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<blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 1440591" data-attributes="member: 3570"><p>Right. She won't act irrationally when she's about to lose her father but she will for a dog that the movie ridiculously establishes the <em>zombies have no interest in.</em> </p><p></p><p></p><p>For heirlooms and pets immune to fire? I've never heard of that ever happening once.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Not quite. My first post gave specific examples of some of the things I both liked and disliked. Most everything else has been responses to posts like yours.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Nice try, but you'll need to to better than that. Even the people who disagree with my opinion concede that some of the characters in the movie are stupid and poorly written, but that they find clever writing and logical characters in horror films "boring."</p><p></p><p>I'm glad you enjoyed it when they decided to secure the mall and one guy with a shotgun guards the girls, one guy with a pistol goes one way, and the other guy without a firearm goes off by himself and opens a door after hearing chewing sounds on the other side. Of course he has to be rewarded for his abject stupidity with survival, as was the girl and her doggie, which is even more annoying.</p><p></p><p>I loved the first 10 minutes, enjoyed the pacing, thought some of the characters (Ana, Ving Rhames, Andy, Mikhei Pfiffer) were great, and was gleefully on edge by the heart-pounding tone of most of the film. I don't have a problem with characters "losing it" in traumatic situations, note that I haven't once criticized the scene where [spoiler]Pfiffer keeps his pregnant girlfriend alive even though technically that wasn't the "smart" thing to do. But his girlfriend and baby were everything to him even before the zombie epidemic and he paid for his actions with his life.[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>The dog thing was just dumb in so many ways. So bad that instead of being immersed in the story and thinking "wow, this is intense, people are losing it" I thought "wow, what utterly stupid and lazy writing. Hope that ridiculous character dies so she won't detract from the rest of the story." <em>That</em> to me is boring filmmaking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kai Lord, post: 1440591, member: 3570"] Right. She won't act irrationally when she's about to lose her father but she will for a dog that the movie ridiculously establishes the [i]zombies have no interest in.[/i] For heirlooms and pets immune to fire? I've never heard of that ever happening once. Not quite. My first post gave specific examples of some of the things I both liked and disliked. Most everything else has been responses to posts like yours. Nice try, but you'll need to to better than that. Even the people who disagree with my opinion concede that some of the characters in the movie are stupid and poorly written, but that they find clever writing and logical characters in horror films "boring." I'm glad you enjoyed it when they decided to secure the mall and one guy with a shotgun guards the girls, one guy with a pistol goes one way, and the other guy without a firearm goes off by himself and opens a door after hearing chewing sounds on the other side. Of course he has to be rewarded for his abject stupidity with survival, as was the girl and her doggie, which is even more annoying. I loved the first 10 minutes, enjoyed the pacing, thought some of the characters (Ana, Ving Rhames, Andy, Mikhei Pfiffer) were great, and was gleefully on edge by the heart-pounding tone of most of the film. I don't have a problem with characters "losing it" in traumatic situations, note that I haven't once criticized the scene where [spoiler]Pfiffer keeps his pregnant girlfriend alive even though technically that wasn't the "smart" thing to do. But his girlfriend and baby were everything to him even before the zombie epidemic and he paid for his actions with his life.[/spoiler] The dog thing was just dumb in so many ways. So bad that instead of being immersed in the story and thinking "wow, this is intense, people are losing it" I thought "wow, what utterly stupid and lazy writing. Hope that ridiculous character dies so she won't detract from the rest of the story." [i]That[/i] to me is boring filmmaking. [/QUOTE]
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