Zach Snyder's back! Again! To make both a zombie film AND a heist film, and fails at both. Booooo-urns. Come for the blurry, nauseating cinematography, and stay for the dead pixels.
Zach Snyder's back! Again! To make both a zombie film AND a heist film, and fails at both. Booooo-urns. Come for the blurry, nauseating cinematography, and stay for the dead pixels.
Boy, wouldn't this movie have been more interesting if the zombie apocalypse happened during an Ocean's 11 style Vegas bank heist. And this wacky group of thieves had to adjust their plans on the fly as Vegas crumbles.
When I first saw the trailer initially I thought that was going to be the premise
Exactly!!! You nailed.
Far better ideas than what we got
Kind of similar to from dusk till dawn
A bit like Overlord, which fucking rocked
If Zach Snyder was given the ingredients for a perfect pizza, he’d use them to make a shitty burrito.
You're describing a calzone.
Amazing and so perfectly true.
@@rushi5638 and then people like you when Zach gives us the burrito tells us it’s a beautiful calzone
@@rushi5638 I’m sorry BvS is still bothering me
Topped with swiss cheese... hehehe
At the end when Dave Bautista gives his daughter the money from his vest - "now you can help the refugees" - I said out loud "Oh, the refugee camp that was next to the city that was just nuked?"
I had that exact same thought... and she just got their mom killed too, along with everyone else.
@@wayner396 Did Geeta even die? I went back and checked and we just straight up don't see her again after the nuke goes off. Before that she was perfectly fine on the helicopter.
In real life they would be mostly fine. Power of nukes and ensuing fallout is exagerrated in common perception. Ofc i'm not suggesting movie makers thought like that. They didn't think at all.
@@MitchellD249 in the helicopter crash the daughter was the only person who got up. Dave Bautista mentions to help her kids as I'm pretty sure everybody else died in that crash
@@MitchellD249 She's supposed to be dead but the scene wasn't cool enough for Zack to bother showing it.
"Japanese lens maker" sure makes it sound exotic and mysterious, like you can just smell the incense burning at the Shinto shrine. It's Canon... just say "Canon."
Wow, I didn't even notice that! This guy sucks!
Ooooo what is this, “Canon” that you speak of? Are they some ancient, mystical, AND Japanese lens maker?
Lmao
Maybe I'm giving Zach Snyder too much of an excuse but I wonder if it's possible he was originally saying "Canon" and then they said "ooh we don't have that copyright Zach. You gotta say Japanese lensmaker" and he was like "that sounds so stupid" but he had to, and they were too lazy to blur the logos.
@@BunnLilah you definitely are giving him too much of an excuse, Zack Snyder is very corny
This movie takes place in the Money Plane Cinematic Universe.
Somehow, that would actually make both movies better...
there are definitely heavy Money Plane vibes in this
You wanna bet on a zombie fuckin a lady; Money Plane.
@@LateCambrian M O N E Y PLANE
Buncha Bitches
“It’s a fun concept” It was when we called it Dead Rising 2.
I know right! Army of the Dead had a significant lacking of Bautista riding around on a tri-cycle dressed up in a pink bear costume while the American anthem plays
except dead rising is also post fall of Las Vegas
Zach Snyder ripped off dead rising twice
He should just have kept closer to DR2...
@@myoldvan119 YES!!!! Your comment is criminally underrated. Also he really ripped off the movie "Doomsday". Lol!
That first Tig Nataro scene was just them asking if she wanted to be in the movie.
The risk is Zack Snyder is directing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
"$2 million dollars? That's all for me that's my cut?" "Yes but--" "Yes, the answer is yes. I'm in." "But don't you want to see the script or a rough cut of the--" "Nope."
and thanks god she said yes since she's one of the only partly bearable things in the movie
"Wahlburgers?" "No mask. Unless you're Vietnamese." Fucking awesome.
I didn't get that reference. Was there some incidence?
@@pm6127 mark walberg beat up a Vietnamese person when he was younger
@@toddpacker4683 that's putting it mildly. He half blinded the guy in a hate crime.
@@kenz526 Wow, that makes him one of the very few non-black people in America to have a documented hate crime against asians.
That's a deep cut
Every time the zombies would run into a scene, they would stop and pose for the camera. It made me feel like I was watching West Side Story and the Jets were showing up ready to rumble or dance.
I laughed at that too! I kept thinking "Finally! The parkour kids hard work doing all that running around and jumping gaps has paid off! Yay them!" Hahaha
Strike a POSE! Assert DOMINANCE! Show them puny humans the true ALPHAS! LMAO
I've only watched a couple of trailers but everytime I saw the zombie queen I wondered if she though she was in Cats.
it looked like the zombies were playing in a Broadway musical!
Amazing take. I kept saying to my gf that they all look like Vegas dancers on their day off, cos-playing...
Can't believe they didnt talk about how they mentioned that rain would reanimate all of the dead zombies in the first 20 mins of the movie and then NO RAIN SCENE at any point
Release the Rain Cut
Not even rain. It didnt even have 1 zombie come back to life because of rehydration or something. I mean why introduced that concept at all??
@@zakkapradana7180 I think it was just their way of saving money because of the lower budget. "Oh we don't want to have to CGI a whole city's worth of shamblers so we'll just say they're all dead from dehydration"
My thoughts exactly. They introduce quite a few interesting concepts and never do a single thing to explore them! wtf?
To Berlin fair, it's Vegas, when is it gonna rain in that place? Why mention it then?
The lack of helicopter sound has nothing on the BS of a dude walking through a nuclear wasteland where a nuke JUST went off.
Why didn't I even think of that logical error the first time? Given his appearance upon escaping the vault means not much time has passed, he'd likely to have spread radioactive matter and probably died before even getting to the plane. That said, radioactive zombies would've been a more interesting dangerous threat to have come out from space if they were going for the alien zombies route.
My biggest question is why didn't that lady yell out "That guy tried to kill me!" before getting eaten by zombies? Instead she just yells "RUN! .....RUN! .....RUN!"
