AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I'm watching the movie of John Dies at the End.

I think this is one of the few movies that is at least as good as the book, at least as far as I am into it. They did change the name of the dog for some reason, but that hardly matters. Also, Amy's missing hand is common knowledge right from the start.

Doug Jones is Roger North.

Edit: So I'm well past halfway now and I can see that a whole bunch of stuff is gonna get cut out to make the time constraints. I'll see soon how well it works.

Edit 2: ALRIGHT work interrupted but I finished it and I was right, they cut a lot of shit out, basically fused the two storylines from the book, and completely removed the shadow people and the whole body snatching plot which means that the philosophical axe problem at the beginning is just a silly throwaway joke, not an actual worrying quandary. The special effects take a nosedive in the second half and devolve into your typical SyFy Original fare. The actors for Dave and John did a good job expressing their characters, though Dave could have been a bit more stoic (I can chalk that up to him naturally acting less surprised and confused as a narrator in the book). Amy's relationship with Dave at the end is the definition of Hollywood shoehorned love interest, with absolutely no chemistry or development given to them and simply being announced as a couple. This is a direct result, I'm sure, of their entire romantic arc getting cut from the plot.

Overall, it's a good adaptation, but I really wish people would consider making longer movies if it serves to enhance the story.

Okay who else is fucking pumped for Only God Forgives

I haven't heard of this.

I looked it up and saw that at its screening it was booed by the assembled critics and journalists, but was also given a standing ovation.

So... what the fuck is it.

Basically a sequel to Drive

No

that is not what it is

it's a film with vaguely similar themes to drive but the plot is different as shit

Same actor, same director, same flashy violence.

That's like calling Fight Club the same as Se7en

Went and saw Man of Steel.

Probably the best Superman film. To be fair, that's not really saying all that much, and it's not the greatest thing ever, and definitely not one of the better recent superhero films. However, it's a nice film with a lot of neat ideas that it does pretty well and if you can get over that you've seen the basic plot to it about a billion times then it's pretty good.

They do a lot of stuff with Superman's humanity and ideals growing up and learning how he'll be seen really well. The first 45 minutes of the movie, where he's not Superman quite yet and he's just kind of figuring everything out about where he needs to go in life are really the best part. Once he starts fighting it basically delves into a pretty good if not standard action flick. The last half has kind of the same problem Green Lantern had. It's not bad at all, but it's just really generic and semi-predictable. They do manage to twist your expectations a lot, however.

Also got pretty heavy applause from the theater so I'm gonna assume it wasn't just me who liked it.

Watched Paranorman again. God I just love everything about that movie.

Also watched a movie called Bernie. Jack Black kills an old lady.

I'm going to start watching the old Star Trek movies because reboot and Leonard Nimoy

Anything I should know before diving in where no Runes has gone before?

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

So... just went and watched World War Z. It's time to face the music... *inhale*

World War Z is a good movie.

It honestly is every bit the original masterpiece that redeems itself for deviating from the book. The acting is top notch, the writing is better than the DevHell would ever allow me to believe, the characters are all sympathetic in ways, and the cinematography is pretty breath-taking. When you watch the film, you can tell every cent of the inflated budget was well-spent, and you'd never know anyone in the cast or production crew was fighting with someone else.

Again, the only thing I don't like about this movie is the zombies. Their behavior is outright silly, their physicality is bizarre, and the CGI depicting them in tackles, grabs, and the "anthills" (oh god) is awful. This might seem like it'd ruin it for you, but it really doesn't break up the pace or the tension. The fact that these are just ragezombies straight out of 28 Days Later with an even more impressive evolution time (ten Mississippi seconds) kind of makes sense, because how else would a world so genre savvy go to shit so quickly? Oh! And YES, they do refer to these things as "zombies" and "undead" because that's what the fuck they are. Sort of. In fact, the first mention of them is an alluded government communicae from Korea that specifically has "zombie" as the triggerword that sets off Israel's paranoia.

I have hope, guys. I have hope that the sequel will be more like the books and follow a flashback interview style because it would be far more entertaining and far more exciting with rage zombies thrown in the works. Let's see you plant that explosive underwater charge now with a rustled off meat grinder with big, frozen tiddies trying to chew your nose off, Mr. SCUBA-Submarine Guy!

Oh, and Volvo gets possibly the best and most subtle advertisement ever: Just when shit starts to hit the fan, an ambulance T-bones the protagonist family's car at about 50mph, mainly where the youngest daughter is sitting in the behind-driver seat. She doesn't have a seatbelt on. Fuckin' unharmed for the rest of the film. Not a significant spoiler, and its pretty much at the start of the movie, but it ruins some of the moment's suspense to know that.

I had zero confidence in a film I'd not yet seen and was certain would be terrible, but I'm here to say this: My name is Medic, and I approve of World War Z.

The question is did you wear your dumb Guy Fawkes mask and bring a protest sign

I went and saw Jurassic Park in 3D yesterday. Aside from all the moments where 1993's state of the art computer systems and Hollywood hacking are shown, that movie still holds up.