Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead on Netflix was marketed as a fun, exciting action comedy heist movie. But it failed to live up to expectations. Imagine my shock.
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Any chance of a Ryan drake what if where him and his shepherd team have to fend off against zombies created by an unspecified virus from an unspecified country.
@@wookieninja8794 Their is. Princess Leia is a strong character, who happens to be females. Rey, well, need I say more. The trick is to not fixate on the female part.
But then how can the world go to shit if the military is acting competently? A) Have politicians be morons B) Have the Zombie Plague coincide with a major nuclear terror attack so that the nation is devastated C) Show the film taking place in an area where the virus has hit hard and allude to the military continuing to fight outside of urban areas. D) Or all of the above
Because the concept of zombies being able to overcome modern weapons is so laughably absurd that they have to add a healthy dose of incompetence for the plot to happen, I mean look what happens every time the main character gets ahold of a machine gun, they turn into a zombie-killing Rambo more often than not
Fun fact: Tig's character was originally played by actor Chris D'elia. His scenes were removed after he was accused of sexual misconduct. That's why Tig's almost entire performance was done solo, as all her scenes were reshoots. What few bits show her with others in the cast was done with CG inserts.
I love how the daughter looks in the poster so confident and proud. When you see a woman like that in a poster movie you could immediately deduced she is a selfish and rude person who always managed to win or survive
@@DivvayKhatri Yeah, she's on a rescue mission to save someone that's lucky to be alive and then dies. She may not want the money, but she's still the load.
Thank you! It was nagging me in the back of my mind... what is she reminding me of? F-ing Maverick! BTW I can't stand Top Gun. It's a bullshit Rah!-Rah!-America! movie. Val Kilmer chewing gum with his mouth open, in every scene, makes me want to punch him in the face so bad.
They will still claim it is a master piece no matter how terrible the movie it. They did the same thing with the theatrical version of BvS and it was not until the announcment of the ultimate edition that they started saying that there are problems with the theatrical version
It was made for streaming service specifically. All movies made for streaming services has this kind of low quality. It is obvious he made it just to got some money to invest them into something better
Tig Notaro’s character was originally played by Chris Delia. They shot the entire movie with him in it. When his sexual assault allegation came out, the production distanced themselves and literally edited him out of the movie. Notaro is legit green screened over him in certain scenes.
"We need a crafty, sneaky, hawt smuggler lady to get us in. Only she knows the hidden paths. Without her, the journey into the city is impossible." *walks through shipping container that smuggler lady obviously lives in*
I like that all the mercenaries use different guns and different calibers. In a realistic sort of take, seems like it would be a good idea for them to use similar guns and the same calibers so they can share ammunition, or have a team member as the big dude loaded down with all the excess ammo.
@@Movies15647 at least if you compare the movies on a base level and ignore the source material Resident Evil comes out on top because it works as a horror movie. Imagine if it was as bad as this pile of trash
When he said they needed a safe cracker to get into the vault I thought the twist was going to be that it wasn’t actually Japanese guy’s vault and he just convinced them to steal for him. Seemed obvious to me, but I guess he just forgot his passcode..?
What really ticked me off was when the girl with the bandana dies I mean she jumps through that window behind everyone, she's still alive, hasn't been bit yet but she's fighting off the zombies and everyone's just like "eh not worth it" and walks off and then we get this drawn out dramatic scene like tf literally she could've been saved but for the sake of creating a sad emotional loss they killed her in the dumbest way possible.
"I thought this was going to be an Oceans 11 style heist interrupted by a zombie apocalypse and they'd have to adapt their plans and escape Vegas." - Some guy with a way better idea than Snyder
Imagine if they kill the Alpha at the start and all hell breaks loose, because it turns out, he was the only thing keeping the Zombies somewhat in check, like the Lich King in WoW.
That already sounds like a much more interesting film. Very sad that Snyder had to have his grubby hands in directing and writing, otherwise we could have had something nice like what you came up with.
Although that does sound nice. It doesn't sound doable to me with the established rules of the universe. You would need a great screenwriter to pull that off. If they kill the alpha and all hell does break loose. It would not be understood as to why. We wouldn't have enough time to get to that reason
"tig natarro is in this film and I can't understand why" - - because she has a manager who's invested in "the message" and told the producer she wants to be in the film and it'd be a shame if she got turned down and somebody wrote a story about the "homophobic, sexist casting decisions made by the 'army of the dead' producers"
Actually, no. Tig's character was originally played by actor Chris D'elia. His scenes were removed after he was accused of sexual misconduct. That's why Tig's almost entire performance was done solo, as all her scenes were reshoots. What few bits show her with others in the cast was done with CG inserts.
@@cdevil9488 You've explained why they had a replacement actor. But you haven't explained why they chose Tig Natarro to be the replacement rather than choosing a good actor.
