Advertisement: The trailer, if that wasn't a whole load of bollocks I don't know what was. And here's the problems I had with it:
1.) A little more dialog would help if there's conversation, it helps you understand more about the movie and decide if the viewer wants to watch it without reading paragraphs of explanation. It also helps captivate more people, saying they can feel for the characters.
2.) Color Correction never hurts, well that is if you color correct the shit out of it and make it look like you're in a playground in Japan. But you want to desaturate your film. It doesn't matter if you shoot in "24p" "vivid" and "cine mode" on your HV30 it looks like it needs to be more contrast-e and desaturated-e. Give it an abnormal color and it looks more film-like.
3.) More shots, I sat there looking at a blank screen with titles every-so-often, not saying your font or presentation on your titles were not cool, they were kickass, and kickass works! But really fill up the black in the trailer.
3.) More shots, I sat there looking at a blank screen with titles every-so-often, not saying your font or presentation on your titles were not cool, they were kickass, and kickass works! But really fill up the black in the trailer.
~Now the trailer was bad and I knew I didn't want to see it, I sort of expected it to be terrible, and I figured out the reason why there was no dialog in the trailer was because of two reasons and the first is because ITS NOT STORY DRIVEN! Why make a movie purely for the zombies? It's like trying to make a movie about a vampire slayer and the whole movie is based on the vampire's vague point of view. Okay okay, so the trailer wasn't that bad, it just wasn't as bad as the poster. The title says Set your priorities and hope it ends well. What were the priorities in the film?! I saw no priorities! The film was a load of elephant shit dumped in my backyard for the convenience of the shit circus, and when they tried to be apologize they put a funny hat on the elephant dung and stuck goggly eyes all over it and left it there so my dogs could play in it.
The performance: Well I don't have much to say, just listen and they sound so wooden in acting. I know these kids did a lot to work in this film, they shot the entire thing twice but still I believe they should have taken their time in each scene and not to over-exaggerate or under-exaggerate their lines. "They were bloody... and zombies" I kept saying that to myself and see if that sounded proper or realistic. No one would actually say "There were bloody... and zombies." That sounds too cartoony. "They were zombies... you know?" That's what it sounds like. Well there barely was any acting, so thank god for that; but even in the actor's movements it was terrible. When Meghan dropped the M9 she should have let it slip out while her hand is still shaking from the fear. But being as stiff as a statue she just couldn't do that now can she? In short; I just couldn't believe what any of the characters were saying or doing because it all looked too cheesy, expect for the zombies, they played a good roll.
The Name: It doesn't make sense. Decimation is killing every tenth person and or the act of killing every thing. The only Decimation in the entire film was at the very ending letting the audience know what happened to the city afterwards, unless you want to count the part where the good guys kill the good guys. The movie would have been better if it was called "When Zombies Attack" because calling it a word you found in the dictionary that sounded cool isn't a way to name your films. First make the script and figure out what your story revolves around and base the title around the name, but only if you're George A. Remero can you pull off "Day of the Dead" and it barely has anything to do with The Day.
Story: This should have been number one on my "hit list" but I meant to leave that at 3rd, cause there was some good things I liked about the film but that's later. If the story wasn't the worst part of the movie I don't know what was. Okay in the Indy mogul description the director (Collin B.) says "Follow Timothy on his journey to reunite with his girlfriend and survive the apocalypse." Well I only heard the main character's name once and that was 4 minutes into the film; since not a lot of communication was going on in the film and he reunited with his girlfriend 4 minutes into the film, I consider that bad story. Tim doesn't even acknowledge Meghan, he says "Its okay, lets go." He doesn't use her name. That's like loving someone so much and all of a sudden, "Uhh what's your name again?" It doesn't work. Okay the soldier scene was nice, I won't comment on their ridiculous costumes... okay I will, it looked like a bunch of adults in the middle of the day going out to trick or treat or play army. Haven't you seen the modern soldier? ACU buddy, looks more official attire. BDU is out. Anyways aside from the silly costumes I could grant him the segment of that film was plausible, but only that one scene by the lake. That's all, he could have went so far with story but Collin decided that it was better if you show a bunch of fancy shots of the zombies attacking. In the credits, the first time I watched the movie I was asking "Who's Tim? Who's Meghan? Did Magan's Father even show up?" I mean if you want to count the zombie in the business suit Meghan's "Father" that still wouldn't make sense because Megan killed both her parents as they were zombies. There's more holes in this film than a Gears of War Locust riddled with 60 rounds of my Lancer ammunition. Why does the refugee in the only part of the film doesn't say anything but "They quarantined the city and we can't leave." That's all, nothing at all. No wonder the trailer SUCKED. 