That plot armor is very strong
I thought so, too, but him being infected might've had a role to play in that scene. Also, a ground burst modern tactical nuclear weapons wouldn't yield that much radiation. The most unbelievable part would be him escaping the debris.
@@readhistory2023 yes, I'll take the word of some dude in the KZhead comments section with a poor grasp on the English language instead of what I've learned in my career.
I thought I was losing my mind when they found out the nuclear bomb was being dropped in an hour and...yeah, the film carried on like nothing had happened, no one was hurrying, no one was particularly bothered, the film didn’t pick up pace at all. Do you know how fucking quickly you would move if you were surrounded by zombies and a nuclear bomb was about to be dropped on you?
And you only had 9 minutes to run back, find somebody, kill some zombies, go back to the roof, fight off the biggest zombie, and still have enough time to fly out of the reach of a nuclear bomb.
The whole movie defy time and physical distance, they supposedly took two hours from the entrances to the location, yet caiote and the other guy went back to the entrance Waited for the Queen to appear, guy killed her and went back to the location all that for like 5 minutes
I would need to time it, but I'm pretty sure they take longer then what they were told they had time wise. Also a guy get out of a locked safe and jut walks through the nuclear radiation of nuked Vegas.
At least in Resident Evil Apocalypse they knew the nuke was coming and actually hurried up towards the end
I find this in many movies these days, lack of realistic reaction to peril, maybe its because there is so much acting on green screen, or should that be lack of acting, it's like watching a video game.
The lady confessing her love for Batista and immediately, violently dying right in front of him made me laugh out loud.
Every Snyder movie has those unintentionally funny scenes that make you not fall asleep while watching his movies
I missed it. I was looking at my phone by then
That scene made me go "OH! OK!???!" As it was so quick, quiet and subtle. Then just how she's on the ground like "IM DEAD BITCH!", It had me chuckling at that point lol. And also, there was No backstory with those two.. So just as she confessed and died? Was the same velocity of their backstory lol, pointless!
That shit was hilarious
Her entire dialog is just either speaking spanish or swearing, and all of a sudden she comes up with that confession
the microwaved hand scene stops seeming like a "spark of cleverness" when you realize that the entire zombie population of Las Vegas has been baking in Nevada heat the entire time.
Or when you realize they were just pressure plates so they could have chucked any one of the many dead zombie bodies surrounding them onto the switch to trigger the traps
And the zombie plays fetch with this tiny morsel of flesh thrown all the way down the other end of a corridor rather than just simply turning and taking a hulking bite out of the warm, chatty humans stood inches away either side of him...
If you've watched the Pitch Meeting on this movie it covers this pretty humorously
I'm surprised they didn't note the microwaved zombie hand scene from Idle Hands
Right, if it had been a unchanged human hand, that would have made sense.
Dave Bautista is an actor wating for a a good director to make a masterpiece. His little role in blade runner was so good it caught me off guard. The guy is perfect for a dramatic role in some movie that does not yet exist yet.
Yeah he was really good in that movie. Especially the little prequel short they did for his character. Check that out if you haven’t watched it.
You may get your chance to see this in Dune. I am interested to see how he does.
I came to this exact opinion after seeing him in Bushwick. He was great in the role, but the movie let him down.
@@dharmawriter Same director, so he'll probably be just as good.
@@BubblesTheBard Denis Villeneuve hasn't disappointed yet, very happy to see how far he's come and all the clout he's been getting lol
They didn't mention the basic plot doesn't make sense. Instead of concocting a fake mission to rob the vault, Tanaka could have just told them the actual mission and they could have accomplished it in about five minutes at the edge of the city.
THANK YOU!!! I have been saying this since the "Big Reveal" in the movie.
I somehow never considered that, but lmao yeah, why go through literally any of the charade? If it's worth more than the $200 million in the vault anyway then just offer to pay them the same amount or more. Only issue I can think of is that they might say no if they realise it's to make more zombies for military purposes, but they were able to trick the Coyote into helping by telling her they just wanted a blood sample and she's the only person they actually needed to accomplish the real mission. Scott and the gang weren't needed for anything.
Also, shouldn't it have been a dead giveaway that the guy who owns the casino apparently didn't know the combination to his own safe?
Now it make more sense if they had to go deeper into the city to find this zombie queen but if she just at the gate of the quarantine zone no one had to die really
To be fair, given their main contact for the camp's reaction when the head is bagged, I don't think it's stretching credibility to say that being open about the plan from the start would jeopardise their chance of getting everyone onboard in the tight timescale afforded to them by the nuke. Wanna take millions of dollars from an abandoned Vegas vault? Much easier to sell. Not that I'm defending this film (I'm not, it's terrible),
"Some hack comedian that I'd never heard of until it came out that he's a sex pest" Perfect burn right there.
Sex pest is an amazing term.
"Sex pest" is a fine euphemism, although it verges on the flipant, it's rarely used lightly.
I was glad he wasn't of the same caliber as Louis CK, his act is one I will not miss.
never meddim...
We really need to make sex pest a thing now in Hollywood
I'd just like to point out that "Tig Notaro" already has a name that perfectly fits in the Star Wars universe.
"Darth Notaro" has a nice ring to it.
Tig is short for Tigolas
@@siskavard So she already has a name for The Lord of the Rings too!
She also has agreat Star Trek name. It's also why she slipped in so well into Discovery. She was a tiny glimmer of light in an otherwise abyss of a show.
@@spunkyspaz Now I actually have a bit of admiration for the technical marvel they accomplished because of some sex pest. It‘s an alright student film in that way. A for effort, good job special effects team!
The tapes in the vault were actually the “D’Elia cut” that will be released next year.
I deleted my comment that was similar because yours was better
the tapes contain the missing pixels
#ReleaseTheSexpestCut
Chris D'Elia becomes the father of the first human-zombie hybrid
Mike explaining the ending of Aliens while also doing an impression of the Terminator theme might be the most Mike thing I've ever seen
The way Zach Snyder shot this movie is the way I see the world if I forget my glasses. Everything is a blur unless it's right in front of me.
