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Reviews
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Over-Rated
I watched it today on the insistence of many other zombie film fans that stated it was somehow 'one of the best, if not the best zombie film' and definitely feel cheated during and after watching. Which can only lead me to say, that it's highly overrated.
It fell very flat to me and I didn't find it amusing at all, nor special in any way. Not to say it's bad, it's perfectly acceptable - but I certainly didn't think it was worthy of this 'cult classic' label that people give it, and the high rating it has here on IMDb.com and all the talk it gets about it.
Honestly, I have no idea why people recommend it the way they do. I get that humor and what people find entertaining is subjective - but I just don't understand the appeal here.
There are definitely better zombie genre films, with better stories, and better characters, out there to enjoy compared to this one.
Becoming Us (2015)
Scripted? Or Reality?
On first watch I kept flipping back and forth on whether or not this is supposed to be scripted reality. Reading the blurb here on IMDb they are saying it is reality, and UNscripted...
The problem is how much of the reality seems to be massaged. So many of the scenes seem scripted.
I do think a lot of it may definitely be staged and setup and that makes it lose the "realness" of it. A few times throughout I was snapped out of the subject matter by how certain characters were saying and doing things - which felt forced and unrealistic - so much of it didn't feel natural, at all.
They are choosing to tell the stories and show the people in seemingly very clichéd and one dimensional ways. It definitely appears they are trying to setup this "sister villain Bridezilla" thing, and pressing the melodrama for all it's worth, and that worries me.
I do worry about the network and creators stretching and staging this 'reality' into being more melodramatic for effect and entertainment, than a real representation of the family and people therein.
And that's the thing... There are supposed to be real lives and actual emotions on the line here, the stakes are so high that scripting and staging them so blatantly seems unnecessary and untoward. By this point we know that reality TV isn't all that real, but there are some things that just seem more deserving of being portrayed honestly. This is one of them, but sadly the honesty is not there.
They owed it to the subject matter to be more authentic and honest. This could have been groundbreaking and beautiful and emotional. But it just wasn't "real" enough to get me to care.
Zombieland (2009)
Over Rated.
I watched it today on the insistence of many other zombie film fans that stated it was somehow 'one of the best, if not the best zombie film' and definitely feel cheated during and after watching. Which can only lead me to say, that it's highly overrated.
It fell very flat to me and I didn't find it amusing at all, nor special in any way. Not to say it's bad, it's perfectly acceptable - but I certainly didn't think it was worthy of this 'cult classic' label that people give it, and the high rating it has here on IMDb.com and all the talk it gets about it.
Honestly, I have no idea why people recommend it the way they do. I get that humor and what people find entertaining is subjective - but I just don't understand the appeal here.
There are definitely better zombie genre films, with better stories, and better characters, out there to enjoy compared to this one.
SPOILER: The whole premise of going to a theme park full of lights and noise (that all conveniently worked on whatever power grid it had, without an operator - seriously how the heck would they get on and off the rides?) was too ridiculous for me to get behind.
Wyrmwood (2014)
Had Potential
I actually didn't mind the story and the drama, or the characters and acting, and the concepts introduced in the film that are different from other Zombie films. But there are some things that could have used some fine-tuning to have made it a better film overall to have lifted the standards of it, so it was taken more seriously. Even with the comedic elements still included.
So many times it just bordered on the ridiculous and outrageous a bit too much for it to be taken as anything more than something the SyFy Channel or The Asylum Sharknado team would make. It's a notch above these, and definitely had potential, but certain parts did leave me wanting, eye-rolling and frustrated.
My main issue was the pig squeal noises from the Z's. Such a high pitched animal sound coming from human bodied zombies? Seriously?. It ruined the illusion they were trying to create. It would have been far better with more 'human' tone sounds coming from them, like snarls and groans or just human made animalistic shrieks, than the ridiculous piggy squeals that didn't even seem like they were coming from the Z's most of the time - obviously done in post production.
Don't get me started on the zombie burp fart gases. It reminded me of the movie The Witches (1990) when the boys turned into mice and vice versa. So it was quite cartoon-ish. Also the explanation that this somehow fuels the Z's at night didn't make much sense, either.
Even if you want to play at these Z's being or creating a "fuel" how does that change the components of other fuels and flammables? Are they trying to say the whole of Earths atmosphere has changed, and that has changed the characteristics of how fuels and chemicals and other elements work and react? If so, how does a gun still fire?
I was also surprised at the police/military being so quick to have these mobile science labs roving about, taking people and Z's in to test on. I can only assume it is part of a larger conspiracy, perhaps? Lets hope that the coming sequel may address these things. I do look forward to it.