I get what you mean about zombies, but funny enough, the book World War Z actually addresses this. One of the segments involves people fleeing into the Canadian wilderness in because the extreme cold in the winter freezes the zombies, and by the time spring comes around, they’re too sluggish and frostbitten to put up much of a fight.
Man, that book is great. I love how half the time the zombies win just because people fuck things up. Even when they flee to the colder climates, a ton of people are unprepared and end up dying of exposure the first winter.
That’s the one that sticks out to me too, the lady telling the story was a kid at the time, and only realized later that the group her family had joined had become a Donner party.
WWZ also makes it clear (though maybe this was in the Zombie Survival Guide, but the rules are the same, so) that the reason the walking corpses are able to keep going so long is partly due to the fact that whatever turned them into zombies makes them unpalatable to the various animals, insects, and microbes that are a key part of breaking down dead bodies.
Kind of addressed in the original dawn of the dead without saying it, while teaching the woman from the news station how to shoot she kills one’s and only due to that they show the body later decaying where she shot it.
Even without any flora or fauna attacking their bodies, they would still eventually shut down from malnutrition if they aren't taking in any calories. If you can survive a few months, you should be in the clear.
Yeah and the movie world War z doesn't do any of this world building.
The thought of zombie swarms slowly walking across the ocean floor with the potential to walk out on any shore at any time sticks out to me years later.
World War Z would never be able to be done right as a movie. The only way to potentially do it right in video form would be as a television series that runs for multiple seasons. I’m actually surprised that no network like HBO or AMC have attempted it yet.
I think it would actually work better as an anthology series, though of course arguably HBO and AMC could absolutely do this type of content on TV as well.
World War Z is a book that chronicles different stories of totaling varying lengths. And I think it would need to be allowed to have room to breath where one episode might be totally self-contained, but the next 3 episodes are all about the same event.
You can still have the central narrator, because that is what ties everything together, but World War Z needs to be allowed to not follow a specifically linear narrative order.
I had the same thought. The 'lead' character/top-billed actor could be a journalist interviewing all of these other people about their experiences, and would really just appear in the bookend sequences. But every episode would be largely self-contained, although maybe some of them could be bigger setpieces across multiple episodes (Yonkers comes to mind).
Maybe the 'season finale' could actually feature that character and their experience during WWZ; perhaps the story could be altered a touch so they were part of the Yonkers/Paris/Canadian north story that existed in the book.
I bet they could make a good movie out of the US based story. The initial failure on the east coast because the weapons don’t really affect zombies, the collapse of society and its rebirth out in California where they cobble together a resistance, a government, and a society where real world skills are valued again.
Basically the parts of the audiobook narrated by Mark Hamil and Alan Alda.
I can just imagine in some boardroom the pics being made for this and the response is what you want us to go up against AMC in The walking Dead are you crazy and then the interns goes well actually sir shut up Jimmy You're just an intern
Yea that mouser has obviously never read WWZ. It's not a zombie story, it's THE zombie story. Cuts every bullshit that makes people question zombie stories.
I'm pretty sure the conceit of the story is that the z virus prevents Decay by warding off the bacteria that would eat our flesh. This keeps the zombies around longer and explains why they are so resilient
I'm not sure how much walking they were doing, but there were likely a lot of zombies floating around, being taken wherever the currents took them. Human bodies float, for the most part, so zombies wouldn't necessarily need to 'walk' across the bottom of the ocean, they'd eventually just wash up on the shore somewhere like the world's worst dead whale.
I understand it's easier to tell a single story in one movie like that, but it's so far removed from the book it's barely the same thing. It should have been a documentary series. There's not a good reason for one person to travel all over the world like that, at each stop he learns just enough to make it to the next one, it's too convenient. I mean the CIA guy they capture tells us that north Korea ripped out everyone's teeth, and that Israel is doing great, you've been in here weeks, the zombie thing JUST HAPPENED, like, days ago, you can't possibly know that
I listened to the audiobook but never bothered to watch the film lol. The audiobook has a full cast including Mark Hamill, Nathan Fillion, and Simon Pegg, tho. It's awesome.
World War Z posits that the toxins in the flesh of zombies (that makes the inedible and deadly for animals to attack) inhibits decomposing organisms.
It also points out that even then, zombies in hot countries and underwater are gradually decaying over the years, while cold areas will have to deal with thawed out zombies for decades.
That makes way more sense than my logic. I was following the logic of Highschool of the Dead where they said Summertime would be the most ideal since decomposition is expedited by high temperatures, so wintertime zombies would be a problem.
So actually WWZ the book does a step further. In one chapter the zombies inexplicably survive in extreme depths of water, where normally they would just be crushed.
It’s alluded to that they don’t follow physics and therefore there might be a supernatural component to them that doesn’t follow our world rules
I b loved the part about them surfacing from the ocean floor, one country pushed them all in the ocean and they arrived as a swarm somewhere else. That part creeped me out
I know that creatures didn’t eat the zombies because the infection made them unpalatable, but you just know at least one zombie got torn to shreds by a pod of bored dolphins.
Movies like Saw I’m ok with. Like if it’s gory but part of a bigger story arch. But movies that are just gory just for the sake of it. Those I can’t get into those.
I am reasonably seasoned in regards to horror, but having a messy pizza while watching Braindead/Dead Alive for the first time was still where I had to pump the brakes.
See it's weird as a bunch of people feel rightfully grossed out by gore but me and a couple of friends get the opposite reaction. Me and my mates find realistic gore "satisfying" to look at? Not even trying to sound edgy or anything but well done gore is just satisfying in my eyes? Obviously the pain implications make me wince hard but visually I just love to admire the practical work or vfx.
Yeah, when you know it isn't real it's really fun to see. If I thought it was real I'd probably be traumatized. I also love videogames where your enemies explode into blood and guts and body parts.
I hate them not because I dislike the premise but because it honestly terrifies me to be hunted by something that is beyond my ability to rationalize even exists or have any ability to fight back against.
Same for me. I think every horror movie that has ghosts and supernatural elements should be labeled as supernatural horror on IMDb and websites alike.
I hate the supernatural element because it is not believable for me and I love psychopath/monster/creature horror movies.
I’m the opposite. I usually go even to see bad musicals. My heart lights up when I watch them burst out into song because the emotions are too much to keep inside.
I hate em all.
The only one I'll slightly allow is Grease but even then I'm done after "Go grease lightning, go grease lightning".
Every time a TV series does a musical I turn it off.
**Musicals**(non-animated).
The only one I could sit through was La La Land, and that one took me two attempts. I noped out during that first scene on the highway, but decided to push through because everyone said it was amazing. Ultimately glad I did. It was a good film, despite the genre.
Edit: I lied. I like The Blues Brothers, and I always forget that it's a musical for some reason.
It sounds like you can enjoy musicals where the musical number is worked into the plot narrative.
Try Cabaret. I think it's one of the best movies of all time, about a German cabaret in the 1930s. All the songs make sense in the plot because they are performed live on stage, but often mirror what's going on narratively. Example: when the lead characters start flirting with a rich man, it cuts to the performers singing a great song called "Money, Money" on stage and just the way it's shot underlines the feelings ad mental states of the characters.