You see the word through Bautista's eyes when He's not wearing glasses 😀 mind blowing
It really looks like they shot it on a 5D mkiii at f 1.8 the entire thing. The movie looks so cheap.
Me too, goin to the opticians next week
Those shots made me nauseous. Also It made me think they were doing that cause they had no money…. When they clearly did….
There were points where EVERYTHING in frame was blurry, even the stuff right in front of the camera. It was so distracting.
I love how the military couldn't hit their shots, but everyone else can. Oh, and the two soldiers decide to walk away from the zombie rather than getting in the humvee and driving away...
We’ll just airdrop soldiers into a horde of flesh eating people, sounds like a solid plan.
That’s when i checked out of the movie. It was so eye rolling. I got just past the credits when I remembered to shut off the film
Not to want make excuses for Snyders lazy writing, but you could explain it that the soldiers didnt know what they are fighting against and they are trained for years to shoot at the torso area. So thats what they did. They never tried to shoot the head. The others know, months after the outbreak, that these are zombies and they are just killed by headshots. Why they have magic aim so that they can shoot zombies running at them, in a panic situation, perfectly in the head...thats a whole different story... EDIT: Because some maybe think I liked the movie...again...not making excuses for Snyders lazy writing...its more a "How can I explain the scene to me so that I dont have an urge to shove a spoon through my eye into the brain." I didnt like the movie. But that would have been the LEAST problem I had with it. Like the point that the whole Heist didnt make any kind of friggin sense, if Tanakas plan from the start was just to get the head. Why this convoluted plan about the heist. Especially do it several times, as we saw with the dead bodies from before. Get six Merc assholes that will kill their mother for money, use one victim (some bum from the streets) as sacrifice to lure the Alphas out, get the head and walk out of there...ok the movie would have been done in 15 minutes...but still...the whole Heist plot didnt make any kind of sense. And in the end wasnt even really relevant because there were hundreds of other distractions to the story.
I mean did any of you pay attention? They had no clue they had to head shot him to kill him. You wouldn’t automatically know that when he’s the first of his kind.
@@Anwelei lol
Mike: "The Four Horsemen? That's a deep cut Bible Reference" Zack Snyder: "WHAT? I though it was a Metallica song!"
It's at least his second reference to the four horsemen. He featured Johnny Cash's The Man Comes Around at the beginning of Dawn of the Dead.
I'm not hating on Zack Snyder, it's just that Zack Snyder has lost his gawdam mind.
Bruh THAT IS A MEGADETH SONG smh SMH
@TheMowens NO NEVA!! True metal fans stan the og cut! It would be betta if metalica was neva borned! NEVA!!!! The Metallica cut DOESN'T EXIST!! REEEEAAAAAHAHHHHHHHHH!!! (*proceeds to roll van over)
Pretty sure Snyder has a bible boner. After all, he made Superman a Christ figure
What bugged me throughout the movie was that the helicopter was never going to be able to hold several tonnes of cash and 12 people.
EXACTLY!!!!!! I was thinking that the whole time!
Add it to the list of ridiculous bullsh**. Ha.
Honestly they could've switched it to gold bars and it would've been so freakin stupid.
Stop bringing logic into it, we're talking about Army of The Zombies or whatever
My favourite bit was when they played Zombie by The Cranberries- because to quote the greatest author of our generation "I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards" (TM Garth Merenghi)
😂😂
It's all voodoo nonsense as far as this cats concierned
Best post on this thread for the GM reference 👏
@@BIacklce this is definitely the case. There is no subtext.
@@mykr0324 Matt Berry is amazing.
I laughed so hard when that wedding couples' car hit the army truck and just EXPLODED like the vehicles were covered in C4
That's just how good that lady was at giving "road head": She created so much underpressure that the impact ignited the water atoms in the air.
When I started watching the movie I literally thought the lady was a plant by some sort of shadowy organization to blow up the convoy with C4 hidden in the car. But nope, just a really bad accident.
Yeah that was a 10-ton military truck... the car wouldn't be much more than a speed bump.
Yeah but see, when Zacky boy drives his tank into vehicles in GTA (which is totally the most awesomest game ever), they explode! And that's just so epic and cool.
@@swagromancer But even in GTA, the cars only explodes if it's on fire for a few seconds, so at least it's somewhat explainable as gas fumes catching on fire and resulting in an explosion.
two things that bothered me: - Chekovs' Concrete Saw - Had the head, then WHY go back to the heist at ALL?!?
The Coyote saves their ass with the saw when dude locks them in to screw the team over, but yeah, he was right by the ‘door’ with a $2 Billion “asset”. Non-sense.
@@TheElectricMayhem why does the company guy betray everyone? for what reason? it was in his best interest to have them be alive to protect him
@@CoolGobyFish I'm guessing it's a secrecy thing. They can't leave witnesses who might let the public know that they kept a zombie head to make more zombies with.
@@MitchellD249 everyone knows about zombies. what sort of secret can there be? pretty sure everyone already assumed the the government will be taking samples. just bad script.
@@CoolGobyFish Why not just hire the blonde woman, grab a zombie and gtfo? Because Snyder.
The movie is a false ad in a nutshell. To advertise it as a zombie HEIST film, and have ZERO HEIST. Just trying to open the vault and taking money is not a heist, as there's no tactics involved...
It’s not about the heist...it’s about the friends we made along the way
"But there's a team, and a vault, and money, and it's in Vegas, but it's better because there's zombies.... Shut up! All that matters is that IT FUCKING LOOKS *COOOOO9L!!1!one"* - Hack Snyder
@@DaMaster012 His Fan be like "masterpiece"
@@minhgiangtuan96 Proverbs 21 20 says "A fool and his money are soon parted" as a warning to the fools that they may spare themselves from poverty and debt, wasting the sweat of their brow on frivolities. Hack Snyder must have come across that passage (presumably as he was tearing pages out of the Old Testament while he was beating off to the New Testament) and thought it was career advice. Hack Snyder's fans have never read that verse because they don't know how to read.
