The daughter was, hands down, the worst part of the freakin movie. She had no reason to believe her friend was alive, put the group’s lives in danger several times, and was flat out unlikeable. Remove her from the film, and I think it would’ve been a much better movie. It would still have problems, sure, but it would be far more focused
Remove her from the movie and at least three of the group would’ve made it. When she freaked out on Lilly, that’s where I detached from her as a character. “She has two kids”, yeah well, should’ve thought about it before abandoning them. And did she even make it in the end?
She's completely ruined the movie for me, there's no way in hell she would find her friends in that huge ass hotel in the time frame that was left. That's just one of the many issues I have with her
@@rammrod9974 9 minutes to get to a building, find people, kill zombies and get out? Plenty of time! Every time limit they had in the movie was stupid.
I can give a pass to everything except for the stupid Geeta subplot. I wonder if they added that plot after principal filming since they didn't even have her in the final scenes.
@@humbert8123 He wouldn't have died if he didn't stand on the roof smiling at his daughter instead of getting on the helicopter. Or if he had not thrown away his grenade launcher
A helmet doesn't make a zombie unstoppable. Shoot the legs, they're still flesh and bone, and they can't use dismembered limbs. Clever boy zombie would have time to consider his lost arms and legs before I crushed his skull.
Lol the worst part is that she gets on the helicopter... and then she VANISHES! You don’t see her ever again! They cut away from her, and she’s never in another shot! It’s like everyone in the movie forgot the character existed LMAO.
@@JimankyGaming lol, Kate doesn't even yell out "Geeta!" Didnt even give a shit. She risked her life and everyone else's for someone she didn't even bother looking for after the crash
@@LaffinKing was just thinking this and said the same thing. Geetaaaaaa all the way until she’s dead (or literally has vanished) and then she doesn’t even speak of her, but runs off with 250k and a dead dad.
THEY ALL DIED...ONLY THE WOKE BS GIRL...THEY DONT EVEN ACCOUNT FOR THE GIRL SHE WENT TO RESCUE...WE MUST STOP ALLOWING HOLLYWOOD TO PRODUCE MOVIES AND TV!
you're not a negative person. movies and tv shows lately fucking SUCK. i'm glad you're out there talking about this. everyone else is just like 'eh its a movie relax its not meant to engage you, you're just supposed to turn off your brain and enjoy it'. well thats a shit excuse, movies used to be good and thought provoking and i want that kind of movie to come back
@@andreasottohansen7338 nha this movie could been something if it didn't try an be all serious. If they just went completly crazy stupid an had fun with it. Like zombieland or Sharknado just to be funny. It would worked but nope they just tried to be serious.
I NEVER rewatch movies these days. that's how I know they are just getting worse. I can never remember the plots of movies cuz they all following the same shit now
Yeah I'll give him credit for that. But seriously what was point. All they had to do is do that for a few sceens. She didn't have alot of screen time. Or didn't have alot of scene with any other characters so what was point of digitly putting her in
My wife and i laughed a lot. As pointed out by RLM, it's a near beat-for-beat remake of Aliens. The dumbest thing is the 'twist' that the Burke character (says something that after all these years, i remember the name of corporate stooge in Aliens, but not the movie i watched yesterday) is just there for a zombie head. Why would you send a team in under false pretenses? That safecracker had no business being there, you complicate the mission, everybody is here for the money. In Aliens, you had to lie to Ripley to get her to go back, not the case here. I think Snyder is a great cinematographer, but his writing always has issues.
The team was send in as a distraction so Matrin could do his side mission with assistance from Coyote. The movie was never really about the safe or the money. The head and the lost friend were the main takes.
Come on now, the crews of the first two Alien movies were lied to, but not particularly stupid. Obviously they shouldn't have landed and played around with mysterious eggs, but they do go over that in the novel they released back then about Miller's Crossing. They were just colonists who were sent by a crazy scientist to "investigate" the eggs to get as many of them infected as possible. And in Alien it was protocol to land. I mean, at least they addressed it so their characters didn't look like total morons. They even had a loud argument over that protocol.
Exactly. Like it was established to all the survivors that animals can't be infected and zombies pay them no attention.. but this bitch decides to go get her dog anyway... This is where everything went haywire!😣😣😣😣
I liked the black guy and the German guy, and their eventual friendship. So much so that when one of them sacrificed themselves for the other, I actually got a tug on the heartstrings!
@@darthmisogyny3828 I wouldn't necessarily say He was someone he wasn't, but I mean come on. This guy sands at 6' 4 weighing damn near 300 pounds portraying him as an average human being. He could have played King Kong in Peter Jackson's film for all I know. I was a WWE Friday night smackdown fan and I appreciate Dave Batista
Vito, I'm a fan, but I am really surprised that you see only 40% of stupidities in this movie. this movie plot is stupid beyond Geneva's convention regulations. I want you to be better please, You have to be our guiding light :-D
It’s hilarious how they managed to miss the mark on every single thing that makes a movie great. The dialogue sucked. The overall story sucked. The situations sucked. The character motivations sucked. The characters themselves were forgettable. The action was meh and sparse at that. It was a giant waste of time to watch this mess lol
It's as simple as pouring gasoline into a generator and boom, you've turned on a whole casino who has been destroyed by multiple thunderbolt airstrikes
I think the movie was good, but the ending ruined the whole thing. Like everyone dying made everything that happened in the movie pointless to everyone.
A friend of mine, his dad fixes/cleans up super expensive cars for a living, and he worked on Dave Batista’s car. My friend got to meet him and they actually got to chat for a while and from what I hear Dave isn’t like many Hollywood actors. I was told he is super nice in person and very humble and soft spoken. Also, Thor is gonna be in the next Guaridans of the Galaxy movie - according to my friend.
Surprised no mention of the super-weird cinematography. Why was 90% of the movie shot with the shallowest focus possible? Look at the shot at 16:24 - the subject of that shot is the zombie queen's head, that's where the effect is and it's what's being talked about, and it's completely out of focus.
