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Jeremy Jorgenson
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1002
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: Feb 2005

posted 10-25-2009 01:51 AM

I really liked the opening credits. I tried to catch them once or twice a week if I could.

quote: Bobby Henderson
dog's bollocks

When I was in Prague in November 2007 with some friends (one of them being British) we found a bar/restaurant called Dog's Bollocks. Here's my friend Tom [said Brit] by it. (it was closed, so we didn't go inside)

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 02-22-2010 09:08 PM

I rented the Blu-ray of Zombieland over this past weekend. The movie turned out to be better than I expected. All the promotional materials gave anyone a clear idea this was a comedy instead of a horror movie. Zombieland did a good job of keeping its momentum and maintaining a consistent tone even with some of the darker more serious character points thrown into the mix.

The visual style helped this movie as well. I loved how the various Zombieland rules of survival would appear on screen during various scenes. Titles of that sort don't work well in most other types of movies, but they were great in this one. Thanks to some help from CGI the zombies spewed and spurted more blood and fluids than usual. The crew took chances to cross lines of bad taste in putting zombie contact lenses into the eyes of 5 year old kids and having a soccer mom do a skidding face plant onto pavement after being ejected from her van. It's shocking, but strangely still funny. Rule #4: Seat belts.

The opening title sequence was pretty cool, definitely one of the better ones I've seen over the past few years. It's one thing to fit the titles into the perspective of each camera shot and another to have them getting bumped and broken by the rampaging zombies and fleeing humans. The high speed videography in the opening titles was created with a Phantom HD camera capable of speeds as fast as 1000fps. I kind of wish the crew used the Phantom camera a little more throughout the production; maybe it would have been able to handle some of the low light scenes better than the Panavision Genesis used on much of the production.

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Joe Elliott
Master Film Handler

Posts: 497
From: Port Orange, Fl USA
Registered: Oct 2006

posted 02-25-2010 02:27 AM

When you re-watch it, pay attention to the little girls that grab on the the back of the bumper of her mini-van. One of them turns in to a midget with a full beard.

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