Army of the Dead

[Rudiger]

Utter garbage and incredibly boring. Made for 14 year old boys who play video games.

[Jigsaw85]

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.

[Hemi]

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...).

[Rudiger]

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.

[BigDaddyJohn]

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).

[krikke]

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.

[Kimarhi]

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. 

[Rudiger]

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.

[BigDaddyJohn]

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 ?

[BlueMarsalis79]

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.

[Rudiger]

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.

[Immortan Jonesy]

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!  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 

[Gentleman Death]

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...

[Master]

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!

[close]

When the plot is dumb I  don't,  can't care less about anything else.

[BigDaddyJohn]

I agree, Snyder's a bad writer.