The idea of “intelligent, fast zombies that can be lead” to me sounds like Tolkien’s Orcs, which ate men and stuff. The king even has a helmet that looks like an Orc at Minas Tirith.
Wondering if the daughter thing is more about what happend with his daughter in real like I mean the end where they are talking for like 5 mins when he should have turn long before that
i think the movie already established that an infection can take like 30 secs or a minute at most, why does bautista’s infection time and the dude with the saw take much longer?
you find this movie good looking? I find it horrendous, Zack should never do the cinematography for his movies ever again. That Depth of Field insanity is NOT OK.
Don't forget nearly every closeup shot he puts the light source directly behind their head so he can shove lens flare and bloom fucking everywhere. Some of the camera work was really good at times but I feel Snyder is trying to hard to push his trademark 'style' far too much.
There was a conclusion to the mother daughter story in the intro. They dropped the final shipping container on them when they cordoned off Las Vegas. That was pretty conclusive.
it's like the best part of the movie is whole intro with that song, I felt I wanted to know more/see more of the main battle in Las Vegas, kinda like a Left 4 Dead kinda setting
I never knew that helicopter pilot was added to the movie later on. Watching the movie without knowing I had no clue that she was later digitally added. It's a marvelous job by the technical crew that were able to replace the actors that originally filmed in the film.
The second this guy started talking about this movie having gorgeous visuals I checked out. This movie is ugly as hell, and the first season of The Walking Dead had better looking zombies, and the show was at its infancy then, with not even close to this budget. That shows first season cost roughly 3.4 million per episode to produce, coming to what's a little over a 20 million dollar budget. Army of the Dead had a budget of 70 to 90 million dollars. Tripling and possibly even quadrupling the budget, with zombies that look absolutely terrible, and blood that is most definitely CGI. As there is no way that awful looking garbage is practical. The city is unrecognizable. Snyder mentioned in a couple interviews how happy he was with to blur the lines of what you'd recognize in the city with an apocalyptic setting, and the behind the scenes showed all the work and surprising amount of care they took to make the city look accurate, and yet the color pallette of the movie is so drab and dry, making the city not really matter as the setting could've been literally any city with a casino in it as the entire movie only takes place in like 3 different areas. The camp, in front of the camp, and the casino. That's it. That's all there is.
I honestly liked the movie, but there were some mistakes made by the characters that annoyed me(like the daughter of the protagonist). Another one is the woman that knew a lot of the intelligent zombies, which let her companion kill the queen... it was an stupid mistake not warning to everyone that they were going to come very angry... but she redeemed herself in the end, unlike the stupid daughter.
What about the traitor who was mauled by the tiger? Where was he going? I thought he said he was heading to the roof to kill the helicopter pilot. Didn't he need to fly out of there to get away on time before the nuke? He accidentally ended up at the entrance? Lol. This movie is wtf
It took me a few minutes before I knew it was going to be a fail... just by the tone of the movie.. if they would have make it more of a dark comedy I think you could have accepted all the flaws in the sotryline. But they did not took that way... they put a few moments there and there but it just make it weirder.... and the part where they talk about the time loop... if it would have been the plot twist mid-movie it would have made it so more interesting... but no.. Snyder juste specially asked to have the same outfit but they did not use it
Was the wall built around Las Vegas, or just the strip? Wouldn't the zombies have flooded into the suburbs and other urban districts before getting to the strip?
The premise comes from a korean film called Peninsula... The structure comes from Aliens... The plot holes, plot contrivances, empty characters, dead pixels, out of focus scenes, unfulfilled set ups, multiverse teasers, come from Snyder...
True so many horror movies kill off the characters who are badasses and do all the work and than let some helpless girl survive it's annoying and ovdrused. I'd love to see a horror movie that let's the toughest characters survive and kill off the dumb useless ones.
i kinda tuned out at like 5 hours in..I love zombie movies and this just didn’t cut it..The intro was the best part and was want i wanted the movie to be..
Vito, I'm astonished that you'd neglected to mention that the majority of this movie is out of focus, and that it's almost entirely a terrible remake of Aliens (1986). ...and it's thoroughly fucking stupid.
The suggestion you can weaponise Zombies reminds me of the Alien films, and recent Jurassic Park. How are Zombies good weapons? How are they better than people with guns, or aircraft with missiles?
Hahahaha I said the same thing when they got the new time for the nuke.. there was absolutely no sense of urgency.. everytime ppl decided to talk about their pasts or feelings, I was thinking time is running down.. moveeeee to the chopper!! And that 9 minutes remaining time at the end really felt more like 30 minutes. 😅😅
@@LaffinKing or if u think about it they where in Vegas with zombies everywhere. An everything destroyed. An somehow this tv works an magicly gets signal
Zombies having "leaders" goes against what zombies are, they're mindless beings without any emotions, follow no one but their own drive (to feed). Zombies aren't like goons were they do what their bosses command. IK it sounds like I'm gatekeeping the zombie trope, but I just felt like I had to say this.
@@GoldFittyCal you're correct but you can do whatever you want with zombies. I think you gotta bring some fresh ideas to the genre because mindless zombies have become pretty stale and predictable.
@@whosaidthat84 I think that's just a problem with the zombie trope in general. Zombies are an increasingly boring threat, simply because we've seen them sooooo many times. But trying to change them would make them seem...less zombie-like. Idk.
My question is that why did Tanaka make them go after the money in the ball but it could just have them go after the zombie Queen's head since is worth more and that's what he really wanted?
Dude, I know this is a “brainless” fun zombie movie, but was so excited for you to tear this apart unbridled rage style. The constant multiple plot holes were so distracting.