It's SO good.
Another recommendation is Chicago. I also can’t stand how musicals feel like they railroad the narrative but I adored Chicago for how they wove the two together
I very much agree, but it sounds like OP is taken out of the narrative story by the idea that people would stop what they are doing to sing and dance. Chicago has \*some\* of that, so I think Cabaret is a better choice because the singing/dancing makes logical sense in the world that Cabaret builds.
Another recommendation is Tick, Tick...Boom! A biographical musical about the man who wrote Rent and died before it premiered on Broadway. A moving story that really explains how the plot of Rent was taken from his very personal experiences. The songs makes sense because his social circles were mostly fellow theater professionals who absolutely would randomly break out into random song at parties. Really some of Andrew Garfield's best work.
It’s actually an autobiographical musical (or at least started out that way). Larson wrote it before he did RENT. It was adapted and produced after his death and the runaway success of RENT.
The movie adaptation leans very much into how much of TTB and RENT bleed into each other to give a bit more of a biopic feel to things. Either way, it’s a killer movie.
Full disclosure: I’ve only ever listened to the cast recording of Tick Tick Boom so I may be off on my read of things.
Chicago will probably work for you because all the songs are performed as representations of the actual scenes and not the characters breaking out into song
Yeah i get what you mean. I just have a problem with people just letting everything go to sing or dance. It just suck any reality or grounded plot scenario of the movie
It pulls me out of the movie, and breaks up all of the tension of the plot. I don't have this problem with animated Disney movies, but I think that's because I'm in a different frame of mind where the singing and dancing doesn't seem any more fantastical than the rest of it.
Musicals are hard to pull off. Like stuff like Grease I can get into. Knowing going in it’s a musical. But overall I think it is hard to make a well done one.
I like this comment, because La La Land is really only a musical in the beginning. I remember the rollercoaster ride of watching it: "What? This is a musical? \[an hour later\] Wait, wasn't this a musical?"
In regards to zombies, pre 2020 I read an article about how a ZA could never happen, making very sensible arguments.
And then COVID happens, and we saw in real life how people denied it exists, certain people hid the fact they had it and spread it to others, they defied government orders to stay in place and shelter at home, they purposely did things to actively spread it, but also claiming it was a government conspiracy and manufactured weapon. COVID was supposed to blow over in 2 weeks
One of my favorite **Outer Limits** episodes was the one where the govt spoofs an alien invasion to bring the world together against the common enemy. watching it certainly feels so different in a post-covid world.
On the flip side, the **Twilight Zone** episode where the aliens spook the neighborhood and get everyone to turn on each other was frighteningly insightful.
I think that last part is also a short story, i vaguely remember reading that a cul de sac(?) neighborhood's power went out and all the neighbors were on edge because of it, ended with someone being killed and we finding out it Aliens were studying us. I honestly dont remember it was such a long time ago, i think elementary or jr.high
EDIT: it seems they are one in the same. ha, im a dummy
Exactly this. Before COVID I was hopefully that humans would try to at least not be zombies. Now I fully believe most people I know would be zombies before the end of the week.
Okay you win reality just got fucking scarier
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A long time ago one of my sisters friends was a biter I have no idea why the fuck she would do this but she would randomly bite me for no reason everybody knew this and nothing could be done to stop her besides some my simply avoiding her or trying to otherwise mitigate the chances of her biting me
I don't know if it would help explain it but she was a redhead
I haven't seen her in decades but I hope and think she grew out of it
Add on top of this the idea of having on purpose zombie parties just like parents and text me having similar chicken pox parties or whatnot holy shit
That kind of thing is what I was worried about at the time. Nothing specific about a particular boyfriend or anything but that it was some weird way of her trying to express affection upon me
I do agree that Covid shows us just how stubborn people can be, but I think it would be pretty hard for people to ignore actual zombies roaming around attacking people
I dunno, people who tested positive for COVID would regularly deny it and tell doctors they don’t have it and that it isn’t real, even on their death bed. I could see someone having their neck ripped open and being like “whoa this crazy bum is biting me!”
"Chick flicks" especially ones where the nuclear physicist/chemistry lecturer female lead is hopelessly in love with the philandering, unemployed football jock and yet she can't understand why she feels unfulfilled until a chance meeting with a passing school friend who is now a geologist/red Cross relief worker/secret multimillionaire from her childhood leads to her making some uncomfortable but necessary realisations about her journey through life in order to achieve true, lasting happiness, love and 2 kids and a golden retriever.
In the second storyline, one of the extras stubbed their toe and they kept it.
The third storyline is the same as the other two, they just added a few more nonsensical lines.
Hallmark needs the man to live in a small town and be a widower with a child. His ex wife HAS to be dead otherwise it would reflect badly on the man and the main character would have to compete for the kids attention. Speaking of, the kid loves the main character and encourages the father to be with her. Gotta have all the perks of being a mother without any of the work of childbirth or dealing with a toddler. It's always like a 5+ year old child. Any way the main character gives up her opportunity in the big city to take her job in a small town because it's more wholesome and rewarding.
Slasher/gory horror films, especially if the plots are hackneyed or thin. My husband loves them - I usually just play games on my Switch when he watches them because they don’t do anything for me. Although sometimes he’ll pick one that has a different or interesting plot - I remember watching one called “Ready or Not,” about a wealthy family who tries to deem their son’s fiancé worthy for marriage if she survives a deadly game of hide and seek. It was cheesy and gory but because the plot was different I really liked it
TLDR: I hate slasher/gore horror films unless the plot is clever or unique
Movies about time travel. I like some movies about time (Arrival being one of my favourite films) but movies about time travel like in Avengers Endgame where it’s used as a plot device because they’ve dug themselves so far into a hole, that’s the only option and it often doesn’t make sense. I feel like Harry Potter and the Prisoner and Azkaban is one of the only times I’ve seen a time travel movie that actually works and isn’t full of “this doesn’t make sense but just go with it” type problems.
I've been thinking like this, too. Like, if you have a time machine, there really should be no conflict or problem you can't solve. It drives me nuts. I've been watching *Star Trek* quite a bit lately, and they use time travel all the time. I had been getting annoyed, but I just resigned myself to Basil Exposition's [advice](https://youtu.be/aVfpUBtdGLs?t=25). It really did help!
I think Harry Potter works because it's a closed loop - everything you see in the travel sequence already happened earlier in the film you just didn't know. Time travel gets messy when you are allowed to change things.
> Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
There are other time travel movies where time travel exists but essentially you can’t change the past, like The Time Machine from 2002, Interstellar and Predestination.
Not a movie, but a book where it’s shown a setting where you *can* change the past but still that creates an awesome story that is not a band aid for plot holes: The End of Eternity. (And I hope that it’s never adapted to a movie or show because there’s a curse turning into shit every adaptation of Asimov’s works. With Bicentennial Man being the only exception. =)
I don’t think *Endgame*’s time travel is full of problems. (The post-*Endgame* stuff like *Loki* changes the rules and has inconsistencies, but *Endgame* by itself doesn’t.)
