Do you like zombies in movies?

[Agent 0086]

I hate it, it's lame and overplayed, like the vampire stuff. I could beat these monsters with a cardio workout. Why do you think they have to put these monsters in large groups to be slightly more intimidating?

 

[if6wasnin9]

I was in a horrible psych hospital in Philly and the patients watched this terrible TV show with zombies killing each other. I couldn't believe it.

 

[Dagan]

You don't know until you are in certain people's perspectives / shoes sometimes. I did a Marvel Zombies themed party for a child once, up top in a huge tower penthouse, and the whole thing turned out to be this kid's Make-A-Wish party. It about floored me, but all of the work was done and to the T, film quality FX and sparing none of the gory details. I did my best per usual. It's what this kid wanted, and she was happy, jumping around, play-fighting and shooting them with nerf guns.

You just never know.

 

[UFO]

Just like vampire movies before, Romero-like zombies got milked dry, time to move on to something else...

I would like to have more traditional Haiti-zombie flicks, but there was never too much of them. Serpent and the Rainbow is still my favorite and I have hard time to remember any other examples of that genre (okay, black-and-white-flicks White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie)...

Return of the Living Dead, even...the trioxin gas.

Great innovation was that zombies in that flick were actually smart and could talk, plan and ambush. Which made them feel more of demonic than actual Romero-zombies (in a vein of Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight which is to me one of the best movies in the genre), but I don't mind.

 

[Shevek]

I have never seen a movie with a zombie. I'm appalled at the amount of time some people waste on speculating what to do if a zombie movie became real. A documentary about human suggestibility would be a good place to show a real-life Voodoo zombie.

 

[Judge]

Quite honestly the genre has become boring. I still watch the remnant spinoffs of "The Walking Dead", but also wonder when I'll eventually just stop. I guess there are still enough zombie fans to keep them going...but time will tell. While I watch such programming, my attention seems to easily wander from it.

Though that said, I don't mind seeing an old George Romero classic now and then.

 

[Dagan]

I have a script collecting dust that takes Romero's first film plot and reverses it, but then I realized that Night of the Living Dead was a reversal of Rio Bravo in the first place. Oops. It's a grind always trying to put out "original" content. Again, I must bring up the whole "found footage" genre, as it's that style and perspective that make everything feel new and exciting again. And, yeah, Romero realized it and did it himself with Diary of the Dead.

 

[UFO]

I still watch the remnant spinoffs of "The Walking Dead", but also wonder when I'll eventually just stop.

I stopped right as soon as they finally captured Negan, passed some years, and suddenly Negan had turned to a watered-down ex-villain and new self-sacrificing hero. (I don't remember but I am sure that he began to lose his charisma even before)

I have a script collecting dust that takes Romero's first film plot and reverses it, but then I realized that Night of the Living Dead was a reversal of Rio Bravo in the first place. Oops. It's a grind always trying to put out "original" content.

You know perfectly well that there is no original idea in the world. So you probably should just calculate how many examples you know of some idea. If there are relatively few examples, go ahead even if you feel that it is a cliche. Most people watch movies because of cliches, not despite of them

Hmm... Assuming that I understand "reversal" correctly... Wasn't Rio Bravo a reversal of High Noon? In High Noon the protagonist didn't get any help even thought he wanted to, while in Rio Bravo the protagonist didn't accept any help even thought it was offered to him. Night of the Living Dead was then more about people's inability to work together, never mind if help was offered or declined?

Edit: Hmm... IMDb reviews describe plot of Rio Bravo being that the protagonist don't ask for help, but accepts when it is offered. I would have liked more of "I don't need anyone's help - but I get it anyways"-theme better as I remembered the movie to be.

Again, I must bring up the whole "found footage" genre, as it's that style and perspective that make everything feel new and exciting again. And, yeah, Romero realized it and did it himself with Diary of the Dead.

I find it amusing how much "found footage" reminds me of early 19th century literature which pretended to be published diaries and letters to tell a story...