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Post by waynecrazytrain on Apr 7, 2009 20:47:52 GMT -5
QUARANTINE "quite possibly the best horror film of the year" Well maybe but tag lines can be a bit over the top. However I must admit that I liked this Zombie like film.
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Post by evil007nate on Apr 8, 2009 7:09:15 GMT -5
I agree this film was awesome and I agree that it was a zombie like film too. I do want to see the movie "REC" because I think the synopsis says that they are locked in an apartment with zombies in it. So I want to see if its the strange form of rabies or if they say its a zombie outbrake.
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Post by lucas on Apr 8, 2009 11:22:56 GMT -5
I too enjoyed Quarantine... however, it did start off a little too slow (yes, I know you have to set shit up, but come on, does anyone really care about Emily Rose interviewing some fire fighters?). I'm not quite sure that I'm ready to call it one of the best horror films of the year... hell, I liked Return to Sleepaway Camp much more than Quarantine... but that's just me.
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Post by UNDEAD on Apr 13, 2009 15:08:19 GMT -5
id have to say quarantine didnt live up to the hype for me i like it and all but not a good as i thought it would be
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Post by Dr. Dark on Apr 14, 2009 8:52:50 GMT -5
First of all, I just watched Quarantine... yes, I know, I am a bit behind on some things...
I thought the acting was bad in a lot of places-- I don't think Jennifer Carpenter did the greatest job. She seemed a little too bitchy for how good of a reporter she was (not very). Also, when everyone was fighting with one another at the bottom of the stairs, I feel like that wasn't choreographed very well. Seemed kind of like the director just said, "Okay, everyone fight, andddd ACTION!" Also the one cop was a stereotypical angry black man telling the camera man to turn the camera off. And the camera man... I think he was going to get fired when he got back anyway. I know this was supposed to look authentic, and it was a frantic environment, but I have gotten a steadier shot with a Handycam running through the woods. I think it was a little too unsteady to the point of being distracting.
Overall, I think it was a pretty cool story and an enjoyable movie, previous comments aside.
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Post by getsomefilm on Jul 4, 2009 15:33:32 GMT -5
I think it would have been alot cooler if they had abandoned the REC gimmick and just used the basic premise of the story. The fact that we just see the one camera shot all the time kinda got boring after awhile and frustrating since you could never see the zombie attacks very clearly. Even if they would've cheated the gimmick a bit by having a second camera man would have helped out. They could've even done something cooler where the second camera guy was in a different part of the building showing different shit going on.
I agree with Dr. Dark about the acting suffering too, I had the same problem with Cloverfield. Very hard to get 3-4 people in one scene to all give good performances at the same time when you are only doing one long take.
It definitely had it's moments but by the time it was released I was already tired of the camcorder gimmick from Cloverfield and Diary of the Dead which all came out around the same time.
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Post by lucas on Jul 5, 2009 11:23:51 GMT -5
That's actually not a bad idea (2nd camera man), but the only problem is that it would have had to be following someone other than Jennifer Carpenter's character. Perhaps, the other camera could have been following Danny Wilensky for an episode of "Cops"... but that's probably too much of comic relief for it to work.
Also, once they start flipping between to two cameras, I think it may have caused a little confusion unless you could easily tell between the two.
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Post by getsomefilm on Jul 5, 2009 15:43:54 GMT -5
Hey Lucas!
I think it could've worked kinda like how in Night of the Living Dead some people chose to go in the basement and some chose to stay upstairs. Like the second camera guy could have been with another group of survivors or something, so you could've had more characters in the building.
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