Mildly annoying(sigh).......

[Cdnwolf]

[mikeo80]

To Cdnwolf:

Three words:

Well done, Sir.

My $0.02

Mike

[kato13]

[dude_uk]

The ultimate problem is what in the heck, HBO are going to title it when they finally green-light my all singing all dancing big budgeted, 'Band of Brothers' style adaptation of 'Twilight:2000' for TV.

Dropping the 2000 made it seem neater and not a bad straight to video horror film! (See twilight reflects the struggle mankind faces in a post apocalyptic world! SYMBOLISM! )

[mikeo80]

off topic, but....

Not quite going up against "bright sparkly vampires". but...

If I need someone beside me to help in the battle....

I'll take any one of these three.....

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=MLhn9tc8Dvo

My $0.02

Mike

[.45cultist]

So I wasn't the only one!

[StainlessSteelCynic]

if its immortal, sparkly, and plays in the forest its not a vampire its a fairy...

Yep, that's why we call those... "creatures"... from "that" movie, sparkle fairies.

And besides, a guy who is what, 700 years old or there abouts and loves humanity doesn't bother to cure cancer or anything, instead he hangs around a school and seduces teenage girls.
Hmm, just a little bit of a creep methinks.

[Targan]

And besides, a guy who is what, 700 years old or there abouts and loves humanity doesn't bother to cure cancer or anything...

Oh, I dunno. When he turned his girlfriend into a "vampire" he pre-emptively cured any cancer she was ever going to have

[Bullet Magnet]

Oh, I dunno. When he turned his girlfriend into a "vampire" he pre-emptively cured any cancer she was ever going to have

So...in short, his attitude is "I'll cure your illness, but first you need to put out!"

[.45cultist]

Like the CoC violating "Little Bird" cadence.

[stg58fal]

It gets worse... the movie Warm Bodies is doing to Zombies what Twilight did to Vampires..

Making the entire subject gay

That's unfortunate. I liked vampires when it was Underworld, Dracula, John Caprenter's Vampires, that kind of thing. Stephanie Meyer (or however you spelled it) destroyed a great genre for me. I just can't get into vampire movies or books anymore.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

The whole zombie genre though has become stale over the last decade. Warm Bodies is to my mind a parody of it and a jab in the eye at the directors. I mean, what else is there to say Here's how Zombie Apocalypse stuff works:

Plague goes down; either we get 28 Days Later where we don't know what happened or it unfolds so fast nothing can be done about it.

Then we have a little group of survivors that either falls apart (like NotLD, DotD or LotD), or is pulled apart by exterior forces because other survivors are dicks (Dawn of the Dead)*. If there's military or police involved they're violent fascists waiting for a chance to line the non-military types up against the wall and shoot the lot of them (DotD, The Crazies, 28DL, 28WL). If a core of survivors manage to make it through those crises we're given a "shock ending" where they all die or they wind up back in the same predicament as before (trapped somewhere, surrounded by the dead).

And that's it. That's really it. The HUMANS ARE THE REAL MONSTERS! is drummed into our head at every turn with all the subtlety of an Michael Moore "documentary", THE END.

Shaun of the Dead is the sole exception to this, and it's a hoot and it ends with Humanity winning out. How novel!

If Zombie Apocalypse is giving way to ZomRomCom, so be it. I'll watch it just because for God's sake let's change gears already. If it brings fresh ideas, that's awesome.

You know what I'd like to see A post-apocalypse story about people rebuilding. The zombies are gone, poof, rotted away finally, all walked into the sea, the virus went through so many iterations the zombies collapse, whatever - a movie about a few million survivors around the world, shell-shocked but alive and grateful and now starting the process of rebuilding, not O-M-G ZOMBIE IN THE CLOSET! That would be interesting to me.

Until then, if Warm Bodies wants to spoof the genre a bit, fine, I'll watch it on rental.

...

*=The Walking Dead has both things happen to the survivors on and off again.

[bobcat]

So...in short, his attitude is "I'll cure your illness, but first you need to put out!"

here's my problem with it. he's over 700 years old, she's 16. im fairly sure there is a law and a few policies about that being illegal or something.

[pmulcahy11b]

Making the entire subject gay

Anyone else here old enough to remember Disco Beaver from Outer Space

[Webstral]

The ultimate problem is what in the heck, HBO are going to title it when they finally green-light my all singing all dancing big budgeted, 'Band of Brothers' style adaptation of 'Twilight:2000' for TV.

Now that's some interesting imagery. Sort of like a post-apocalyptic "Glee".