TV/Movies Megathread

[Viking]

I wonder how they'll make Rocket Raccoon not look silly.

Rocket Raccoon is silly. Get over it. Trying to pretend he isn't isn't going to work. Play up the fact that he has a lot of very big guns and a personality guaranteed to make Wolverine win the miss congeniality contest between them. I say run with that.

[lustindarkness]

Am I the only one who thinks World War Z looks atrocious?

It may be an entertaining zombie movie. But we already know they fucked up the book with this movie.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Am I the only one who thinks World War Z looks atrocious?

It may be an entertaining zombie movie. But we already know they fucked up the book with this movie.

More like they threw the book away but for the title and then pissed on it.

[Viking]

Am I the only one who thinks World War Z looks atrocious?

It may be an entertaining zombie movie. But we already know they fucked up the book with this movie.

More like they threw the book away but for the title and then pissed on it.

How they were going to make a set piece movie out of a collection of short stories always confused me. None of the stories are complete and none of them connect to each other in any other means than that they happen during the zombie apocalypse.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Am I the only one who thinks World War Z looks atrocious?

It may be an entertaining zombie movie. But we already know they fucked up the book with this movie.

More like they threw the book away but for the title and then pissed on it.

How they were going to make a set piece movie out of a collection of short stories always confused me. None of the stories are complete and none of them connect to each other in any other means than that they happen during the zombie apocalypse.

Yes. It is a poor choice for a movie adaptation. But that never stops them from trying.

[lustindarkness]

Very difficult to do properly, yes. They could have started by not making the zombies freaking supermen.

[Syt]

I think I could live with the movie being totally different from the book, with the license slapped on. It just looks so generic and uninteresting. I'll be happy to sing its praises, though, if it should turn out to be somewhat decent, though.

[Viking]

I think WWZ could have worked as a TV mini-series. Use the existing stories, get some creative people to add a few more and then use the Guide to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse to define the world.

Trying to make it as a Star Vehicle was never going to work.

[lustindarkness]

Not much you can do with a zombie apocalypse movie you know. Unless you make the drama and personal relationships during a zombie apocalypse the main story. In WWZ the zombie apocalypse is the main story.

I just wish we went back to the traditional slow but unstopable horde of zombies.

[Viking]

Not much you can do with a zombie apocalypse movie you know. Unless you make the drama and personal relationships during a zombie apocalypse the main story. In WWZ the zombie apocalypse is the main story.

I just wish we went back to the traditional slow but unstopable horde of zombies.

+1 fast zombies suggest some thinking going on. Rage eventually burns out more quickly, so it isn't really plausible for raging running jumping zombies.

[Kleves]

I don't think you can do a non-comedic movie showing the zombie apocalypse (as opposed to just showing the aftermath, a la Walking Dead) and have slow zombies. They're just not threatening enough until they reach critical mass. Though maybe with how fat the US is, shuffling zombies might be able to run down most of the population.*


*Actually, it would probably be hilarious to watch some fat guy desperately trying to start his scooter as the zombies slowly inched closer. 

[lustindarkness]

Yes, it is also scarier (specially for movies) the slow unstopable inevitable horde of unthinking zombies.
You build the suspense all movie long as you find yourself hiding from the zeds in small farmhouse with a blonde, a black dude and a few others. Then you let a few of those get eaten by the zombies and only a couple survive.

[lustindarkness]

One of the reasons I enjoy the zombie genre is that they mostly don't take themselves seriously. Some very funny zombie movies out there.

[Syt]

I don't think you can do a non-comedic movie showing the zombie apocalypse (as opposed to just showing the aftermath, a la Walking Dead) and have slow zombies. They're just not threatening enough until they reach critical mass. Though maybe with how fat the US is, shuffling zombies might be able to run down most of the population.*


*Actually, it would probably be hilarious to watch some fat guy desperately trying to start his scooter as the zombies slowly inched closer.

It's been a while since I watched the Dawn of the Dead remake, but didn't the zombies in it start out fast when they were fresh and became slower when they started to rot (or whatever it was they did)?

[lustindarkness]

I don't think you can do a non-comedic movie showing the zombie apocalypse (as opposed to just showing the aftermath, a la Walking Dead) and have slow zombies. They're just not threatening enough until they reach critical mass. Though maybe with how fat the US is, shuffling zombies might be able to run down most of the population.*


*Actually, it would probably be hilarious to watch some fat guy desperately trying to start his scooter as the zombies slowly inched closer.

It's been a while since I watched the Dawn of the Dead remake, but didn't the zombies in it start out fast when they were fresh and became slower when they started to rot (or whatever it was they did)?

I think they were fast, IIRC one of the first fast zed movies.