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Zombieland - 10/3/2009 2:50:44 AM
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ManimalX
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THE MOST spontaneous audience applause I have ever heard from a packed theater, not to mention the constant belly laughs rolling around the room. It started not even 60 seconds into the introduction, and I lost track of how many times the whole audience started cheering. There was a constant rolling laughter between various groups throughout the theater. I laughed until I had tears in my eyes probably two-dozen times, though I was enjoying the film and not actually keeping count.
If you are offended by "cuss" words, don't go see this movie. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) cusses... a lot. Condemn me if you will, but it was hilarious. But even if you do get offended by "bad" language and see the movie anyway, there are so many sight gags and slapstick moments that you have to LOL... a lot!
Zombieland is now on the top of my list of funniest movies ever, and is tied for #1 on my favorite zombie flick list, sharing a spot with 28 Days Later. It is impossible to choose between the two, because one is a dramatic take on apocalyptic survival and the other is a comedy about appreciating life... that just happens to be filled with flesh eating zombies. As much of a comedy as it was, it had a few serious moments that were done well and hammered home the message about the importance of relationship and love. I even got misty-eyed at one point when the truth about Tallahassee's "Buck" is revealed. But mostly it was my kind of stupid funny.
I already consider Bill Murray's cameo as himself one of the most classic comedy moments of all of film history.
Violent? Yeah, of course. It is a zombie movie! Hello? Zombies eat people, property gets destroyed, zombies get shot in the head, usually twice (Columbus's rule #1: double-tap!), zombies get their heads smashed with baseball bats, toilets, banjos, pianos, cars, and carnival rides, zombies get decapitated with hedge pruners, zombies get run over (and then backed over, and then run over again), more property gets destroyed, zombies eat a man on the toilet, zombies get shot, and the zombie clown dies a death worthy of a zombie clown.
To conclude, I should note that this is a true nerd's movie and even a tribute to all of us who love zombie flicks. For example, Jesse Eisenberg's character, Columbus, is the consummate lovable nerd, who before the zombie plague spent all of his free time playing WoW surrounded by Mountain Dew Code Red and Pizza Boxes.
You had me at "Code Red".
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 3:34:38 AM
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Going to see this today. Very excited about it. I haven't seen Jesse Eisenberg in a bad movie yet. The Squid and the Whale and Adventureland were great. He's the only one left of the quirky young actors that I trust. Also, this is getting great reviews.
Can't wait.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 3:38:51 AM
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I hope you either go with good company or get a good audience, because that helped make the movie super fun for me!
EDIT (SPOILER?): Regarding Jesse Eisenberg, he is hilarious as well. He basically narrates the movie. Like I said, his character is a huge nerdy introvert who survives in Zombieland because of his OCD adherence to his list of rules. His "innocence" is what is so funny. He is uncomfortable cussing, so when he unexpectedly does it, it is hilarious, and his innocence towards women is refreshing. One of his goals in life before the zombie plague was to brush a girl's hair back over her ear. After he meets Wichita, his voice-over narrative says, "Oh yeah. Someone is getting their hair brushed back over their ear later."
Yeah, I probably ruined the joke. But its funny when you actually hear it!
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 4:40:02 AM
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i have a HUGE collection of zombie movies, and i;ll have to say this is now my favorite zombie movie of all time. sorry romero. and i didnt think harrelson cussed THAT much... i mean... jay and silent bob blow him out of the water as far as language. but the movie was SUPER superb. can't wait to own it! and when i left the theatre... i had to stop at walmart to get some twinkies. lol
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 6:00:49 AM
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Also, I hear there is a big kerfuffle over whether zombies should be "shufflers" or "sprinters". The "shuffler" crowd, which tends to be a crowd more of the classic Romero type, seems to hate this movie, but it never mattered to me much either way.
I thought it was awesome when 28 Days Later broke the "slow moving zombie" rule to huge success.
