Post by nickconrad on Mar 28, 2009 19:00:56 GMT -5
I had heard of this movie someplace before, so I put it on last night. I wonder, as I did with Re-Animator, if I am the oddball-out in my reaction to this movie. IMDB seems to think it's quite good. I did not.
1.) Subtle racism, you are always so good for a laugh. The white guy bounces apples in his elbow like a good ol' boy, the Asian guy is surrounded by Chinese takeout cartons, the black guy sings Amazing Grace in a "swing low sweet chariot" baritone for no reason whatsoever.
2.) I would have loved to have been in the room when they green-lighted this. "Okay, guys. Here's the pitch. Alien devil zombies with squirt guns in their mouths attack a bunch of scientists in a church. Oh, and future humans send faster than light video warnings to the scientists' dreams. Really cryptic though. They can only send indecipherable video clips from early 1970's reels rather than text" "Son, I think you have yourself a movie, but do you think you could squeeze Alice Cooper in there someplace?"
3.) Stop kicking people into the pit of death, really. You throw the "could pass as Asian" girl out the window. Fine. You effortlessly, and nonchalantly, toss the next guy out the same window? Fitting for a comedy.
4.) Zombie skulls are immune to bricks. Not wood though. They beat the everliving shit out of the Asian zombie's head with bricks while shouting "it's not working!" while Mr. Mustache cracks whitey the scientist across the face with a 2x4 with great success in knocking him out.
5.) PhD students are unread in their field. Why does the applied physics student have to explain to the Asian guy (a theoretical physics PhD candidate) about Schrodinger's Cat? Also, why does he complain that it doesn't make sense? He should have had his head around this after his 101 mid-terms.
6.) Those candles? Yeah we're saving on electricity. The canister room is filled with high-tech equipment and spotlights. Asian guy and Mustache go down there, and the place is absolutely filled with candles instead. Neither one notice.
7.) Why is dialogue so hard to write? The Asian guy locked in the closet by zombies decides to try and strike up small talk with said zombies on several occasions. When asked by his friends on the other side of the wall behind him to just hold on a second since they're almost there, he replies that he has to go to the bathroom.
8.) The sun comes up while the group is barricaded up in the room with the pit-of-death-window. Comes up. As in 6-8 am comes up. Twenty minutes later it's the dead of night.
This was on a first viewing of a John Carpenter movie which I normally enjoy. I went into the viewing without expectation, and without prejudice. These things all stood out to me, ruined any immersion I might have, and made me chuckle to myself rather than creep me out let alone frighten me. Does ANYBODY else in the world agree with me on this?
1.) Subtle racism, you are always so good for a laugh. The white guy bounces apples in his elbow like a good ol' boy, the Asian guy is surrounded by Chinese takeout cartons, the black guy sings Amazing Grace in a "swing low sweet chariot" baritone for no reason whatsoever.
2.) I would have loved to have been in the room when they green-lighted this. "Okay, guys. Here's the pitch. Alien devil zombies with squirt guns in their mouths attack a bunch of scientists in a church. Oh, and future humans send faster than light video warnings to the scientists' dreams. Really cryptic though. They can only send indecipherable video clips from early 1970's reels rather than text" "Son, I think you have yourself a movie, but do you think you could squeeze Alice Cooper in there someplace?"
3.) Stop kicking people into the pit of death, really. You throw the "could pass as Asian" girl out the window. Fine. You effortlessly, and nonchalantly, toss the next guy out the same window? Fitting for a comedy.
4.) Zombie skulls are immune to bricks. Not wood though. They beat the everliving shit out of the Asian zombie's head with bricks while shouting "it's not working!" while Mr. Mustache cracks whitey the scientist across the face with a 2x4 with great success in knocking him out.
5.) PhD students are unread in their field. Why does the applied physics student have to explain to the Asian guy (a theoretical physics PhD candidate) about Schrodinger's Cat? Also, why does he complain that it doesn't make sense? He should have had his head around this after his 101 mid-terms.
6.) Those candles? Yeah we're saving on electricity. The canister room is filled with high-tech equipment and spotlights. Asian guy and Mustache go down there, and the place is absolutely filled with candles instead. Neither one notice.
7.) Why is dialogue so hard to write? The Asian guy locked in the closet by zombies decides to try and strike up small talk with said zombies on several occasions. When asked by his friends on the other side of the wall behind him to just hold on a second since they're almost there, he replies that he has to go to the bathroom.
8.) The sun comes up while the group is barricaded up in the room with the pit-of-death-window. Comes up. As in 6-8 am comes up. Twenty minutes later it's the dead of night.
This was on a first viewing of a John Carpenter movie which I normally enjoy. I went into the viewing without expectation, and without prejudice. These things all stood out to me, ruined any immersion I might have, and made me chuckle to myself rather than creep me out let alone frighten me. Does ANYBODY else in the world agree with me on this?
