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American Zombie - GeraldRice - 05-05-2009
*Yawn* a very interesting concept ruined by nothing happening. It started out interesting enough with a would-be documentarian hooking up with a real one. They set about interviewing some of the undead, who don't necessarily eat human flesh and aren't necessarily mindless. It depends on how they died and how much damage was done to the mind, I s'pose, but they interviewed 4 of the living impaired and it seemed all well and good until I realized something: I don't care about a single one of these dead people. I mean, they're just not interesting. There's little to no conflict with them. The only one who had anything remotely interesting going on was the one woman who was desperate to find out who she was. But the vegan, boring; the store clerk, boring; and the activist, boring. The only thing that was even remotely intriguing was the yearly party they were talking about where they all gather and do something where humans are not invited (que eerie music). Here's the true shocker:[SPOILER] nothing happened. Somebody might have been devoured by zombies, but it may have just been theater. And then the vegan attacks one of the documentarians at the end and he eventually turns into a zombie.[/SPOILER] It just could have been handled so much better than it was. If they'd bothered to develop these characters some, give them something interesting to do and say. Give them a story apart from being a zombie that someone might have cared about. They took a cool idea and just shat it out.
American Zombie - cobalt - 05-05-2009
Sounds boring and funny. Hey...they didn't eat brains did they? I heard that's a myth.
American Zombie - t4terrific - 05-05-2009
cobalt79 Wrote:...they didn't eat brains did they? I heard that's a myth.
That's not a myth. It's true! I saw it happen, one time, up in Pixley.
American Zombie - cobalt - 05-05-2009
t4terrific Wrote:That's not a myth. It's true! I saw it happen, one time, up in Pixley.Oh....I don't know...I've got it on good authority that zombies don't go for brains. Hey...but I've been wrong before...I think...once...kinda.
American Zombie - Brian - 05-05-2009
Just remember to shoot them in the head babe, then you won't have to worry at all about them.
American Zombie - saynomore - 05-05-2009
Try "Biozombie". Starts silly, then builds to a surprizing conclusion I doubt anyone could see coming. J-Horror, by the way. But don't be detoured by the initial silliness. This movie gains some bad-ass momentum and the cartoon characters slowly become real people you care about as the zombies take over the mall where they are trapped.
AC
P.S. Three and half stars out of five (my netflix recommendation).