re: Zack Snyder’s 'Army of the Dead' Tomatometer & Spoiler Thread

Just finished, this was a pretty bad movie. Somehow Snyder made this extremely boring outside of the opening sequence. Really should have been about 45 minutes shorter.

Also, Snyder is a frustratingly bad storyteller. I find it frustrating because he's a great director from a visual standpoint, but he just can't rein himself in and will throw random shite into a movie with zero thought into how it fits into the story that he's telling or the world that he's built.

Some interviews with him have been run this weekend and the quotes are ridiculous. Apparently that WAS the exact team from the movie dead in front of the vault, and there was a time loop, just because he thought it'd be fun. Even though it makes zero sense. He also confirmed that those were actually robot zombies with zero explanation.

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In the corridor just outside, there are several decomposed corpses – thought to be a failed team that Tanaka had sent in before them – but Vanderohe points out that they look strangely similar to themselves, right down to what they’re wearing.

He muses that perhaps it is, in fact, them and that they are trapped in a never-ending cycle of violence and death; director Zack Snyder shed some light on that idea in an interview with RadioTimes.com and other press.

He said: “Those kinds of things, I think, are a fun and very in-world kind of concept. And the funny thing about it is that the zombies that we put down there, those hero dead zombies, that is them, right? They’re really the same, they’re wearing the same clothes.

“When I was with the costume designer, she was like, ‘Oh, so we’ll just put some zombies on the ground’. I’m like, ‘No, it’s them.’ And she goes, ‘how is it them?’ And I go, ‘I don’t know, how is it them? You tell me’. That’s always fun.”

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