Zacks a genius when it comes to making things look really cool, but that’s about it. He can’t write a good story on his own, that’s why his best movies (watchmen and 300) either have really simple stories like Spartans fight bad guys the story was written by someone else and he just had to put it to film.
What I say. Zach Snyder's biggest hindrance is his ambition to tell a smart story. Dude, stick to simple stories with great visuals and you gonna please everybody.
That’s just biased thinking then. I thought those movies were great, although not his original works as they were made by others, he only took the source material to make a film off of an already successful product.
I get tired of repeatedly pointing out that 'Watchmen', '300', and even 'Dawn of the Dead' are technically not stories "created by" Snyder. He took existing material that was already great - and in the case of Watchmen and 300 - literally made movies that were frame-for-frame exactly what was in the original graphic novels (panel-per-panel). And with Dawn - every bit of dark humor and wit was from a script by James Gunn. If Snyder had written the script for Dawn - it would have ended up like Army: a non-sensical mess.
The moment I saw the truck transporting the ultra "zombie" get desintegrated when crashing with a car and the two soldiers not using the perfectly safe humvee to escape, I knew this movie was going to be a total trainwrreck
Yep ... because Snyder wanted to steal another scene from a better movie...he has them run away and then trip fall laugh and get eaten 🤔 where have I seen this before.
The moment the leed humvee swerved away from the car and let it hit the protected truck you know movie is a convoluted crap. First thing the lead car vehicle has to do is to protect the main vehicle of the convoy. I stopped watching there to be honest.
Lol. While I agree with your sentiments, "I couldn't even tell you their names. Guess which ones are going to die first. Remember Aliens? Remember how each character in that film was unique?" There were 12 Marines that landed on LV-426. Without looking them up, name the Marines. Guess which ones die first.
Reply to the daughter: You don't have neither the training nor the experience. You will only put the whole team and the friend you want to rescue in danger. You wanna do something useful? Wait for us here and treat our wounds when we come back.
The thing is he allowed her time grow up a petulant child since he spend those years dwelling on himself and what he had to do. So she grew up none of the life skills he possesses or the critical thinking ones which tends to lead to either despair and I’ll do whatever I want (or have to) all the time or a savior complex to help everyone even though I lack pretty much any skill to do so and will likely harm others in the process of learning even the most basic things
Due to that situation the time constraints and knowledge of her character the best thing is incapacite or restraint her to avoid her harming herself or others until he got back.
But nope...if she'd have done that...she wouldn't be the strong independent woman that movies have to have. Better to make her the selfish, dangerous moron who gets everyone killed character...yay waaamen!
That's exactly what I thought from the moment i saw the helicopter model figure.I mean...there's no way all these people and all these bags could ever possibly fit in this tiny helicopter.
Zack Snyder wrote the Army script in 2005, but the dude really should have rewrote it, cause you can really tell this is a screenplay made 15 years ago.
I swear to god, I GMed this game using Gurps. I set it up to my RP group like this, Casino Heist during a zombie outbreak. I even had zombie tiger from Siegfried and Roy. PLUS a bunch of lions from the MGM.
@@quark-soup Only a fool would assume something is "dead" when its obviously alive. Its not your typical zombie. Just like in 28 days later, the brilliant movie you mentioned. The "zombies" are alive with a virus so its safe to assume that if someone would have sex with the infected could in fact get pregnant. There are different types of zombies, like the rotting corpses that rise from the grave in older movies. You're an idiot that puts people down for pointing something out that they like without even thinking about the possibilities that a FICTIONAL movie can produce. Dont call people fools, man, just chill out. Its just a fucking movie. You can enjoy it or not. Doesn't mean you cant discuss theories.
Early in the movie it does say that the U.S military took heavy casualties, most likely due to them guarding the walls construction and dying while fighting the zombies. Though who the fuck was the dumb ass that thought sending in paratroopers was a good idea? Because yeah a slow descent into open areas with zombies was such a good idea.
@@explorinjenkins349 not really, they show the wall being built, they even show people dying to protect the wall and then say and it took huge casualties. If like D-Day, you know the numbers and you know the Americans won. Unless you like history a lot to go into the details (like my father) then know the time/place/who died when,where, and why, it doesn't matter
This is the first film I actually had to bail out of after an hour. It was literally making me physically mad how stupid it all was - and it's a zombie action movie... it's not like I went into it expecting the Shawshank Redemption with guns and the undead. The fact there was another HOUR AND A HALF to go when I had to tap out like I was in a fucking UFC choke hold genuinely worries me for whatever Zack might decide to do next.
Same, i watch bad movies too but stopped this one. Coukd only watch it with mindset "this is a comic hero attitude of the type makes zero sence". Painful.