Agreed. It was more of a looting situation than an "heist". They didn't steal anything; they were just paid to claim it, and to do so without being eaten.
Zack Snyder's cinematography reveals his overall artistic shortcoming: an incredibly shallow depth of field.
Your comment is deep in a shallow way
I think he used it to save money....not a good excuse
and the burn of the year award goes too...
@Redresseny He's 55. He should know better.
BLURRED FUCKING EDGES EVERYWHERE I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF.
Zack Snyder: 'It's mysterious and creepy' Everyone else: 'It's dark and blurry'
True that. A black screen with zombie sounds is also mysterious and creepy... doesn't mean that we want something like that.
This is the Fan 4 Stick of Zombie movies.
The sadest part is that I actually could see it working rather well if it was just used sparingly and in the appropiate moments/enviornments, instead of just everywhere all the time like with zero moderation.
Light and funny, Zack's trying out new stuff to direct although it doesn't suit him
If I lost my glasses in a dark room full of zombies, I'd be really scared!
The way the Zombie Queen runs off after the first encounter makes me laugh every time I see it. It's like she's Naruto running off. It's unintentionally hilarious.
For real! Hahahaha. I said out loud to my friend "All those parkour stunt people can FINALLY show off their skills in this movie!"
honestly the entire performance she gave was unintentionally funny to me, there was something so goofy about how exaggerated the "smart" zombies acted
Unintentionally hilarious is the only type of hilarious Snyder knows how to be
Judging purely on the basis of his filmography, you would think Zack Snyder is a douchy gym bro. The fact that he is a genuine and considerate person irl is such a whiplash.
Compared to Quentin Tarantino, who is a certified douchbag but cranks out one classic movie after the other really shows that personality and skill don‘t need to go together
Best part was when that woman exploded and Dave Bautista's like "Leave her she's gone!"
"Mantis! Look out!"
Right!?! I thought she was gonna make it!
@@jmaster2855 severely underrated reply 🤣
MEDIC!
Really disappointing that they didn’t replace every actor with a CG scan of Tig Notaro.
I've only just now realised that I've wanted this my whole life.
"Wait so are we like clones?" "Who cares? Let's just go so I can get my money."
After fans demand it, they'll do it in 3 years, you know when Snyder's cut of Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead comes out.
Or Rich Evans.
They should have replaced Zack Snyder with a CG scan of Tig Notaro, that scan would be a better cinematographer and writer.
A Huey helicopter is one of the loudest and most distinctive sounding rotorcraft in the world. You can absolutely hear them from sixty miles away and know exactly what kind of helicopter it is.
Tell that to the vietkong. My dad flew those for 35 years, they can definitely Fly “under the radar”
Vietkong? So Guerrilla gorillas then?
@@warrabbit123 Why was your Dad fighting the Vietkong for 35 years? Did they forget to tell him?
@@kraanz reading comprehension is hard, isn’t it?
@@warrabbit123 Jesus christ, never mind, sourpuss.
The little boy actor who points at his crotch in Back To The Future 3 actually did this to signal the crew off camera that he had to pee, and the young actor unfortunately chose to do this while cameras were rolling, which slipped by everyone at the time. Look it up.
Poor kid lol
Kid getting all that blame and everyone's missing the older boy throwing us the surreptitious bird right beforehand XD 40:20
Zack literally ended his zombie movie on a cover of Zombie by the Cranberries. Absolutely egregious lol
WAIT REALLY? Fuck, he probably thinks that song is actually about Zombies.
@@codycurry52 what? But it says zombie right in the title
@Spastik The problem is Zack Snyder always chooses the most obvious song and its cringe as hell, like playing Sound Of Silence during a funeral
@Spastik the dong?
@@britishnerd3919 Zombie is a pretty sad song about 2 kids get blown up by bombs left over from "The Troubles" in Ireland. And the pointless bloody war that the bomb came from. "Zombie" refers to the soldiers continuing to fighting for no good reason.
Can't believe the executives RUINED this possible masterpiece by REMOVING the pixels. RELEASE THE SNYDER RESTORED PIXEL CUT.
Almost makes one wish that the Snyder Cut was an absolute disaster. It might not be the best precedent even if it improved a terrible movie.
I enjoyed the moment were the guy quit the team when he heard the plan in detail. Was nice to see someone react as most normal people would
"It's almost like she just doesn't care" That's basically every Bill Murray performance... :D
Exactly, I've never understood the obsession with him, he's a horrible actor. His every role feels like he hates being there.
@@kraanz Bill Murray is a great actor
She would be great in a female Ghostbusters movie
Zack Snyder appears to be the kind of director that whenever he tells people what a particular scene should be like, he finishes with a "wouldn't that look cool though?"
The funny thing is that when he does it, it really is cool.
So he's a hack, is what you are saying
@@Shinkajo just reminds me of the Benioff and Weiss dudes from Game of Thrones. That was their entire schtick by the end of the series
@@frankmerker630 also hacks. Once the books ran out the series took a nosedive and their true abilities came to light.
Snyder is really an AI specimen trying very hard to be human. I'd say he did an amazing job considering such inherent limitations.
Mike laughing heartily while not showing an ounce of joy on his face seems very on-brand somehow.
Mike might be getting at the age where there isn’t much joy to have.
even Seth Rogen has forgotten about James Franco
And after all that rape - I mean.. movies they did together..
@@kidneystonermusic Imagine the orgy they did in screwing North Korea during The Interview!
@@markparkinson6947 I am imagining it right now
"So many sex pests"
Zack Snyder made an overly long movie that's incredibly simple yet still riddled with contrivances and plot holes? This is my shocked face...
I’m sure 90% of fans want to see Snydercut because of Joker “we live in a society” scene, just to find out that scene is just a dream and Jared Leto didn’t get to say the magic word.
@Grandson Of Cherve How dare you, this is now my indignant face )^8
@@nont18411 meanwhile they tweet the hashtag since 2018.
Surely Conan the Zombarian's queen should be Dead Sonja.
you silly bastard
"Dead Sonja" would be a cool band name
Okay, you win!
