Your favorite recent zombie movie.

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 11 Mar 2006, 22:35

I was wondering what your favorite zombie movie is, this thread is inspired by the zombie mod thread.

Kixxe · Post by **Kixxe** » 11 Mar 2006, 22:49

Dawn of the Dead.

o m g that movie is awesome.

I was really really fucking scared bye that movie... the tension.... "don't go in there, don't go in there, YOU STUPID FUCK!"

*SPOILER*

Oh, i hated that girl to. The one that steals the truck and rides trougth the masses of zombies just to save that stupid dog. What an air head.

*SPOILER*

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 11 Mar 2006, 23:06

the new one?
the old one was hilarious :>
edit: hey aren't u supposed to be working

bad kixxe! :D

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 11 Mar 2006, 23:13

Dawn of the dead is the clear winner here:

*SPOILER AND INNAPROPRIATE CONTENT*

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net ... dawn_rules

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 11 Mar 2006, 23:17

What about shaun of the dead?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 12 Mar 2006, 02:54

Loved Shaun of the Dead... RE1 was good way back in the day, but it was only like a 50% zombie movie. I did like 28 days later, but I'm a bit of a fan of the artsy style. I don't think I've seen Dawn yet... At least not in full, I might have seen parts.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 12 Mar 2006, 03:42

<takes Kixxi by the lapels and violently shakes him>

NO NO NO NO NO!

NO!

Dawn of the Dead, the original is the down right BEST zombie movie ever. The remake was not the worst zombie movie ever made. But it was really close.

Problem one: Fast zombies. I can't say enough bad things about fast zombies. For starters they DONT MAKE ZOMBIE SENCE! This is a different kind to sense that most people are used to, and involves the irrationality of rational zombies. See a zombie has rigor motris, that is there muscles are stiff and move slowly. This is unlikely going to allow a zombie to run. Also the zombie's higher brain functions have corroded away with time, and are now barely keeping the zombie upright. Try running with next to no since of balance. Another problem is stylistic, not sense making. Slow zombies are scarier then fast zombies because of the feeling that no matter how many times you shoot them, or kill them, they will keep on coming. The feeling that every exit is slowly being cut off by a relentless hoard is a lot worse then a bunch of really fast guys running at you. Really fast guy are just that, really fast guys. A zombie lumbering towards you is unstoppable.

Problem two: Too many characters. The original DOD had four characters and fleshed each of them out, making you care about them. They are intelligent, believable and go crazy over time. The remake had twelve characters who were so much zombie fodder. Do you really care about Tucker? Or Sara? Can you even remember WHO Tucker or Sara where! Sure Sara is the main character, but who is she? Is she an interesting character. Do you CARE if she is disemboweled by a hoard of zombies? No. To me she was just another 'semi-smart chick who has to hold everything together'.

Problem Three: THE ZOMBIE BABY! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! I can't tell you how much i HATE the zombie baby. IT IS THE WORST PART OF THE ENTIRE MOVIE! I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT!

Now that i got that out of my system, onto the next point.

Problem Four: The best actors were in the special features of the DVD. No really, they were! Ex Babylon 5 actors Richard Biggs (now sadly deceased) and Bruce Boxlighner were in the best part of the entire damn movie. The special feature ├óÔé¼┼ôNews of the Apocalypse├óÔé¼┬Ø section witch is a short twenty or thirty minuet sketch of a newscaster covering the spreading plague. The newscaster was Richard Biggs, who played the doctor in Babylon 5 (One of the best character on the show) and Bruce Boxlighner, who was the voice of the president at the very very end, played the captain. Who was also one of the best characters on the show. Its really sad when two people who probably needed some money and had nothing else to do over the weekend could do a better job then the lead roles.

Problem Five (The last one): In the original DOD, the main characters were subtly damned by getting every single thing they wanted. In the remake they were damned by being a pack of idiots!

So i refuse to vote in this poll until you make a second question, dealing with the original DOD, which is still the greatest zombie movie of all time.

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 12 Mar 2006, 09:40

I personally loved the atmosphere of 28 days, it was so barren and scary, this is what RE2 should have been more like. (RE2 is crap).

I LOVED the original Dawn of the Dead, what a brilliant movie, where were the bikers in the remake of it? damn them!

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 12 Mar 2006, 10:41

RE2 isn't a zombie movie, it's a matrix clone, and a poor one at that.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 12 Mar 2006, 17:52

Yeah, Shaun of the Dead and 28 days later (Whitch was not actually a zombie movie, cause they aint dead. Just really really realyl angry) are quite good. But Shaun of the Dead deffinitly wins in the best most recent (not best ever) zombie/comedy movie contest.

Also am i crazy if i though Team America: World Police was a steaming pile of crap, and Shaun of the Dead blew it away with its double doseage of funny and zombie?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 13 Mar 2006, 02:21

Team america was funny... but I think shaun of the dead wins for not going over the top and still being absoluty halarious.

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 13 Mar 2006, 17:59

Original Dawn of the Dead and the two movies that followed (both the minimall one and the underground military base one) both own every other zombie movie for sure.

Kixxe · Post by **Kixxe** » 13 Mar 2006, 18:51

I haven't watched the orgniole acully. I should have...

Meh, all i know that the dawn of the dead remake is FUCKING SCARY. Compared to... resident evil, where most of the scary stuff is OMFG ZOMBIES OUT JUMPS OUT OF A CORNER! 28 days later was okay i guess, deeper charaters, yada yada... not that scary thou.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 13 Mar 2006, 20:49

Recent... Shawn of the Dead hands down. ALL HAIL SIMON PEGG.

Of course that still cant touch "Hail to the king baby" (OK, not a zombie movie at all, but Evil Dead 3 rules.)

aGorm

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Mar 2006, 01:01

Kixxe...shame...just shame on you.

You will be blown away by the original DOD. An intece beggining far outstrips the "UNDEAD GIRL!" beggining. You see not the zombie's first, but there effect on humain society. A mob shouts obsenitys and mocks a scietntest as he tries to get them to act rationaly. A street war between the SWAT and a criminal gang rages, and as the dead on both sides pile up the zombie's come out to snack. The army thinks the entire thing is a lark. The rednecks are haveing a party. The lights are going out.

Its time to leave.

So the four protagonists leave in a ....borrowed hellicopter. They find a mall, and decide that now is as good a time as any to set down and rest. But with all the tresures in the mall, how long can it be...untill someone else decides to settle down?

Well now that i have promoed it enough...WHATCH IT!

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