I would like to see a throwback in the sense of a successful "shuffling" zombie hoard flick, where the undead are dangerous because of their numbers, not because of their agility.
Shoot, maybe I'll write it myself.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 8:59:29 AM
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shuffle all the way. the sprint thing is gay. i still love the movies, but the sprinting just seems so... unrealistic. they're dead! not super-mutants. for a successfull shuffler... what about shaun of the dead?
i saw '28 days' the day it came out in theatres... then went and saw a living sacrifice and demon hunter show that night :D good times.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 2:04:25 PM
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cannot wait to see this! I've heard nothing but awesomeness about it.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 6:03:47 PM
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In all fairness, the Zombieland zombies are "infected", not actually "dead", which is explained at one point I think when Columbus and Tallahassee first meet.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/3/2009 7:02:07 PM
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I'm going tonight. Cannot wait.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/4/2009 1:34:46 AM
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Went again tonight. Convinced my wife to go see it for our anniversary. She is a dedicated "vampire" fan, and was completely sure she was going to hate this movie.
Yeah, she laughed until she cried, too and grudgingly admitted it was the funnest movie she has been to in a long time. She said she could see this movie being like a Rocky Horror Picture Show, with folks showing up and throwing Twinkies at the screen or something.
The movie has SO many hysterical one-liners... most of which can't be posted here without violating TOS 
Some of the clean ones (possible SPOILER if that is possible):
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Tallahassee: "This Twinkie thing... oh, it ain't over..."
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Little Rock: "Who's Bill Murray?"
Tallahassee: "Wha... you don't know who Bill Murray is?! That's like saying you've never heard of Ghandi!"
Little Rock: "Who's Ghandi?"
Tallahassee: ".............. I have never punched a little kid before"
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Tallahassee: "You wanna feel how hard I can punch?"
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Wichita, to the dying Bill Murray: "Do you have any regrets?"
Bill Murray: "Maybe... Garfield...."
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Tallahassee, poking at Bill Murray's bullet holes: "I don't think we're gonna be able to stitch this up..."
Bill Murray: "Ahhh... that's.... still tender"
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Columbus: "You're one of those guys who always has to have a better story than anyone else, aren't you?"
Tallahassee: "No way... I knew a guy who was way worse at it than me!"
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RE: Zombieland - 10/4/2009 2:41:12 AM
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I liked it. I don't think it's astoundingly original (it mines the same territory as Shaun of the Dead), but it's definitely funny. I agree that the best bit was Bill Murry. Most of the film is just slightly above average, but that bit was classic.
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My favorite part was his 2 long sighs and the crack about Garfield while he was dying.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/4/2009 2:42:50 AM
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Absolutely loved this movie. It makes a strong push for Movie of the Year in my book.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/4/2009 3:45:13 AM
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So can I say this is the latest zombie comedy to give Shaun of The Dead a run for its money?   No (shufflers vs. sprinters) pun intended.
Haha! Nice.
Honestly, I went in to the movie with Shaun of the Dead on the brain, but didn't think about once after the first 60 seconds or so.
I think they are completely different movies that share a theme of comedy and zombie.
Here is a fun interview with Zombieland's writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/08/17/interview-zombieland-writers-rhett-reese-and-paul-wernick/
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I wanted to address the idea of making a zombie movie unique and fresh in this day and age, because we've seen so many. We've come from, obviously the George Romero time up to the point where every up and coming every up and coming indie horror director tries to do a zombie movie. So how did you guys, going into Zombieland starting with the TV show, try to make this fresh and unique and different?
Wernick: I think more than anything we wanted to really look at it as a character piece, as elitist as that sounds. It was a story about this dysfunctional family traveling across a post-apocalyptic world. And the zombies, while being obstacles, were not the focal point of the movie, if that makes sense.