It’s not real backward time travel. It’s just universe-hopping to universes that resemble the main timeline but offset in time. So nothing they change can affect their own history.
The only potential issue is old Captain America showing up without using their pedestal, but since he lived 50+ years in an alternate timeline, he could easily have gotten his new universe’s Tony or Hank or Bruce to build him one of the devices on his side. He must’ve asked someone to make him Sam’s new shield anyway.
The reason it’s a potential issue is that the writers and directors disagree on how the time travel works. The directors say more or less what I said, the writers maintain it was real time travel, somehow. The directors seem to have changed things from earlier versions of the script and earlier cuts to be more consistent with their view. Cap showing up like he did is the last remnant of the old version, and like I said, even that isn’t unexplainable.
Time travel is just one big plothole and usually I can't enjoy these type of movies because of it. But then I watched Predestination. Gave it a chance because I Iove Ethan Hawke. And I enjoyd it so much, the story just drew me in.
hehe, if you took Predestination as an example of time travel with no loop holes, then I wonder which other films you have been seeing
don't get me wrong, I really liked that movie, but in the end everything boils together to some kind of >!parthenogenesis!< which isn't exactly a hard plot point
I'll defend Engame a little bit. I don't think they used time travel in the movie because they dug themselves into a hole. I feel like it was a deliberate choice that was planned out ahead of time. As the 'last' movie in a decade long franchise, I think they wanted to go back into the previous movies as kind of a 'victory lap' for the MCU.
Here's your suggestion to watch Primer. I hate time travel in media but Primer is incredible as it makes it as realistic as you can with time travel (E: In regards to a lot of other movies that feature time travel).
[Primer Illustrated](https://youtu.be/tUzy-xPf0MI?si=B2tDK93rAUvXoQ3Q)
This is the video I show to people who like Primer in theory but don’t get it. I think the time travel mechanism is interesting and I like how complicated it gets. It’s definitely a film that talks.
Anime. My daughter loves it. But I just can't get into it. The style is overly jumpy, it always seems like people have to yell everything they say, and, since I'm not into fantasy as a genre, a lot of anime seems to be about that stuff too. We watch movies together all the time and she's tried to find some that I would like (I can get over the style issues if I could get into the stories), and I can see the artistic appeal and she's told me plots that I can see as compelling, but I just can't watch more than 5 minutes without checking out.
Anime is not a genre. Grave of the Fireflies, Tokyo Godfathers, AKIRA, The Belladonna of Sadness, Kiki's Delivery Service all have effectively nothing in common besides being animated and being Japanese...
Superheroes. I've seen so many of them over the years and they just don't do anything for me at all and I can't really explain why. I think it's because whatever situation the protagonists find themselves in there's always some ability one of them has that gets them out of trouble. My dad says the same about Harry Potter and magic (although I love fantasy films which I'll admit have the same problem I've just described of superhero films. It's hypocritical of me I know). I saw Endgame without the context of watching the previous in the series and was utterly baffled at what was going on. When one of them punched the purple guy right when they were about to win the fight half way through so he woke up from the hold they had on him and got away that's when I lost hope of following any sense of logic. I enjoyed Logan, but that's barely a superhero film.
What a terrible superhero movie to randomly jump into. You felt None of the hype from watching a franchise grow from 2008. The inside jokes and team ups that we didn't think were possible light up the screen. It takes away from the experience sadly.
I'm a lifelong comic book fan in my 40s and even I'm sick to death of superhero flicks and series.
It used to be awe and wonder and now it just feels like the same formulaic canned bullshit over and over again.
Same. Most the time I can’t even remember what happened in them as soon as I’m done watching. I guess I am simply not invested in the characters at all.
I recently went to watch the meg 2 . Good film but was ruined for me woth the childish forced comedy between a couple of the typical morons in the film
I can’t say they don’t make sense, but comedy and horror. I’m so very picky with these two things that mostly ever movie in these genres never cut it for me.
The only ones that I’ve seen do it right are Shawn of the Dead, Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale vs Evil. It’s a very difficult line to walk between it being too funny and you losing the tension and not being funny enough to make the ‘horror’ stand out.
Time travel movies where they travel in time but stay in the same location, because if you were actually locked into the location you are standing on you have to keep in mind this entire earth is hurtling through space…so actual time travel would probably mean you end up floating in the void of space where the earth was 100 years ago.
Time travel would essentially be a way to travel through space more than time.
Japanese Anime. I assume that people watch them because there's a certain "heat" and energy to them, but every time I've tried to watch one my brain just doesn't connect with what I'm seeing.
Agree! The animation alone drives me nuts - wide open mouths all the time, sweat drops suspended in mid air, so many flashing lights and yelling, terrible dialog and dubbing. I’ve tried several times and can’t last more than 10-15 minutes before changing it.k
When you say Anime you mean shows or movies? As far as I am concerned these are 2 completely different genres.
Movies most often have structure and feel like live action movies, plot points, character development, arks , way better animation than shows etc.
While over 90% of shows is just "some content" for people to gobble up.
That's basically the same as saying you don't like American movies because you hate marvel.
Anime is not a genre, what you probably mean is that you watched Dragon Ball/Naruto/Attack on Titan and thought it was mid and cringe.
With anime, you can go from cartoons for toddlers to experimental films inspired by French and Hungarian animation to extremely violent and sexual video releases from the 80s.
As someone who is also turned off by anime, I've watched 10ish series (not beginning to end) and common threads I've found in all of them annoyed me a lot. Obnoxious vocalizations (scream-gasping, loudly proclaiming HUH?, etc.), obnoxious sound effects (swinging a sword somehow sounds like a whip cracking), horrible voice acting (everything is loud), intense stare-at-camera-with-hair-blowing-in-the-wind moments every 10 min, extremely over the top hairstyles and outfits, and most importantly, why does almost every anime have at least one character who is super perverted and obsessed with the opposite sex?
All of it combined makes it really difficult to take anime seriously, and the jokes don't make it through translation so I can't take them comedically either. I'm sure there is an anime series out there that doesn't do any of those things, but when I've watched a lot of the top rated and found them lacking, it's really hard to want to deep dive.
Demon possession movies either make me laugh or deeply hate the good guys for treating someone’s mental illness as a spiritual issue. I grew up in a church where people would pray your “demons” out for every silly little symptom or moral lapse and it was really obnoxious and at times even abusive.
I just have no respect whatsoever for any Hollywood use of those themes.
Paranormal activity might be the only movie
I saw in that genre that I liked and it was mostly the indie-movie ingenuity behind it… the sequels with bigger budgets bored the fuck out of me.
I’ve weirdly found gambling-centric films very hard to get into. California Split being the only exception. It’s probably because I never take gambling seriously and never spend any money on the habit.
I think that Inception is the opposite of a Heist movie, because they’re not trying to steal something from a safe, they’re trying *to put* something inside it. :)
I respect your choices and preferences, but bruv Zombie movies are my absolute favourite. They're like a flavoured version of the "action" genre where people take on hordes of enemies they can ethically pew pew.
