The Reel Rejects - SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) IS NEAR PERFECT!! MOVIE REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:00:29 let's rock and roll let's go all right guys well we just watched shone of the dead uh first time seeing this since i remember the people i was with david henry wizards who were really really and uh his cousin laura and me i think my friend brandon was there too all in the better that was like a fun fun day um But, yeah, I didn't remember, like, so much of the details of it. Like, the ending shot is the thing that stuck with me. So it's like, I remembered, of course, you would have to get bitten at some point. But, yeah, that was the one that really resonated with me.

Starting point is 00:01:12 So then when season one, the last of us came out, so I came up with the idea for the shirt of Joel and Ellie. So I was like, ah, you know, I know Joel's going to eventually, something might happen eventually. I don't know if I'm ruined up for people, but it's been a while. It's been five years. But yeah, man. And so, yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:29 so please leave it like on this video please subscribe and i wanted to kick this off with i came with an idea today and i put out our shooting schedule on our patron just for our patrons and i was like hey this is what we're shooting over the next few days you have a question pertaining to anything i haven't read this one yet um joe star edits said shana the dead is my husband's and eldest favorite horror spoof movie a few ideas splash cannonball run short circuit just name a few highly recommend Aaron and Coy for Cannibal Run one of my favorite reactions Absolutely love the channel

Starting point is 00:02:03 So yeah wasn't a specific question about Sean of the Dead But we're kicking it off patrons I'm gonna be releasing the shooting schedule And we figured like we could start implementing But let's get more specific ones But I wanted to shout it out We've got to start somewhere That's awesome, it's really smart I like that

Starting point is 00:02:18 Yeah yeah Camel Run is actually I think that was just my jacket chance Early American movie is Aaron How are you feeling my friend? What did you think What did you think of your thoughts? First I'm feeling great i thought that was a fantastic movie you know it's funny i um i think i had the vague knowledge stored in my brain and like a line of text saying like oh this is a movie i may have seen in the past but having watched it i didn't remember a single uh piece of it so it was really it's

Starting point is 00:02:47 genuinely a a first time reaction and i feel like um i really enjoyed i didn't see anything coming and i think that it was very well done it's an hour and a half half a little over an hour and a half and um yeah it's very smart it's it's more than just an action comedy or zombie comedy horror comedy it's it's a drama it's it's character driven it's character first and i think the best kind of stories are ones that not only plays the characters first but this is a story about a guy who's has his life kind of um in disarray and kind of like walking uh sleepwalking through life and kind of neglecting the things are important to him.

Starting point is 00:03:30 And the zombie incident is the thing that catapults him as the catalyst to getting things in order. And I think the best stories are the ones that utilize their premise as a way to have their characters elevate. Like you could have this character in a situation that isn't specific to zombies, but hopefully gain the same effect. And I think utilizing that rather than focusing on the zombies as the story, but using it as the setting is what makes this film so brilliant. in part with I'm just having really strong fleshed out characters and the the detailing of it like kind of how you were saying

Starting point is 00:04:07 the camera is a part of the story and the directing is what makes this what it is because I imagine another director could have this a similar story but have it takes place over two plus hours and maybe get half the stuff done because they're so focused on the spectacle

Starting point is 00:04:25 rather than the immediacy of what the character drama is and it always takes precedent and I think the thing the scene to me that I walk away with first I was most impressive was the dad in the car where he was dying and we live in an age where we have action coupled with comedy with the MCU right so having a scene that have this dramatic moment and then immediately have his best friend hit someone with a car which was funny but then not use that to wholly subvert the drama of what has happened while still having Sean in the immediacy of that drama and then oxalating

Starting point is 00:05:02 between those two tones with the drama taking precedent. I think that was really smart and really well done in a very tricky balance to achieve but somehow Edgar Wright was able to achieve that and have Sean Pegg be just as honest in his performance. Sean Pegg

Starting point is 00:05:17 they are one they have fused together. Sean Pegg. Sean Pegg. A new actor coming but Simon Pegg His ability to play the comedy honestly by not trying to ham it up, but just having genuine reactions, which makes it funny, but those genuine reactions both play towards making it more hilarious, but also showcasing his heart and his growth as a character.

Starting point is 00:05:44 And then all the other characters as well having some form of, well, I guess I think maybe, you can correct me if I'm wrong on this if you feel differently. I think all the other characters were a reflection to a point in which he needed to improve or a mirror back at him, except for the actress character, but all of them kind of played a central role into formulating the growth of Sean's character. And yeah, I just appreciated it from top to bottom. Was it a little, you know, forgive a couple things where the zombies aren't really doing much

Starting point is 00:06:17 and just letting the characters talk? Sure. But at the end of the day, this is about the characters. and what makes them or make Sean grow. So I can forgive some of their leap in logic of the situation to serve, you know, the immediacy of what he's going through. But yeah, those are my quick thoughts. Greg, how do you feel?

