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Neurolimal posted:I mean, there is some merit in the idea that different actors will bring different performances, /energy/charisma/etc, and some actors might not gel with the script & initial directorial vision. Sure. They're right that it isn't interchangeable, it's a different performance. I mentioned earlier that it would have been awful to give D'Elia that moment Tig gets at the end. But it's strange to imply that it's necessarily a negative that they were able to do reshoots to change a side character.
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I don't know who plays Vanderhoe from anything, but that guy absolutely oozed charisma to me
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John Wick of Dogs posted:I don't know who plays Vanderhoe from anything, but that guy absolutely oozed charisma to me Yeah, this movie absolutely made me an Omari Hardwick fan.
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LesterGroans posted:Yeah, this movie absolutely made me an Omari Hardwick fan. Ditto. Looks like his major thing before this was the TV show "Power"
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ICYMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_BYvI1GuXw Zacks breaks down his title sequences
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It did! and it had aliens! and a zombie tiger! and a robot zombie! and zombie strippers! things happen and those things influence the plot and change the movie, but they are not cool zombie things , but corporate class warfare stuff. Garret Dillahunt shows up and dynamites the heist movie and transforms it into a drive for survival. All the alien stuff doesn’t change much to be fair, it’s split second puffs of blue and brilliant eyes. A nice cool touch of flair not a gigantic fulcrum point that gets picked up and then discarded. It plays on the “humans are the real monsters” thing. I guess what matters are the humans loving each other relentlessly.Less interesting than truly getting weird I guess. Also plenty of characters affect the plot in substantial ways, from the safecracker opening the bail, the pilot flying,Martin being a dipshit, the coyote loving the guard and Martin.Stuff happens and if you taken them out the movie changes. I don’t know about zombie cabaret dancers tho , they show up, eat someone and that’s it. They did the cool thing and it’s over. Good enough for me.
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May 26, 2021 03:46
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The opening really focuses heavily on that dude's crotch as he's being chased by the cabaret zombies
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Boofy posted:this movie was AIDS in the form of a film This. What a waste of time. Terrible film. The really self indulgent opening was amusing at least, I'll give it that.
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May 26, 2021 04:12
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2house2fly posted:Such as? Being John Malkovich
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Ibram Gaunt posted:This. What a waste of time. Terrible film. this is the post you quote dude lol fr
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The valid and well explained critiques keep on coming, Snyder must be feeling pretty sad right now.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:The really self indulgent opening was amusing at least, I'll give it that. What do you mean by self-indulgent? What was different from the opening compared to the rest of it? (I will say, I really enjoyed the title credits story with the badass lady who ended up crushed. So it's a cool self-contained little thing, but I don't get self-indulgent)
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May 26, 2021 05:54
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She herself is also a self contained thing
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CelticPredator posted:She herself is also a self contained thing booooooooo
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The REAL Goobusters posted:this is the post you quote dude lol fr lol i thought that was a nice touch also
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josh04 posted:The film ends with a nuclear explosion wiping out Las Vegas, idk.
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May 26, 2021 06:59
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Return of the Living Dead did that. And while not w zombie movie, it’s still a piece of crap that’s better off dead, but so did AvPR
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CelticPredator posted:Return of the Living Dead did that. And while not w zombie movie, it’s still a piece of crap that’s better off dead, but so did AvPR
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Think of where we are as a culture when solving a problem with nuclear weapons is passé.
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Nukes are badass for movies tbh.
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McSpanky posted:Think of where we are as a culture when solving a problem with nuclear weapons is passé. 
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SlimGoodbody posted:I don't know how seriously we're supposed to have taken the time stuff. The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am with the fact that the movie just shits out a bunch of totally unexplored elements, each of which would mean completely different things for the plot, but does nothing with them. It just muddies any attempt to interpret anything that's happening at any point and it strikes me as lazy. It's the same energy as "but it was aaaaall a dreeeeam," which is the most justifiably derided hack poo poo you can do in a movie at this point unless you're extremely clever, thoughtful, and deliberate about it. Zach Snyder is doing the Penguin umbrella thing, but he doesn't know he's doing it, and he's very bad at it. But it still somehow fools a lot of people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOtiQv8IlIU
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Ibram Gaunt posted:This. What a waste of time. Terrible film. i haven't seen this film yet but you have an anime avatar lol lmao
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Neurolimal posted:I mean, there is some merit in the idea that different actors will bring different performances, /energy/charisma/etc, and some actors might not gel with the script & initial directorial vision. I'm reminded of a suggestion for when movies can basically digitally cast anyone they want; Predator with the cast of The Magnificent Seven.
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CelticPredator posted:Nukes are badass for movies tbh. And kind of patriotic if you think about it
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Solving zombies with a nuke might have been done, but even New Vegas didn't have a nuke drop on Atomic City USA (Stephen King apparently did though).
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May 26, 2021 11:38
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This thread is more entertaining than the film was. Thank you, goons.
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Neurolimal posted:I mean, there is some merit in the idea that different actors will bring different performances, /energy/charisma/etc, and some actors might not gel with the script & initial directorial vision. (the complaint is that this movie is a grab bag of disjointed elements that all could be replaced.)
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Right but in saying that you accidentally asserted that in most movies, every part could only have been played by the person who played it. You could presumably say Aliens is also a grab bag of disjointed elements, considering several entire subplots were smoothly cut from the movie for the theatrical release. And Hicks is played by two people!
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I just remembered that after the opening montage the circular saw is never used to kill a zombie again, my rating of this movie is revised to 0/10
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Piell posted:I just remembered that after the opening montage the circular saw is never used to kill a zombie again, my rating of this movie is revised to 0/10 "ah but by subverting your expectations of what's going to happen Zack......." *sound of someone making GBS threads themselves to death*
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Olympic Mathlete posted:"ah but by subverting your expectations of what's going to happen Zack......." please don't sign your posts
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Piell posted:I just remembered that after the opening montage the circular saw is never used to kill a zombie again, my rating of this movie is revised to 0/10 After having served as a tool of death in the zombie wars, the saw descended into the depths of hell and entered the twilight of the gods where it then became a tool of salvation.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:"ah but by subverting your expectations of what's going to happen Zack......." You're trying too hard.
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teagone posted:After having served as a tool of death in the zombie wars, the saw descended into the depths of hell and entered the twilight of the gods where it then became a tool of salvation. I'm glad he resisted the obvious route of having someone use it expecting to be a total badass but then they slip and kill one of their companions like in his Dawn of the Dead movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_FFTZ7_D4M
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Boofy posted:this movie was AIDS in the form of a film Ibram Gaunt posted:This. What a waste of time. Terrible film. This. The idea of a zombie heist movie could have gone at least *some* places.
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can we do the thing from the old GBS star wars threads where everyone writes their own synopsis for a better film, those were fun
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ArfJason posted:This. The idea of a zombie heist movie could have gone at least *some* places. 
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qq more
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What's qq? I'm basically a boomer.
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