Zombie Friday--Zombies Anonymous

[amberfocus]

So the premise of this movie wasn't actually that bad.  Something is making the recently dead continue to function after death.  They actually still have their minds, their personalities, etc., but their hearts beat only once every two minutes or something.  Of course regular humans are afraid of them and consider them second class citizens because they are dead.  So the idea of this movie is that it would follow one girl after she was murdered by her nasty boyfriend as she tried to cope with suddenly being a zombie and an outcast of society.  I think they really could have done it well.  Good premise, but the execution?  Um...I made it about ten, fifteen minutes into it before I gave up.  Just the constant hard swearing distracted from any plot that might have been forming.  Which is too bad, because I liked the summary a lot.  It could have been a real thinky piece done a different way, but I'm not going to work that hard to watch a movie that can't throw in a few non-expletive adjectives.

Comments

[who-in-whoville.livejournal.com]

Well that is disappointing... did you have a backup movie?

I sort of had my own zombie friday tonight... Saw Super 8. FINALLY! No, it isn't a zombie movie per se... well, sort of, but not in a plotty sort of way. Is that non-spoilery enough? I promise. I haven't given any plot away.

I was most disappointed not to see a Fright Night preview. But there was a preview for Cowboys and Aliens.... with a VERY FINE Daniel Craig. Sigh...

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't have a backup movie, but that's okay because I am reading a really good book right now, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, which is proving far better than any movie I've seen recently.