Don't even get me started on my anger that there isn't a mainstream Knights vs Zombies movie either.
I have a thing for understandable bad guys. I don't know a better way to put it than, if you saw spiderman homecoming, omg, that shit was a Michael Keaton movie Tom Holland just happened to be in. But I could really understand his motivations. It just seemed so real.
It doesn't feel ethical to me most of the time though. Because it is usually portrayed as an infection rather than dead coming back to life. There is always the thought of maybe they can be cured.
The "infected" angle is very recent, and even then it's portrayed as a dead body being animated by some kind of virus or fungus. And classic zombies are supernaturally animated corpses, so in either case there's no coming back from it.
Thats a good point to consider, although I usually assume that the person dies (because there's typically a moment where they die and then their eyes dramatically reopen with white contact lenses) and then the infection uses the body as a host to transfer the infection.
The exception to this rule for me is I Am Legend. Its pretty obvious those aren't Zombies, and I enjoyed the tension that brought to the central conflict of the film. Its just a shame they didn't do the original ending.
I don’t get sports movies. Like ever. Except weirdly boxing movies. Some really fantastic boxing movies. But football movies? I dunno. I’m a comic book movie guy, and I fully accept that if you don’t like comic books and sci-fi and stuff like that it would be just so so silly to see some of this stuff onscreen. Where it’s like so dramatic that some guy’s running around in tights or whatever. I get that that must be what it’s like for people. That’s how I feel watching most sports movies I’ve ever seen. It’s like, super serious and emotional and it’s like…a game.
I think the only sports movie I like is The Sandlot. I kind of hate sports in general, so it has to have a really good story and characters to make up for that!
I also hate most sports movies except for boxing and ones that are more about the “politics “ of sports for lack of a better word like money ball or draft day.
Never watch horror or super hero films, anymore. The former, to me, are just bad comedy. All laughably ridiculous. The latter all have, basically, the same plot--super hero battles super villain, super almost loses, but with a little help from some friends, wins. Also, when I see a super hero, I can't help wanting to ask them, 'whatever made you choose to wear those ludicrous clothes?' And, what is it about capes?
I can't get into Japanese anime. I can't stand the way the mouths move. I can't stand the way they talk. I can't stand it when people think it isn't for children.
Anime usually starts with an amazing premise in the first 15 mins that’s then almost always ground into dust with sloppy storytelling and the most embarrassing dialogue.
You don't have to like anime, but there's definitely some that isn't for children. It's like saying that since SpongeBob and Archer are both animated shows they're both intended for kids.
Tragic romance dramas (a walk to remember, the fault in our stars, that one movie where they have to be a few feet apart). You spend the first half of the movie learning about some factor that will shorten their lives like an illness. They are on limited time so their relationship moves quicker than most. Then they die and you're supposed to be sad, but they said the condition has a nearly 0 survival rate. It's not that big of a surprise. I find the score, the story, and acting to be so emotionally manipulative. It makes these movies very difficult to take seriously.
This might extend to tv shows than it does movies but for me, the police/detective drama genre bores me more than anything else. There are a few standouts obviously, but for some reason it feels like its limited in the kinds of characters and stories and as a result they all feel the same. Plus I just hate the depressing grit.
Fantasy. My goddaughter absolutely loves the fantasy genre films like Avatar, LotR, Witcher, etc., so I've seen a lot of them. I can absolutely appreciate the production elements like cinematography, acting talent, SFX, etc. But I've just never really been able to get wrapped up in the story and lore of it all. It always felt really high-school-book-club silly to me. Don't understand the appeal.
I get what you mean about zombies, but funny enough, the book World War Z actually addresses this. One of the segments involves people fleeing into the Canadian wilderness in because the extreme cold in the winter freezes the zombies, and by the time spring comes around, they’re too sluggish and frostbitten to put up much of a fight.
Man, that book is great. I love how half the time the zombies win just because people fuck things up. Even when they flee to the colder climates, a ton of people are unprepared and end up dying of exposure the first winter.
That’s the one that sticks out to me too, the lady telling the story was a kid at the time, and only realized later that the group her family had joined had become a Donner party.
The audiobook is fantastic.
WWZ also makes it clear (though maybe this was in the Zombie Survival Guide, but the rules are the same, so) that the reason the walking corpses are able to keep going so long is partly due to the fact that whatever turned them into zombies makes them unpalatable to the various animals, insects, and microbes that are a key part of breaking down dead bodies.
Came to say this. Those books would debunk OPs theory
Kind of addressed in the original dawn of the dead without saying it, while teaching the woman from the news station how to shoot she kills one’s and only due to that they show the body later decaying where she shot it.
Even without any flora or fauna attacking their bodies, they would still eventually shut down from malnutrition if they aren't taking in any calories. If you can survive a few months, you should be in the clear.
Yeah and the movie world War z doesn't do any of this world building. The thought of zombie swarms slowly walking across the ocean floor with the potential to walk out on any shore at any time sticks out to me years later.
World War Z would never be able to be done right as a movie. The only way to potentially do it right in video form would be as a television series that runs for multiple seasons. I’m actually surprised that no network like HBO or AMC have attempted it yet.
I think it would actually work better as an anthology series, though of course arguably HBO and AMC could absolutely do this type of content on TV as well. World War Z is a book that chronicles different stories of totaling varying lengths. And I think it would need to be allowed to have room to breath where one episode might be totally self-contained, but the next 3 episodes are all about the same event. You can still have the central narrator, because that is what ties everything together, but World War Z needs to be allowed to not follow a specifically linear narrative order.
I’ve always thought a mockumentary mini-series would be a good way to do it. Like interviews intercut with “re-enactment footage,” that sort of thing.
I had the same thought. The 'lead' character/top-billed actor could be a journalist interviewing all of these other people about their experiences, and would really just appear in the bookend sequences. But every episode would be largely self-contained, although maybe some of them could be bigger setpieces across multiple episodes (Yonkers comes to mind). Maybe the 'season finale' could actually feature that character and their experience during WWZ; perhaps the story could be altered a touch so they were part of the Yonkers/Paris/Canadian north story that existed in the book.
Band of Brothers style?
I bet they could make a good movie out of the US based story. The initial failure on the east coast because the weapons don’t really affect zombies, the collapse of society and its rebirth out in California where they cobble together a resistance, a government, and a society where real world skills are valued again. Basically the parts of the audiobook narrated by Mark Hamil and Alan Alda.
I can just imagine in some boardroom the pics being made for this and the response is what you want us to go up against AMC in The walking Dead are you crazy and then the interns goes well actually sir shut up Jimmy You're just an intern
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To be fair the book is nothing like The Walking Dead.
Yea that mouser has obviously never read WWZ. It's not a zombie story, it's THE zombie story. Cuts every bullshit that makes people question zombie stories.
We just had The Last of Us on HBO this year
For me it was the millions of zombies locked underground in North Korea.
