I’m only writing this review because a lot of people have been asking me what I think. So don’t consider this a review but just my thoughts on the film. Hannah liked the film a lot so hopefully she’ll do a write-up to give another opinion.
The Crazies is not a bad movie. It’s just not a good one. I wasn’t blown away but that’s no reason to pan a film. For some of the piffle “zombie” movies I’ve seen, Crazies is a head and shoulders above the rest. In context The Crazies is an entertaining flick. But that’s about it. Yea there’s a couple of minor chords and jump out moments every ten minutes but I can get that on youtube. Maybe I’m belittling the movie unfairly because there’s already some great zombie flicks out there.
1. Night of the Living Dead (End All Beat All original via Romero)
2. Dawn of the Dead (The original by Romero and the remake by Zach Snyder)
3. 28 Days Later (A great fun/artsy zombie (infected) thinking man’s thriller
4. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg/Nick Frost’s spoof that would be funny even if it was the first zombie movie ever)
We could go on and talk about The Crazies isn’t a zombie flick (Hannah: “ But zombies eat people…crazies just straight up murder your ass.”
Theatrical Commentary: Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) needs to start playing Brit characters. It’s too much to concentrate on the performance and dropping his vowels.
Timothy Olyphant is the old Sam Worthington.
Will we ever be able to watch a Zombie movie where the government/military has no role in the film?
