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Parkour Zombies? Really? Really???

posted 14 years ago by bighalsy
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Maybe if they were ninja-zombies, or better still, pirate-ninja-zombies it may have been entertaining in that 'it's so bad it's good' B-flick serial sort of way. This isn't the case here...sadly. McQueen obviosuly doesn't get the whole "zombie thing" and it's sad. This stinker falls into the category of 'Well, there's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.' My understanding was they were going to show this at Guantaunemo Bay but deemed it a torture worse than waterboarding and was, as such, forbidden as overly cruel and unusual punishment.

Advice for all upcoming directors. Regardless if someone offers you a shot at making your first "major" feature. Stay far away from it if you don't understand the genre. I can only think that after this fiasco that the director will be lucky if anyone even hires him to direct school pageants, muchless TV commercials, forget feature film. Granted his editor had no idea what good editing means either, yet that's no excuse. This really amounts to a film school project that you'd give a barely passing D minus to, and then only out of the sort of human kindness that exists when something is so bad you just don't have the heart to tell them they're in the wrong line of work...which was pretty much the entire cast and crew in this case.

[–] Wu_Tang_Clam 13 years ago

So you loved the film except for those few minor nitpicks? Good deal.

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[–] The-Kurgan 13 years ago

McQueen obviosuly doesn't get the whole "zombie thing" and it's sad

The Infected were intentionally displayed as hyper, overly athletic people to illustrate the nature of the drug they were infected with. Remember, not only was it a "performance enhancing" drug to begin with, but as the lead scientist said (much to his surprise) they must have made a mistake in the formula's code. It was such a bizarre, drastic error that the results were far more than intended. Patient zero, who we saw strapped down on the table towards the beginning, had been infected longer than anyone (they didn't realize it was going to happen to everyone, assuming it was an abberation), and by the start of the film he'd practically turned into a hulk. I was immediately reminded of Resident Evil and the T-virus.

So yeah, all that leaping around actually made sense within the context of the story as presented, with the only drawback being the obvious Parkour performers not being able to overcome their training and relax their movements to appear more careless and random (then again, it's an understandable tradeoff for safety's sake, as doing so would put them at great risk of injury).

[–] Trioxin_Zombie 13 years ago

This was the main annoyance for me in the movie. I mean if I had to pick something to be annoyed at. Zombies just do not move like this. These are not zombies. Only infected people with cannibalistic tendencies as a side effect of the infection. And the gun shots to the chest and surviving can be attributed to the chemicals that caused the infection making them extremely agile and adrenaline filled mobile killing machines that are just not effected by a few shots to the chest. The kind of thing a seriously drugged up hippy would be like if you shot him lol. He'd be so *beep* up on drugs that he would be able to take more punishment than if he was sober.

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[–] ariocool 13 years ago

"This was the main annoyance for me in the movie. I mean if I had to pick something to be annoyed at. Zombies just do not move like this. These are not zombies."

Well...nobody in the movie said that they're zombies. Maybe it's because we are already stereotyping zombies like the one in Resident Evil series.

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