Yeah the daughter's entire character and situation with that random woman made no sense at all and the nuke portion was a bit over the top. that should have just been part of it from the beginning because when they add the "shot clock" halfway through the movie then continue to waste time it just makes absolutely no sense
This film really has a potential concept or plot lines that are really interesting. Idk, but the build up of curiosity in each of those concepts is quite exciting. Actually I'm hoping for something like a pressure from the dried-out zombies or even maybe hibernating zombies, just like how Rick from the TWD series covered himself in blood of the zombies, only to be washed away by rain exposing him from the horde of zombies as he retrieves the bag full of guns. Well maybe they could use those concepts in their future projects since they are planning a cinematic universe around that franchise. Btw, In regards to what you're saying as Zombie Apocalypse and Money Heist combination theme in a film, I'm not sure if you watched “Train To Busan 2: Peninsula”. That movie also have both of these theme, though idk if you've watched it already or even if you're gonna like it, but I recommend that to you.
Saw a video recently that Pointed out WHY? Does Dieter need to safecrack for? Couldn't the guy who owned the place have just given him the safes combo instead?
In the beginning of the movie you see two space crafts flying over the army base, I question whether king and queen zombie were actually zombies and not infected with some Alien virus.
Vito, you’re the man but you let me down good sir. How could you fail to mention the Area 51 aliens, the time travel paradox, and the blue eyed robot zombies??? 🤣
i knew nothing about the recasting before watching the movie and I knew in her first scene the pilot did not film with batista. while i didn't think they weren't in the same room for the whole movie, i did think there was something weird with all of her scenes, what with you never seeing her face clearly in the same shot as the others and no-one ever looking her in the eyes
This movie is a commentary about how criticizing your parents choices and not growing beyond them results in you destroying the world and causing you to relive the same tough choices your parents did. She was tough on dad for killing Mom and she had to kill dad.
Zach did this with the idiot girl and her dog in Dawn of the dead.. and then everyone proceeded to go after her.. oh, and there was also a zombie baby lol.. YOU WANNA KILL LUDA?! YOU WANNA KILL MY FAMILY?!
vito feel like you forgot about robot zombies, the guy who survived a nuclear fallout and didn't turn into a zombie until it was necessary, needing a safe cracker at all when it is his safe they are breaking into, zombie king getting down from a rooftop and riding a horse to a different building and beating a helicopter, etc...like what happened man?
Army of the dead is a gourmet meal visually with some good concepts for it's zombies but watching "zombies" dodge punches and use parkour was kinda dumb. As for the story it could of been good but when you realize that they were sent in is a ruse just so that one guy no one trust is there for a smart zombie head that makes the casino plot useless, why couldn't they just send them in there for the zombie head in the first place? Then when everyone except the worst character in the movie dies you realize everything was done for nothing.
I also have literally no idea why they didnt plug 3 in that plant dude's head. that just seems like an obvious and instant move they wouldnt even have had to sacrifice Juice to the zombie king they could have sacrificed that obvious prick. You cant have the team shackled to this obvious traitor for literally no reason.
even the pilot fucking pointed out that the guy was obviously shady af and that they should kill him. they would even have the perfect cover for it: they could have easily said he got killed by zombies
The one thing I really like about this movie was the acting. All the characters were on par. It was a great cast and everyone was unique in their own way. I think that's what made the movie special. But as far as a writing goes I think a little bit more could have been done to add a little more humor in there. There was some comic relief with comedian but I think the could have been a lot of more one-liners. If Arnold Schwarzenegger was in this movie back in his Heyday this would have been at hit.
And people say you‘re negative…. There is SO MUCH negative you could’ve said but you didn’t because you kinda liked it. Good one! But if you ask me you could be even more negative The movie has so many plot holes it’s ridiculous. And I kinda liked it as well which makes it even more sad.
this movie was maddening.. 1. i can live with them sticking in a whole "men in power are mysogoh-nistic" .. i mean, its a netflix original, suprised they didnt make the whole movie about it... BUT FFS! THE WOMAN THAT DIDNT TRUST MYSOGONISTIC/CREEPER GUY, GOT LOCKED OUT OF A DOOR BY HIM..... MANAGED TO SAY TO HER PARTNER "go.. just go without me!" ... couldnt throw a single "ALSO DONT TRUST THAT DOUCHE! HE TRIED TO KILL ME" i mean, she was staring right at him when she said "go" 2. The fuckin daughter is a whole case on her own 2.A. SHE HAS NO REASON TO THINK THOSE THREE BIMBOS THAT WERE LEFT ARE STILL ALIVE 2.B. SHE ABANDONED HER DAD TO "FIND THEM"... did he have a fucking plan where to look? even think where to look? but hey, gurl power, she just has internal gps to happen tofind them on a random floor in an abandoned zombie-filled building. and happen to find the right random room they were in. 2.C. WHAT WAS HER PLAN AFTER FINDING THEM?????? SHE DIDNT KNOW THE CHOPPER WAS GONNA BE THERE WITH HER DAD? she snuck off to find them.. that was her plan... thats it. 2.D. SHE FINDS THEM.. AND THEY GET KILLED ANYWAYS...SHE FREAKS OUT AND 2 OF THEM GET ATE.....she thought she'll just be laura croft with only A pistol...to rescue 3 ppl from zombiefilled building. 2.E. SHE'S THE REASON THEY HAD TO STAY ANOTHER 5 MINUTES TO EVEN FIND AND PICK HER UP!!! .... LEADING TO THEM GETTING HIT BY THE BLAST ND KILLING THE LAST N 3RD person she abandoned the mission to "rescue"... 3. JUST TAKE OUT THE DAUGHTER ENTIRELY.
I've recently seen Sniper: Ghost Warrior. I've also seen SWAT: Under Siege. Two low-budget action movies that aren't all that well made. Like... at all. And yet they were at least engaging enough to keep me watching. This movie did not. It was just so bad... and boring.
This movie definitely has its moments, but you're spot about some of the writing issues. Did I miss a line of dialog or something, but why doesn't the casino owner know the combination to his own safe? The insurance reimbursed him, but he doesn't know the combination to access his money vault... Whatever. I did enjoy the movie overall, but certain aspects of it really took away from it as a whole.
