Josh Levin wrote this great review of Zombieland for Slate back in 2009. His thesis states that Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Emma Stone’s romp through the undead, Bill Murray’s mansion, and the Southwestern United States is so good because the action unspools less like a movie and more like a movie made by a gamer who’s obsessed with first-person shooters. Here’s an excerpt: Zombie cinema has already been sliced into such thin micro-genres— zombie pole dancers! zombie Nazis! — that auteurs of the undead should probably stop striving for originality. And yet Zombieland is something new, perhaps because it borrows from another medium. While the movie may not have been hatched inside a PlayStation, Zombieland reveals why every video-game movie ever made has been horrendous. Games, particularly the kind that get optioned by Hollywood, are supposed to be fun. Movies based on games, however, take themselves altogether too seriously,...
- 3/8/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
by MoreHorror.com
FEARnet television will premiere the Machinima and Lionsgate original zombie apocalypse comedy web series, “Bite Me”on March 6th. The series will also concurrently premiere on Machinima Network online.
On the heels of the massively successful first season, it was announced today that the second season of “Bite Me,” will also be run on FEARnet, the premium cable network for horror, thriller and suspense, backed by Lionsgate, Sony and Comcast. Check out the trailer below the official details.
Machinima, the number one video entertainment brand for gamers around the world, and Lionsgate (NYSE: Lgf), a leading diversified global entertainment company, have partnered to renew Machinima’s original zombie apocalypse comedy series “Bite Me.” It was announced today by Allen DeBevoise, Chairman and CEO of Machinima, and Lionsgate’s Curt Marvis, who orchestrated the Company’s partnership with Machinima and is overseeing the series for Lionsgate.
On March 6th,...
FEARnet television will premiere the Machinima and Lionsgate original zombie apocalypse comedy web series, “Bite Me”on March 6th. The series will also concurrently premiere on Machinima Network online.
On the heels of the massively successful first season, it was announced today that the second season of “Bite Me,” will also be run on FEARnet, the premium cable network for horror, thriller and suspense, backed by Lionsgate, Sony and Comcast. Check out the trailer below the official details.
Machinima, the number one video entertainment brand for gamers around the world, and Lionsgate (NYSE: Lgf), a leading diversified global entertainment company, have partnered to renew Machinima’s original zombie apocalypse comedy series “Bite Me.” It was announced today by Allen DeBevoise, Chairman and CEO of Machinima, and Lionsgate’s Curt Marvis, who orchestrated the Company’s partnership with Machinima and is overseeing the series for Lionsgate.
On March 6th,...
- 2/5/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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