Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
When it comes to special effects, Fulci's the godfather of gore. Storywise, he's the godfather of bore.
Catchy little phrase there, but your definately speaking for yourself only.
Zombi and The Beyond are very entertaining. In both movies I was sucked in and pulling for the main characters to survive and following the story very closely.
I always speak out or opinion, and I figured I've been here long enough for people to know that. 😛
I'll elaborate. I feel as if Fulci and Romero have a lot in common, talent wise. Where Romero can write a kick ass, smart as hell script with rich characters, but none of his movies really require much direction. There's no sense of urgency in the latter two installments of the "Dead" trilogy, IMO. The zombies have to play dead, and the main characters are holed up somewhere, so they aren't in any real immediate danger, atleast not enough to merit bursting out in a spiel of dramatic thesbianism. While it's not necessarily a bad thing, Romero tends to have TOO much fun with his movies, abandoning the whole scare factor that made the original famous.
Of the 6 Fulci movies I have seen, it looks as if the meat of his films were sacrificed for the sake of appeasing gorehounds. He writes FANTASTIC stories with exotic locals and insane settings, but the acting is horrible, the voice over talent selection was weak, the characters always seemed vanilla or too ridiculous to be believable, and like Romero, never really produced any tension.
"Zombie", to this day, I still feel is overrated, because its fanfare is mostly based on the gore factor, whereas people forget that there are PLENTY of other zombie films with copious amounts of gore, deep characters, interesting locales, and a fantastic script, all of which I didn't think you could find in "Zombie". That movie, one that is SORELY underrated, IMO, is called "Day of the Dead".
Originally posted by Zilverz
Catchy little phrase there, but your definately speaking for yourself only.
Zombi and The Beyond are very entertaining. In both movies I was sucked in and pulling for the main characters to survive and following the story very closely.
Yup, and I don't understand how can someone say Lucio Fulci's Zombie is over rated. Hardly there isn't much fanbase except for horror fans that have heard of Fulci. And is even consider a Cult Classic which there isn't much to say. Besides the film didn't have a high budget or a well known cast. Even The Beyond didn't have a large budget and is still had some excellent gore memorable scenes. I was pleased with the work, and don't feel like throwing catchy phrases to explain my satisfaction of Fulci films. I'm just glad the film was made and I was able to see it.
Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
I always speak out or opinion, and I figured I've been here long enough for people to know that. 😛I'll elaborate. I feel as if Fulci and Romero have a lot in common, talent wise. Where Romero can write a kick ass, smart as hell script with rich characters, but none of his movies really require much direction. There's no sense of urgency in the latter two installments of the "Dead" trilogy, IMO. The zombies have to play dead, and the main characters are holed up somewhere, so they aren't in any real immediate danger, atleast not enough to merit bursting out in a spiel of dramatic thesbianism. While it's not necessarily a bad thing, Romero tends to have TOO much fun with his movies, abandoning the whole scare factor that made the original famous.
Of the 6 Fulci movies I have seen, it looks as if the meat of his films were sacrificed for the sake of appeasing gorehounds. He writes FANTASTIC stories with exotic locals and insane settings, but the acting is horrible, the voice over talent selection was weak, the characters always seemed vanilla or too ridiculous to be believable, and like Romero, never really produced any tension.
"Zombie", to this day, I still feel is overrated, because its fanfare is mostly based on the gore factor, whereas people forget that there are PLENTY of other zombie films with copious amounts of gore, deep characters, interesting locales, and a fantastic script, all of which I didn't think you could find in "Zombie". That movie, one that is SORELY underrated, IMO, is called "Day of the Dead".
well how much tension are you looking for ? you have to sacrifice some tension for safe times for the characters to develope. I think romero's movies do offer a decent amount of tension. Night - constant beat down on the house trying to get in, Dawn - trapped again / salavini breaks through baracade and allows all the zombies back in, Day - platform comes down laoded with zombies and the baracade is also breached. Zombi - Zombie on the boat, zombies in the house with the hottie, car breaks down in middle of zombie infestation, zombies from grave, showdown with flaming cocktails.. Surely, I COULD use more jockey urination scenes. but it is still a WHAT IF scenario. We dont know if everything would have flowed as smooth as it did.
Please note: Cine needz more urination worthy direction to give a 100% postive review (: