fedex - 2014-11-11
looks cool, after reading the synopsis I'm thinking the director must have read Snowcrash alot
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Innocent Bystander - 2014-11-12 It's based on a book that's about similar ideas regarding language as Snow Crash.
Why can't they do a Snow Crash movie, btw? It could be this really awesome eighties-throwback-retro-cyberpunk thing.
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fedex - 2014-11-12 that is so depressing now
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SteamPoweredKleenex - 2014-11-12 Because Snow Crash is like a lot of Cyberpunk: It's a bunch of ideas thrown together in a nigh nonsensical mish-mash with a love of anime/Japan tossed in because swords.
Wacky religion? Check.
Internet stand-in? Sure.
Programmers are gods? Of course.
Corporate dystopia that's still somehow funny instead of actually as terrifying as real life? Pretty much.
Not to mention that Hiro Protagonist goes through so many changes for no apparent logical reason (a gargoyle? Really? After everything that came before?). It recycles the tired (even when the book was written) trope of the human brain being as "hackable" as a computer. Blargh.
Besides, everything I've read about Neal Stephenson tells me he's so far up his own asshole, he's become his own Mary Sue.
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Innocent Bystander - 2014-11-12 First of all, Snow Crash IS cyberpunk.
> It's a bunch of ideas thrown together in a nigh nonsensical mish-mash
Dude, just because it's hokey or nonsensical doesn't mean it wouldn't be flippin' awesome.
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Robin Kestrel - 2014-11-12 I would say it is a parody of cyberpunk, as well as a criticism of unfettered capitalism. I think it would make an awesome movie if the right director did it.
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misterbuns - 2014-11-11
This is a great movie.
This isn't that new of an idea, this movie just nails it.
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Nominal - 2014-11-11
This movie is very very good...
...up until they reveal the cause of everyone going crazy. It's like they had college community writing class brainstorm the most pretentious premise possible for a zombie movie.
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misterbuns - 2014-11-11 totally. would have been much better if it would have ended in the familiar way of every other zombie / crazy movie.
What's so interesting about 'language' anyway?
hey you guys caught up on The Walking Dead? SO GOOD.
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Maggot Brain - 2014-11-11 It makes more sense if you think about it in the old school way, back when zombies were created by a magic curse. Now I've seen the movie but that's my guess.
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Nominal - 2014-11-12 See that's the problem. This movie had a good thing going but then decided it was all for nothing if it didn't make misterbuns feel so much smarter than the mundane masses who never invite him to water cooler conversations.
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Adham Nu'man - 2014-11-12 The movie is overthinking so you don't have to. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the fucking thing. It's funny as hell, creepy as fuck, and while it was made with approximately it still manages to be more entertaining that 99% of Zombie shit out there. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE?!?
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misterbuns - 2014-11-12 zombie apocalypses at this point are actually the definition of trite.
taking a familiar (read financeable) idea and doing something new with it is interesting and good.
you can pretend I work in a cubicle if that makes you feel good, but movies are actually what I do for a living.
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Gmork - 2014-11-12 Oh it's different from other zombie movies? Guess that's enough for misterbuns.
Personally I prefer different _AND_ good. This was like a first year film student's attempt to end a movie.
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That guy - 2014-11-12 Please don't say Walking Dead is better in terms of ideas, or dialogue, or acting.
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Robin Kestrel - 2014-11-11
This is one of those movies I wanted to like, but it got a little ridiculous at the kiss/kill scene. Like Nominal said above, it's a great movie to a certain point.
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Maggot Brain - 2014-11-11
If I'm understanding the plot correctly the monster is language zombies?
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fedex - 2014-11-11 Basically (as outlined in Snowcrash) a spoken (or written) word can affect the deep structures of the brain because of the way we learn language.
This movie is just extrapolating that idea to the Nth degree.
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chumbucket - 2014-11-12
Trying to remind Quebec that English is a hidden killer.
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FABIO - 2014-11-12 That was the first thing I thought when I watched it.
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Born in the RSR - 2014-11-12
Just saw this, loved it. Thanks!
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