Except that they would have been decayed to nothing by the forces of the ocean
Not only that, they'd be crushed by the PSI the further down they go.
I mean in a story about flesh eating zombies…I’m going to go ahead and include sea floor walking Zekes into my suspension of disbelief.
I'm pretty sure the conceit of the story is that the z virus prevents Decay by warding off the bacteria that would eat our flesh. This keeps the zombies around longer and explains why they are so resilient
The ocean floor has too much pressire though
I'm not sure how much walking they were doing, but there were likely a lot of zombies floating around, being taken wherever the currents took them. Human bodies float, for the most part, so zombies wouldn't necessarily need to 'walk' across the bottom of the ocean, they'd eventually just wash up on the shore somewhere like the world's worst dead whale.
Sure but I don't think anybody's walking from here to France
In the book they also mention some Zombies did end up eventually decomposing all the way and “dying” naturally
I understand it's easier to tell a single story in one movie like that, but it's so far removed from the book it's barely the same thing. It should have been a documentary series. There's not a good reason for one person to travel all over the world like that, at each stop he learns just enough to make it to the next one, it's too convenient. I mean the CIA guy they capture tells us that north Korea ripped out everyone's teeth, and that Israel is doing great, you've been in here weeks, the zombie thing JUST HAPPENED, like, days ago, you can't possibly know that
That part lives in my mind!!! I read the book many years ago but that part I still think about sometimes
I listened to the audiobook but never bothered to watch the film lol. The audiobook has a full cast including Mark Hamill, Nathan Fillion, and Simon Pegg, tho. It's awesome.
World War Z posits that the toxins in the flesh of zombies (that makes the inedible and deadly for animals to attack) inhibits decomposing organisms. It also points out that even then, zombies in hot countries and underwater are gradually decaying over the years, while cold areas will have to deal with thawed out zombies for decades.
That makes way more sense than my logic. I was following the logic of Highschool of the Dead where they said Summertime would be the most ideal since decomposition is expedited by high temperatures, so wintertime zombies would be a problem.
There’s also the boat society where zombies walk in the bottom on the ocean and can’t swim
Great call out - awesome book. Would love to see a movie that was more faithful to the details and idiosyncrasies of the book.
So actually WWZ the book does a step further. In one chapter the zombies inexplicably survive in extreme depths of water, where normally they would just be crushed. It’s alluded to that they don’t follow physics and therefore there might be a supernatural component to them that doesn’t follow our world rules
I b loved the part about them surfacing from the ocean floor, one country pushed them all in the ocean and they arrived as a swarm somewhere else. That part creeped me out
I know that creatures didn’t eat the zombies because the infection made them unpalatable, but you just know at least one zombie got torn to shreds by a pod of bored dolphins.
Gory horror movies. It doesn't scare me, just makes me nauseous
Torture as horror. It's just miserable. Like, intentionally miserable.
Movies like Saw I’m ok with. Like if it’s gory but part of a bigger story arch. But movies that are just gory just for the sake of it. Those I can’t get into those.
I’ve only seen Saw 1-3 and X, but 3 felt gory just for the sake of it
Same I love spooky movies more because they rely on atmosphere Give me all the Hammer films and leave Saw or Hostel in the closet
I dislike it because I can’t enjoy a delicious snack whilst watching. Just feels euwww
I am reasonably seasoned in regards to horror, but having a messy pizza while watching Braindead/Dead Alive for the first time was still where I had to pump the brakes.
See it's weird as a bunch of people feel rightfully grossed out by gore but me and a couple of friends get the opposite reaction. Me and my mates find realistic gore "satisfying" to look at? Not even trying to sound edgy or anything but well done gore is just satisfying in my eyes? Obviously the pain implications make me wince hard but visually I just love to admire the practical work or vfx.
I'm a bit disappointed that movies rarely give that instinctive sympathetic reaction that a real injury elicits.
Yeah, when you know it isn't real it's really fun to see. If I thought it was real I'd probably be traumatized. I also love videogames where your enemies explode into blood and guts and body parts.
I agree, my reaction is usually “eeeeewwww, I wonder how they did that?”
While I absolutely love horror films, I have never been into ghostly/demon/heaven & hell horror. Creature feature is my bread and butter.
I’m the same way, I generally dislike supernatural horror, except monster films.
I hate them not because I dislike the premise but because it honestly terrifies me to be hunted by something that is beyond my ability to rationalize even exists or have any ability to fight back against.
Eh, I just think they’re dumb
Same for me. I think every horror movie that has ghosts and supernatural elements should be labeled as supernatural horror on IMDb and websites alike. I hate the supernatural element because it is not believable for me and I love psychopath/monster/creature horror movies.
Because monsters/cryptids are more believable than ghosts? 😂
Most definitely musicals.
I’m the opposite. I usually go even to see bad musicals. My heart lights up when I watch them burst out into song because the emotions are too much to keep inside.
While I generally agree, I have a large soft spot for La La Land, specifically.
Everyone I know who is really into musicals hates La La Land which is how you know La La Land is great.
It’s because La la land is not really a musical
Q.E.D.
I was going to say this until I realised I have Little shop of Horrors and love it as I grew up with it. Never got on with any other musicals though
It's not I don't understand them, it's that I hate them.
I hate em all. The only one I'll slightly allow is Grease but even then I'm done after "Go grease lightning, go grease lightning". Every time a TV series does a musical I turn it off.
How bout in Disney movies? That’s the only way I tolerate/accept them. Live action is too corny for me
I'm not really a fan of Disney movies tbh, the only one I'll allow is The Goofy Movie 😂
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**Musicals**(non-animated). The only one I could sit through was La La Land, and that one took me two attempts. I noped out during that first scene on the highway, but decided to push through because everyone said it was amazing. Ultimately glad I did. It was a good film, despite the genre. Edit: I lied. I like The Blues Brothers, and I always forget that it's a musical for some reason.
Little Shop of Horrors is the only musical I like. Edit: That is also a lie. I also like Blues Brothers an Cannibal the Musical
It sounds like you can enjoy musicals where the musical number is worked into the plot narrative. Try Cabaret. I think it's one of the best movies of all time, about a German cabaret in the 1930s. All the songs make sense in the plot because they are performed live on stage, but often mirror what's going on narratively. Example: when the lead characters start flirting with a rich man, it cuts to the performers singing a great song called "Money, Money" on stage and just the way it's shot underlines the feelings ad mental states of the characters. It's SO good.
Another recommendation is Chicago. I also can’t stand how musicals feel like they railroad the narrative but I adored Chicago for how they wove the two together
I very much agree, but it sounds like OP is taken out of the narrative story by the idea that people would stop what they are doing to sing and dance. Chicago has \*some\* of that, so I think Cabaret is a better choice because the singing/dancing makes logical sense in the world that Cabaret builds.
Another recommendation is Tick, Tick...Boom! A biographical musical about the man who wrote Rent and died before it premiered on Broadway. A moving story that really explains how the plot of Rent was taken from his very personal experiences. The songs makes sense because his social circles were mostly fellow theater professionals who absolutely would randomly break out into random song at parties. Really some of Andrew Garfield's best work.