I don’t know all the lore of the movie but I’m pretty sure the virus was only present in Vegas and they secured it. Of course it spreads at the end, but at the time in the movie they thought they contained the virus
I thought it was gonna be good because I really liked the 2004 dawn of the dead remake and I noticed the same director was making it but i didn't really like this movie at all though its pretty good for Netflix
I actively wished for the daughter's death. I rarely flat out dislike a character, but she was unnecessarily antagonistic and ultimately caused the deaths of at least 5 other more interesting and likeable characters. What a waste of time. The movie was more fun than crappy for me--by a close margin, to be sure--so I may watch it again. Wish the heist scenario made more sense, and the overall setup was pretty silly. I did like the intro quite a bit, as it was a unique way to give quick backstory to some of the characters and to the zombie outbreak. Final conclusion: 6 up and half a dozen down?
Besides Supes everybody Zack cast for his DC verse was just wrong. Gal Gadot Being Wonder Woman the worst decision ever too he made. She is sexy , can fight in real , but she can't act or speak clearly enough at all.
funny you're talking about Buatista's daughter in this movie, this character is the PRIME reason why I didn't watch this movie again, and I'm someone who repeats movies. SHE LITERALLY GET'S EVERYONE KILLED! and it's stupid how it happens.
Vito, I'm going to be grim, but here is a coping mechanism I developed for the Daughter. I hate, hate hate that character, imho she is one of the stupidest characters in movie history. But I let it slide. You know why? You know, there was a real-life daughter of a very famous movie director that died recently... ... and he loved her so much, he simply had to have a daughter character saved in the movie.
After you have shown the shot with the cyborg zombie being blown up, 19:37, and the fetus with the blue blood, 16:55, I was expecting you would comment about it. Dropped the ball man! jk But while I was watching the movie I kept expecting they would explain that instead of following that dumb daughter plotline that killed everybody. Kind of a letdown.
@@Mournen Listening to the praise in context, he was really just appreciating how good Bautista is in this film compared to the rest of the actors, and the "greatest actors of our times" is really a form of exaggeration. It surprises Vito how well he played his character of Scott Ward.
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The daughter was, hands down, the worst part of the freakin movie. She had no reason to believe her friend was alive, put the group’s lives in danger several times, and was flat out unlikeable. Remove her from the film, and I think it would’ve been a much better movie. It would still have problems, sure, but it would be far more focused
Remove her from the movie and at least three of the group would’ve made it. When she freaked out on Lilly, that’s where I detached from her as a character. “She has two kids”, yeah well, should’ve thought about it before abandoning them. And did she even make it in the end?
She's completely ruined the movie for me, there's no way in hell she would find her friends in that huge ass hotel in the time frame that was left. That's just one of the many issues I have with her
Yeah once she said “Take me in there with you.. if you don’t I’m going anyway.” She just ruined EVERYTHING! So annoying
@@rammrod9974 9 minutes to get to a building, find people, kill zombies and get out? Plenty of time! Every time limit they had in the movie was stupid.
@@hotchowder yeah....9 minutes is plenty of time to find your daughter in a huge Vegas hotel lol
There's some genuinely fun parts of this movie, but some of the characters' actions were so moronic.
I can give a pass to everything except for the stupid Geeta subplot. I wonder if they added that plot after principal filming since they didn't even have her in the final scenes.
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@@snowballandpals which ine was Geeta again? I only remember scott and kates names tbh lmaoo
The German character was one of the worst characters to ever grace a screen
@@Reelfilms1998 she's the mom that left her kids to crack open a slot machine and who Kate spends the entire movie trying to find.
Every single character died by either their own stupidity, or that of those around them. I found it so hard to watch
Yeah. Dave Bautista didnt have to die
@@humbert8123 He wouldn't have died if he didn't stand on the roof smiling at his daughter instead of getting on the helicopter. Or if he had not thrown away his grenade launcher
@@humbert8123 Or if he told his daughter...NO
@@WeAreNowProducing Or if the zombie had hit the chopper blades when he jumped into the helicopter!
Honestly, that’s how it would be in the real world if some zombie shit went down
A helmet doesn't make a zombie unstoppable. Shoot the legs, they're still flesh and bone, and they can't use dismembered limbs. Clever boy zombie would have time to consider his lost arms and legs before I crushed his skull.
why would he needed a helmet that he’s already unstoppable
oh great the zombie is a plot armor
If you think about it, the daughter went to save Gita only for her to die in a helicopter everybody else dies in besides the Main characters 🤔
Lol the worst part is that she gets on the helicopter... and then she VANISHES! You don’t see her ever again! They cut away from her, and she’s never in another shot! It’s like everyone in the movie forgot the character existed LMAO.
@@JimankyGaming lol, Kate doesn't even yell out "Geeta!" Didnt even give a shit. She risked her life and everyone else's for someone she didn't even bother looking for after the crash
I literally turned to my GF and said "Did they just fuckin Kill Gita with 5min left in this shit?"
@@LaffinKing was just thinking this and said the same thing. Geetaaaaaa all the way until she’s dead (or literally has vanished) and then she doesn’t even speak of her, but runs off with 250k and a dead dad.
THEY ALL DIED...ONLY THE WOKE BS GIRL...THEY DONT EVEN ACCOUNT FOR THE GIRL SHE WENT TO RESCUE...WE MUST STOP ALLOWING HOLLYWOOD TO PRODUCE MOVIES AND TV!
you're not a negative person. movies and tv shows lately fucking SUCK. i'm glad you're out there talking about this. everyone else is just like 'eh its a movie relax its not meant to engage you, you're just supposed to turn off your brain and enjoy it'. well thats a shit excuse, movies used to be good and thought provoking and i want that kind of movie to come back
I will say, those movies have their place, but when it is every big movie, that's too much
Oh yeah it a movie u have to turn ur brain off for.
@@andreasottohansen7338 nha this movie could been something if it didn't try an be all serious. If they just went completly crazy stupid an had fun with it. Like zombieland or Sharknado just to be funny. It would worked but nope they just tried to be serious.
