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cut out the shaking and chop it down to 30 minutes

posted 12 years ago by Promontorium
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Would have been 10X better. There were a lot of compelling aspects, great work, great makeup, great acting, novel perspective. But it seemed as if 2/3rds of the scenes were just filler, people moping around. They played it down so much even the zombie scenes were depressing and mundane.

Also what's with the overly depressing vision of zombie hunters? I don't think it's mathematically possible for it to be a never ending war.

I did like the juxtaposition between the people wandering around in the woods for weeks and the guy who kills just as many zombies by himself with a truck driver, seems if they all just rode in trucks it wouldn't take them weeks to get around.

Also what was with the "broken" aspect of her by the end? I get that it's supposed to be she's like them now, but seriously, whether they want to cry about it and wax poetic, at the end of the day they are protecting humanity and there is some good in that, and there is definitely progress. If she puts out the movie and recruitment doubles, they'll end up with 2 medics, and maybe a truck, and maybe the thing will be over with instead of dragging on forever as some kind of hell for people who want to shoot zombies forever.

[–] DomsDad 11 years ago

Whatever film school are teaching the glories of the shaky-cam need to be shut down immediately!

[–] scottstvshop 11 years ago

I couldn't watch some of it for the shaking but a lot of it was okay. It was kind of depressing seeing all this angst about the zombies, of course they were all someones family at one time, but they are now zombies, so kill them and be done with it. I think the whole point of the movie was how hard it was to deal with killing people who had been at one time special to themselves and others and that was interesting, but at the same time not really the plot we are expecting from these kinds of movies, just my two cents worth.

[–] tbonesays 9 years ago

Yes I had to keep changing the channel because it was unwatchable. He had a promising concept too with a depressive zombie dystopia.