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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:31 pm
by Leisher
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I didn't even know they made this thing.
What the hell happened to Ving Rhames' career?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:06 pm
by Malcolm
This was easily the shittiest of that franchise. But yeah, this must've come in so low under the radar as to be subterranean.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:11 pm
by Leisher
I remember the original and I remember it sucking. That's sort of why I was surprised they remade it.
I guess I shouldn't have been as all Hollywood has left in its bag of tricks is remakes.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:29 pm
by Malcolm
Day was when he tried out the prototype of his "zombie nation" thing. Which later turned into Land.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:42 pm
by Leisher
There was a tunnel where they kept zombies right?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:56 pm
by Malcolm
Leisher wrote:There was a tunnel where they kept zombies right?
Yeah, some underground military base. Run by a general & scientist that don't get along. Scientist is trying to domesticate zombies. Hilarity ensues.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:18 pm
by GORDON
It was filmed, IIRC, in an actual underground storage tunnel complex in... Florida?
Apparently it actually is massive.... used for RV storage, I think.
The original was hit and miss. It was a great concept, and had some disturbing imagery and ideas, but then it fell down in the 'human' elements. A zombie named "Bub." Psychotic military people, of course. The dope-smoking hippies being the only peeps with morality. whatever.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:55 pm
by TPRJones
So, the remake of the second sequal to a movie that is also a sequal to a remake of a sequal kind of sucked?
I'm shocked.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:19 am
by Malcolm
We should form the DTMan writing cadre & sell screenplays for sequels that were obviously intended, but never made.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:33 am
by Leisher
Yeah, some underground military base. Run by a general & scientist that don't get along. Scientist is trying to domesticate zombies. Hilarity ensues.
If you missed the previous review I posted, see Fido. A zombie domestication movie set in a "Leave it to Beaver" world.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:16 am
by TPRJones
I'd like to see a movie playing with the potential of zombies as a renewable energy resource. I mean they're basically little biological perpetual motion machines, aren't they? Stick one in a giant hamster wheel with a generator attached, let him see you, and you can convert his shambling and lurching into a few ergs of juice.
Of course if that happened we'd eventually have a zombie crisis and end up invading some foreign country to steal their zombies. And we get "No war for zombies!" protests from the bleeding hearts that would rather just convert our armed forces directly into zombies instead. Bah.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:46 pm
by Malcolm
Yeah, but the amount of power old-school zombies generate would be insanely small.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:25 pm
by Leisher
I hate new school zombies. They're too fast and too strong. The human race wouldn't stand a chance of survival if zombies were like that. Plus, them moving so fast takes a lot of the suspense out of the story, it just becomes all action. Instead of any drama from someone encountering a person they know, there's no time for stuff like that. The fast zombies remove the element of fear caused by the "holy shit, they're us" factor and simply turn it into a survival movie.
I don't think rotting corpses should have the speed of Jesse Owens, the stamina of a Pony Express horse, and the strength of Arnold Swartzenegger.
Throw all of that together plus overwhelming numbers and a single bite causing the victim to also become one of them and you've got an unstoppable plague that would wipe life off the planet.
"World War Z" and "The Walking Dead", two of the best zombie stories, if not THE best, would not be possible with the superhuman zombies.
At least in the 28 Days Later series they have the sense the limit the damage to an island and rapidly starve the "zombie-like" monsters to death.
I do like the concept of zombies moving a bit quicker, not sprinting, if they're "fresher" dead and/or when it's warmer.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:02 pm
by Malcolm
Someone needs to figure out the rules for the undead. It seems weird that by that logic, zombies get more worthless as they get older while mummies, vampires, etc., all get stronger as they get older. How the fuck the zombies get the short end of the stick?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:26 pm
by Cakedaddy
I heard on the extras of Night of the Living Dead, that zombies are slow and walk funny cause rigor mortis sets in. So, the 'fresh' ones being faster would work.