The Dead Don't Die

it was a spoof take on cheesy zombie flicks - and did it well. the wife and I really enjoyed it.

havent seen it yet but looking forward to viewing it. it wasnt accepted well by critics, but as always, frick the critics.

Had heard so many bad things about it that I purposely skipped it in theaters. Caught it a few weeks ago and was surprised with how much I liked it. Kind of a deadpan version of Night of the Living Dead. Very strange movie with the actors acknowledging they are in a movie a few times. But still, worth a watch for sure.

The director obviously had a lot of popular friends that owed him a favor.

Yeah, if I over-analyzed this movie, I'd probably end up talking myself into disliking it, because of how peculiar it is, lol...but I dunno, everyone who was in it sold their characters pretty hard, which is why I probably ended up enjoying it. Just the dry banter between Murray, Driver, and Sevigny (sp?) was worth it alone...

This deserves a bump, I just watched it a few nights ago and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Largely because IMDB has it at 5.5 and Rotten Tomatoes has an audience score of 38%. And I'm not into Zombie movies at all so I'd been avoiding it. But with the cast:

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Bill Murray and Adam Driver, as well as Chloe Sevigny, Danny Glover, Tilda Swindon, Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez, Selena Gomez, Sturgil Simpson, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, and I'm sure others I'm forgetting...

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well, why not?

I thought it was a really fun satire; though extremely dry and absurdist and thoughtful. And it got better on a second watch, especially some of the running gags and ideas behind the satire. Apparently it's not for everyone, given the poor ratings. My guess is that viewers were looking for an actual Zombie movie, or a Bill Murray comedy, or almost anything else. Definitely in my top 10 for 2019.

Watched it a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it enough. The acting in it was certainly interesting.

Saw it on a plane, didn't enjoy it in that setting

I thought it was pretty bad..slow paced lack of any humor or horror I didn't get it

Wife and I watched it last night. Very good cast. Was excited.

Other than Murray and Driver, all the other actors felt more like cameos, which is fine.

I'm a huge fan of slow interesting, funny, dry dialogue driven movies. That was probably my favorite part of this movie. Murray and Driver.

I thought this was going to be more of a straight up comedy. It was a bit gorey for my wife at parts you would assume as it being a zombie movie with hungry zombies...

Not a comedy, not a horror flick... something weirdly in between which almost works great.

A little political messaging sprinkled in.. ( just preparing you for the eye roll scenes)

Breaking the 4th wall felt wrong for this movie. Felt it didn't fit this movie.

Funniest scene to me was just Driver driving up to the diner in his mini-car all serious. That shite cracked me up. Then Cleo dispersing the 3 peoplr standing there. I thought the whole movie was going to be that kind of stuff.

I really wanted to like this this movie a lot. I like fun parodies, Bill and Adam, zombies.... should've been better but I'm not exactly sure how.. and that annoys me.. Just felt like something was missing in the movie.. The movie just feels like a dud while you're watching... hard to explain.

5.5/10