SciFi Saturday 10/15/05 Zombie Movie Double Feature

[Angel Tarragon]

Tonight SciFi is airing Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis & Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave starting at 7 pm at all timezones. Will you be watching? I know I will.

 

[trancejeremy]

I saw most of the 2nd one. "Rave to the Grave". Some of it was pretty funny.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I actually didn't get around to watching them last night, but I did record them. I am not going to have the time to watch them this week as RL obligations stand in the way, but I will get around to watching them eventually.

 

[Darthjaye]

Not real great but not real bad. Perfect for what it was. Very low budget and kinda linked together loosely. They even make reference in a funny way to the first movie. One of the "agents" in the Rave movie says "The army is sending help. They say they know how to handle it. They did once before." or something very similar to this. Funny that he didn't read the fine print on how they handled it in St Louis before..........

 

[PatrickLawinger]

Well, I recorded them with the DVR. I watched the one that is apparently "first" with my finger on the fast forward button quite a bit. I believe I saw the 2 hour TV movie in somewhere around 45 minutes. I am guessing the second one will take about the same amount of time.

I wasn't impressed, but, well, I did just say I was probably going to watch the second one rather than simply erase it.

Now, I am sure I missed some stellar acting and amazing dialog by fast forwarding the way I did, but, somehow, I am not overly disappointed .

I would never have been able to sit through the movie "real time" without changing the channel.

Patrick

 

[Mark CMG]

I'll go with The Return of the Living Dead followed by Shaun of the Dead.

 

[IcyCool]

I saw these with a buddy of mine. I've never really been a fan of the Return of the Living Dead series, as I don't like intelligent, well-spoken zombies. "Brainssss" is fine dialogue, but anything beyond that just doesn't do it for me.

That said, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis was surprisingly zombie-lite for a zombie movie. It wasn't until the last bit of the movie that we really got some zombie action. The characters were kind of entertaining, and the plot wasn't a complete waste of time. And hey, zombie bio-weapons with tablesaw and minigun attachments, who doesn't like that?

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave was different, however. If they weren't continuing the same storyline as Necropolis and using the same characters, I might have actually sat through this one. But we had to turn it off around halfway through, as we were convinced that the movie itself was trying to eat our brains. Honestly, why use the same characters and storyline, and then have all the characters pretend to have no idea what a zombie is? And the crowing bit that really got to me was the whole, "I found this U.S. army barrel of something (you know, that Trioxin stuff that makes zombies?) in my uncles attic (you know, the guy who tried to kill us with zombies that he created) - we tested it and it has components similar to x - DUDE let's get high on it and be drug dealers!!!!11one1!". What. The. Hell.

*Shudders*

Maybe, maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't watched Necropolis first. Bleh.

 

[griff_goodbeard]

I saw these with a buddy of mine. I've never really been a fan of the Return of the Living Dead series, as I don't like intelligent, well-spoken zombies. "Brainssss" is fine dialogue, but anything beyond that just doesn't do it for me.

That said, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis was surprisingly zombie-lite for a zombie movie. It wasn't until the last bit of the movie that we really got some zombie action. The characters were kind of entertaining, and the plot wasn't a complete waste of time. And hey, zombie bio-weapons with tablesaw and minigun attachments, who doesn't like that?

Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave was different, however. If they weren't continuing the same storyline as Necropolis and using the same characters, I might have actually sat through this one. But we had to turn it off around halfway through, as we were convinced that the movie itself was trying to eat our brains. Honestly, why use the same characters and storyline, and then have all the characters pretend to have no idea what a zombie is? And the crowing bit that really got to me was the whole, "I found this U.S. army barrel of something (you know, that Trioxin stuff that makes zombies?) in my uncles attic (you know, the guy who tried to kill us with zombies that he created) - we tested it and it has components similar to x - DUDE let's get high on it and be drug dealers!!!!11one1!". What. The. Hell.

*Shudders*

Maybe, maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't watched Necropolis first. Bleh.

See, I thought that was just an homage to RotLD 1 & 2. They both featured several of the same actors playing different roles.

 

[IcyCool]

See, I thought that was just an homage to RotLD 1 & 2. They both featured several of the same actors playing different roles.

Except that they actually continued the storyline from Necropolis into Rave to the Grave. They practically picked up in Rave to the Grave where Necropolis left off.

 

[Mark CMG]

I've never really been a fan of the Return of the Living Dead series

I've only ever seen the first RotLD movie, which I found to be a funny send up on the genre, though by now it might seem a bit dated.