That's good!
Clever
A 2010 video game about smashing things with shopping mall furniture somehow managed to tell a more unique, fun, yet incredibly original "Zombies take over Las Vegas" story than a 90 million dollar Zack Synder movie... Dead Rising 2. If you compare the two stories its actually shocking how much more fun and interesting a stupid, over-the-top VIDEO GAME that let's you duct tape a machine gun to a giant teddy bear is actually better in almost every way than a $90,000,000 Netflix feature length film. For those unfamiliar with the Dead Rising 2 narrative: Dead Rising 2 takes place in a post-pandemic world which has suffered, and recovered, from a vast number of zombie outbreaks across the country/world. A pretty original concept in and of itself is the fact that, unlike just about every other Zombie outbreak story... ever.. society didn't completely break down after the outbreaks took place, and most were actually contained or eliminated by the military. Zombifcation, how it works, and what to do with it kind of becomes a big, hot button social and political issue that permeates throughout modern society. People who have zombified relatives, for example, want to keep them alive in captivity in hopes that a cure can eventually be discovered to reverse the zombification process, while many other people pretty much have the sentimentality that *all* zombies should be eliminated for safety concerns. There are extremists on both sides of the issue, and some geo-political organizations and movements for both sides have even taken to acts of violence to further their agendas. The main character is Chuck Greene, a stunt driver/athlete that is participating in an extremely controversial reality gameshow called "Terror is Reality" which uses captured zombies as part of their show and point scoring system as part of an arguably sick yet profitable Pay-Per-View type event and venue located in "Fortune City"... which is basically just the Vegas strip on steroids. Chuck Greene is a somewhat jaded single father that actually doesn't like doing the show, but he does so because he needs the money and his daughter requires expensive yet essential medication that she needs to take every 24 hours or she'll turn. Chuck performs and does well (or not well, depending how well you play), gets paid, and just as he and his daughter start to leave an explosion occurs in the lower levels of the reality show venue, and its discovered that a member of an extremist zombie rights group purposely detonated a bomb in the zombie containment area to trigger an outbreak. Chuck barely gets himself and his daughter to what is essentially an underground bomb shelter that was designed for this purpose. Because of his daughter's condition, however, (which he keeps secret from the other survivors in the shelter), he has to sneak his way out of the shelter to look for medication for his daughter, and in doing so he gets tangled up into a much larger conspiracy that results in Chuck initially getting blamed for the attack, and he winds up having to investigate the bombing to clear his name in order to continue keeping his daughter safe. (Spoilers) You later find out that the only reason an extremist was even able to access the zombie containment area was because the host and executive producer of the gameshow, Tyrone King (whose basically just a TV show host version of Simon Phoenix from Demolition Man), planned the attack himself and made it look like it was an attack from a well known extremist group on purpose so he could use the news coverage and outbreak as a diversion to forcefully knock off every casino vault in Fortune City with hired mercenaries. It was all a ruse for a several hundred million dollar casino heist. it turns out there's even more to the mystery than that, but just think for a second just how much BETTER of a story, or honestly a movie, Dead Rising 2 would have made than Army of the Dead. Its sad, actually.
I was sad at how they treated Chuck in the next game
that's a good point! also, thanks for the DR 2 summary, I never finished the game and have always been curious about the whole story.
dude it is incredible how well you put it thx.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Wow, you’re so thorough. I bet, no, dare I say, THIS MAN here(?)…. he’s covered wars ya know.
@@faizfuad8361 :(
36:22 Release the Tig Notaro cut! Her as all of the characters!
And every zombie
@@PALACIO254 Zig Zombaro
It starts off with a premise like Escape from New York, becomes Aliens, and ends up making you wonder why you spent 2.5 hours watching a generic zombie movie instead of Aliens or Escape from New York.
Hit the nail on the head.
And here I thought it would be an action comedy zombie film like the dead rising games
Zack Snyder's name on the front didn't do that for you?
In a generic zombie movie people die from the zombies mostly in this movie people died because of other people the girl that fought her way out of the zombie room died because everyone just stood there watching for a good 3 mins then started shooting after she got bitten then everyone else that died died because of Dave Batista's daughter So it was worse than a generic zombie movie
The millitary wanting to make a zombie army and the government deciding to nuke a city because of the zombie outbreak is kinda like Resident Evil too.
Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman sharing a hearty laugh over a bad joke and then saying _”that’s not funny at all”_ is all of RLM summarized.
You know what would have been cooler? A film about a regular vault heist, wherein the owner of the money wants it to go missing so he can sue the casino and double capitalize on the heist. But during the heist, a zombie outbreak happens, making it much more difficult for them to escape and to stay alive.
I’m so glad you guys pointed out they rip off the scene from American werewolf in London. Many channels didn’t say anything about it where it is super obvious.
I literally yelled out "Damn you Bishop!" When they got back on the roof and the helicopter was missing.
No you didn't
Technically “Bishop! G-Damn you!” But I get you.
No, you didn't
@@rabito85 you're correct but for some reason that's what comes to my mind when I think about that scene. 😅
I yelled out “LETS ROCK!” To my girlfriend when the Vasquez looking chick alerted the horde and started attacking everyone.
I liked the part where that huge saw is hyped up in multiple scenes only not to be used at all to fight zombies. Subverting expectations FTW /s
Like being told the zombies would be reanimated by rain. Chekhov's gun, right? If you show something somewhat promising, never deliver or something like that.
i like the part where they microwave the hand to fool the zombie into thinking it's alive, not just a zombie hand that's been in 110 weather every fucking day... by this "logic", wouldn't all the zombies outside be attacking each other every time the sun comes up?
Also a circular saw like that would be awful at keeping zombies at a distance. Why not just a long normal chainsaw?
He did use it once, in the intro credit scene.
@@92brunod This movie has a Chekhov's armory and does nothing.