"guys, we are going into a zombie wasteland where one bite can turn you into the undead. " "What are you gonna wear?" "I dunno, jeans and a Tshirt, i guess."
To be fair on this point it is Las Vegas in the middle of the desert where temperatures without armor can be fatal. I didn't have much problem with that part considering the setting
Well why would they? We see the alpha bite through the layers of gear the MC was wearing and infect him, but yes, you’d think that they would have some level of anti-shambler armor like leather, can’t do much against the smarter alphas
@@kristiannicholson5893 So is Kabul, Afghanistan. I don't see the Americans wearing cut offs and tank tops on maneuvers. Comfort isn't really part of the equation.
@@satsubatsu347 it 100% is, if you haven't seen how those troops prepare for combat in those environments then you should look it up. It's fking brutal. But you're comparing highly trained and equipped soldiers facing long range ordinance to a group of civilians expecting to face unarmed shamblers. There's plenty to pick apart about this movie but the costumes are the least of them.
I was going to give this a go purly on the strength of Dave Bautista being in it, I really do think he's going to deveop into a really good actor. Then I saw Tig Notaro was involved and yea, sod that!
@@s1nnocense or the fact that the one guy says that he’s going to the roof and take the helicopter. Yet 10 seconds later he leaves trough the front door of the building… Like how stupid do you think we are ? How many people worked on this movie ? And not one of them thought “hmm that doesn’t look right” ?
yup...rewatched this movie last night and that shit made no sense , im like did he teleport ? you reaaaally gotta turn your brain off for this movie and just enjoy the action
I mean there are earlier signs, for example when the car crashes against the military truck at the begining I had to pause and said "wtf that car must've been loaded with nitro".
Yeah, she should’ve been a manly they/them instead, right? But then you probably would’ve just complained about that also, so maybe just stfu and enjoy the movie for what it is?
Smuggles people who escaped death back into the city they evacuated from. WTF I thought she was getting people out of the shithole Cosby camp so they could restart their lives. Nope.
@@sassysasquatch5441 you mean trash? Literally nothing about this movie makes sense. I was actually cheering on the zombies because they were at least remotely interesting
You right actually, i used to think “zack synder this will be cool” no i think zack snyder “eh ill get to it when i get to it, sure im not really missing anything”
This film felt like it was adapted from a mediocre comic book. None of the characters behaved like normal people and the plot was as holey as a slice of fine Swiss cheese. I barely managed to sit through it and only by completely switching off all critical thought.
Yeah. I haven't even finished it. I stopped after the weird argument with the character from Luke Cage. Is it worth at least one watch in your opinion?
Snyder: but don't take out that line Normal person: why? If you're gonna have zombies then why not make it rain as an oddity? Snyder: Just do as I say. Also add these new scenes in slow motion.
Yeah it's like an A.D. pulled Zack aside and said "ehhh Sir, it only rains 5 inches a year in Las Vegas, and is sunny 294 days a year on average" and he went exactly as Radha said "forget it!"
Could have been a great action scene if they were walking along and suddenly it started raining. Someone: Hey, it looks like we're getting some rain. Batista: Uh oh.
You forgot to mention that scene when that “comedian “ was flying the chopper and Batista begged her to stay on the roof while they go on a pointless rescue mission, and it was a fake out 🤨🤨🤨
Snyder is simply demonstrating that zombie movies are tired and overdone. They’re basically cringe now, relying on gratuitous violence as a well-worn crutch. It was interesting when zombie media, like Dawn of the Dead or Walking Dead, had actual substance like thought-provoking commentary on matters including consumer culture and tribalism. Now zombie media is stupid. Cheap thrills for the masses. But it gets views, so it gets pumped out ad nauseum. Yawn. Soulless and an insult to the viewer.
Also why was the trailer more colorful than what we actually got? Like come on for movie set in Las Vegas it certainly doesn't take any advantage of its location.
@@jbbrolic The action scenes in SP are great. Worth rewatching. The story is beyond braindead. So yeah you're better off not hearing anything they say.
Watch the NES Tetris Classics World Tournaments on RU-vid... amazing! Trust me, I thought it was boring when presented with it in the recommendations... but after the first one I continued to watch all finals! True entertainment! 👍😃
@@jbbrolic Exactly the perfect use for Sucker Punch. Movie isn't really worth paying attention to but it does have some nice eye candy now and then. Might have been a good movie if it had been rated R.
Can’t forget the parts where they clearly show multiple zombies to actually be cyborgs / robots yet literally never address it because haha sequel time
@@Original-Yellow I hated it, but I hope if he does a sequel, that the robot zombies are barely acknowledged, and more shit is egregiously added in without any context. Like let's have a some dinosaurs appear but for only like 10 seconds or so. I want Snyder and Abrams to be competing with each other for who can have the most pointless and unexplained world building.