Reese: It's really a movie about a dysfunctional family. And you can't choose your family members and in a post-apocalyptic world you can't choose who you get to hang out with. You're going to be forced to hang out with some people who may not be the people you would have chosen to hang out with in regular society. And our movie has no human bad guy, which is rare for any movie, any action movie or any movie like this, there's no antagonists. So our protagonists had to serve as each other's antagonists. Their personalities provided that and we've got a really fearful guy and a really fearless guy, a guy who always wants to run from every bad situation, that's Jesse Eisenberg's character, and a guy who wants to run into every dangerous situation, that's Woody Harrelson. We thought that's a really fun push-pull. These two are buddies but one of them is always dragging the other one in the other direction and that creates conflict.
And then we have two women who have survived entirely by their wits and who don't trust anyone in the world except for each other, they've learned that the hard way. And so those two immediately are at odds with the two guys and the sparks flying between and among those four characters is what drives the story. So to us it was less about reinventing the zombie genre and more about creating a really funny, fun, emotional story among these four people and then also layering in all those scares and thrills and jolts.
There is lots of other info in there, like the fact that they tried to get a ton of different famous actors to do the cameo bit that Bill Murray ended up nailing. They even wrote specific scripts for each actor. The original idea was for Patrick Swayze, but then he got sick and they just kept pitching the idea to others: Joe Pesci, Mark Hamill, The Rock, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Bacon, Steven Seagal, Sylvester Stallone.
Here is another interview where they talked about what Swayze's scene would have been:
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/interviewsnews.php?id=11920
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RE: Zombieland - 10/5/2009 2:38:06 PM
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yep one great movie.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/8/2009 6:19:31 PM
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Funny movie, and cleverly done. Not all good, but overall worth seeing.
Having Murray as himself was great, and so was his explanation of the make-up, though who didn't see that happening to him in the movie room? Still, they pulled it off.
Yeah, if you're going to have a zombie clown, that's how it should meet its end.
Would have liked to have had the "Zombie Kill of the Week" explained; for example, how it was kept track of, who's keeping track of it, who's videoing the kills, where are all the people doing the kills, et al. Gotta love the one with the piano.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/8/2009 11:19:46 PM
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Apparently they cut about 45 minutes from the film. Looking forward to the extended DVD.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/12/2009 12:13:16 AM
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finally got to see this tonight. LOVED IT. Enjoy the dynamics between the characters and their little quirks.
My favorite line?
"That'll do, pig"
tooooo funny.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/12/2009 4:51:55 PM
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Never heard of it but I'm up for it. It sounds like a good time. That is whenever it gets around to our desolate little town. Just going to check out the trailer for it now.
If you like zombie movies, you will like it. Again, so long as some cuss words doesn't bother you.
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RE: Zombieland - 10/15/2009 12:14:56 PM
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Yesterday has looked this film, very much it was pleasant, especially as from for a stupid joke have killed the well-known person.
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RE: Zombieland - 3/17/2010 3:57:44 AM
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GREAT movie! own it on dvd and i love it. my husband (keithyhuntington) and I love zombie movies and have made it a tradition to buy one for our anniversary (and his bday) ever year. I also can't wait for the "World War Z" movie to come out. It was a great book by Max Brooks (Mel Brooks' son), who also wrote "The Zombie Survial Guide". Long Live the zombie era!
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RE: Zombieland - 3/21/2010 9:37:58 PM
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I absolutely LOVE this movie! My favorite part is how the the rules come up on the screen but the characters can interact with them, like knocking letters over while backing up and stuff like that.
And, yeah, his "someone's getting her hair brushed over her ear" comment was just delightful!
My husband thought there should be more zombie kills in it, but I loved it the way it was. It's a coming-of-age story that just happens to take place in a world full of zombies. Fantastic stuff.
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RE: Zombieland - 3/24/2010 5:26:45 PM
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I was surprised by how much fun this movie was. I was prepared for it to be really stupid, but it was actually smart-funny for the most part. The rules were the best part.
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