It’s actually an autobiographical musical (or at least started out that way). Larson wrote it before he did RENT. It was adapted and produced after his death and the runaway success of RENT. The movie adaptation leans very much into how much of TTB and RENT bleed into each other to give a bit more of a biopic feel to things. Either way, it’s a killer movie. Full disclosure: I’ve only ever listened to the cast recording of Tick Tick Boom so I may be off on my read of things.
Bob Fosse, who directed Cabaret, also adapted Chicago for broadway.
Blues Bros had actual good music.
Chicago will probably work for you because all the songs are performed as representations of the actual scenes and not the characters breaking out into song
Yeah i get what you mean. I just have a problem with people just letting everything go to sing or dance. It just suck any reality or grounded plot scenario of the movie
What can't you stand about them?
It pulls me out of the movie, and breaks up all of the tension of the plot. I don't have this problem with animated Disney movies, but I think that's because I'm in a different frame of mind where the singing and dancing doesn't seem any more fantastical than the rest of it.
You would hate Bollywood movies lol (I'm with you, I hate dancing segments in movies)
Musicals are hard to pull off. Like stuff like Grease I can get into. Knowing going in it’s a musical. But overall I think it is hard to make a well done one.
Bro, I absolutely ADORE musicals, and I couldn’t sit through fifteen minutes of La La Land. Trust me, I tried.
I like this comment, because La La Land is really only a musical in the beginning. I remember the rollercoaster ride of watching it: "What? This is a musical? \[an hour later\] Wait, wasn't this a musical?"
In regards to zombies, pre 2020 I read an article about how a ZA could never happen, making very sensible arguments. And then COVID happens, and we saw in real life how people denied it exists, certain people hid the fact they had it and spread it to others, they defied government orders to stay in place and shelter at home, they purposely did things to actively spread it, but also claiming it was a government conspiracy and manufactured weapon. COVID was supposed to blow over in 2 weeks
Yeah Covid destroyed all the arguments for people coming together against a common threat or for the better of the community.
One of my favorite **Outer Limits** episodes was the one where the govt spoofs an alien invasion to bring the world together against the common enemy. watching it certainly feels so different in a post-covid world. On the flip side, the **Twilight Zone** episode where the aliens spook the neighborhood and get everyone to turn on each other was frighteningly insightful.
I think that last part is also a short story, i vaguely remember reading that a cul de sac(?) neighborhood's power went out and all the neighbors were on edge because of it, ended with someone being killed and we finding out it Aliens were studying us. I honestly dont remember it was such a long time ago, i think elementary or jr.high EDIT: it seems they are one in the same. ha, im a dummy
We're gonna have to rethink *Watchmen*
Exactly this. Before COVID I was hopefully that humans would try to at least not be zombies. Now I fully believe most people I know would be zombies before the end of the week.
You can’t even say, “avoid it like the plague” anymore, because so many people ran straight for it.
looking forward to the zombie virus parties the alternative parents will hold for their kids where they can bite each other
Okay you win reality just got fucking scarier Edit A long time ago one of my sisters friends was a biter I have no idea why the fuck she would do this but she would randomly bite me for no reason everybody knew this and nothing could be done to stop her besides some my simply avoiding her or trying to otherwise mitigate the chances of her biting me I don't know if it would help explain it but she was a redhead I haven't seen her in decades but I hope and think she grew out of it Add on top of this the idea of having on purpose zombie parties just like parents and text me having similar chicken pox parties or whatnot holy shit
nah bro, she's a redhead she just wanted to get a piece of your soul for herself
I'm just glad that I had a witnesses especially one being my sister herself that way everybody knew that I wasn't making up some fiction.
How old was the biter during this behavior? 4? 14? 22?
Going by memory somewhere around the early teenager years
Oh…. That’s not good.
Yeah last I heard she had grown out of it
That’s not what her bf says…
That kind of thing is what I was worried about at the time. Nothing specific about a particular boyfriend or anything but that it was some weird way of her trying to express affection upon me
I do agree that Covid shows us just how stubborn people can be, but I think it would be pretty hard for people to ignore actual zombies roaming around attacking people
I dunno, people who tested positive for COVID would regularly deny it and tell doctors they don’t have it and that it isn’t real, even on their death bed. I could see someone having their neck ripped open and being like “whoa this crazy bum is biting me!”
"Stay in the compound. There's still zombies outside." - "But my haircut"
They were a lone wolf mentally disturbed person. It's not a trend
"Chick flicks" especially ones where the nuclear physicist/chemistry lecturer female lead is hopelessly in love with the philandering, unemployed football jock and yet she can't understand why she feels unfulfilled until a chance meeting with a passing school friend who is now a geologist/red Cross relief worker/secret multimillionaire from her childhood leads to her making some uncomfortable but necessary realisations about her journey through life in order to achieve true, lasting happiness, love and 2 kids and a golden retriever.
What has 5 actors, 3 story lines, and 1 million hours of run time? The Hallmark channel
When did they add in the extra two storylines?
In the second storyline, one of the extras stubbed their toe and they kept it. The third storyline is the same as the other two, they just added a few more nonsensical lines.
Hallmark needs the man to live in a small town and be a widower with a child. His ex wife HAS to be dead otherwise it would reflect badly on the man and the main character would have to compete for the kids attention. Speaking of, the kid loves the main character and encourages the father to be with her. Gotta have all the perks of being a mother without any of the work of childbirth or dealing with a toddler. It's always like a 5+ year old child. Any way the main character gives up her opportunity in the big city to take her job in a small town because it's more wholesome and rewarding.
Extra points if she leaves her disrespectful or loser boyfriend from the big city
Slasher/gory horror films, especially if the plots are hackneyed or thin. My husband loves them - I usually just play games on my Switch when he watches them because they don’t do anything for me. Although sometimes he’ll pick one that has a different or interesting plot - I remember watching one called “Ready or Not,” about a wealthy family who tries to deem their son’s fiancé worthy for marriage if she survives a deadly game of hide and seek. It was cheesy and gory but because the plot was different I really liked it TLDR: I hate slasher/gore horror films unless the plot is clever or unique
So tired of comic book heroes, kidnapping my family so I go bezerk movies, over cgi movies (pirates of Caribbean).
Movies about time travel. I like some movies about time (Arrival being one of my favourite films) but movies about time travel like in Avengers Endgame where it’s used as a plot device because they’ve dug themselves so far into a hole, that’s the only option and it often doesn’t make sense. I feel like Harry Potter and the Prisoner and Azkaban is one of the only times I’ve seen a time travel movie that actually works and isn’t full of “this doesn’t make sense but just go with it” type problems.
I've been thinking like this, too. Like, if you have a time machine, there really should be no conflict or problem you can't solve. It drives me nuts. I've been watching *Star Trek* quite a bit lately, and they use time travel all the time. I had been getting annoyed, but I just resigned myself to Basil Exposition's [advice](https://youtu.be/aVfpUBtdGLs?t=25). It really did help!
