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The title sequence was the best bit, certainly the only bit that felt it was in Las Vegas. The rest is a dull slog of clunking twists that are telegraphed in BIG LETTERS from miles away, a couple of painfully awkward character development scenes, nonsensical decisions on the part of both humans and zombies, all finished off with a nice tribute to the worst scene in the Indiana Jones movies
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SlimGoodbody posted:I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I read this thread. This movie was excruciatingly boring and predictable. It wasn't even that nice to look at! And the action scenes were incredibly pedestrian and boringly directed
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May 21, 2021 22:23
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:lol what a dumb movie. kinda fun I guess, though. Really felt like a throwback actually, bits and pieces of 90s movies like Alien Resurrection and Con Air with zombies It’s a throwback to every classic 80s action movie, it just fails miserably at catching the flavour of what made them great, let alone subverting it or having fun with it. There’s the beefcake Schwarzenegger lead guy - except this one spends the film looking confused by the dumb plot and like he’d rather be outside his trailer BBQing some ribs, the badass Latina from Aliens (pointlessly wasted) the Euro-geek comic relief trope (Look! He’s a nerd! He makes jokes! He’s a scaredy-cat!! He doesn’t know about guns like cool Americans do!!), the square jawed buzzcut company / military bad guy from Rambo and Lethal Weapon except dumb as hell (Martin Kove still currently doing a better job of this on Cobra Kai forty years down the line), the ice cool blonde, the grizzled veteran pilot, the wise cracking armed to the teeth badass from Predator (except we never see him use his weapon and he spends the movie pew pewing with a handgun), and of course the cunning Oriental bad guy mastermind just to top things off ( except he just kinda doesn’t bother showing up again once his absurdly pointless plan is underway) smellmycheese fucked around with this message at 08:25 on May 22, 2021 |
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I’m still lolling at the big effortpost early in this thread that claims putting all the decent stuff in the opening credits and trailer and then making the actual movie dull as hell is a stunningly clever reversal of expectations
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May 22, 2021 17:33
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:That's my post and if you took that from it then I failed as a reviewer, because that's not what I was saying at all. And in fact the movie is not dull, although I do maintain the last big action push feels a bit perfunctory, even if the action itself is very good. It’s just aggressively average , to quote a review of a videogame on this hellsite. If you want to see Bank Robbers vs Zombies then Tarantino and Rodriguez did it with infinitely more panache, style, fun and cool back in 1996
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May 22, 2021 17:50
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teagone posted:Excuse me, those were vampires. “Motherfucking Vampires!” Lol. I knew someone was gonna say that. I mean if we’re going to be technical it looks like these are Aliens smellmycheese fucked around with this message at 17:57 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 17:54
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teagone posted:Zombies do not explode when sunlight hits them Ha ha. I read that in a George Clooney voice
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May 22, 2021 18:01
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At the risk of nitpicking I’m going to say I think it suffers from Snyder not being able to get rights from the A List casinos. It all adds to the lack of any actual Las Vegas feel to a film about a zombie heist in Las Vegas ( bar one perfunctory shootout in a set full of slot machines) It’s kind of odd that the Luxor is in there branded but we get “Olympus” instead of Caesar’s Palace. Soderburgh managed to get the Bellagio onboard for Clooney robbing it blind, couldn’t Zack have sold Caesars on some goofy zombie fun? It might have meant we ended up with a better safe too rather than a rerun of Raiders of the Lost Ark (still only the second worst Indiana Jones ref in the movie)
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