To all film fans.. please read.

Ok, so no-one yet has come out saying that they liked colin to me yet, so this is more of a bump than anything else.

on Amazon.co.uk, on the dvd page for Colin, the reviews are, well simply... reviews like this (unedited)

"The director certainly has a future one would hope. And there were a few scenes that Romero would be proud of (the bloke being casually eaten alive by two zombies and then has his ear bitten off by our Colin!). And the scene where the youths are desperately trying to fend off a room FULL of zombies. First class!
If you're a zombie fan, be assured, this film bites!! Buy it now!!!!! "

Now, excuse me for sounding a little cynical, but that is just plain BS.

I hereby call out 90% of the reviews either on IMDB, or Amazon etc, for being FAKE, made up by various members of the crew, with 20% of the votes on here being 10 stars, even though its only 52 people, i still believe it to be more marketing ploy.

I mean fair play, to bump up your own movies, but its based on a complete lie, and stop mentioning Romero (there are better zombie movies out there) especialy than Diary of the Dead. which while similmilar in feel, the aweful Dirary, was miles better.

I agree with a lot of what people are saying especially about parts of it being too long.

But I was actually pleasently suprised by it. It is like an idea that was a bit half baked. With the care they put into making zombie makeup I felt they could have put a little more effort into improving the story and adding in a bit more dialouge to fleahing out the story.

Despite that it was good for £45



World's Gayest Ninja

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Hey, f uckyou, Mr. "film student". Never a Jedi, will you be. You're going to grow up and make "important films" that nobody watches, like Ishtar.

That's the problem with most movies. They're about what the producer thinks people should like and what they think reviewers will like, instead of being creative and make what people actually enjoy watching and tell their friends to go see.

They make "film", but people want to "go to a "movie".

That's why Spielberg never won an Oscar until he did something serious about Nazis, yet his movies are extremely creative and wildly popular.

Only Kubrick could produce a "movie" which is also a "film".

Learn, young Skywalker.
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Being "cute" and being "smart" are two ways of being a genetic mutant that other people hate.

Personally, I really liked it.

I didn't care so much for Colin, the character, but saw him more as a Vehicle to show a snapshot of society in the midst of a Zombie outbreak, how different types react to situations that present themselves, or how even in the midst of the chaos others try and exploit the situation.

Well, that's what I got out of it.

The technical flaws were obvious and some of the acting was drivel, not to mention the zombies lacking in Flesh Eating Motivation in some scenes (a fulci Zombie would have had their Intestines out, faster than you could squash an eyeball).

I've gotten tired of Film makers hiding behind low budgets as an excuse for a poor film. For my money, Colin is trying to do something a little out of the ordinary and deserves some, but not necessarily all of, the recognition.

By no means is this a perfect film.
But then again, neither was Within the Woods.

Hey-ho!

I was actually amazed at what a piece of crap this was. I saw stuff on Sky News ( and other channels) about it and got the impression that it was 'moving' and even heart-breaking at times.

As a short film-maker and subscriber to various film-making e-zines and newletters I get more than my fair share of 'breakthrough' type news on independent filmakers and their projects. I have to admit to being a little envious when I first heard about Colin. Then I bought it in my local supermarket, and was really looking forward to watching it. What a shock! I had to force myself to sit through right to the end, having just paid seven quid for the DVD and because I didn't want to roundly condemn it without having watched it all.

Now the film just makes me angry - at all the people who contributed in deceiving the public about this rubbish movie. They should know better.

I should be grateful really, I nearly paid £20 for two tickets to a special preview screening in Leicester Square, except I left it too late and couldn't get seats ( thank God). Now that really would have pissed me off.

I know we all have personal tastes in movies and not everyone will like the same thing but surely there has to be some standards that any movie must meet to merit attention, regardless of how much or how little it cost to make.

as a fan i didnt like it at all it was tastless.

check out my post comparing the latest brit zombie no budget films, i can only recommend zombie diaries and the dead outside really, better than this nothingy film.

dont mean to be cruel but where has the hype come from? they must have little imdb monkeys putting in votes ha ha or is it the 101 student zombies that acted in the film. thats another thing.. the zombies were all under 30!? wonder why.

Just out of curiosity, was I the only one that noticed colins search for the familiar through-out the movie? In one of the first scenes we see him wandering past a coffee shop with a shamrock logo on it. His girlfriend Laura had an identity card from that shop.
In my opinion, there is a lot of evidence, of some glimmer of intelligence left over in his mind. He seems to be trying to make sense
out of a world he used to belong to.
This is my first post ever on this sort of site, but i felt your posts did this movie injustice. Granted it is a bit lacking in some areas, but saying that there is no storyline to the character Colin seems a bit wrong to me. The coffee shop scene and the scene where he studies the street sign with the arrows on it(there is a duplicate sign in the girlfriend's apartment), in my opinion proves that there is a storyline to the Colin Character.
I just wanted to make sure if you guys noticed that.