Caltrops - Dead Island





	[quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="Weeabo"]Did you know Tom Chick is a parent now? Like all recent parents, he can never shut the fuck up about how everything is offensive now. [quote]<a href="http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2011/02/18/dead-island-trailer-nsfd-not-safe-for-dads/">I can get past this if the filmmakers know what they’re doing, but I’m always going to be more uncomfortable watching something with a kid in danger than I was before I became a father. Is that because I’m father to a son? I doubt it. I think it has more to do with the fact that this is completely haunting and earned my appreciation, as hard as it is for me to watch. It is one of the most beautifully edited pieces of work I’ve seen in a long time. It’s heartbreaking. The image of the girl on her dad’s back will not soon leave me. </a>[/quote][/quote] I dunno. I'd say the trailer struck me as a failure, both as a video game advertisement and as a piece of film making. It doesn't show anything cool happening to differentiate itself from the shit-tons of other zombie games out there. The only thing it does is make the game seem kinda depressing. As a piece of film-making it's just a disjointed mess. The whole backwards-forwards thing is supposed to end at a pivotal moment, especially something shocking that makes you rethink what previously happened. Like if they kept cutting between the girl falling from the window and being chased by the zombies, only for the two to meet at the moment that she zombifies, attacks her parents, and is thrown from the window by the very father we've seen trying to protect her this whole time, cut to the happy family on vacation footage. Instead it reveals the punchline shortly into the very start of the trailer and the rest is just a bunch of meandering zombie attack footage that ends nowhere significant. And a child attacked by zombies only to come to life and kill the parents who were protecting her? That was in the original Night of the Living Dead! You would think game developers would forever write off Roger Ebert's opinion as meaningless after he gave thumbs up to "the Happening."[/quote]