Starting point is 00:06:42 I feel great. That I knew I would have, I remember loving it when I was a kid. This is a huge movie. And so I imagine like this would help change my emotional state. again and I think it more than succeeded I wasn't expecting to be so wowed by it like this is the kind of experience that goes I want to make I want to make movies like I want to write movies I want to make film because you can see that they're working with it's like a see it's a low budget movie but it doesn't feel low budget it doesn't feel restricted and their ability to do so much with

Starting point is 00:07:22 their resources with making this and that all starts with the foundation of just damn good storytelling like the storytelling is everything is so thought out so many times like I've heard it in writer with other writers where they're like if you don't like sometimes people might bring up like but what about this thing or you know didn't they have this earlier weren't they carrying this with them but like oh but if you don't bring it up the audience won't think about it and this movie consistently thinks about it every single thing they're they're going to think about stuff that like like Sean getting rid of the flowers and act one and then the mom finding the flowers later on like oh what a great detail you know and the part of

Starting point is 00:08:08 flash that I did recall was the thing with the actors where they're acting in their way to get to the Winchester and even that with their every moment with their characters like everything felt like three-dimensional characters and none of the comedy felt manufactured that's kind of a thing that i'm seeing with the with like movies that don't quite hit the mark when they want to be multi-genre one of them being a comedy is a lot of the time i just saw a movie today i'll say which one it is but i saw a movie today where like that was one of my complaints is that they had a story and they wanted it to also be like an action comedy and the comedy just felt so like so performative and so obviously like punch up written

Starting point is 00:08:50 where this they it is multi-genre it's a horror movie it's a romantic movie it's an action movie it's a best friend's buddy movie it's a love story you know

Starting point is 00:09:01 there's it's a zombie movie they're doing so many things all drama and it's a drama too they're doing so many things all at once and they take their character so serious and nothing ever weighs down the entertainment nothing ever weighs down the fun like it's kind of bold

Starting point is 00:09:18 and then their last act There's some jokes, but they mainly keep it harrowing. They mainly keep it doom and gloom, you know, with the blowout with David, the mom dying, and then even Ed dying. Like, there's some little laughs here or there, but they really commit to it, and the movie earns that. And it doesn't feel like, what happened to the fun, you know, because they make you so emotionally invested in the characters. and the characters are so well thought out like i love that sean's interaction with everyone feels different uh because of that's like i'll interact with you different than i interact with andrew roxier koi because of our dynamics you know and this movie is so aware of that and i

Starting point is 00:10:09 love how everyone had a unique their own voice like no it doesn't all sound the same you know that was another thing with that other movie you watch is like it all that that's when a comedy feels manufactured is when they're just trying to like find the laughs or find the jokes and they usually rely on sarcasm or some bullshit but the care that the funny still sounded like within the characters when it's dialogue but then there's so much construction with the visual comedy I was this is a super super impressive movie as a super impressive film yeah no I I I wholeheartedly agree and just to speak that manufactured comedy I feel like that normally happens in a film where the movie will stop to make its jokes and then resume whereas this one it's naturally

Starting point is 00:10:59 it's not only coming naturally from the characters it's motivated about the story and those two things are in tandem with one another even like the quick moment of Sean hopping the fence that was in service of them trying to get to safety you know and it was such a quick moment but it was still hilarious

Starting point is 00:11:16 and yeah all all that stuff really really works super well like i don't feel like they made a spoof movie like they make fun of some tropes but it's not some giant meta film you know not at all like they're actually making a zombie movie yeah with this other with these other genres infused versus let's make a movie that's making fun of the zombie stuff like they would know how to keep both the fear and the comedy in harmony with each other not make fun of the horror, you know? Yeah, they worked in tandem together. Even the moments early on

Starting point is 00:11:53 before things got really crazy, they would use jump scares, but then utilize that genuine jump scare into a moment of comedy. And the way the movie was able to flow back and forth between those two things was really masterful. The fact that it's able to do all of that and be under two hours

Starting point is 00:12:08 is something he would think today would not be possible what today's standards as it seems like movies today are seemingly getting long and longer, which is granted, you know, not always a bad thing, but the fact that this movie is so enriched in character, but also super tight at the same time, is only a feat to how well-constructed it was on its foundational level, probably from the outline in the script, coupled with Edgar Wright's direction. And it makes me excited to see, you know, these flourishes in his other films later on. It's been a really long time since I've watched an Edgar Wright film. I think the last one I can vaguely remember watching his baby driver, and I only watched that one one one time.