I NEVER rewatch movies these days. that's how I know they are just getting worse. I can never remember the plots of movies cuz they all following the same shit now
i guess we have to accept it
no matter how bad it is but still entertaining except some movies are not meant to watch like last jedi or dark fate
So they did about a thousand times better superimposing an ENTIRE CHARACTER here, than they did getting rid of a mustache in Justice League
You are the one person here with superior observation skills ... Everyone else is addicted to bashing Snyder
Yeah I'll give him credit for that. But seriously what was point. All they had to do is do that for a few sceens. She didn't have alot of screen time. Or didn't have alot of scene with any other characters so what was point of digitly putting her in
Never noticed either the tache or the Tig.
My wife and i laughed a lot. As pointed out by RLM, it's a near beat-for-beat remake of Aliens. The dumbest thing is the 'twist' that the Burke character (says something that after all these years, i remember the name of corporate stooge in Aliens, but not the movie i watched yesterday) is just there for a zombie head. Why would you send a team in under false pretenses? That safecracker had no business being there, you complicate the mission, everybody is here for the money. In Aliens, you had to lie to Ripley to get her to go back, not the case here. I think Snyder is a great cinematographer, but his writing always has issues.
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The team was send in as a distraction so Matrin could do his side mission with assistance from Coyote.
The movie was never really about the safe or the money. The head and the lost friend were the main takes.
Come on now, the crews of the first two Alien movies were lied to, but not particularly stupid. Obviously they shouldn't have landed and played around with mysterious eggs, but they do go over that in the novel they released back then about Miller's Crossing. They were just colonists who were sent by a crazy scientist to "investigate" the eggs to get as many of them infected as possible. And in Alien it was protocol to land. I mean, at least they addressed it so their characters didn't look like total morons. They even had a loud argument over that protocol.
He could have paid them to get the head and they would probably have been able to do it.
Batista's daughter is the same as that girl who tried to save her dog (that the zombies ignored) in Dawn of the Dead 2004
Exactly. Like it was established to all the survivors that animals can't be infected and zombies pay them no attention.. but this bitch decides to go get her dog anyway... This is where everything went haywire!😣😣😣😣
@digduck yep. Just the absolute worst.
This is exactly what I thought of when she decided to insert herself into the movie.
@digduck the kids in 28 weeks later deserved to be shot from the military. They fucked England literally
The characters standing around letting each other die pointlessly gave me Left 4 Dead flashbacks playing with the bots.
lmfao
Hahaha I loved doing that to the speed runners who would leave others behind thinking they were untouchable 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TheForbidden_1ne and the speedrunners getting killed is the best part
So to summarize this... one woman's selfish choice caused everyone around her, including her own father, to die.
Not sure about this flick.
It works if you see her as the true main villain rather than the Zombie king.
@@markparkinson6947 Ok. So like Abbyzilla in TLOU2 then.👍
@@CarParts08382 Actually, more like a twist villain.
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I liked the black guy and the German guy, and their eventual friendship. So much so that when one of them sacrificed themselves for the other, I actually got a tug on the heartstrings!
They were the most favorable characters in the movie in my opinion.
They really tried to make Bautista look like a burger flipping glasses wearing soy boy
How was he a soy boy?
@@darthmisogyny3828 I wouldn't necessarily say He was someone he wasn't, but I mean come on. This guy sands at 6' 4 weighing damn near 300 pounds portraying him as an average human being. He could have played King Kong in Peter Jackson's film for all I know. I was a WWE Friday night smackdown fan and I appreciate Dave Batista
@@darthmisogyny3828 Bautista is definitely a soy boy mentally.
It’s all about acting skills and he has the spirit the rock hasn’t
@digduck that'd one of the many that caught my eye. The whole lets go back for Gita and have her die and never seem again pussed me off
Vito, I'm a fan, but I am really surprised that you see only 40% of stupidities in this movie. this movie plot is stupid beyond Geneva's convention regulations. I want you to be better please, You have to be our guiding light :-D
You are a tool of the worst kind
@@dignerds seems like 35 likes vs your 2 disagree. Lol
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@@lunarmodule6419 Yeah - that's why he rules!
Well, you are going to be misinformed on things by this channel .
i was gonna say this is why films need teams of writers for one project...then i realized three writers worked on this one!
Or get one talented writer
So much potential with such crappy execution.
It’s hilarious how they managed to miss the mark on every single thing that makes a movie great. The dialogue sucked. The overall story sucked. The situations sucked. The character motivations sucked. The characters themselves were forgettable. The action was meh and sparse at that. It was a giant waste of time to watch this mess lol
It's as simple as pouring gasoline into a generator and boom, you've turned on a whole casino who has been destroyed by multiple thunderbolt airstrikes
An the generator cuts on whole casino
I think the movie was good, but the ending ruined the whole thing. Like everyone dying made everything that happened in the movie pointless to everyone.
A friend of mine, his dad fixes/cleans up super expensive cars for a living, and he worked on Dave Batista’s car. My friend got to meet him and they actually got to chat for a while and from what I hear Dave isn’t like many Hollywood actors. I was told he is super nice in person and very humble and soft spoken.
Also, Thor is gonna be in the next Guaridans of the Galaxy movie - according to my friend.
Surprised no mention of the super-weird cinematography. Why was 90% of the movie shot with the shallowest focus possible? Look at the shot at 16:24 - the subject of that shot is the zombie queen's head, that's where the effect is and it's what's being talked about, and it's completely out of focus.
There were so many out of focus shots that it becomes so obvious and annoying
The idea of “intelligent, fast zombies that can be lead” to me sounds like Tolkien’s Orcs, which ate men and stuff. The king even has a helmet that looks like an Orc at Minas Tirith.
URUK HAI HELMET AAARRTGHHHHH!!!!!
Not Uruk Hai. There’s an Orc in the background of the battle of Minas tirith that looks exactly like Zeus’ helmet.
@@doopdoopdopdop7424 Right, one of the spear orcs during the charge of the Rohirim, isn't it?
I think so. He might be an archer. He’s usually in the back of Gothmog’s closeups.
@@doopdoopdopdop7424 /watch?v=8Tgi-j56ueU
He's at 3:39.
