teagone posted:

teagone posted:

It's such a bummer you can't see how unique and great a filmmaker Snyder is like I do, but it is what it is.

bushisms.txt posted:

I don't care if someone likes a movie or not, but you talking about "Zack Snyder" genre is a hair away from all the other drive by hot takes I've seen. And it comes with many implications since a lot of culture critics have spent the better part of a decade calling him a fascist idiot that stumbles on ideas. When folks come in with boring takes like "pedestrian" action I can't help but wonder what they're watching, because most zombie media is shot like TV and or directly insprired by dawn of the dead. Just scroll through the dome thread if you need more examples.

teagone posted:

For me, on a technical level, I like the interesting stuff Snyder was doing with the camera work and lighting. Can understand if someone would be out off by the depth-of-field effect he was toying with, but it played to my personal aesthetic tastes really well; a lot of the scenes were very dreamy/fanstasy-esque. Pretty cool contrast to what your typical zombie blockbuster might look like.

Thought there was real solid character work and comedic beats spread across the entire cast. The film might not harbor the greatest ensemble, but I loved the archetypes present—especially Ward, and The Coyote.

Good action design imo, but that's a given with Snyder. Good soundtrack; loved the Wagner drops. Good production design and costuming. Thought the zombies looked great. Loved the genre mashups and all the callbacks to other films.

Dunno what else you want to hear. I thought the film was super enjoyable

STAC Goat posted:

If I had my druthers I'd probably cut Guzman and Chambers out of the film entirely. I liked them but they [spoiler]just really don't affect anything and die so early in the film and disconnected from anyone else you kind of just forget about them.[/spoiler

Lemon posted:

One bit that stood out to me was the introduction of Tig Notaro's character. You get a fun scene with an immediately charismatic character and a bit of a twist on the "getting the team together" with the person they're trying to recruit needing no convincing whatsoever. And then they cap it with Bautista just flatly going, "She's still weird as ever." Yeah, we know she's weird, the movie just showed us for a straight minute.

The REAL Goobusters posted:

It’s oceans eleven meets aliens (James cameron). Not dawn of the dead.

McCloud posted:

Hot take: Movies should be exactly as long as they need to be, and putting arbitrary time limits on films is dumb as hell.

teagone posted:

I thought Dieter and Van were both super fun and likeable. I was rooting for Scott, even though I ultimately knew what his fate would be

The REAL Goobusters posted:

For you maybe. I loved the Mexican American characters and their northern Mexican dialect. I’m also a big Bautista guy. Vanderhoe and Dieter slowly becoming friends to me was great too.

E: i think this movie just hits different for me because I am literally from the border and I was surprised just how much Zack had to say about the US/Mexico border situation with this movie (the wall, the camps, etc)

You can hate it but you’ll probably never understand my perspective I guess and that’s fine. I would go in with a more open minded perspective personally.

ruddiger posted:

Chambers is a hundred times better than Vasquez simply for the fact that she’s not a white woman in brown face who got the job because her white boss thought it was hilarious that she showed up to audition in brown face.

josh04 posted:

1. rofl, never get tired of it

2. that's not depth of field, they've just slapped a gradient blur on the top and bottom to let you know it's a memory

teagone posted:

The narrative throughline of the film does not change because it includes UFOs, robot zombies, and time loop theory.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

See what's great is that this is an internet forum so we can literally rewind time (as though we are in a time loop) and interrogate this. Here's the first 5 negative reviews of this movie in this thread, in their entirety. Lucky for you, your review is listed in the first 5:



While I believe these are all valid, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine if these are "well explained" or if they mostly involve people saying "you all are stupid/crazy, and this movie is boring"

Blood Boils posted:

Could be but I haven't seen that

My gateway drug "bad movie that's actually great" was probably something way older, like Enemy Mine or Repo Man or something

I don't really remember that first high, that's why I'm still chasing it

McCloud posted:

Not sure, maybe he got of well with Zack, maybe Zack felt he was too busy to do it himself