6 minutes into the film, who got bit? We never saw! The whole thing was utterly confusing, I felt like to bash my head into something hard around the 5th time I saw it because it made absolutely no sense at all. So the hardest thing that was most nearest to me was my cock, and it was only hard because the shots were so damn beautiful, so there's a contradiction here and it made no sense. How can something so beautiful be so fucking confusing?! It's like those beautiful girls you see in your high school hallways but they're so damn confusing and annoying you just want to shove a rock between her teeth just to get her to shut up. I suppose that wont work because then she'll cry about that. I suppose this whole review is the rock, and I assume Collin will be the one to bitch at me for it. Why did Meghan shoot the soldier who obviously wasn't bitten? Was Tim bit and she wanted to protect him? If that was the case then that has to be the stupidest character in zombie film history and there has been terrible characters! THIS is what's happening. Because Tim is bit, the soldier wanted to protect the survivors by killing Tim but his butt-fucking-retarded girlfriend decided to shoot the only person who knew how to use the assault rifle properly and professionally just so that she can not have her boyfriend shot to death, just so that he (when most likely if it didn't end the way it did) would eat her alive.If she really wanted him to live to that point that she could have told the soldier "No stop don't kill him even though he's doomed already." Something shitty like that. Why is it that wave of zombies after wave after wave would just constantly follow them around. There was no time for the characters to think or act or anything. The story was a pure bogus shit whole with promises that were never kept. Sounds like a terrible president to me. It also says right before the credits "10 hours after the initial blast the U.S. military was granted permission to destroy the town of Baylee." Since when was it mentioned anywhere about The town of Baylee anywhere except for that one part? And what is the initial blast that they speak of? Did the blast cause zombie apocalypse? Is that the reason there's zombies? If so why was there survivors? What are the chances that Tim and his Girlfriend and an extra person no one cares about are the only people alive from a blast? And if there was a blast why does everything look so clean around the premise? The least they could have done was throw sand and wood on the streets and grass. Again, more holes than swiss cheese.
Production: The angles were interesting, the use of zoom was well used, a little shaking, I'm impressed that he took his time shooting it twice. Yep that's it.
Post: Okay so 2 minutes of the film was entirely nothing but titles. Don't get me wrong the titles were amazing, but in my eyes I only saw one actor in the film. That was Meghan, she's the one who did most of the talking like all girls do, but whenever Tim opened up his big fucking stone cold mouth I just wanted to straight punch him, even though he's probably much stronger than me and my bones are made out of toothpicks thinking of it never hurts. I thought I was watching a Keanu Reeves film for a minute. His acting was terrible. ANYWAYS~ the best part of the editing was the text. The titles. That's the best FUCKING part! I talked with the director, he promised me this: "I have given DECIMATION it's own unique color style" it looks like any other grind house in my opinion. The only reason why it worked was because it did look grind house-like. So in this exhibition it worked, and that was good. Like I said the film visually was so damn beautiful he was raping me with composition and color. But other than that. The story was shit being thrown at me by the monkeys who wrote the damn thing! Collin also promised 7 minutes, when I saw 8 minutes appear on youtube, I got excited, unfortunately it was more like 5 minutes, because 3 whole story dedicated minutes were on the credits. Useless credits. He didn't bother with last names so why put them there? It could have been "Joe Shmoe, and Suzy Q" for all we care. Otherwise throw the credits away! It was so useless. Now for the transitions. Fade out fade in, fade out fade, fade out fade in. Okay not only were they terrible transitions, there were at the worse possible times! Cutting the film would have been your best bet. It could have been better in every way, it needs major work Collin. Now even the credits although calling the zombies "zombies" throughout the entire film insists to call the zombies "infected" what the flying donkey fuck buddy?! Just call them zombie extras damn you! It's not professional to call them infected, its a rip off! I mean really, It was just a rape session. All of it, it was just a rip of the 28 Days franchise, you could have taken clips of the movies (Which you basically did except you wanted to be original and call it your own when it clearly isn't) and it still would have been a better because we could at least I could make out who was who.
Watch it here copy and paste http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBYzcYXWt8E
That was great. You should do more reviews.
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