Wondering if the daughter thing is more about what happend with his daughter in real like I mean the end where they are talking for like 5 mins when he should have turn long before that
Real life*
i think the movie already established that an infection can take like 30 secs or a minute at most, why does bautista’s infection time and the dude with the saw take much longer?
plus the evil corpo bodyguard could’ve just not killed everyone? it’s villain for the sake of having a villain in the story
and why did the boss that hired them not tell them the code? is the code changing simultaneously and on random?
"So the movie can happen!"
you find this movie good looking? I find it horrendous, Zack should never do the cinematography for his movies ever again. That Depth of Field insanity is NOT OK.
Don't forget nearly every closeup shot he puts the light source directly behind their head so he can shove lens flare and bloom fucking everywhere. Some of the camera work was really good at times but I feel Snyder is trying to hard to push his trademark 'style' far too much.
Vito said he liked the "Last Supper" scene :( - my eyes have never rolled so hard at Snyders' hardon for Jesus iconography
And to know some people thought it was a "good idea".
Fun fact, the score for the opening scenes was made by Richard Cheese, who also made the "Get down with the sickness" cover for Dawn of the Dead.
There was a conclusion to the mother daughter story in the intro. They dropped the final shipping container on them when they cordoned off Las Vegas. That was pretty conclusive.
Honest opinion:
I don't think Zack Snyder should make anymore movies.
I think he will be good music video director,
it's like the best part of the movie is whole intro with that song, I felt I wanted to know more/see more of the main battle in Las Vegas, kinda like a Left 4 Dead kinda setting
I never knew that helicopter pilot was added to the movie later on. Watching the movie without knowing I had no clue that she was later digitally added. It's a marvelous job by the technical crew that were able to replace the actors that originally filmed in the film.
Army of the dead logic: “ you can’t fly in because it’s restricted air space”
Also army of the dead logic: “ you need to fly out”
The second this guy started talking about this movie having gorgeous visuals I checked out.
This movie is ugly as hell, and the first season of The Walking Dead had better looking zombies, and the show was at its infancy then, with not even close to this budget.
That shows first season cost roughly 3.4 million per episode to produce, coming to what's a little over a 20 million dollar budget. Army of the Dead had a budget of 70 to 90 million dollars. Tripling and possibly even quadrupling the budget, with zombies that look absolutely terrible, and blood that is most definitely CGI. As there is no way that awful looking garbage is practical.
The city is unrecognizable. Snyder mentioned in a couple interviews how happy he was with to blur the lines of what you'd recognize in the city with an apocalyptic setting, and the behind the scenes showed all the work and surprising amount of care they took to make the city look accurate, and yet the color pallette of the movie is so drab and dry, making the city not really matter as the setting could've been literally any city with a casino in it as the entire movie only takes place in like 3 different areas. The camp, in front of the camp, and the casino. That's it. That's all there is.
I honestly liked the movie, but there were some mistakes made by the characters that annoyed me(like the daughter of the protagonist). Another one is the woman that knew a lot of the intelligent zombies, which let her companion kill the queen... it was an stupid mistake not warning to everyone that they were going to come very angry... but she redeemed herself in the end, unlike the stupid daughter.
What about the traitor who was mauled by the tiger? Where was he going? I thought he said he was heading to the roof to kill the helicopter pilot. Didn't he need to fly out of there to get away on time before the nuke? He accidentally ended up at the entrance? Lol. This movie is wtf
It took me a few minutes before I knew it was going to be a fail... just by the tone of the movie.. if they would have make it more of a dark comedy I think you could have accepted all the flaws in the sotryline. But they did not took that way... they put a few moments there and there but it just make it weirder.... and the part where they talk about the time loop... if it would have been the plot twist mid-movie it would have made it so more interesting... but no.. Snyder juste specially asked to have the same outfit but they did not use it
Was the wall built around Las Vegas, or just the strip? Wouldn't the zombies have flooded into the suburbs and other urban districts before getting to the strip?
The premise comes from a korean film called Peninsula... The structure comes from Aliens... The plot holes, plot contrivances, empty characters, dead pixels, out of focus scenes, unfulfilled set ups, multiverse teasers, come from Snyder...
Why do they insist on always having the least interesting character be the only one to survive
True so many horror movies kill off the characters who are badasses and do all the work and than let some helpless girl survive it's annoying and ovdrused.
I'd love to see a horror movie that let's the toughest characters survive and kill off the dumb useless ones.
i kinda tuned out at like 5 hours in..I love zombie movies and this just didn’t cut it..The intro was the best part and was want i wanted the movie to be..
Vito, I'm astonished that you'd neglected to mention that the majority of this movie is out of focus, and that it's almost entirely a terrible remake of Aliens (1986).
...and it's thoroughly fucking stupid.
And the parts that aren't out of focus is covered in lens flare and stupid bloom for no reason.
The suggestion you can weaponise Zombies reminds me of the Alien films, and recent Jurassic Park. How are Zombies good weapons? How are they better than people with guns, or aircraft with missiles?
Who came up with the idea??
Did no one see train to Busan 2 Peninsula??
Hahahaha I said the same thing when they got the new time for the nuke.. there was absolutely no sense of urgency.. everytime ppl decided to talk about their pasts or feelings, I was thinking time is running down.. moveeeee to the chopper!! And that 9 minutes remaining time at the end really felt more like 30 minutes. 😅😅
What happens if the team wasn't watching the news at that exact moment? They would've never knew that the nuke was coming sooner lol
@@LaffinKing hahahahaha too true
@@LaffinKing or if u think about it they where in Vegas with zombies everywhere. An everything destroyed. An somehow this tv works an magicly gets signal
Or how is that generator powering everything in casino
19:15 Please tell me this song is not an edit, but in the actual movie.
The daughter has beautiful eyes. That is the extent of her worth in this film.
Her eyes 👀
'Zombie King' was already shown in Land of the Dead (2005) and it sucked there too!
Zombies having "leaders" goes against what zombies are, they're mindless beings without any emotions, follow no one but their own drive (to feed). Zombies aren't like goons were they do what their bosses command.
