I have seen Shaun of the Dead! It is funny, clever, touching and incredibly gross. I watched the gross parts through my fingers, with my glasses off, but I loved the rest.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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quester - Oct 02, 2004 6:43:37 pm PDT #4331 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 02, 2004 8:12:47 pm PDT #4332 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm fairly certain that the music won't be better than the 80's version.
Has a movie EVER had a better theme song? Plus, if I recall correctly, the 80s film was campy enough to make The Apple look like a documentary.
Alibelle - Oct 02, 2004 10:01:44 pm PDT #4333 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Okay, why does everyone keep hyping Shaun of the Dead as a hysterically funny movie, with zombies? It isn't. It isn't a rom-zom-com, as one critic called it, nor is it hysterically funny.
It is, at times, fairly amusing. It is, at other times, kind of boring. It is also sad, and sometimes really disgusting. It is not, at any time, a hysterically funny romantic comedy with zombies.
It's certainly not a movie I'll ever need to see again.
Scrappy - Oct 02, 2004 10:13:11 pm PDT #4334 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Alibelle is a wonderful, smart, insightful human being...most of the time. I just got back from the movies and have to say that Shaun of the Dead is often very funny, at times hysterically funny and even at moments quite moving.
Lee - Oct 02, 2004 10:16:00 pm PDT #4335 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Huh. Either Robin can sometimes be wrong, or they cut most of the hysterical parts out of the version Alibelle and I saw, and only left in the kind of funny ones.
Alibelle - Oct 02, 2004 10:18:52 pm PDT #4336 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Was it really hysterically funny? Were you laughing so hard or so much that your tummy is now sore? Because that means hysterically funny, to me. The best this did for me was the occasional, "heh." Like during the part where he's going through his routine, not realizing that everyone is dead and/or a zombie. And the part with his dead mom was moving.
But I just don't get what all the hype is about, I guess.
ETA: Hi Lee!
Scrappy - Oct 02, 2004 10:27:45 pm PDT #4337 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I laughed hysterically a couple of times (like when they all greeted their counterparts ), but I was smiling and chuckling most of the film--even better, I wasn't bored or annoyed.
Lee - Oct 02, 2004 10:31:13 pm PDT #4338 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I laughed in several places, especially in the first half of the film, but the gross out stuff towards the end counteracted that, so I ended up not liking the film that much. I am the first to admit though that I am a really big wuss about gross out stuff.
Jessica - Oct 03, 2004 6:21:03 am PDT #4339 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Were you laughing so hard or so much that your tummy is now sore?
Yes. And even moreso the second time, because I noticed more of the callbacks. (The first time around, I completely missed that the scene towards the end where they're taking the zombies out with the shotgun is a near shot-for-shot and line-by-line replica of the scene in the beginning where Ed is playing the video game. It's beautifully done.)
Invisible Green - Oct 03, 2004 3:58:54 pm PDT #4340 of 10001
I saw "A Dirty Shame" this weekend. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it was pretty funny.
The plot (well, what there is of one, anyway), is pretty negligible. It's the cast that makes the movie. Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, and Johnny Knoxville give stand-out performances. It's also a very funny movie. The "Hokey Pokey" scene is arguably the funniest scene from any movie of the past year.
Sadly, the movie seems to lose track of both its plot and its sense of humor about halfway through, and while it remains enjoyable, it really loses its purpose (though it does make one strong one thgroughout the film).
Also, the movie ends fairly abruptly, leaving the viewer somewhat unsatisfied. I was left wanting more, and not in a good way.
It's still one of the best movies I've seen this year (#3, maybe), so if you like this type of movie, I recommend it.