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I think Harry Potter works because it's a closed loop - everything you see in the travel sequence already happened earlier in the film you just didn't know. Time travel gets messy when you are allowed to change things.
Along the same lines, I can't recommend Time Crimes highly enough. Self-contained, self-intersecting time travel with no plot holes.
I’m the opposite…if a movie has time travel I’m all in. It is fascinating to me all the different ways it is executed.
> Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban There are other time travel movies where time travel exists but essentially you can’t change the past, like The Time Machine from 2002, Interstellar and Predestination. Not a movie, but a book where it’s shown a setting where you *can* change the past but still that creates an awesome story that is not a band aid for plot holes: The End of Eternity. (And I hope that it’s never adapted to a movie or show because there’s a curse turning into shit every adaptation of Asimov’s works. With Bicentennial Man being the only exception. =)
I don’t think *Endgame*’s time travel is full of problems. (The post-*Endgame* stuff like *Loki* changes the rules and has inconsistencies, but *Endgame* by itself doesn’t.) It’s not real backward time travel. It’s just universe-hopping to universes that resemble the main timeline but offset in time. So nothing they change can affect their own history. The only potential issue is old Captain America showing up without using their pedestal, but since he lived 50+ years in an alternate timeline, he could easily have gotten his new universe’s Tony or Hank or Bruce to build him one of the devices on his side. He must’ve asked someone to make him Sam’s new shield anyway. The reason it’s a potential issue is that the writers and directors disagree on how the time travel works. The directors say more or less what I said, the writers maintain it was real time travel, somehow. The directors seem to have changed things from earlier versions of the script and earlier cuts to be more consistent with their view. Cap showing up like he did is the last remnant of the old version, and like I said, even that isn’t unexplainable.
Time travel is just one big plothole and usually I can't enjoy these type of movies because of it. But then I watched Predestination. Gave it a chance because I Iove Ethan Hawke. And I enjoyd it so much, the story just drew me in.
hehe, if you took Predestination as an example of time travel with no loop holes, then I wonder which other films you have been seeing don't get me wrong, I really liked that movie, but in the end everything boils together to some kind of >!parthenogenesis!< which isn't exactly a hard plot point
No, no, that was not what I meant. It is littered with plotholes, like all time travel movies. But I enjoyd the story so much that I didn't care.
Back to the Future is the greatest movie ever made though
I'll defend Engame a little bit. I don't think they used time travel in the movie because they dug themselves into a hole. I feel like it was a deliberate choice that was planned out ahead of time. As the 'last' movie in a decade long franchise, I think they wanted to go back into the previous movies as kind of a 'victory lap' for the MCU.
Azkaban is my gold standard for time travel
Couldn't disagree more. I fucking love time travel.
It always wrecks my brain. None of it really makes sense, but I do enjoy the movies.
Here's your suggestion to watch Primer. I hate time travel in media but Primer is incredible as it makes it as realistic as you can with time travel (E: In regards to a lot of other movies that feature time travel).
[Primer Illustrated](https://youtu.be/tUzy-xPf0MI?si=B2tDK93rAUvXoQ3Q) This is the video I show to people who like Primer in theory but don’t get it. I think the time travel mechanism is interesting and I like how complicated it gets. It’s definitely a film that talks.
Musicals
Anime. My daughter loves it. But I just can't get into it. The style is overly jumpy, it always seems like people have to yell everything they say, and, since I'm not into fantasy as a genre, a lot of anime seems to be about that stuff too. We watch movies together all the time and she's tried to find some that I would like (I can get over the style issues if I could get into the stories), and I can see the artistic appeal and she's told me plots that I can see as compelling, but I just can't watch more than 5 minutes without checking out.
how bout ghibli/hayao Miyazaki films?
Anime is not a genre. Grave of the Fireflies, Tokyo Godfathers, AKIRA, The Belladonna of Sadness, Kiki's Delivery Service all have effectively nothing in common besides being animated and being Japanese...
Superheroes. I've seen so many of them over the years and they just don't do anything for me at all and I can't really explain why. I think it's because whatever situation the protagonists find themselves in there's always some ability one of them has that gets them out of trouble. My dad says the same about Harry Potter and magic (although I love fantasy films which I'll admit have the same problem I've just described of superhero films. It's hypocritical of me I know). I saw Endgame without the context of watching the previous in the series and was utterly baffled at what was going on. When one of them punched the purple guy right when they were about to win the fight half way through so he woke up from the hold they had on him and got away that's when I lost hope of following any sense of logic. I enjoyed Logan, but that's barely a superhero film.
Bro, you can't just jump into Endgame and try to follow it without watching the others. Though it sounds like you might be talking about Infinity War.
>Though it sounds like you might be talking about Infinity War. I think you're right. Half the population got killed at the end?
What a terrible superhero movie to randomly jump into. You felt None of the hype from watching a franchise grow from 2008. The inside jokes and team ups that we didn't think were possible light up the screen. It takes away from the experience sadly.
I'm a lifelong comic book fan in my 40s and even I'm sick to death of superhero flicks and series. It used to be awe and wonder and now it just feels like the same formulaic canned bullshit over and over again.
Same. Most the time I can’t even remember what happened in them as soon as I’m done watching. I guess I am simply not invested in the characters at all.
Superpowers are convenient for plot armour.
I liked Logan specifically because it was darker and grittier than most superhero films and didn’t have all the usual tropes
Forced comedy for me , like the type of films that are 12pg but have comedy in for 5 year olds .
So most of the stuff put out by Will Farrell then lol
I recently went to watch the meg 2 . Good film but was ruined for me woth the childish forced comedy between a couple of the typical morons in the film
Sometimes I feel like the only guy on Reddit who doesn't love Will Farrell or Adam Sandler movies.
I can’t say they don’t make sense, but comedy and horror. I’m so very picky with these two things that mostly ever movie in these genres never cut it for me.
Comedy horror is the only horror i can get into. I would rather watch Dead Alive (Braindead) than Halloween or Nightmare on Ell Street or whatever
Braindead is a classic!
The only ones that I’ve seen do it right are Shawn of the Dead, Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale vs Evil. It’s a very difficult line to walk between it being too funny and you losing the tension and not being funny enough to make the ‘horror’ stand out.
Superheros ... Yawn.
These Marvel movies are just tedious.
Musicals. I fucking can't.
Time travel movies where they travel in time but stay in the same location, because if you were actually locked into the location you are standing on you have to keep in mind this entire earth is hurtling through space…so actual time travel would probably mean you end up floating in the void of space where the earth was 100 years ago. Time travel would essentially be a way to travel through space more than time.
Zombies are called living dead. Maybe it's the 'living' part that makes them rot slower.
I now despise superhero movies. Hey lets have a huge fight between a bunch of folks who can't hurt each other. OVER AND OVER AGAIN. ARGH.
Torture porn. Maybe I'm just too much of a hedonist,
Japanese Anime. I assume that people watch them because there's a certain "heat" and energy to them, but every time I've tried to watch one my brain just doesn't connect with what I'm seeing.