IK it sounds like I'm gatekeeping the zombie trope, but I just felt like I had to say this.
@@GoldFittyCal I think that instead of it being able to command other zombies, it should've been a tyrant, something like resident evil.
@@GoldFittyCal you're correct but you can do whatever you want with zombies. I think you gotta bring some fresh ideas to the genre because mindless zombies have become pretty stale and predictable.
@@whosaidthat84 I think that's just a problem with the zombie trope in general. Zombies are an increasingly boring threat, simply because we've seen them sooooo many times. But trying to change them would make them seem...less zombie-like. Idk.
The movie has so many fucking problems and on top of all of that it was like...boring, just straight up boring.
It was as boring as the amount of bokeh in the shots
Don't give them credit for the premise, they took it straight from Train To Busan: Peninsula!
Zombie with an indestructible helmet is ridiculous!
My question is that why did Tanaka make them go after the money in the ball but it could just have them go after the zombie Queen's head since is worth more and that's what he really wanted?
Dude, I know this is a “brainless” fun zombie movie, but was so excited for you to tear this apart unbridled rage style. The constant multiple plot holes were so distracting.
Yeah the daughter's entire character and situation with that random woman made no sense at all and the nuke portion was a bit over the top. that should have just been part of it from the beginning because when they add the "shot clock" halfway through the movie then continue to waste time it just makes absolutely no sense
This film really has a potential concept or plot lines that are really interesting. Idk, but the build up of curiosity in each of those concepts is quite exciting. Actually I'm hoping for something like a pressure from the dried-out zombies or even maybe hibernating zombies, just like how Rick from the TWD series covered himself in blood of the zombies, only to be washed away by rain exposing him from the horde of zombies as he retrieves the bag full of guns. Well maybe they could use those concepts in their future projects since they are planning a cinematic universe around that franchise. Btw, In regards to what you're saying as Zombie Apocalypse and Money Heist combination theme in a film, I'm not sure if you watched “Train To Busan 2: Peninsula”. That movie also have both of these theme, though idk if you've watched it already or even if you're gonna like it, but I recommend that to you.
So it's Dead Money from New Vegas then?
Saw a video recently that Pointed out WHY? Does Dieter need to safecrack for? Couldn't the guy who owned the place have just given him the safes combo instead?
Well, Peninsula (Train to Busan 2) has the same premise... I kinda feeling Heist genre and Zombies are not that good of a combination after all.
In the beginning of the movie you see two space crafts flying over the army base, I question whether king and queen zombie were actually zombies and not infected with some Alien virus.
Can I get a video on how to avoid getting alerts by UA-camrs who I don't subscribe to?
so twlight is good vampire movie?
Vito, you’re the man but you let me down good sir. How could you fail to mention the Area 51 aliens, the time travel paradox, and the blue eyed robot zombies??? 🤣
i knew nothing about the recasting before watching the movie and I knew in her first scene the pilot did not film with batista. while i didn't think they weren't in the same room for the whole movie, i did think there was something weird with all of her scenes, what with you never seeing her face clearly in the same shot as the others and no-one ever looking her in the eyes
This movie is a commentary about how criticizing your parents choices and not growing beyond them results in you destroying the world and causing you to relive the same tough choices your parents did. She was tough on dad for killing Mom and she had to kill dad.
Zach did this with the idiot girl and her dog in Dawn of the dead.. and then everyone proceeded to go after her.. oh, and there was also a zombie baby lol.. YOU WANNA KILL LUDA?! YOU WANNA KILL MY FAMILY?!
Didn’t know about Chris being in here or them digitally putting her in. Crazy
@Erik Kemeey the ufo yes but not the time loop
@Erik Kemeey oh yeah I thought you meant in the beginning
vito feel like you forgot about robot zombies, the guy who survived a nuclear fallout and didn't turn into a zombie until it was necessary, needing a safe cracker at all when it is his safe they are breaking into, zombie king getting down from a rooftop and riding a horse to a different building and beating a helicopter, etc...like what happened man?
Army of the dead is a gourmet meal visually with some good concepts for it's zombies but watching "zombies" dodge punches and use parkour was kinda dumb.
As for the story it could of been good but when you realize that they were sent in is a ruse just so that one guy no one trust is there for a smart zombie head that makes the casino plot useless, why couldn't they just send them in there for the zombie head in the first place? Then when everyone except the worst character in the movie dies you realize everything was done for nothing.
Did Veto just say Dave Bautista is a great actor?!?! Shame on you Vito!!!
I also have literally no idea why they didnt plug 3 in that plant dude's head. that just seems like an obvious and instant move they wouldnt even have had to sacrifice Juice to the zombie king they could have sacrificed that obvious prick. You cant have the team shackled to this obvious traitor for literally no reason.
even the pilot fucking pointed out that the guy was obviously shady af and that they should kill him. they would even have the perfect cover for it: they could have easily said he got killed by zombies
@@666FallenShadow right. Obvious plant is obvious
The one thing I really like about this movie was the acting. All the characters were on par. It was a great cast and everyone was unique in their own way. I think that's what made the movie special. But as far as a writing goes I think a little bit more could have been done to add a little more humor in there. There was some comic relief with comedian but I think the could have been a lot of more one-liners. If Arnold Schwarzenegger was in this movie back in his Heyday this would have been at hit.
You've enjoyed a few bong hits, I assume.
The fact that one of the writers of this movie is now working on the Obi-Wan Kenobi show makes me VERY nervous...
How have you not heard anyone say Bautista?
I gave it an okay score. Has some fun parts but there’s some dumb shit in here
And people say you‘re negative….
There is SO MUCH negative you could’ve said but you didn’t because you kinda liked it. Good one!
But if you ask me you could be even more negative
The movie has so many plot holes it’s ridiculous.
And I kinda liked it as well which makes it even more sad.
I didn't even know she was added in post-production, that's actually amazing!
this movie was maddening..
