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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2009-11-10 08:51 pm
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Zombieland

This movie was really too much fun! Zombies in general are not a trope I'm fond of, but as with Shaun of the Dead, I couldn't resist the adorable characters and tongue-in-cheek humor.

The only flat note for me was the Bill Murray joke sequence, which was funny for five seconds and then went on way too long, with a helping of extra WTF for the ending. But otherwise, it was light and exciting and fun, if slightly gory at times. The too-cute-to-handle bonding between "Tallahassee" and "Little Rock" was probably my single favorite thing in the movie ("We're making a fort!" *squeak*). And teaching her how to shoot zombies! Awwwww.

I think this is the only zombie movie I've ever seen in which none of the main characters died. On the one hand, the movie's weirdly light-hearted and cavalier attitude towards death is kind of disturbing (again with the WTF at the Bill Murray part ... seriously, WTF?), and the fact that there are no lethal consequences for any of the main characters in a movie that's about 99% of the population dying is something that throws me off a bit. On the other hand, I got so caught up in the characters and their weird little family-of-circumstance that I think it would've broken my heart if any of them had actually died ... so maybe sometimes it's okay when everybody lives?

"I swear you're like a cockblocking robot developed in some secret government lab." XDDD

I'm totally buying this one when it's out on DVD.
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[identity profile] monanotlisa.livejournal.com 2009-11-11 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thank you for this! I have been wondering whether to, but you drawing on Shaun of the Dead is not the worst rec ever... (I do like silly horror movies.)