It's funny, but Aliens actually did do a sort of subversion with the "obvious betrayal" character. Bishop as an android was sort of framed ambiguously throughout the movie, especially when he was talking about how awesome the xenomorph and face hugger biology were, and the only other android we knew was Ash in the first movie -- a psycho, company-loyal robot who was willing to kill his entire crew and even himself to ensure Weyland Yutani got their specimen. The whole movie you're expecting Bishop to go rogue and evil, especially after Burke reveals his true character, but Bishop remains on the good side with the humans. I was really hoping for something similar with that government agent guy.
Good point
I agree with Jay, the opening scenes of the zombie apocalypse starting seemed infinitely more interesting than the actual movie's plot.
I gotta disagree, but only because the zombies seem to be ambushing in the middle of areas, like they just spawned in with cheat codes.
If you think this is bad, Waite till Snyder makes his dream movie, when he adapts “the Fountainhead”
oh god no
Oh man
Jesus
Watching Snyder attempt to communicate ideas other than "action with pop music playing" sounds like torture. Watching him to attempt to communicate terrible ideas from a terrible book might just result in the most unintentionally hilarious movie of recent decades.
@@blat4719 Oh god yes It'll be the most scathing takedown of objectivism conceivable by man, even if unintentionally so
The whole movie was just scene after scene of me saying, "That doesn't work like that!" I don't think Zack Snyder lives in the real world.
So you're telling me you can't fly/land a helicopter, find a person in a 15 story hotel, and have a fight with a super zombie, AND have time to escape in 9mins? I am in shock 😲.
Real world kinda boring tho
Effects Guy: "So you know when grenades explode they just explode right? Like a bang? They don't create hellish napalm firestorms." Zack Snyder: "Haha explosion goes BOOM"
@@Groncheroente Yeah, that's why I watch movies that don't suck lol
Name someone in Hollyweird that does? Other than MAYBE Ryan Reynolds. Which is ironic since he plays one of the most unrealistic characters in cinema.
I still can't understand why business man hired them to steal money when he didn't want the money in the first place. Wouldn't it have made more sense to hire a whole team of people who's main goal was to capture a zombie for his nefarious purposes? So they are all on the same page? Why send in 1 lone wolf with the team? I don't get it...none of this plot made a lick of sense.
This dead pixel almost gave me a heart attack when came up on my newly bought £1000 telly
Must weigh half a ton
Someday, Hollywood will rediscover the profession called "WRITER". It's actually a special skill that takes years to get good at just like cinematographers, composers, directors and other stuff.
This movie had 3 writers somehow.
No, cousin billy really wants the job so we'll let him do it.
Hollywood: Maybe we should give more writing power to directors so they can focus on a vision. ...and then we won't have to hire writers and can save millions
Hollywood will never rediscover it beyond super low budget films. Translating films with actual depth to every language on earth and making the story make sense doesn't make money. Things with explosions that the eludes to having a plot is what makes money now.
@@tylerdordon99 The more writers, the worse it is. Like the MCU Spidey movies. They've got like 5 writers. It's embarrassing
The reporting on the Dead Pixel is the sort of investigative journalism I've come to expect from RLM. Bravo.
I always like when RLM finds relatively obscure things like this and Jay says “I can’t believe nobody’s talking about this”
nice profile picture
I just saw this crazy zombie film where a group of survivors are on the run and encounter some crazy super strong zombies, and then at the end of the film they fight a CG zombie tiger. It was crazy! Zombie Apocalypse from 2012 with Ving Rhames! What are we talking about here?
Omg zack knows no shame...
@yasio bolo I'm sure the zombie virus can fight off leukemia just fine :)
@@Mr00Chief00 You can't die of radiation poisoning if you're already dead.😉
they're talking about that not so good movie where some guys go into a zombie-infested area to retrieve money. Oh wait, they're not talking about the south-korean sequel Peninsula? what are we talking about then?
@@DinoDave150 But what about being undead? :D
I like how their Vasquez stand-in has the same bandana but with the addition of heavy makeup and hoop earrings. 4:55 Amazingly Hollywood.
Zack Snyder is basically a music video director and just doesn't realize it.
@@Dartanyoogles It's evolving, just backwards.
You mean... Michael Bay??!!
He started in commercials and was doing them a long time. So yeah, commercials and music videos are not thaaaat far apart
@@jcvscorner Depends on what kind of music video of course. There's plenty of artists that have awesome music videos like Rammstein with their latest songs.
@@AdamSandal83 95% of music videos don't feature a cohesive narrative. Neither does 95% of what Zach Snyder writes and directs... but I'm sure that's just a coincidence......
When Mike said he's just passing time until he's buried in the ground I felt that in my soul.
He's kidding himself. Nobody would bother burying him. 😜
"I just like human beings. I want them to be happy. So I don't TORTURE them too much." -Former showrunner of the DCU
A better version of this movie would be a hiest that is planned before the outbreak, but as the outbreak gets worse the crew decides to go ahead anyway. So it starts mild and about money and ends in chaos about survival
Or maybe just the fall of Vegas like the opening of the film. Bautista has to save his family and escape the city, it could’ve been like Escape from New York, but with zombies.
"They don't fuck each other over." Talking about zombies that apparently quite literally fuck each other over.
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear og
@@AxxLAfriku oh you talentless fraud
@@AxxLAfriku fucking hack fraud
@@epicfish8134 *hack fraud
@@AxxLAfriku Dont worry zack, it will all be fine
Notaro telling people to get behind the car had strong "Follow me, I'll lead you to safety" Neil Breen vibes.
Programmable Virtual Reality......THE CORRUPT VERSION
He was a creative consultant for her incorporation into the movie with green screen effects
They should team up
Tig Notaro could pass as Neil Breen's sister, actually. Twister Pair 2 when?
You know the movie is dull when you spend this much time discussing a single dead pixel
The way they describe Tig Notaro’s performance reminds me of the way Norm Macdonald acted in movies
The daughter was the most annoying character in recent memory, and she's the only one to survive. After 2 and a half hours that's how you're rewarded.
