After ruining Vampires for a whole generation... now Zombies

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Just found out about Warm Bodies.

This is not a comedy. It is intended as Twilight with Zombies instead of Vampires.

Seriously, what is happening?!



Based on a book:

Aren't zombies essentially nerfed vampires who decompose, can't transform, and can stand sunlight anyways?

I remember hearing that George Romero's Ghouls were inspired by the infected from I am Legend, who were for all intents and purposes Vampires.

Nerds should be happy if zombies become the next sexy thing.

This is either intended for necrophiles or has nothing whatsoever to do with zombies. I can't fathom any other possibilities.

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Film executives are invariably creatures of most eldritch evil. It's only natural for them to romanticize evil creatures. Next up will be devils. THEN THE ANTICHRIST COMES. Better watch out, bros.

Zombies have NEVER been interesting and the complete zombie over-saturation in the last years certainly hasn't helped that. It's not like there was some highbrow zombie tradition that is now being kicked in the nads by zombie romance. It's just shitting on a shit thing.

My favourite line in Bloodlines was, "I don't do dead chicks."

Have you watched Romero's movies before he completely lost it? Zombies may be massively over used, but I have never seen someone seemingly equate the original Dawn of the Dead with "shit." I would say the same thing about Night of the Living Dead, but I have never seen anyone discuss it.

Night of the Living Dead is a pretty sweet movie but, by and large, zombie movies are shit.

Read "I am a Hero" for zombie romance. Though it kind of ends up in a break up.

Haven't watched his movies yet, due to lack of interest. I might watch Night Of The Living Dead one day, since it looks like it might have a nice atmosphere, I admit that. But overall the whole idea of "Brainless monsters come to eat you, better barricade the doors!" seems so terribly unappealing. I guess I'm just not a monster movie guy.

GIGGLE-SQUEE look at those gorgeous young things, such potential here! I hope that this film can be as emotionally-engaging and relatable as Twilight was, though I don't know if the planets can align like they did when R.Patt and K.Stew's raw chemistry was combined with S.M.'s amazing writing. Fingers-crossed!

Night of the Living Dead works because it's the only logically sound zombie movie, as it ends with all the zombies being shot dead by a county militia. The whole problem I've got with zombies is that people have this retarded notion of a "zombie apocalypse", which is probably the most easily avoidable disasters ever due to zombies being made of suck as far as combat goes. Even Zimbabwe could repel a global zombie invasion ffs. If you'd do a zombie apocalypse scenario, zombies would just be a sideshow but a lethal, airborne, undetectable and highly contagious virus that turns healthy people into walking corpses is the main concern, with zombies just being there to attract dumbasses.

EDIT: Or you could do it like that some manga/anime and just use zombies as an excuse for combat to give the audience what they really want: bouncing tits and panty-shots.

I already had a thread about this in GD, but one thread is really not enough to contain the lulz

Problem is, in that movie EVERY one who has died before Zombies, would wake up from their graves, and whoever would die after Zombie outbreak, even if that would not be because of Zombies, would turn into one. It's a no win situation, and if the whole world could not be zombified, it still would be a very, very huge problem. Like your dear old aunt would pass away at night while sleeping next to your room, and would bite in your jugular a few minutes later. I haven't still watched other Romero films (I plan to do so) so maybe they changed something.

Do chicks really even dig that Hoult guy.

I remember watching a few episodes of Skins where he was supposed to be the hottest guy in school but I couldn't feel it.

Zombie romances yay

Oh noes they are coming after our most beloved nerd fad! But when i think about it, zombie dudes, with brains long rotten away, wooing a bland, self-absorbed attention whore - this could actually be true to Romero's original use of zombies as a social commentary!

Peanut problems. Especially considering that the other side doesn't have fucking guns.

I thought Dawn of the Dead was shitty. Low production value, retarded philosophical questions - "is it wrong to shoot a human who is actually a zombie?", policemen totally freaking out because they shot a zombie, 70's (or whatever) fashion, overall stupid premise. Maybe it was meant to be campy, but honestly campy is just the hipster term for shit.

Mandatory cremation of all corpses. A flamethrower in every household. People in danger of immediate death (very old, very sick, badly injured) are required to be locked in a room whenever alone.

PROBLEM?

What is it with people who think Romeo and Juliet is some grand romantic story of the ages? It's a fucking tragedy about two stupid kids who's desire to fuck overrode their common sense, and in a rush to get married and get legal permission to fuck they screw things up and die. It's basically telling the audience that a romance based upon lust is doomed to failure.

Edit: The only 'real' zombie apocalypse that I could see happening IRL is a rage zombie outbreak ala 28 Days Later, and that'd easily be stemmed by simply waiting it out for the hordes to starve to death.

Really, shamblers wouldn't last at all. They'd basically roast in the summer and freeze in the winter, they have literally no survival instinct whatsoever (masses of zombies would just walk off cliffs, individuals would break their legs tripping on sidewalks and try to keep going, etc), and, well, they're only source of food happens to be the highest group on the food chain.

The philosophy of the movie was actually about then modern society already being inhabited by zombies thanks to consumerism (yes, Romero is a super undomesticated snowman). You gradually see the main characters descend into a lifeless state as they take more and more from the shopping mall. This is also, more or less, spelled out by Peter Washington when he suggests that the zombies are in the shopping mall because "the place was important to them in life." So, you might be able to turn the question that you provided around. Is it groundbreaking and thought provoking stuff? Hardly, but it is an interesting satire.

I think it is a great exaggeration to call it shitty, and that attacking a 70s movie for being 70s is wrong, but ah well.

What did you find so shitty about the premise that it was worth mentioning, though? It has been quite some time, and I can't remember anything that detracted from the overall movie.