https://twitter.com/Borys_Kit/status/1114311518726656001
Great choice. He deserves all of the work he's been getting.
Pumped for this flick. Snyder already knocked a zombie movie out of the park.
"Zombie heist thriller" makes me think that either zombies are pulling a heist, or that someone is pulling a heist to steal zombies.
Also, I have the old script for this. I haven't read it, but I doubt that the part I was told about
Spoiler
with zombies raping women
will make it into the movie.
https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1133515796544610309
https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1152698662541131776
https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1160569701006577665
Meant to post this a few days ago.
https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1295231381304307712
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1301505345739776005
https://twitter.com/GeekTyrant/status/1346944642164645888
If it's more in the vein of his dawn of the dead remake, I'm in.
From what Snyder has said about it, it sounds like it's his Dawn of the Dead remake on steroids. I'm pumped for this.
I hope so, the remake is my fave zombie movie with Romero's day of the dead.
Still need to read the script i have for this
Looks cool. Only brief snippets but I love that helicopter shot and the slow-mo gun fire shot.
You can kind of see Chris Delia in the background of one of the shots where Bautista is at the forefront. Interesting, since they are removing him from the movie completely. Must have been from an older shot.
I'm pumped for this though.
(https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/army-of-the-dead-excl.jpg)
https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1363501327184134146
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuwgvgsUYBMhf5G?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
I'm guessing society hasn't fallen if they're still after money.
Well, in case society gets re-built you might wanna save some cash. Just in case
I recall the first draft had the outbreak contained in Vegas.
(https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/602c065b87fe511dd1a37ef3/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/VF1321_Snyder_EMBED-06b.jpg)
(https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/602c065bb9f9b86e12a660b1/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/VF1321_Snyder_EMBED-06a.jpg)
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/the-true-story-of-justice-league-snyder-cut?utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=vf
https://twitter.com/DaveBautista/status/1364651344305479681
New photo
https://twitter.com/totalfilm/status/1367519826411978754
Someone must have been a fan of Private Vasquez
(https://www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Vasquez-Aliens-movie-Jenette-Goldstein-a.jpg)
Snyder has said in a few interviews this movie is heavily influenced by Aliens, among a few other of his favorites.
New photo
https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/status/1371857612313128967
excitement levels increasing... killing zombies with a saw
New poster
https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1378382877813960709
Not sure how I feel about "smart" zombies.
Didn't really work in LAND OF THE DEAD.
Movie Looks fun though.
Looks fun as hell....I'm in!
Yeah it depends on how smart and how it will be portrayed, as always.
Looks like somebody's read The Passage and switched Vegas swamped by vampires to Vegas swamped by zombies.
"They're smarter. They're faster. They're organized."
Then why call them zombies?
Because it sells more.
new poster
https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1388901134115344384
via USA Today
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/04/26/USAT/03c9eaab-aad0-4616-97dc-46791396bdc6-Army_of_the_Dead.jpg?width=980&height=654&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
Quote from: HyperbeastThe visual effects (VFX) team behind Zack Snyder's Army of The Dead zombie film has revealed that the movie's zombie tiger was in fact modelled after one of Carole Baskin's tigers.
In an interview with Collider, producer Deborah Snyder explained that plans were already in the works before Netflix released the highly popular Tiger King last year. The visual effects team had apparently made calls to various animal sanctuaries hoping to get a real-life reference to model for the animated zombie tiger, Valentine. The team ended up choosing a tiger owned by Baskin, reportedly spending a week at Baskin's sanctuary before the series aired. Deborah joking added, "At least they got out of there alive."
https://twitter.com/HYPEBEAST/status/1384837113997316096
One thing that is still "bugging" me about #ArmyoftheDead is the cinematography -- some type of blur filter especially on background objects.
Just saw it in the theater. I liked it a lot! It takes a few turns I didn't expect but overall it's a good time.
I'll list a few cons..
- The pacing in the second act can drag a bit. Attempts to show some characters ''bonding'' feel forced.
- The heist element isn't as strong as promoted.
- Some CG was a bit SyFy channel level..
Now for the PROS !!!
- Cast gives their all despite some not getting much development
- Zombie killing doesn't disappoint, especially in the 3rd act.
- Blood n Gore is fun!
- Some good jokes
- Opening 20 minutes rules
Bautista and Samantha Win have standout action scenes in particular.
Was the
Spoiler
zombie gang rape
from the first draft in it?
Quote from: KiramidHead on May 14, 2021, 05:22:33 AM
Was the Spoiler
zombie gang rape
Big fat negative (although I felt like something of that nature is implied) ! Some elements do make their way into it though.
Quote from: MudButt on May 14, 2021, 05:25:36 AM
Quote from: KiramidHead on May 14, 2021, 05:22:33 AM
Was the Spoiler
zombie gang rape
Big fat negative (although I felt like something of that nature is implied) ! Some elements do make their way into it though.