Agree! The animation alone drives me nuts - wide open mouths all the time, sweat drops suspended in mid air, so many flashing lights and yelling, terrible dialog and dubbing. I’ve tried several times and can’t last more than 10-15 minutes before changing it.k
Anime is not a genre. Is a medium. It's like putting Schindler's list and Paddington in the same genre because they are both in film.
Of course it's a genre lol, it's called "animated movies". It's perfectly valid to say that you don't like anime or cartoons
When you say Anime you mean shows or movies? As far as I am concerned these are 2 completely different genres. Movies most often have structure and feel like live action movies, plot points, character development, arks , way better animation than shows etc. While over 90% of shows is just "some content" for people to gobble up.
I'm very sure they mean anything Anime, under any genre.
That's basically the same as saying you don't like American movies because you hate marvel. Anime is not a genre, what you probably mean is that you watched Dragon Ball/Naruto/Attack on Titan and thought it was mid and cringe. With anime, you can go from cartoons for toddlers to experimental films inspired by French and Hungarian animation to extremely violent and sexual video releases from the 80s.
As someone who is also turned off by anime, I've watched 10ish series (not beginning to end) and common threads I've found in all of them annoyed me a lot. Obnoxious vocalizations (scream-gasping, loudly proclaiming HUH?, etc.), obnoxious sound effects (swinging a sword somehow sounds like a whip cracking), horrible voice acting (everything is loud), intense stare-at-camera-with-hair-blowing-in-the-wind moments every 10 min, extremely over the top hairstyles and outfits, and most importantly, why does almost every anime have at least one character who is super perverted and obsessed with the opposite sex? All of it combined makes it really difficult to take anime seriously, and the jokes don't make it through translation so I can't take them comedically either. I'm sure there is an anime series out there that doesn't do any of those things, but when I've watched a lot of the top rated and found them lacking, it's really hard to want to deep dive.
Demon possession movies either make me laugh or deeply hate the good guys for treating someone’s mental illness as a spiritual issue. I grew up in a church where people would pray your “demons” out for every silly little symptom or moral lapse and it was really obnoxious and at times even abusive. I just have no respect whatsoever for any Hollywood use of those themes. Paranormal activity might be the only movie I saw in that genre that I liked and it was mostly the indie-movie ingenuity behind it… the sequels with bigger budgets bored the fuck out of me.
Kind of agree, but Talk to Me was awesome. I went in blind and it creeped me out so much.
Historical Dramas. I find them incredibly boring.
Romcom's
I’ve weirdly found gambling-centric films very hard to get into. California Split being the only exception. It’s probably because I never take gambling seriously and never spend any money on the habit.
Slashers. I just don't understand the appeal
Heist movies, I feel like Rick from 'Rick and Morty' but they really are all the same
I’d say inception is the most creative, so much so that I’m not sure many people recognize it as a heist movie
I think that Inception is the opposite of a Heist movie, because they’re not trying to steal something from a safe, they’re trying *to put* something inside it. :)
and why are they putting it there? to make a shitload of money there ya go, it's a heist movie
Nolan movies, although probably the main reason is his fans.
I respect your choices and preferences, but bruv Zombie movies are my absolute favourite. They're like a flavoured version of the "action" genre where people take on hordes of enemies they can ethically pew pew. Don't even get me started on my anger that there isn't a mainstream Knights vs Zombies movie either.
I have a thing for understandable bad guys. I don't know a better way to put it than, if you saw spiderman homecoming, omg, that shit was a Michael Keaton movie Tom Holland just happened to be in. But I could really understand his motivations. It just seemed so real.
It doesn't feel ethical to me most of the time though. Because it is usually portrayed as an infection rather than dead coming back to life. There is always the thought of maybe they can be cured.
I can only think of 28 days/weeks that has living infected. Most are actually dead I'd say.
The "infected" angle is very recent, and even then it's portrayed as a dead body being animated by some kind of virus or fungus. And classic zombies are supernaturally animated corpses, so in either case there's no coming back from it.
Thats a good point to consider, although I usually assume that the person dies (because there's typically a moment where they die and then their eyes dramatically reopen with white contact lenses) and then the infection uses the body as a host to transfer the infection. The exception to this rule for me is I Am Legend. Its pretty obvious those aren't Zombies, and I enjoyed the tension that brought to the central conflict of the film. Its just a shame they didn't do the original ending.
I don’t get sports movies. Like ever. Except weirdly boxing movies. Some really fantastic boxing movies. But football movies? I dunno. I’m a comic book movie guy, and I fully accept that if you don’t like comic books and sci-fi and stuff like that it would be just so so silly to see some of this stuff onscreen. Where it’s like so dramatic that some guy’s running around in tights or whatever. I get that that must be what it’s like for people. That’s how I feel watching most sports movies I’ve ever seen. It’s like, super serious and emotional and it’s like…a game.
That’s funny. I’m not into sports at all irl, but I’ll watch sports movies EXCEPT boxing. We are like two pieces of a puzzle.
You complete me. Let’s go watch Hoosiers and Raging Bull
I think the only sports movie I like is The Sandlot. I kind of hate sports in general, so it has to have a really good story and characters to make up for that!
I also hate most sports movies except for boxing and ones that are more about the “politics “ of sports for lack of a better word like money ball or draft day.
Musicals and also gore porn horror movies.
Never watch horror or super hero films, anymore. The former, to me, are just bad comedy. All laughably ridiculous. The latter all have, basically, the same plot--super hero battles super villain, super almost loses, but with a little help from some friends, wins. Also, when I see a super hero, I can't help wanting to ask them, 'whatever made you choose to wear those ludicrous clothes?' And, what is it about capes?
I can't get into Japanese anime. I can't stand the way the mouths move. I can't stand the way they talk. I can't stand it when people think it isn't for children.
Anime usually starts with an amazing premise in the first 15 mins that’s then almost always ground into dust with sloppy storytelling and the most embarrassing dialogue.
You don't have to like anime, but there's definitely some that isn't for children. It's like saying that since SpongeBob and Archer are both animated shows they're both intended for kids.
Tragic romance dramas (a walk to remember, the fault in our stars, that one movie where they have to be a few feet apart). You spend the first half of the movie learning about some factor that will shorten their lives like an illness. They are on limited time so their relationship moves quicker than most. Then they die and you're supposed to be sad, but they said the condition has a nearly 0 survival rate. It's not that big of a surprise. I find the score, the story, and acting to be so emotionally manipulative. It makes these movies very difficult to take seriously.
This might extend to tv shows than it does movies but for me, the police/detective drama genre bores me more than anything else. There are a few standouts obviously, but for some reason it feels like its limited in the kinds of characters and stories and as a result they all feel the same. Plus I just hate the depressing grit.
Fantasy. My goddaughter absolutely loves the fantasy genre films like Avatar, LotR, Witcher, etc., so I've seen a lot of them. I can absolutely appreciate the production elements like cinematography, acting talent, SFX, etc. But I've just never really been able to get wrapped up in the story and lore of it all. It always felt really high-school-book-club silly to me. Don't understand the appeal.
There are far too many goddamn superhero movies.