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Re: It's official: this trailer is for faggots by Mischief Maker 02/21/2011, 4:58pm PST
Weeabo wrote:

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.

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.


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."
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trailer by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/17/2011, 9:57pm PST NEW
    ALL ABOUT ME ARE FAMILIAR FACES, WORN OUT PLACES, WORN OUT FACES NT by Weeabo 02/18/2011, 3:38pm PST NEW
        The Scientist would have been a better reference NT by Coldplay4lyfe 02/18/2011, 5:52pm PST NEW
        Re: ALL ABOUT ME ARE FAMILIAR FACES, WORN OUT PLACES, WORN OUT FACES by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/18/2011, 5:57pm PST NEW
            The screenshots I've seen are much closer to the cinema than Dragon Age's NT by Entropy Stew 02/19/2011, 2:34pm PST NEW
        It's official: this trailer is for faggots by Weeabo 02/19/2011, 12:26am PST NEW
            That's not Tom Chick writing... but it's good to know that Caltrops is so progre by sive on gay parenthood that your fi 02/19/2011, 12:48am PST NEW
                "fag" is now banned. That's it, ICJ. Time to finally shut this place down by Weeabo 02/19/2011, 2:10pm PST NEW
                    I'm eager to read a dictionary that translates skewed subculture to ideal. by Gutsby 02/19/2011, 2:58pm PST NEW
                    FOREVER ALONE by Mysterio 02/19/2011, 9:47pm PST NEW
            Re: It's official: this trailer is for faggots by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/19/2011, 9:11am PST NEW
                It's definitely one of the downsides of parenthood. by Fullofkittens 02/21/2011, 3:39pm PST NEW
            "Find a neglected demographic and exploit it." Boy I feel sorry for whoever that NT by Garth Algar 02/20/2011, 1:39am PST NEW
            There's always been too may gamer dads on qt3 by jeep 02/20/2011, 10:30pm PST NEW
            1 girl 2 dads NT by [no punchline] 02/21/2011, 6:38am PST NEW
            Re: It's official: this trailer is for faggots by Mischief Maker 02/21/2011, 4:58pm PST NEW
                This was terrible by fabio 04/29/2011, 10:12pm PDT NEW
 
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