@@neonsprawl8009 Abraham Lincoln should get a completely unexplained cameo . He should save the main character by holding some zombies off with a wood axe ,and then never be mentioned again .
@@neonsprawl8009 personally I think Abrams is the master of pointless and unexplained, plots and things in general, hes WAAAAAY ahead of Snyder, its all lover Star Trek, Star Wars, Lost. If Abrams or bad robot is involved I dont watch it. Leaving a few questions can be good for a film but the JJs way is just badly contrived and incoherent
*story spoilers* Q1: Does the Coyote have to sacrifice a member of her party *every time* she leads a group into the quarantine zone to get safe passage? If so, how has she not garnered a horrible reputation at camp? "Don't ever go with that woman, there's a 1-in-4 chance she'll kneecap you and hand you over to the zombies." Q2: If Wealthy Japanese Businessman was never concerned about the money and only wanted the head of an Alpha, why did he frame it as a heist? Why didn't he just hire more Entrusted Corporate Henchmen to go in, get the head, and get out? It just seems like attaching a spy onto a self-selected group of military-trained, money-hungry mercenaries who are actively being lied to is the worst way to see your plan work out.
i couldnt get past the convoy wrecking. when i saw the first zombies were "fast" and a "smart" i pulled the ripcord and got out early. nice to see i didnt miss anything.
I had to walk my drunk girlfriend home, she kept passing out for like every couple minutes. I got her home and she kept throwing up so I had to look after hour. It was 4 in the morning before I got her to sleep, so I sat and watched this film to make sure she didn’t throw up in her sleep; safe to say the worst thing that happened that night was this movie
LMAO that was the first thing I thought too... "Hey we have this literal zombie outbreak contained, time to nuke it to sanitize the place, oh wait let's wait a few days and risk it spreading via the super smart advanced zombies or dumbasses sneaking in/out." Lmao
Funnily enough that was the reason why they didn't nuke the place. There was a news report earlier in the movie that the nuke was originally scheduled to drop on July 4th because it's the best day to celebrate wiping out the zombies of all days. Of course common sense started to kick in and the government decided to nuke the place ahead of schedule.
Hell in Avengers 1 and Batman vs Superman they only decided to nuke a city like less than an hour after the fight went down with little time to see the situation. Even the Resident Evil Apocalypse government nuked Racoon city less than 24 hours after the virus hit.
One of my biggest irritations of the movie was zombie animals. As soon as that happens there's no quarantine that could possibly be effective. As soon as it hits rats and birds then there is no chance of containing the infection in one location, especially when there is a massive camp of people just outside the wall of the zone.
@@JadeRunner Just because someone doesn't understand the implications of their decisions and doesn't include them in their story, it doesn't make those decisions good. It makes them poor decisions and shows gaps in the knowledge of the writer.
This movie is just like playing a video game with an Escort Mission where the heroes need to keep an obnoxious person alive with terrible AI, that will get in your way, or cause your team mates to die.
He'll yeah, maybe digitally supimposed Tig Nataro could offer Dave Batista a reacharound after he gets prison loved. We live in a society! #ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Your reviews of this, Zach Snyder's Justice League, and Cruella all touch on an unavoidable fact about the rapid replacement of cinemas with streaming services. In a theater, it's more profitable for a movie to be short, so they can show it more times per day. With a streaming service, it's more profitable for a movie (sorry, movies are called "content" now, like the stuff inside a pillow) to be long, so the viewer doesn't run out of stuff to click on.
Please do a video on THX! What an underrated movie. I just watched it and a lot of later movies came to mind: Taxi Driver, Mad Max, Terminator 2, The Island, etc.
"It's got zombies, guns, and Las Vegas. There's not many ways you can fuck that up." Hollywood: Let us give you one more reason to drink yourself insensible.
Thought about starting a drinking game where we'd take a shot for every plothole and inconsistency but we'd be dead from alcohol poisoning within the first 25 minutes.
I think I had the ultimate confirmation was when they set up an abandoned Huey helicopter to ferry out: 1. $500 MILLION 2. The team itself Uhm, NO. There's barely enough room for HALF the team, and they're going to haul out about 20-40 duffel bags worth of cash? It's like they expected maybe two or three to survive... ...okay, in that context, it makes more sense, but you'd think Bautista's pilot would ask, "Uhm, WTF?"
No one is talking about the truly frightening element to this movie... the fact that they are now able to digitally remove actors from movies and replace them. Like they did with the one guy and substituting him with the thespian "comedian"... I could care less about that guy's whatever that got him kicked out of the movie, but wait til they start going back and removing "problematic" classic actors from films. Mel Gibson will just disappear from all the Mad Max movies now and be replaced by Seth Rogen.
@@nightblood7575 "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." I'm not as worried about old movies as I am about other potential abuses of this technology.