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Re:Poll: Do you like zombie movies? by ojbyrne on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @12:35AM (#521203)
I think all genre movies are the same. It just takes good writing, and that usually means 1 in 10 are great, 2 in 10 are entertaining, the other 70% suck.
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Re:Poll: Do you like zombie movies? by unalone on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @08:45AM (#521552)
It also takes good direction. I appreciated that fact a lot more after Shaun of the Dead.

That said, it's hard to sort out the good stuff from the crap when you've seen nothing.

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Re:Poll: Do you like zombie movies? by ojbyrne on Thursday March 19, 2009 @12:08AM (#522837)
The thing about Shaun of the Dead is that it transcended "genre" - that's the key. It wasn't a zombie movie. It was a comedy ... with zombies. Transcending is always worth big bucks.
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Re:Poll: Do you like zombie movies? by anamax on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @02:16AM (#521293)
If only 70% of genre movies suck, they are an exeception to Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap).
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