Yeah, they didn't need her Whatsoever. Looking back? They didn't need her to "Get them in" as refugees because, lmfao, once they were on the quarantine grounds? They couldn't care less as they were in full gear, weapons, all ready to go and there was literally No one there except the douche security guy.
she is literally the reason why the last few died, and that guy that betrayed them who they pointed out that he would betrayed them 🤦🏻♂️
Also, did you notice the woman she 'saved' just died in the helicopter crash 10 minutes later?
rewarded? Lmao
@@Hedgemonkey5 For real, what was her plan? She was just going to walk in against super ZOMBIES with a PISTOL??
You gotta give credit though, Tig Notaro was integrated far more smoothly than Henry Cavill's top lip.
Yeah she was but what was the point for all that for a character that has very littlw screen time
I mean she cost half the budget. It would be ridiculously hilarious if she didn't.
Now yeah it was impressive they did that. But y what was the point. All they had to do is do like they did with radio. The man that played radio never was able to be on set to infect with others actors alot of the times. An they just shot his scenes separate from the otherwa an just edit it in a way to make it look like he was there never used special affects. Or wastes a budget to add him in. Just creative editing to do it
An they could done that hear. But no let's digily out her in.
Or hell the spent that much money to put her in it an it mostly went to editing. I be pissed if I was her. Like dame just give me the money
"Wahlburgers?" "No mask, unless you're Vietnamese" Lmao
THE most competent low budget film maker ever is probably Robert Rodriguez
Film making 101: - watch a ton of films from before 15 years ago. - take out the scenes you liked for research purposes - tell actors to act out these very scenes - make scenes longer than they need to be to get a good screen time (longer means the film is better) - Martha
I think Snyder is trying to be like Tarantino, but doesn't have the talent and skill to pull it off like Tarantino does.
+reshoots
"Ok actors, do this scene just like so and so in that one movie. Action!"
@@patriciapandacoon7162 He's the worst type of "artist". The man can see what other film makers are doing, but seems to only understand why it works on the most basic level. Instead of "construct scenes and dialogue in a style reminiscent of a certain era of film making" he only understands it as "copy old movies". But that seems to just be Hollywood, which probably explains why the man is always working lol
@@patriciapandacoon7162 Tarantino is the most overrated director today lets be real. His movies are less than skin deep
Zach Snyder is the ultimate 'im14andthisisdeep' filmmaker.
For a 14 yr old, he has a very bad case of progeria
@@SuperWolsey Actually, 14 years is really good for progeria
nobody knows what that means
Yeah, he talks like a 14 year old too. Have you see him disrespect his own fans? Even at fundraisers no less! Sure, RLM may not want to say he's a horrible human being...but I'm sorry. He's a horrible human being.
No he’s just the Jim jarmusch of Hollywood movies and ppl are in denial about the fact that warner bros gave their precious brands to a psycho troll
Its always worth sitting back and taking a moment to appreciate what a perfectly crafted action/horror movies aliens is. and that it still holds up 35 years later.
35:30 in the director's cut of aliens, Ellen Ripley returns after decades and finds out that her daughter has passed away long ago. This is why she formed such a unique connection with Newt as she recently lost her own child. It was removed from the 1986 original cut, which seems unthinkable. It makes the film even more powerful and impactful.
I didn't pick up on the Alien thing until the landing pad sequence. That's when it all hit me like a ton of bricks.
for me it was the werewolf in london bit. they both have the really inapropriate laugh when they fall over. the glow sticks in the slightly dimly light room was hilarious.
Oh, how could you've missed the female soldier character with the red bandana?
@@johpir6872 yes that did look like cosplay to be fair.
The red bandanna was *screaming* Aliens
Or Dave's daughter wearing that T-Shirt that spells out LV-something something
Mike's Terminator soundtrack noises for when the alien Queen appears LOL
I thought that was just me! Glad to know I'm not going mad. Or if I am, at least I'll have company along the way...
Dude, he's got dementia. Don't be rude...
Ah yes, my favorite Aliens scene, when Sarah Connor is face-to-face with Robocop
@@gonzokules7794 I thought it was the debilitating alcoholism
Pretty sure it was a James Cameron joke
Mike making that swiss cheese joke and saying "that's not funny at all." just might be the funniest thing they've ever done or said on half in the bag
This whole video is just proof of how much Zack Snyder is a hack. Just badly and lazily copying other much better movies... Great work, guys. Your reviews are awesome.
Nah, Nah
Snyder gets way too much for Dawn Of The Dead when the credit does to James Gunn for writing it.
@@rumblefish9 I do think Snyder directed Dawn much better than he directed his other movies. I don’t know, maybe he was more restricted or maybe he was more humble... something there seems more honest, more cohesive and more raw than all his other overly bloated, overly produced stuff. However, I also agree that the script there is way better than anything else penned by him for sure and this certainly elevates the material a lot. Had he written it, it would certainly be a worse movie...
@@lehanderjau6269 Zack Snyder is okay when someone else takes care of all the creative parts and the studio makes him stick to a tight run time. Whenever he's given free reign his inner 10 year old comes out and the whole project spirals the drain...
Having only seen 300 and Man of Steel prior to this movie i'm convinced people only hate on Zack Snyder because he's successful. I watched this thing on a weeknight and had a great evening. I'm not sure what everyone else seems to have been expecting.
"Wahlburgers?" Yes, unless you're Vietnamese" - Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
ok im Vietnamese and i dont get it
@@hieunguyenrileygekko In 1988, Mark Wahlberg beat up a Vietnamese stranger. Now, his restaurant is serving Vietnamese-inspired burgers.
@@hieunguyenrileygekko As a teenager, Mark Wahlberg violently attacked two Vietnamese men
oh thanks, guys its good to know, i hope his restaurant serves some actually Viet foods, not just burger
@@RangerMcFriendly Not just beat up, beat him so badly the old man lost an eye. Marky Mark was a real shitbag back in the day and has never acknowledged his past.