Thank god.
Quote from: MudButt on May 14, 2021, 05:21:11 AM
Just saw it in the theater. I liked it a lot! It takes a few turns I didn't expect but overall it's a good time.
I'll list a few cons..
- The pacing in the second act can drag a bit. Attempts to show some characters ''bonding'' feel forced.
- The heist element isn't as strong as promoted.
- Some CG was a bit SyFy channel level..
Now for the PROS !!!
- Cast gives their all despite some not getting much development
- Zombie killing doesn't disappoint, especially in the 3rd act.
- Blood n Gore is fun!
- Some good jokes
- Opening 20 minutes rules
Bautista and Samantha Win have standout action scenes in particular.
Is it just plain fun or is there more serious/emotional sequences ? Like when some characters die, is there heroic sacrifices or stuff like that ? That's what I quite like in those kind of movies.
And is the gore just fun silly gore a la The Predator, or is it sometimes really brutal ?
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on May 14, 2021, 12:44:48 PM
Quote from: MudButt on May 14, 2021, 05:21:11 AM
Just saw it in the theater. I liked it a lot! It takes a few turns I didn't expect but overall it's a good time.
I'll list a few cons..
- The pacing in the second act can drag a bit. Attempts to show some characters ''bonding'' feel forced.
- The heist element isn't as strong as promoted.
- Some CG was a bit SyFy channel level..
Now for the PROS !!!
- Cast gives their all despite some not getting much development
- Zombie killing doesn't disappoint, especially in the 3rd act.
- Blood n Gore is fun!
- Some good jokes
- Opening 20 minutes rules
Bautista and Samantha Win have standout action scenes in particular.
Is it just plain fun or is there more serious/emotional sequences ? Like when some characters die, is there heroic sacrifices or stuff like that ? That's what I quite like in those kind of movies.
And is the gore just fun silly gore a la The Predator, or is it sometimes really brutal ?
Snyder definitely puts in some serious/emotional moments. They don't always work but a few times it does work and you feel for the characters. Unfortunately not all of them are developed enough so you don't fully feel the intention.
There are a few characters deaths that really work. A couple are just fun/quick but I can point out 2 deaths that really shocked me and 1 that actually made me feel bad.
There is a combination of silly gore and also really brutal. He takes the kills seriously. I'd say the zombies get the silly-shock deaths a few times and the humans mainly get serious deaths save for 1 or 2 characters.
Ok thanks for the answer !
Quote from: ace3g on May 14, 2021, 02:29:44 AM
One thing that is still "bugging" me about #ArmyoftheDead is the cinematography -- some type of blur filter especially on background objects.
Well this at least answers my question how they accomplished this out of focus cinematography.
https://twitter.com/CinemaBlend/status/1393977796746088448
Utter garbage and incredibly boring. Made for 14 year old boys who play video games.
My god was this movie dull. The only characters I cared about were the Zombie king and queen. I didn't even get the satisfaction of seeing the king rip Garret Dillahunt's head off after what he did to his queen. He lost his wife and unborn child, he even cried and Snyder wants us to root against him? The cinematography was flat 90% of the time which is odd for Zack Snyder. The characters were so one-dimensional and boring. Snyder really needs to let someone else write his movies for him.
Agreed...it was terrible. The out of focus crap gave me a headache. The camera was too much in the face of the actors... bleh. Boring story, and Bautista was soooo cardboard (I did like the "twist" at the elevator scene though lol...).
I guess the out of focus stuff was to disguise the background, and to help with the digital removal of one the original cast.
The zombies (if you can call them that), we're terrible, especially the way they all seemingly developed amazing parkour skills after death. Frankly, any episode of The Walking Dead put the makeup effects to shame.
I guess it would make a good drinking game movie: take a shot every time the Alien franchise was ripped off.
Too much out of focus for me also. And as usual with Snyder, he didn't need to make a 2h20 movie. A few reasonably fun scenes though (the intro, the safe traps).
I wonder what people make of the shots, plot twists, characters, and lines of dialogue that were lifted from Aliens. I found it distracting, because I was constantly recognizing stuff from Aliens. There's a ton more but a couple of examples include "you don't see them screwing each other over for a share", the helicopter missing from the roof at the end, which returns in the nick of time, a character blows himself up with a hand grenade and so on.
I found it so blatant that it becomes more an outright love letter to Aliens than an action movie that quietly lifts a couple of ideas. But very distracting nonetheless. I wonder why you would make that so explicit. Like he wasn't trying to hide it. Like he was saying: guys I made Aliens again, but with zombies!
Bizarre.
Dawn was a better movie, but I wasn't expecting high art and wasn't disappointed when I didn't get it.
It was exactly what I was expecting it to be.