1. i can live with them sticking in a whole "men in power are mysogoh-nistic" .. i mean, its a netflix original, suprised they didnt make the whole movie about it... BUT FFS! THE WOMAN THAT DIDNT TRUST MYSOGONISTIC/CREEPER GUY, GOT LOCKED OUT OF A DOOR BY HIM..... MANAGED TO SAY TO HER PARTNER "go.. just go without me!" ... couldnt throw a single "ALSO DONT TRUST THAT DOUCHE! HE TRIED TO KILL ME" i mean, she was staring right at him when she said "go"
2. The fuckin daughter is a whole case on her own
2.A. SHE HAS NO REASON TO THINK THOSE THREE BIMBOS THAT WERE LEFT ARE STILL ALIVE
2.B. SHE ABANDONED HER DAD TO "FIND THEM"... did he have a fucking plan where to look? even think where to look? but hey, gurl power, she just has internal gps to happen tofind them on a random floor in an abandoned zombie-filled building. and happen to find the right random room they were in.
2.C. WHAT WAS HER PLAN AFTER FINDING THEM?????? SHE DIDNT KNOW THE CHOPPER WAS GONNA BE THERE WITH HER DAD? she snuck off to find them.. that was her plan... thats it.
2.D. SHE FINDS THEM.. AND THEY GET KILLED ANYWAYS...SHE FREAKS OUT AND 2 OF THEM GET ATE.....she thought she'll just be laura croft with only A pistol...to rescue 3 ppl from zombiefilled building.
2.E. SHE'S THE REASON THEY HAD TO STAY ANOTHER 5 MINUTES TO EVEN FIND AND PICK HER UP!!! .... LEADING TO THEM GETTING HIT BY THE BLAST ND KILLING THE LAST N 3RD person she abandoned the mission to "rescue"...
3. JUST TAKE OUT THE DAUGHTER ENTIRELY.
I didn't mind the king and queen Brain Keene has a universe where they talked and retained full memories not fragments.
I rated 1 out of 10 on IMDB because of this stupid 'main' character
@Erik Kemeey He was probably referring to Scott’s daughter.
Overall a pretty underwhelming an disappointing movie
Vito Rick rolled us with the video title 😂 well played Vito... Well played.
I've recently seen Sniper: Ghost Warrior. I've also seen SWAT: Under Siege. Two low-budget action movies that aren't all that well made. Like... at all. And yet they were at least engaging enough to keep me watching. This movie did not. It was just so bad... and boring.
I think I got the title of the Sniper movie wrong. That's how forgettable it is. AND YET.
The guys shooting the helmet are stormtroopers. they could have easily domed him in the eye.
That Tig Nataro fact is insane. Did not know that at all
This movie definitely has its moments, but you're spot about some of the writing issues. Did I miss a line of dialog or something, but why doesn't the casino owner know the combination to his own safe? The insurance reimbursed him, but he doesn't know the combination to access his money vault... Whatever.
I did enjoy the movie overall, but certain aspects of it really took away from it as a whole.
Before you pointed out the greenscreen I thought she just looked weird and poorly lit
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If the world is getting overrun with zombies, where are you going to spend those millions of dollars you stole? To me it's kinda a stupid plot...
I don’t know all the lore of the movie but I’m pretty sure the virus was only present in Vegas and they secured it. Of course it spreads at the end, but at the time in the movie they thought they contained the virus
Bro, I was rolling at the cranberries part.
All this movie did was make me wish I was watching Zombieland
At least this movie gives hope. In the event of a zombie apocalypse, it seems youtubers will always have a job!
You should watch Train to Busan Peninsula
I thought it was gonna be good because I really liked the 2004 dawn of the dead remake and I noticed the same director was making it but i didn't really like this movie at all though its pretty good for Netflix
I actively wished for the daughter's death. I rarely flat out dislike a character, but she was unnecessarily antagonistic and ultimately caused the deaths of at least 5 other more interesting and likeable characters. What a waste of time.
The movie was more fun than crappy for me--by a close margin, to be sure--so I may watch it again. Wish the heist scenario made more sense, and the overall setup was pretty silly. I did like the intro quite a bit, as it was a unique way to give quick backstory to some of the characters and to the zombie outbreak.
Final conclusion: 6 up and half a dozen down?
Whenever Vito releases a new video i know it’s gonna be a good day 😌
Besides Supes everybody Zack cast for his DC verse was just wrong. Gal Gadot Being Wonder Woman the worst decision ever too he made. She is sexy , can fight in real , but she can't act or speak clearly enough at all.
funny you're talking about Buatista's daughter in this movie, this character is the PRIME reason why I didn't watch this movie again, and I'm someone who repeats movies. SHE LITERALLY GET'S EVERYONE KILLED! and it's stupid how it happens.
Vito, I'm going to be grim, but here is a coping mechanism I developed for the Daughter.
I hate, hate hate that character, imho she is one of the stupidest characters in movie history.
But I let it slide. You know why?
You know, there was a real-life daughter of a very famous movie director that died recently...
... and he loved her so much, he simply had to have a daughter character saved in the movie.
After you have shown the shot with the cyborg zombie being blown up, 19:37, and the fetus with the blue blood, 16:55, I was expecting you would comment about it. Dropped the ball man! jk
But while I was watching the movie I kept expecting they would explain that instead of following that dumb daughter plotline that killed everybody. Kind of a letdown.
BAH-TEES-TA
Zack Snyder like Rian Johnson is good when they're in charge of their own works.
Wait did you just say Bautista is the greatest actor unironically? Welp can't trust your judgment for the rest of this video. I'll just bow out now.
He meant the greatest actor in this film.
@@markparkinson6947 you might want to listen to it again.
@@Mournen Listening to the praise in context, he was really just appreciating how good Bautista is in this film compared to the rest of the actors, and the "greatest actors of our times" is really a form of exaggeration. It surprises Vito how well he played his character of Scott Ward.
What about the prequel? Army of Thieves?
Love Tig. Would much rather have her in this than Chris.
22:55 NO VITO! We don't tell someone 'good job' when they poop on the rugs.