The blurred lens scene where Batista's daughter never walks into focus... pulls up in the bus and the entire shot of her opening the bus doors and walking to the stair, stays out of focus. What the hell
I was so confused by that shot; I thought it was blurred for a "reveal" of who was emerging from the bus (and was confused by that too because we knew who it was). Turns out it was just a shitty shot, I guess.
the backgrounds are so out of focus for a few reasons 1. it's to hide the fact that they are often not on location and are filming on a green screen 2. it's to try and hide the fact that some shots are re-shoots 3. it's to hide body doubles of some of the actors who are in the background (like the helicopter pilot who shares like 2 scenes with the rest of the cast) 4. it's because zack snyder thinks that blurring the screen for no reason = unique style.
It’s zack Snyder’s new dumb thing, tons of out of focus joker in the snyder cut
Snyder has no idea what he's doing.
really puts the irony in "visionary director" front and center.
They also chose to run off into the desert instead of getting back into the Humvee they just got out of and driving away.
That guy even pulled someone out of the humvee to run away in the desert. What a joke!
The real zombie was Zack Snyder's brain worms.
Thank you for pointing out the lack of originality. Snyder never had an original idea in his life, Everything is a copy, remake, retelling, inspired by, etc. Zero originality. How he had fans at all is a mystery to me.
Imagine Zack Snyder teamed up with J. J. Abrams.
"it's literally my vault, but you need to hire a safe cracker for some reason"
It was his money, but I thought it was being kept in the vault for him by the casino. Hence why he didn't know the combination and needed it to be broken into. I may be misremembering the dialogue, though.
Somebody owning a vault and somebody having access to their vault are two different things, but I didn't seen the movie and never will so I dunno
I'm pretty sure it was literally his casino, that's why the head of security worked for him, there was some weird dialog where the main dude says he never liked the japenese dude when they met in the diner but it's literally never expanded on or explained in any way
Because he didn't want the money remember. He just wanted a zombie sample to make a super zombie army.
@@mazroon Idk because its a Zach Snyder movie and he doesn't think this stuff through
This movie also began with one of the cliches I hate: a movie that is set in a famous city that plays a positive song about how great/fun that city is, only it's slowed down over scenes of that city being destroyed, so it's supposed to be ironic or something.
"Because It's Cool I Guess: The Zack Snyder Story"
Can't stop thinking about the intro of New Vegas because of the setting where this was done right. The setting was already destroyed and it focused on the deteriorating state of humanity.
@@davedavies8968 Every time there's an apocalypse story set in NY there's almost always an obligation to put the New York song in it.
@@knavenformed9436 "You've heard of the Sierra Madre casino. We all have; the legend, the curses. Foolishness about it lying in the middle of the City of the Dead..."
I never saw the movie, so I don't know if it counts, but the I remember the trailer for the Dwayne Johnson movie *San Andreas* had a sad cover of *California Dreamin'* over shots of Los Angeles falling apart.
Maybe the shallow depth of field is a metaphor for every Synder movie that he doesn't know about due to lack of self awareness
The depth of field in this movie is the visual experience of a K-hole
So the movie's about robbing a casino in a zombie-filled post-apocalypse? Why not just play New Vegas Dead Money?
Or the Dead Rising Games?
Because fuck those radios, those invulnerable holograms, and 75% of the npc's you encounter in it. The reward is worth it though.
@@Archibaldh1pp0 you better not be speaking ill about my boy dog/god
@@PALACIO254 nah, they're cool. I mostly mean Elijah.
That weasel Dean can eat a brick though
The best part of the mess is "Zombie" by the Cranberries at the end. You can tell Zack Snyder genuinely thinks it's about zombies. Absolute king of face value.
Na he doesnt. Stop being such a baby jerk
He doesn't, but it's a song that has zombies, tanks, bombs, and guns in the lyrics and yet is highly regarded critically and publicly. It's kind of on the nose but I see why the temptation was too great for Snyder to resist. At least they didn't use that horrible cover that came out a year or two back.
I don't think he didn't know, I just don't think he cared. He strikes me as the type of guy that prefers to only think of works of art at face value. Not necessarily a condemnation of the man ( leave that to KZheadr Curio)
Maybe the movie is secretly about a violent rebel faction trying to forcefully declare independence from the US. Or maybe it is just a load of shit.
Zack sees the lenses used in Moonlight and goes “I should use this for zombies”
Don't we all.
@@mabusestestament no, otherwise we’d be millionaires too 😢
Never saw it
@@coyotefever105 nice addition to the conversation
Its like Moonlight, but with zombies
I'm amazed how completely glossed over the time-loop hint was.
Yeah, I definitely think Snyder intends to more or less rerelease the movie, with events unfolding just a differently enough to result in a better end.
@@Graemyr that would be cool. Like a gory version of Groundhog day
@@ianbyrne465 Pretty much what Happy Death Day is
RedLetterMedia mentioned Mars Attacks, so my life is pretty much complete.
Zack Snyder does seem like the kind of guy who'd think rapist zombies would be edgy and subversive.
He already put implied zombie rape in his last movie so no surprise
he also talked about batman rape before. so edgyyyyy
Sounds like he wanted to rip off the comic "The Crossed"
r/moviescirclejerk is waiting )))
just more and more evidence that Snyder never matured out of his dorm
“This movie had a shockingly low USD 90m budget” And half of it went into editing in a green screened replacement actress...
I thought 90 million for a zombie film was high as hell.
Imagine what somebody like Gareth Evans could have made with 90mill. $! The guy produced The Raid with less than 1 mill.$ and The Raid 2 with less than 2mill. $ ! Evans is a big horror fan so I'm sure, he could have come up with a kickass zombie movie, for a fraction of the budget.
And that one scene with the leopard/tiger
Blame those pesky sex pests!
They should have replaced her with Bruce Campbell.
I returned my TV because of this movie.
Tig Notaro is also in Star Trek Discovery and basically plays herself in that too. I think that's her thing. Probably the best part of that show honestly.
Vegas being the only area infected and quarantined is a brilliant idea. It allows you to make a fun zombie movie with an upbeat ending because the fate of humanity isn’t on the line. So anyway, everyone dies and it’s miserable.