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"A group of people from various walks of life are trapped in a huge shopping mall as a strange, unknown (and unexplained in the movie) virus turns all outside the mall into the walking dead -- or zombies. This movie is one of the most graphic, violent movies I have seen in areal long time. They show you just about everything when it comes to the destruction of the zombies. It is not for the weak of heart. The special effects, and make-up effects are incredible. I have a feeling that when it first came out, it made a good chunk of the audience squirm in their theater seats. They spent a lot of money on the special effects and make-up, and that's a good thing for a movie of this kind. You can pretty much tell who will make it to the closing credits at the end of the movie because those people have the most development. Some have very little development, and are killed early on, while others make it to about three-quarters of the way through. Another thing that this movie does well is ... "
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10 Craziest Shopping Scenes
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"Black Friday is a scary time for shoppers in any given year. The crowds, the lines, the difficulty finding parking — all these and more are common annoyances on the day after Thanksgiving, as millions upon millions of Americans begin the Christmas season by making a run for the shopping malls and department stores in hopes of finding the best bargains. This year, of course, the economic downturn will make the day even worse than usual. The stores may be desperately holding the biggest sales we’ll ever witness, but lowest prices aren’t quite low enough for those who are broke or bankrupt. So, you may stay home this Friday. Perhaps you’ll at least make some minor online purchases, because you’re a patriotic, consuming American and it’s kind of like an unofficial holiday in our capitalist democracy. But don’t not go out to the mall simply because of the craziness potentially happening on its many floors of fashion and furnishings. You mustn’t be frightened of the crowds. Just recall a ... "
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"When the trailer for Watchmen hit the web a few weeks ago, I was as pumped as anyone. I’ve always been a fan of comics, but when I finished reading Alan Moore’s opus for the first time, I closed the back cover, starred into space, and solemnly said, “This changes everything.” Seriously, it’s that good. And the trailer looks good, it appears to be a faithful adaptation of the source material. The key word here is appears. The visuals are stunning, some sites even took the time to do shot by shot comparisons with the book. But I’m not worried at all about that, I’m more concerned with how the film will be edited. Like most comics/graphic novels, Watchmen is practically a story board waiting to be transformed into a film. But what made the book so revolutionary was not the art, it was the story, and the way the story was told. Watchmen is a dense web of complicated interconnected stories. Multiple generations of characters deal with epic personal, philosophical, and political struggle ... "
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Great Expectations
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"For more than a year, I've done my best to avoid seeing "300." From the first time I saw its TV spot, Zach Snyder's movie gave me unavoidable unappealing vibes. They were the same vibes I get after seeing spliced highlights of a Jet Li or Jason Statham movie...or "War," the Li-Statham movie. The guaranteed superfluous action and skimpy screenplay would probably be fun, but with so many other titles available, such releases fall into oblivion, possibly to be passed over in the grocery store bargain bin 6 years down the road. I love graphic novels and I love graphic novels by "300" creator Frank Miller + their adapted films ("Sin City"), so what was it that convinced me to see this loud, dumb, overhyped movie? A graphic novel. Alan Moore's "Watchmen" is a towering achievement in the illustrated genre. The story of retired superheroes lured back into caped action is the most layered graphic novel I've experienced, and though I prefer Art Spiegelman's "Maus," Moore's work takes spandex ... "
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"I thought that it was a compelling story of totally unrelated people working together for a common purpose - survival. A sad note is when the pregnant woman got infected and turned into a zombie as well as her child and then her husband got killed as well. Special effects were great. The ending was totally miserable for the participants who thought that they were escaping to freedom, but instead found that the infection had spread, including to their bait box on the boat. Ugh. The part about the sporting goods store guy looking over old movies of his wife and child was especially sad considering that they probably had gotten infected and came after him, whereupon he killed them. The remorse and grief with which he was stricken must have been unbearable. Yes, this is a fiction movie just the same. I felt empathy with the characters who would normally have gone about their regular business. "
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Zombies on Speed
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"Caught this one the other night on cable. Wasn't expecting much, but it was a fun zombie/apocalypse/survival flick with appealling leads and only a few shortcomings. I've never seen the original of this, but I've seen Night of the Living Dead numerous times, and now am kind of curious to see the original. Ving Rhames and Sarah Polley give good performances and the action is well paced and exciting. Some of the characters have "red shirt" written all over them from their first appearance, and a few of the sequences and one liners seem blatantly ripped off from other movies (one line that the 'annoying boat owner dude' uses is straight from Pulp Fiction, and the whole 'rescue the dog across the street' sequence is pure Rear Window, and the final 'escape from the mall' sequence quite closely resembles 'Road Warrior' in many ways). A fun zombie romp, and I may be checking out the original Dawn of the Dead, and perhaps Day of the Dea ... "
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"Have you ever seen Murder By Death? I have. I watched it last night. It's a "dinner-and-a-murder" caper written by Neil Simon. Really, it's almost a spoof of capers, but that's a hard call to make because capers are spoofs of murder mysteries. Or homages. One of the two.Where's the distinction? Where does one cross the line between spoof and homage. Lemme go to the dictionary.My Dictionary tells me that homage (which can be pronounced "hom-ij" or "ohm-azh") is "respect or reverence paid or rendered" and that a spoof is "a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody." So the difference is respect?I beg to differ. A spoof can be respectful. Look at The Naked Gun: From the FIles of Police Squad. The Zuckers and Jim Abraham (ZAZ as they have been known to be called) are clearly poking fun at cop movie and TV shows (since Naked Gun started out as Police Squad, a thirty-minute television program that only lasted ... "
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"Of the max rating a movie can attain and still stay on the scale, the update of Dawn of the Dead rates a 9/10 for gore/bloody content, quite a contender. It wasn't the, in some people's eyes, sainted original, but just because it's an update doesn't mean it instantly sucks. It did well for itself and ended the way Romero intended his to end, but didn't have the $ to. All in all, I don't have an instant, blanket disapproval for updates; many are better than the films they covered. This is a case however where both stood on their own decomposing feet. http://www.bloodgutsandgore.co m "
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