Thursday, October 8, 2009

Zombieland sucked



Zombieland, the hit movie with undead that owes more to "Shaun of the Dead" then "Night of the Living Dead," has made some serious money but I must ask why?  How the hell is this movie any good?  It felt like the writers had a great idea but only enough to get it to the 60 minute mark, and just barely, then they switched gears and went from smart-slightly snotty self aware dialogue to full on action sequence minus all dialogue in a situation that should never have happened. I won't give it away but right around the hour mark the movie jumps the shark and 1/3 of the ticket price should be refunded as a result.  A movie that self aware would never, ever, EVER do what two charecters at the one hour mark.  If this was a 1980's slasher flick, then yes, totally expected, but not here, it didn't fit and as soon as it happened, the movie was over and I watched in terror as the movie became a cliche.

The first hour was decent, not great, but watchable.  It could have been better (should have been better) but by the time they end up at Bill Murray's mansion (I'm not spoiling a thing, he's listed in the credits on imdb.org) the script become dialogue heavy, whereas before that it was an even mix of action and smart dialogue, and from the situation-less/dragging scene at Murray's it dives headfirst into the shark moment. 

I don't rate movies but this time I'll make an exception.  The movie should be two stars but because the writers failed so miserably at what could have been a fucking great comedy, it gets a punative one star. 

PS  Jesse Eisenburg is hot.  If I ever get married, he'd be on the list.  

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