Comments on: Unreal Movie Review: The Crazies

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:35:29 +0000

I did not like this movie, and I love zombie movies. First thing I thought was it ripped of 30 Days of Night (stuck in a small town, hero is the sheriff, hottie blonde wife the doctor). Secondly, the first to get infected couldn’t talk or seem to think about anything but killing, but by the end, they’re driving trucks, making traps (the rope in the car wash) and remembering the sheriff killed their dad. Why would they army pull out what seemed to be hundreds of soldiers from the high school instead of shooting everyone then, since that what they ended up doing anyyway? And i loved after the wife is left alone and tied up, they get to the truck stop and he says wait here, I’ll check it out. And why did the deputy pull a gun on them? This movie had a great premise, but did not follow through.

By: theButterFly

theButterFly — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:11:35 +0000

Just to chime in on the Timothy Olyphant issue, I have to say I absolutely agree with your take on him. I think that he is a really competent performer, and I rarely see him turn in a performance that I do not enjoy watching. He’s often the brightest part of some pretty mediocre movies. (The previously mentioned Hitman.) I think the best way to describe him is as an entertaining actor. He always manages to turn in a performance that I find engaging and entertaining in spite of working in some limited roles. He has a charisma about him that I find very hard to avoid. Plus, and I’m not ashamed to admit this, he’s a handsome looking guy. Mr. Olyphant gets top marks all around from me.

By: seeinidawg

seeinidawg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:41:33 +0000

I just saw this yesterday, and I had one major complaint about it. By the way, SPOILER ALERT, if you haven’t seen it. For the life of me I can’t understand why they would waste all the time and money in evacuating the whole county if they were just gonna nuke the place anyway. I mean if they were gonna try and pull out the people that were not affected and relocate them that would be one thing, but they just ended up killing everyone anyway. Yeah there wouldn’t have been a movie if that were the case, but it just seems wasteful of government funds. The Republicans would have pitched a fit.

By: chelsea

chelsea — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:09:37 +0000

don’t you mean Timothy Olyphantastic? i love him, i think it started with “Scream 2″ and progressed with “Go”.

good review, you made me want to see it even more.

By: BrockSamson

BrockSamson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:33:09 +0000

Paul – I agree. I’ve enjoyed him in every movie he’s been in. Well, minus Hitman. And yes, that includes Dreamcatcher.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:35:34 +0000

If anyone is really into zombies, I recomend anything by Max Brooks pertaining to the subject. I heard they are taking his book, World War Z and making it into a movie. (By the way, he is the son of THE Mel Brooks.)World War Z is basically the zombie tale we all have wished would exist, the one that takes it from patient zero to the American Army’s attempts at quelling the zombies, how the plague spreads world wide and then the rebuilding effort after we “win”.

Also, Robert Kirkman’s “Walking Dead” comic is nothing short of amazing. AMC started production on the TV show and I’m crossing my fingers they keep it black and white.

By: Paul Tassi

Paul Tassi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:47:14 +0000

Nah man, watch Deadwood. Olyphant’s the shit.

By: Jeramey

Jeramey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:44:43 +0000

“Maybe it’s that Timothy Olyphant can act circles around Mark Wahlberg..”

really?? i have banana’s in my refrigerator that can act better than both of them combined. they’re pretty good bananas.

I will say they aren’t the worst actors, but c’mon!

That statement is like saying ray charles could find waldo faster than stevie wonder

By: James

James — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:38:44 +0000

I would recommend going back and re-watching the original. It is a fantastic movie, and very intense.

I was very disappointed in the remake. I thought it had a lot of potential, but didn’t live up to it. It did have some cool shit in it, just overall didn’t do a whole lot right.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:30:36 +0000

I thought this movie was completely mediocre. It seems so good because every thing else is so bad. It’s competent with a few good scenes, but it is utterly predictable. You know when a zombie will appear from behind by how the shot is framed and when it gets quiet you know a sudden noise will (BOO!) scare you. In that sense, it was very mundane.

And why do survivors in these situations always sneak up on each other, why purely to scare the audience of course. They do that at least 3 or 4 times in this movie. If my buddy and I are being chased by zombies and we’re carrying guns, the last thing I’m going to do is come up to him from behind while he is looking for out for zombies and touch his shoulder.

I did like how the zombies kept their personality and motor skills. The best scene in the movie is in the coroners office, when Olyphant is lifting up the sheets on the corpses. That actually did creep me out a little.