Rate Shaun of the Dead

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

OK, I'll bite. At the risk of hijacking the thread, what is this movie?

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I watch a lot of movies. Probably more than is healthy. I bought a gigantic TV to watch them on at home. Hell, watching movies (and writing about them) was even my profession for a little while(Note: This is not to make me sound smarter-than-thou, just to say that I'm not some Outer Mongolian goat herder who's never seen a moving picture). And in all the thousands and thousands of hours of films I have watched, only The Godfather rates a 10. Perfect film, beginning to end.

Some of the greatest actors of their generations at the top of their game (and Brando's best performance ever), a director who was never better, gorgeous cinematography (watch those scenes in Sicily - mafia bombers or not, you'll still wanna go), a beautifully evocative score and theme, and a script that retained all the potboiler-y goodness of the novel and injected it with epic scope. If I were stranded on a desert island with only a TV, a DVD player, a generator and an endless supply of popcorn (this is a really weirdo island, way weirder than that one in "Lost"), my one movie of choice would be Godfather.

That said, feel free to disagree.

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To not thoroughly disrupt the Shaun lovefest, I have one question. Why did Shaun get upset when people called them "zombies"? I mean, apart from "it's ridiculous!" At first I thought it was just denial, but even when they're in the Winchester and he knows what they are, he still says that at one point. Is this a zombie movie in-joke that I missed?

Speaking of zombie movie in-jokes, I busted a gut when Ed yells into the phone "We're coming to get you, Barbara!" I had to explain that one to my girlfriend afterwards.

 

[Chun-tzu]

I have another question. What was so funny about "I'm sorry, Shaun"? Does sorry have another slang meaning? Does it sound like something else in British?

 

[Viking Bastard]

...only The Godfather rates a 10. Perfect film, beginning to end...

Oh, you mean you actually had a 'perfect movie'. For me, and what I took your
comment to mean as well, is that the 'perfect movie' is a hypothetical one that
all movies aspire to be... ala Socrates's theories.

And anyway, Part 1, not Part 2?

 

[Ferret]

Shaun of the dead is my favourite file ever. So far. It would have been an 8, but that was because 9 is perfect, 10 does not exist. I realised that was stupid so it went to nine. It wasn't perfect but only fractionally not. It was the storyline I digged the most, but everthing else played on it so well. My only gripe is the sudden change from flesh crazy zombies to supermarket workers, mainly the fact they did not crave stuff anymore. And also that it ended so abbruptly when I wanted to see an end fight.

I have another question. What was so funny about "I'm sorry, Shaun"? Does sorry have another slang meaning? Does it sound like something else in British?

Nope.

When he was saying sorry it was because he farted, like at the start. Only this time he was sorry as well as having just farted.

 

[S'mon]

I loved it when I saw it months ago - of course I live in London & was already a Simon Pegg fan

 

[Fast Learner]

Speaking of zombie movie in-jokes, I busted a gut when Ed yells into the phone "We're coming to get you, Barbara!" I had to explain that one to my girlfriend afterwards.

Me too, though my gf got it, too. I'm glad I wasn't the only one in the audience to get it, though.

Several people have said there were 28 Days Later digs in the film, but apparently I missed them. What were they?

 

[Viking Bastard]

Whoah. That one went right by me. 'Night of the Living Dead', right? When the guy is teasing his sister?

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Whoah. That one went right by me. 'Night of the Living Dead', right? When the guy is teasing his sister?

Exactamundo.

Several people have said there were 28 Days Later digs in the film, but apparently I missed them. What were they?

There's a few that I spotted, the most noteworthy being a bit at the end when they're flipping through the news and one of the newscasters says that "rage-infected monkeys have been ruled out as the cause".

Another one, apparantly, is the "Don't use the zed-word!" bit that runs throughout the movie (that I asked about above, and later read about on IMDB). That's supposed to be a dig at Danny Boyle (28DL's director) who insists high and low that 28DL is not a zombie movie (because they weren't really dead, I guess).

Shaun of the dead is my favourite file ever.

You pirate .

 

[Mark Plemmons]

Another one, apparantly, is the "Don't use the zed-word!" bit that runs throughout the movie (that I asked about above, and later read about on IMDB). That's supposed to be a dig at Danny Boyle (28DL's director) who insists high and low that 28DL is not a zombie movie (because they weren't really dead, I guess).

No, I think it's because the old zombie movies never actually used the "z" word. Of course, it's been about a week since I've listened to the dvd commentary track, but I'm pretty sure that's what they said on it.

 

[Celtavian]

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BEGIN HIJACK.

I watch a lot of movies. Probably more than is healthy. I bought a gigantic TV to watch them on at home. Hell, watching movies (and writing about them) was even my profession for a little while(Note: This is not to make me sound smarter-than-thou, just to say that I'm not some Outer Mongolian goat herder who's never seen a moving picture). And in all the thousands and thousands of hours of films I have watched, only The Godfather rates a 10. Perfect film, beginning to end.

Some of the greatest actors of their generations at the top of their game (and Brando's best performance ever), a director who was never better, gorgeous cinematography (watch those scenes in Sicily - mafia bombers or not, you'll still wanna go), a beautifully evocative score and theme, and a script that retained all the potboiler-y goodness of the novel and injected it with epic scope. If I were stranded on a desert island with only a TV, a DVD player, a generator and an endless supply of popcorn (this is a really weirdo island, way weirder than that one in "Lost"), my one movie of choice would be Godfather.

That said, feel free to disagree.

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I completely concur. The Godfather does not have a weak moment in it. It is movie making at its finest.