Zombieland

I just saw Zombieland (directed by Ruben Fleischer) for the first time. I'm pretty sick of zombie movies, so I hadn't been interested in seeing this until it kept getting recommended to me by people who have a grasp of my taste in movies. I gave it a shot because being sick of zombies doesn't keep me from enjoying the hell out of Shaun Of The Dead.

Besides Zombieland being a zombie movie, it kind of felt like it was tailor-made for me, as if the writers know me. I love Bill Murray, I'm afraid of clowns, and I hate Sno Balls (coconut is my Kryptonite). That scene where they find the Hostess truck hit me really hard emotionally.

I'd love to see a sequel. I read that it would be in 3D. I think that would be very interesting for when the "rules for surviving Zombieland" pop up on the screen and interact with the characters and environment. The first movie actually had several shots that would have been beautiful in 3D. Slow motion shots with various objects flying through the air, such as in the beginning credits sequence, or later in the movie when the main characters trash a shop.

Another celebrity should probably cameo in the sequel as well, but who would be a good choice after Bill Murray? I think William Shatner would be... He could give the sequel the same level of geek cred as Murray did with the first movie, and he could be really enjoyable playing an exaggerated version of himself.

I won't be seeing Dark Shadows in the theater.

I never saw the original Dark Shadows television show, but considering the fact that it was a soap opera, I was assuming Tim Burton's movie adaptation starring Johnny Depp would be primarily a drama.

When these four beautiful shots from the movie were released, they made me want to see the movie. Enough that I thought seeing the movie in the theater might actually be worth the insane cost of ticket prices. Don't these seem like images from a beautiful looking gothic drama?

I'm fascinated by the colors and composition of these pictures. The more I looked at these shots, the more I wanted to see the movie.

Then they released the first trailer. What the hell was that? The movie is a comedy? I might not have been so bothered either if it wasn't such stupid humor. I was incredibly disappointed, and I no longer had the urge to see Dark Shadows.

I was explaining this to someone, and I wanted to show them the beautiful pictures I saw. The ones I've now posted above. At the time, I couldn't find them though. Finally, I found the article I originally saw them in, but they weren't there. In their place was an update saying they were removed at the request of the movie studio. Those were the pictures that made me want to see the movie, and for whatever reason, the studio didn't want people seeing them? I didn't understand that at all. What they should have done is left those pictures up, but tried to keep people from seeing that terrible trailer.

I ended up finding the pictures still up on ScreenCrave. When I saw them again, all I could think was "I want to see the movie those shots are from, not the movie that the trailer is for," as if they were two different movies. I wish they were.

Dark Shadows came out today, but I won't be seeing it in the theater. I will check it out when it has been released on DVD, mostly to see Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloë Grace Moretz play mother and daughter.