arctichome

Being on a Noboru Iguchi kick, it was inevitable that I watch this. Not exactly high praise, I know, and I needed a friend to watch it with me, but I feel strongly that this should be seen by many people. Ideally one would watch this and Army of the Dead together. I'd wager more people would have fun watching Zombie As than anything written by Zack Snyder. Even on its own it is a delightfully awful live-action hentai, and I honestly don't want to know the kinds of people who wouldn't laugh at this.

Everyone involved obviously had fun making this crap, and even though I rate it higher than AotD, Iguchi and Snyder do have something in common: they both make feel like I could be a director.

I think more than any other movie, the popularity of this one disappoints me the most. That the majority of people that watched this thought it was good leaves me with little choice but to suspect most people of being morons until proven otherwise. Of course, this doesn't mean that most people are "bad", in fact I wager most folks are either/or at different times, so perhaps it's good that geniuses aren't flooding the streets, lest they do some real damage in their "bad" moments. In any case, my self esteem is less shaken than ever with the success of A Quiet Place.

It's been a couple years since I saw this film, so I'm not going to go into great detail, but with the sequel out I feel the need to emphasize this first outing's status as a writing disaster. The problem lies in how much the film demands you grant it. We all have a threshold of how much contradiction we're willing to overlook, and again, the success of this movie chips away at what little hope I have for humanity, because not a scene goes unscathed by paradox-tempting stupidity. Whether it's the survivors of the ear-monster apocalypse letting their youngest child trail 30 feet behind with his new noisy toy, or monsters that are so easily confused by noise that merely having a louder noise (like a waterfall) nearby allows you to be as loud as you please (the world's governments couldn't figure this out?), this film's characters and plot are hopelessly Swiss cheesed to hell. A Quiet Place is a sign of the times: people have no standards and they're fine with it.

Baffling. Watching this with a friend was hysterical, but only because we could hardly believe what was happening. Can't see myself watching it twice, but I would like more people to know about it. Chinese comedy has always been exaggerated from my point of view, and this film like converting The Three Stooges into animation and then back to live action again without relinquishing any of the gags that animation made possible. This movie throws everything at the wall, picks up what doesn't stick and throws it again till it does. It's comedy by attrition.