Quote from: krikke on May 23, 2021, 04:42:23 PM
I wonder what people make of the shots, plot twists, characters, and lines of dialogue that were lifted from Aliens. I found it distracting, because I was constantly recognizing stuff from Aliens. There's a ton more but a couple of examples include "you don't see them screwing each other over for a share", the helicopter missing from the roof at the end, which returns in the nick of time, a character blows himself up with a hand grenade and so on.
I found it so blatant that it becomes more an outright love letter to Aliens than an action movie that quietly lifts a couple of ideas. But very distracting nonetheless. I wonder why you would make that so explicit. Like he wasn't trying to hide it. Like he was saying: guys I made Aliens again, but with zombies!
Bizarre.
It was shameless, wasn't it. There was the Ferro-esq helicopter pilot, the scene from Covenant when they walk through the crusty corpses, the Burke betrayal scene, complete with door lock, the whole plot about weaponising the alien zombies.
Quote from: Rudiger on May 24, 2021, 08:42:01 AM
Quote from: krikke on May 23, 2021, 04:42:23 PM
I wonder what people make of the shots, plot twists, characters, and lines of dialogue that were lifted from Aliens. I found it distracting, because I was constantly recognizing stuff from Aliens. There's a ton more but a couple of examples include "you don't see them screwing each other over for a share", the helicopter missing from the roof at the end, which returns in the nick of time, a character blows himself up with a hand grenade and so on.
I found it so blatant that it becomes more an outright love letter to Aliens than an action movie that quietly lifts a couple of ideas. But very distracting nonetheless. I wonder why you would make that so explicit. Like he wasn't trying to hide it. Like he was saying: guys I made Aliens again, but with zombies!
Bizarre.
It was shameless, wasn't it. There was the Ferro-esq helicopter pilot, the scene from Covenant when they walk through the crusty corpses, the Burke betrayal scene, complete with door lock, the whole plot about weaponising the alien zombies.
Why would he want to throw Covenant in the mix ? Like this movie was anything as reverred as the other references ?
Covenant's being referenced by a lot of things lately actually. This and, also A Quiet Place, RE Village.
Something something something if the plebs do not appreciate it artists will.
Expect to see the influence of it on many things in the coming years.
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on May 24, 2021, 10:14:55 AM
Quote from: Rudiger on May 24, 2021, 08:42:01 AM
Quote from: krikke on May 23, 2021, 04:42:23 PM
I wonder what people make of the shots, plot twists, characters, and lines of dialogue that were lifted from Aliens. I found it distracting, because I was constantly recognizing stuff from Aliens. There's a ton more but a couple of examples include "you don't see them screwing each other over for a share", the helicopter missing from the roof at the end, which returns in the nick of time, a character blows himself up with a hand grenade and so on.
I found it so blatant that it becomes more an outright love letter to Aliens than an action movie that quietly lifts a couple of ideas. But very distracting nonetheless. I wonder why you would make that so explicit. Like he wasn't trying to hide it. Like he was saying: guys I made Aliens again, but with zombies!
Bizarre.
It was shameless, wasn't it. There was the Ferro-esq helicopter pilot, the scene from Covenant when they walk through the crusty corpses, the Burke betrayal scene, complete with door lock, the whole plot about weaponising the alien zombies.
Why would he want to throw Covenant in the mix ? Like this movie was anything as reverred as the other references ?
Just remembered that it also steals an entire set piece from The Girl With All The Gifts, when the team has to weave through the hibernating horde. There really is nothing remotely innovative in this. Snyder really is the ultimate hack.
Whether consciously or subconsciously, an artist references elements that are etched in his/her memory. I actually liked that part when the survivors of Oram's team are escorted by the hooded David, through the woods. It looked like something out of LOTR! :laugh: The music, the bodies at the Plaza, the Gothic entrance to the Cathedral of the Engineers, the faces of what seems to be wise men who once inhabited the place, etc. I can see why someone wanted to imitate imagery like that in his/her own movie. It's not like 1979's Alien hasn't done that before.
Edit ~ I'm not sure a Snyder cut is necessary for every Snyder flick though! Just in case :laugh:
I thought it was an enjoyable popcorn flick. Personally, I liked the way it was shot with the focus/out of focus aspect. But then again, I'm partial to Snyder's films as I like the way most of his movies are shot.
I think in the film focused on being set in the one place of Olympus, with the vault and alphas being there, it would've cleared up some unnecessary sub plots.
As for it referencing other movies/games...cool! I like seeing things I've enjoyed in other movies get recognized in others, sometimes...
I fell asleep just before climax ( same with recent Mortal Kombat and I still haven't made myself to finish it, which says allot). The problem is it's not just bad, no it's silly and flips over it's own legs on every possible occasion.
