Snyder's Army of the Dead (Netflix 2021)

[MagicMoonMonkey]

Gutted. I was hoping for something decent. This has almost every shite idea that the visionaries at Torus Entertainment stuck into all their crap Day of the Dead reboots in one trailer. I am going to pass on it.

[Neil]

Latest trailer. Big Daddy and his basic gathering, march, and then attack on Fiddler's Green I was on board with. This, though, just feels like one of those dime-a-dozen zombie videogames with the same 'class system' of zombie types. That bit where the one zombie is dodging all of Bautista's attacks? Oh boy... The 'smoking while pouring petrol' shot annoyed me too. I mean, really? "Ooh, I'm so cool I do stupid shit like smoke around petrol." Jog on with that shit. On the other hand - Garrett Dillahunt. I'll certainly watch this, but it does feel too much just 'cool looking shit happening'. I do hope they have a proper reason for staging that heist, as well (e.g. they're starting a post-apocalypse city and they're going to set up a mini economy, perhaps with other established survivor cities ... ... i.e. just ripping off Land of the Dead). Because if the only reason is, essentially, "this'll be cool", then fuck that. Oh Dear ! "I do hope they have a proper reason for staging that heist" - I get the impression it's just Vegas that's zombified? So the $ is worth $? ps: I'll end up watchin it too

[Moon Knight]

I’ll give it a chance.

[kidgloves]

Me like. Looking forward to it

[EvilNed]

Fuck it, I'll watch it. Looks dumb but I doubt it takes itself seriously.

[Daoyinyang]

I used to find Chris D'elia terribly obnoxious and I never liked his comedy. For a long time I ignored him because he also genuinely creeped me out. Years later, I found a dude who kind of looked like him and he was my College science partner. he was a complete asshat who did nothing and would be mad that I couldn't just do everything. I hated that kid and told him to buzz off and he threw a fit like a child and then said he's going to ask the professor to get him a new partner because I was bad. Two weeks later he dropped that class. Anyways, it fueled my personal vendetta against Chris D'elia even more and when I found out there were allegations against him, and then Zack Snyder dropped him. It was the most satisfying thing ever.

[Skinrash]

Runners again I see. And they are making those dumb raptor noises or whatever again to. Zach hasn't changed a bit, aside from making them intelligent. Pass. Also looks very derivative of the comic "Remains" by Steve Niles.

[Neil]

[EvilNed]

Connecting with fans is heartwarming but it's kinda weird that of all films they chose this trailer to remake.

[bassman]

Snyder was recently on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast to promote Justice League and he touched upon Army of the Dead and the money issue I’ve seen raised here. I don’t have the direct quote, but from what I gathered, the plot is that the government has walled-off Vegas and kept it contained as a hot zone. So apparently the outbreak is somewhat contained. Bautista and his crew are then hired to go into Vegas to retrieve the money from the vaults, but they’re under a strict time limit, as the government will be dropping a nuke on the desert city in X-amount of time. So the dead have been mostly contained to certain areas, the feds are going to nuke said areas, but they want that Vegas money first. I feel like that works well enough. Has a nice 70’s/80’s vibe to it. I believe he also mentioned Escape From New York as an influence on the plot. Just ya know...with zombies.

[MinionZombie]

Ah, so there's somewhat of a reason for this set-up. Mind you ... ... couldn't the government just, you know, print new money to replace the nuked stuff? Or have the printing presses been swarmed with zeds, too? I'll check it out when it premieres on Netflix, trying to just go in expecting videogamey style nonsense and veloci-zombies etc.

[Neil]

Snyder was recently on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast to promote Justice League and he touched upon Army of the Dead and the money issue I’ve seen raised here. I don’t have the direct quote, but from what I gathered, the plot is that the government has walled-off Vegas and kept it contained as a hot zone. So apparently the outbreak is somewhat contained. Bautista and his crew are then hired to go into Vegas to retrieve the money from the vaults, but they’re under a strict time limit, as the government will be dropping a nuke on the desert city in X-amount of time. So the dead have been mostly contained to certain areas, the feds are going to nuke said areas, but they want that Vegas money first. I feel like that works well enough. Has a nice 70’s/80’s vibe to it. I believe he also mentioned Escape From New York as an influence on the plot. Just ya know...with zombies. Ah, so as I suggested a while back

[Moon Knight]

As a fan of Snyder’s Dawn, I’m excited for this nonsense!

[Neil]

As a fan of Snyder’s Dawn, I’m excited for this nonsense! Lol! Nicely put That's probably just the right attitude to approach it with...

[MinionZombie]

I just read in Total Film and answered my own question - it's money and jewels etc owned by Vegas 'businessmen' and so on - so not government at all. If their riches are nuked they'll be wiped out, and the government doesn't give a shit about that understandably, but they want their greenbacks and diamonds back. So the heist makes sense now - finally! As a fan of Snyder’s Dawn, I’m excited for this nonsense! First part: no. Second part: yeah. There's pieces of the Dawn remake I enjoy, but there's so much where I was just like "oh, fuck you". Still, even with the dodgy raptor zombies and what on earth the Snyder version of 'smart' zombies is gonna be, and with this one kinda distinct from Dawn 04 (which was a dirty rotten remake at thr end of the day ), I'm looking forward to checking it out. It's gonna have style for days, and I hope the above mentioned elements end up working well, but I hope I also connect with the characters and it's not just flashy visuals and nothing else. Hopefully it'll be a solid thrill ride and action spectacle with enjoyable characters - I'm particularly looking forward to Bautista kicking some rotty botty.