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Warning - not worth of your time and money!

posted 12 years ago by MarioTee
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I know it can be quite tempting to check low budget, rip off, junk movies. It is interesting to see and compare modern 70 million blockbuster movie with one that has 450x less. Also, this tipe of movies is always fun to watch with friends.

However, you can skip this one. I can't remember any moment in whole movie that was good but not goofy. I was bored 80% of time.

Zombies are very slow and stupid but seems like our heroes around President are even more stupid. Story is thin and doesn't give any answers. Good thing you won't even care.

Seriously, don't watch this one. If you like cheap Asylum movies, there are many other movies, such as Nazis, Mega Sharks or Terminators. Cra*, all of them, but trust me, much better than this one. Why? This one actually tries. And fails.

2/10

[–] redfist6 12 years ago

Considering that the movie is olny available right via torrent...you really didn't waste any money. Troll harder.

[–] MarioTee 12 years ago

I do it sometimes because buying movie to Croatia is expencive. And, beleve it or not, I do it often with Asylum. If i think it's worth of money. This one is not.

Also, its always good when movie director actually make profile only to give this cra* high rate and to reply actuall viewers.

[–] redfist6 12 years ago

In America we have a saying....
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free.

[–] MarioTee 12 years ago

Now, do you really get milk for free? Here one liter of milk is 6 kuna, or 1 dollar. Interesting, isn't it?

[–] azynkron 12 years ago

I thought it was "Why pay for it when you can get *beep* for free?"
Seriously though.. This is highly disturbing. Honestly I thought it would be a bad joke when I first saw the title some months ago. To my disappointment I was wrong. It doesn't really matter if the budget for this had been 10000000 Euro or 10 Euro. Some things should not see the day of light if we want to avoid the apocalypse. This is one of them.

[–] zarathustra2k1 12 years ago

Free clue: where did OP say he spent any money on this crapfest?

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[–] MarioTee 12 years ago

And its funny how you in ASSylum (lol) are against Torrents and similar stuff while rip-off real movies and stupid people.

[–] Touchmetallic 12 years ago

Thanks for the heads-up mate. You saved my time and money...

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[–] NightoftheDawnoftheDayoftheDead 12 years ago

Every *beep* movie the ASSylum makes is a waste of your time and money. They just profit off other's work.

They're profiting from the MPAA, who are evil, but it's still not right.

[–] MarioTee 12 years ago

I wouldn't say, EVERY. I liked Snow White, Mega Sharks... like, 4 movies at least.

[–] davemooreblues 12 years ago

Actually, this movie was quite entertaining.

[–] bps3013 12 years ago

Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies is actually far far better than it has any right to be, considering it's an Asylum knock-off. Bill Oberst Jr's portrayal of Lincoln is nothing short of brilliant and the way the plot plays with historical facts and figures is very clever and highly effective, especially with the way it deals with Lincoln's death. See it for the lulz, appreciate it for the way it manages to transcend Asylum's usual bottom of the barrel production values. If it would have had a bigger budget, this could have easily been a box office contender.

That said, I've not read the book that the AL:VH film is based on, but the Lincoln fighting a Confederate zombie outbreak premise is far superior to Lincoln fighting a vampire menace. Gut feeling is that for the first time in direct-to-video cheap ripoff history, Asylum might have gotten one over on Big Hollywood.

:)

[–] Indifferent_Observer 12 years ago

I agree with the above poster. This was surprisingly good for an Asylum film.

[–] tofogandrc 12 years ago

I was pleasantly surprised in this movie. I am however a fan of Asylum and do not find this a knock off. It was playing on other movie to get people to check this out.
The book AL:VH is surprisingly original. This movie was too. But I like to be entertained I agree with bps3013 I loved the play on history and since I have a history and English degree I knew TR was too young to be a teen, but it sure was fun to watch and hear the little quotes.

[–] Buckaroo-Robot-Monster 12 years ago

The movie has only a few weak points such as Lincoln takes the Harry Potter train to South Carolina and the actor playing Stonewall Jackson should have been decapitated right off the bat. But the actor who played Abraham Lincoln is surprisingly good as an action-packed chief executive. I found the movie on Netflix.

[–] sandifay62 12 years ago

Watching movies isn't about time and money. It's about taking a risk to have a good time. If you don't, it shouldn't be that big of a deal. You just watch the next movie. The day seeing a movie that I end up not liking wrecks my bank account or takes years off my life is the day I have become to delicate to function. Lol

It's just a movie, and it entertained me. Was it the greatest? No, but the title told us that. It's all in fun.

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[–] juliemom8 12 years ago

My son and I just watched it and we loved it....way to go with a small budget!!!

[–] smerd_70 11 years ago

Fortunately I form my own opinions on films and not by some random stranger on the Interwebs.
I thought this movie was very entertaining.

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