Spoiler
Soldiers at the begining running away on foot instead using a car they f**king get there in first place... Traitor and Zombie expert (Lilly was her name?) living the body of Zombie queen in the open just after they f**king talked they'll get aggressive when found out the truce was broken!
When the plot is dumb I don't, can't care less about anything else.
I agree, Snyder's a bad writer.
I wasn't expecting anything so I kind of enjoyed it for what it was.
Would I rush to go see it again though? No.
Quote from: Crazy Rich on May 26, 2021, 07:32:45 PM
I wasn't expecting anything so I kind of enjoyed it for what it was.
Would I rush to go see it again though? No.
Pretty much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1LiBBkDdo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC1LiBBkDdo)
Saw this the other day. Felt more invested in the Zombie Queen & King than the human characters. Though I did like Nora Arnezeder's character.
Spoiler
Also, holy hell did Chambers deserve a better team. Kicks ass like a maniac and then has her team just stand around look at her when she's killed going "It's too late, let her go." when these so called marksmen easily could have cleared the zombies. Just one of many frustrating moments spread throughout this film.
Quote from: Shasvre on May 28, 2021, 10:40:39 PM
Saw this the other day. Felt more invested in the Zombie Queen & King than the human characters. Though I did like Nora Arnezeder's character.
Spoiler
Also, holy hell did Chambers deserve a better team. Kicks ass like a maniac and then has her team just stand around look at her when she's killed going "It's too late, let her go." when these so called marksmen easily could have cleared the zombies. Just one of many frustrating moments spread throughout this film.
That was driving me nuts.
Anybody else catch the robot zombies and then just immediately shrugged it off and went "nahhh, I must have been seeing things." turns out there really were robot zombies in this movie....and UFOs.
Quote from: Jigsaw85 on May 29, 2021, 02:06:08 PM
Anybody else catch the robot zombies and then just immediately shrugged it off and went "nahhh, I must have been seeing things." turns out there really were robot zombies in this movie....and UFOs.
I did notice the blue that some of the zombies had and recently read that as well...not entirely sure how that plays out though, it is odd..
Quote from: Gentleman Death on May 29, 2021, 05:16:50 PM
Quote from: Jigsaw85 on May 29, 2021, 02:06:08 PM
Anybody else catch the robot zombies and then just immediately shrugged it off and went "nahhh, I must have been seeing things." turns out there really were robot zombies in this movie....and UFOs.
I did notice the blue that some of the zombies had and recently read that as well...not entirely sure how that plays out though, it is odd..
Since the zombie foetus was weirdly blue and veiny, I just thought it was something to do with their life-force.
Quote from: Stitch on May 29, 2021, 11:11:59 PM
Quote from: Gentleman Death on May 29, 2021, 05:16:50 PM
Quote from: Jigsaw85 on May 29, 2021, 02:06:08 PM
Anybody else catch the robot zombies and then just immediately shrugged it off and went "nahhh, I must have been seeing things." turns out there really were robot zombies in this movie....and UFOs.
I did notice the blue that some of the zombies had and recently read that as well...not entirely sure how that plays out though, it is odd..
Since the zombie foetus was weirdly blue and veiny, I just thought it was something to do with their life-force.
Pretty much. It never even crossed my mind it'd be robot related...I mean, is this actually confirmed though?
Quote from: Gentleman Death on May 30, 2021, 12:00:34 AM
Quote from: Stitch on May 29, 2021, 11:11:59 PM
Quote from: Gentleman Death on May 29, 2021, 05:16:50 PM
Quote from: Jigsaw85 on May 29, 2021, 02:06:08 PM
Anybody else catch the robot zombies and then just immediately shrugged it off and went "nahhh, I must have been seeing things." turns out there really were robot zombies in this movie....and UFOs.
I did notice the blue that some of the zombies had and recently read that as well...not entirely sure how that plays out though, it is odd..
Since the zombie foetus was weirdly blue and veiny, I just thought it was something to do with their life-force.
Pretty much. It never even crossed my mind it'd be robot related...I mean, is this actually confirmed though?
It's confirmed. Snyder talked about the robot zombies in an interview.
Spoiler
Where the f**k was Geeta in the end ? She is last seen when Batista shoots a grenade at the King... Then he and his daughter go to the helicopter, and tadaa no Geeta ! Possibly an editing/deleted scene problem ?
Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on May 30, 2021, 02:56:32 PM
Spoiler
Where the f**k was Geeta in the end ? She is last seen when Batista shoots a grenade at the King... Then he and his daughter go to the helicopter, and tadaa no Geeta ! Possibly an editing/deleted scene problem ?
Ha yeah, I was like they did all that crap just to have her all but disappear...kinda a big thing to just not mention or show.
Started watching but it was too crappy to finish - 2/10
Prequel info
https://twitter.com/MSchweighoefer/status/1417472101657845763
https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1412758297078231045