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Shaun of the Dead
Posted: 2004-05-09 03:57am
by Anhaga
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum- it isn't technology based sci-fi nor is it fantasy so I thought I'd shove in in here.
How many of you have seen this brilliant film? I don't know if its out in the States yet but it's been out for at least a month or so here in the UK.
My friends and I went to see it last night. After that we spent a half hour or so debating the merits of our various local pubs in terms of defensibility against zombies.
"Reports that the virus was spread by rage-infected monkeys were complete bullshit"
Posted: 2004-05-09 04:26am
by Sarevok
Should not the title be "Dawn of the Dead" ?
Posted: 2004-05-09 04:46am
by InnerBrat
evilcat4000 wrote:Should not the title be "Dawn of the Dead" ?
No, it should be
Shaun of the Dead
I haven't seen it yet, but I love
Spaced, and I'm trying to get some time to see it.
There's another thread about it in this forum, though.
Posted: 2004-05-09 05:06am
by Sarevok
My bad. I confused it with Dawn of the dead.
Posted: 2004-05-09 05:41am
by 18-Till-I-Die
Whats it about? I've heard of it but i've never seen it.
Posted: 2004-05-09 05:54am
by InnerBrat
The tag line is: A romantic comedy... with Zombies!
If you've ever seen
Spaced, I imagine it's the same sort of humour.
IMDB
Posted: 2004-05-09 06:09am
by Companion Cube
Definately the best Rom-Com-Zom i've ever seen, the scene in the pub with the pool queues especially.
Posted: 2004-05-09 06:36am
by Anhaga
3rd Impact wrote:Definately the best Rom-Com-Zom i've ever seen, the scene in the pub with the pool queues especially.
And don't forget the little alfresco strobe light effects
InnerBrat wrote:There's another thread about it in this forum, though.
Yikes- sorry!
Posted: 2004-05-09 07:49am
by Rye
That thread has sank for a while, so it'd probably get locked if you responded to it.
Yeah, I saw it, cool film all round. The whole cricket-bats against zombies was excellent. Going to have to steal that for my film.
The way the guy who played Bernard in Black Books died was excellently gory, and the whole thing, despite being romantic and a comedy, had some well done action scenes.
I also liked it how the woman from Spaced also had her own troup of survivors that she was leading.
What they did with the zombies after the problems was fucking funny.
Posted: 2004-05-09 08:53am
by 2000AD
It rocked! Rom-com-zom is now one of my favourite movie genre's.
Some of the little things were the best
"How many bullets have we got"
"Mate you've gotta call em shells!"
Posted: 2004-05-09 11:14am
by Vendetta
Shaun was excellent. Not as far out as Spaced, but definitely a winner all round.
Now, get bact to work Pegg, we want From Dusk 'til Shaun
Posted: 2004-05-09 12:26pm
by Admiral Valdemar
InnerBrat wrote:evilcat4000 wrote:Should not the title be "Dawn of the Dead" ?
No, it should be
Shaun of the Dead
I haven't seen it yet, but I love
Spaced, and I'm trying to get some time to see it.
There's another thread about it in this forum, though.
YOU'VE NOT SEEN IT?!
And anyone confusing this with
Dawn Of The Dead needs their head banging.
It's not really like
Spaced since there are hardly any pop culture references (though one or two will crop up). It's based entirely on an episode of
Spaced in the first series, the one with Vulva and when Tim is playing
Resident Evil 2 enough to hallucinate it. And that's it.
Great film though.
Posted: 2004-05-09 12:59pm
by Dorsk 81
Admiral Valdemar wrote:InnerBrat wrote:evilcat4000 wrote:Should not the title be "Dawn of the Dead" ?
No, it should be
Shaun of the Dead
I haven't seen it yet, but I love
Spaced, and I'm trying to get some time to see it.
There's another thread about it in this forum, though.
YOU'VE NOT SEEN IT?!
And anyone confusing this with
Dawn Of The Dead needs their head banging.
It's not really like
Spaced since there are hardly any pop culture references (though one or two will crop up). It's based entirely on an episode of
Spaced in the first series, the one with Vulva and when Tim is playing
Resident Evil 2 enough to hallucinate it. And that's it.
Great film though.
"Don't sneak up on me like that!" The episode is episode III and is called "Art".
And I've not seen Shaun of the Dead yet either sadly.
Posted: 2004-05-10 04:53am
by Anhaga
"But Big Al also says dogs can't look up."
after exhaustive research, I've determined that dogs CAN look up. Pigs, however, can't.
And elephants can't jump.
Which is probably all for the best.
Posted: 2004-05-10 09:05am
by Admiral Valdemar
Anhaga wrote:"But Big Al also says dogs can't look up."
after exhaustive research, I've determined that dogs CAN look up. Pigs, however, can't.
And elephants can't jump.
Which is probably all for the best.
Heh, there are one or two
Spaced jokes reused such as the "He isn't my boyfriend!" and so on.
Posted: 2004-05-10 05:56pm
by InnerBrat
Fine, I've seen it now, everybody happy?
Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's not really like Spaced since there are hardly any pop culture references (though one or two will crop up).
What are you, kidding, it's exactly like
Spaced, only without Daisy and with Zombies.
That scene where they're making their plans? That was pure Tim and Mike!
Posted: 2004-05-10 06:00pm
by Admiral Valdemar
InnerBrat wrote:Fine, I've seen it now, everybody happy?
Admiral Valdemar wrote:It's not really like Spaced since there are hardly any pop culture references (though one or two will crop up).
What are you, kidding, it's exactly like
Spaced, only without Daisy and with Zombies.
That scene where they're making their plans? That was pure Tim and Mike!
Actually, Daisy was in it.
And yes, it has aspects of
Spaced, but you couldn't call it a proper episode, at least they intended for a different atmosphere to the series.
Posted: 2004-05-10 06:15pm
by InnerBrat
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Actually, Daisy was in it.
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different character, hon.
And yes, it has aspects of Spaced, but you couldn't call it a proper episode, at least they intended for a different atmosphere to the series.
No, it wasn't an episode, but it was the same humour (some of the same jokes).