombie trilogy, to put it kindly. The plot doesn't make a lot of sense even by horror movie standards; in one scene the virus victims seem to be too tired to get off the floor, in the next scene they're running around like Carl Lewis on crank. I was also bothered by the point that it didn't occur to any of the survivors to get a gun, instead they preferred to beat the zombies with bats.
it would have required a ladder and a steady hand. It didn't seem to match the mindless panic that had taken place.
nt
For shame, Clark!
s
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