I have come to the conclusion through my years of watching scary movies that people will use laughter as a way to hide that they're actually scared ****less.
My wife was one of the laughers. Was that you, shouting, "SHUT THE F*** UP!!"? j/k Yeah, I muttered to her, "All riiiiight", as if to say, "That's enough." I don't think it was funny, but you'd think since they re-shot the entire third act that they'd show it to a test audience. Laughing at the teeth-clickers? Okay, we don't know why, but if that's indicative of the audiences we'll get? Replace it.
some reason jim carry and his hannibal impression from dumb and dumber popped into my head when the zombie did that. I don't know why.
Took my parents to see this and they couldn't stop laughing it either, think it wouldn't have elicited that type of resposne if they didn't keep showing it.
Movie was ok. I'd rate it a 7 out of 10. It would have been higher if the damn trailers didn't show so much. The producers must have been worried it would be a flop I guess. Sometimes for trailers...less is more.
People chuckled at that part in my theater too. Weird. I guess it was the way the zombie looked that was funny.
i enjoy zombie stuff but it doesn't scare me. Nothing has convinced me these are real dead brought to life characters. I always just see silly acting and its kinda lame and sometimes funny. But, its all good. Oh and whats with the lame bird/dinosaur noises zombies always seem to make in every movie. It's dumb. Movies dont scare me at all really. Aside from jump scares with loud noises, i haven't been scared since i was a kid. I miss that feeling where i didn't wanna close my eyes when it was bed time. Now, i can just go straight to jerkin after watching a video of mexican drug cartels beheading rival cartel members.
I am a little b**** when it comes to horror films, but I'll watch this. Seems more action than horror anyway.
Lol. When the face showed up at the end one of my friends let out a scream. haha, the whole theater started laughing.
I'm the same way, and I really enjoyed this one. You should go see it. For me, this was like 10x the film of Star Trek: Into Dumbness. Sure, you can still nitpick the movie all over the place, but at least the plot mattered, made a little bit of sense, and had genuine tension. And (spoiler!) the hero never had to have fisticuffs on top of a moving vehicle! When's the last time that happened? The cast is pretty great, by the way. Director drew from all sorts of (good) international people you'd normally never see in Hollywood. Spoiler Things I loved: 1. Harvard scientist shooting himself by mistake. LOLed and am still LOLing. That was perfect. 2. Muted special effects. Everything was supposed to look believable instead of being a spectacle, so sometimes underplaying a scene was perfect. The airplane scene (grenade and then crash) is the perfect example of this. 3. Scenes of city chaos were disturbing and well done, I thought. Except Newark in the movie looks just like real Newark. :grin: 4. Zombie scientists FTW! LOL. Nitpicks: A. The W.H.O. lab would never have all those disease samples in anything but super deep freeze, but I know the plot needed them more accessible. B. Everyone else on the plane is too sleepy to believe. Like, Brad Pitt is redressing an amputation wound and the guy next to them doesn't even notice. LOL. C. Generally, no way anything takes over your body in 10 seconds, but whatever. That was a smart change from the book, for the purposes of pandemic.
After reading that article detailing the original ending of the movie as scripted, they ABSOLUTELY made the right decision to re-shoot it. Ironically, in an effort to have made the movie at least a bit more like the book, had they gone ahead with the original movie as scripted, it would have been an astronomical bomb. This was an example of all the re-shoots actually being a good idea. Unlike the whole 'let's wait a year and do a ton of re-shoots' for GI Joe, which was all a bunch of 'why did they bother?'
It's one of the most bloodless zombie movies you'll ever see. There are a few cheap jump scares but it's not over used.
Well I enjoyed it but left pretty disappointed. Honestly why give it that title if it's nothing like the book? Soooo much potential, soooo many iconic moments that were squandered for pretty standard Hollywood scenes. Again not to say it wasn't good, and there was plenty of tension. But it could have been a lot more. And I realize it would be impossible to stay faithful to the book, but it's like they barely even tried. For a zombie apocalypse movie there was a definite lack of blood and grit; didn't necessarily ruin it for me, but I noticed.
Nothing like the book. And I went in thinking I was going to hate it, but I loved this movie. One of the best zombie movies I've seen, imo.