Starting point is 00:12:46 me too so i would like to to rewatch that one and see kind of like oh what stuff kind of comes up what directing things that he utilize in this film that he carries with him to the rest of his career the only distinct thing i can think of was his he's like zoom is that what it's called like zoom cuts or like crash jams crash jams the hyper editing yeah exactly like uh that's a staple of this absolutely yeah it is a hundred percent like that's a good right thing and other people we'll try to emulate that and even in um he was the original director attached to antman and the montages with louise uh that the at least the talk goes that apparently that's not in the in the editor right script but that style felt so much like oh this that was a common thing

Starting point is 00:13:30 that people kept saying this must have been in the original version um because of how that the louise you know i'm talking about those louise montages when he's telling the stories yeah yeah and how they're doing like the crash rooms the cameras always move it's very much like when they're talking about all right here's the plan we're going to go to the winchester and say my mom all that uh yeah it's it's so him and and it's it's one of those things that you but it happens in a movie you're like oh this must be an echo right movie you know yeah he's definitely inspired you know film culture from foundationally from films like this and then obviously you see a lot of people copy it from from here on out i can even think of something as recent as um nacho librae having some

Starting point is 00:14:08 classrooms a la edgar right and kind of you granted the movie has its own uh voice and language but you see the inspiration from edgar right in a film like that one yeah i love how the character i love when a camera can feel like a character yeah because they when you're dealing that that is a perspective right not just a character perspective but the actual physical perspective like an easy one to look at that's what makes that joke so hilarious beyond the hyper cool shots but when it is the hopping of the fence like it's simon peg in one shot he's going for the jump you're like you know something's going to go wrong but you're not really sure yeah and then when it happens that's what makes it so funny is

Starting point is 00:14:46 with the placement of it or when he climbs up just like i'm gonna go have a look over he climbs up and the camera slightly pans over to the right to show that oh he's just climbing up like a a kitty slide thing you know and but there's also like emotion in a lot of the shots there's the the framing of it when he's first going to liz's and he's in this box and it's like capturing this is sean now here's like take a photo of on now and then later on when he shows up when he actually does succeed going up the stairs like the consistent mirroring that they would do was insanely brilliant and storyboarded you know from from going into the when they first go to the winchester after the breakup and the couple's making out outside and they come back outside actually's biting him to show the evolution of this and they were kind of doing that like with a lot of things that it was just so rapid that i'm obviously having a hard time of calling Put it out. No.

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Starting point is 00:17:14 I don't know if he is the pioneer of that. Like having, you know, our subject in the foreground and then having life and more storytelling happening in the background. I've seen it in other movies. Most recent I can think of top of my head is something like Bo was afraid, which is a movie I love.

Starting point is 00:17:32 But I think the fact that there is this evolution and the consistency, which makes it not only the threat of what's happening grow but also makes it funny as well the you know him walking in the beginning oh that's one of the mirroring yeah yeah yeah yeah the walking yeah and then how how his day-to-day is versus like you know when the things change and now the also the audience is ahead of what's what sean knows which you know only builds that tension but also makes it funny at the same time the way they's able to be those things paired is uh it's super masterful it does inspire you know like dang i want to utilize something

Starting point is 00:18:10 like that as if i were to make a film yeah you know it's it's really cool to do a lot with a little in every single moment but without being uh masturbatory about it like it feels purposeful yeah yeah it feels purposeful intentional and you you just like to see you know just good and intentional filmmaking as we were talking i was saying like yeah does a good job of like utilizing the senses in an effective way in a in a purposeful pointing way even with the sound design like a lot of times when like that one shot when he's looking

Starting point is 00:18:46 through the door hole and he's like I don't see them then he looks over and then suddenly you can see them and hear them yeah yeah like what you can only hear them when you can see them and even the sound design of them are really cool there's something like eerie about the zombies like making their noises feels classic and I think for

Starting point is 00:19:02 the like all three of the Crenetto trilogy they all star Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and so I'm excited to see that journey of like different genres but like the first act of this is just character development while and but it also knows that the audience is here to watch this zombie movie yeah and so it's building that up the whole time and the way they like arc shone without it being in your face he doesn't he never needs some stupid monologue he never needs to be

Starting point is 00:19:34 expository about jack about his growth you you're the act one's is establishes him so well as like this guy with like a lot of potential a slacker can't lead no self-respect kind of cowardly and then thrust it into this situation because of the power of love the people he loves from his mom to his girlfriend uh him rising to the occasion consistently becoming an actual like leader by the end of it and but maintaining the nuance of it you know he doesn't really come to a full resolve with ed he like has a blowout with him but it doesn't ever feel like oh man it's too bad they ended on that note nor did they go down that cliche wrote in their final moments of talking with each other it's it is like his buddy and he gets the something kind of sweet about that ending of getting to he's going to be a zombie you know he's not doing anything wrong it's kind of sweet you know i've seen other shows and movies where when you keep a zombie it's kind of creepy and you're doing something awful and this is like a really tender thing to do he can still have fun because they they have established that there's a through the visuals that there's a part of who they really are still inside like when he says pete pete looks um that's not dad in there that turns off the radio to show like so you know there's a part of ed still in there in spite of this so yeah i think it's really great but yeah even in that last moment it kind encapsulates the the film as a whole in the sense that it's multi-layered and multi-genre

Starting point is 00:21:14 because when he goes to the cellar or goes to the shed and you see him playing it's like it's like it's like oh this is with his arm it's like a little scary it looks kind of freaky but it's also kind of sweet and endearing and it's also kind of funny at the same time yeah and it's encapsulates all of that with just like a single shot which is brilliant and I only caught it because I remember the ending shot Pete in when he's blowing how having a blowout with Ed and Sean when he went that moment where he reveals he's a bit he says to Ed go live in the shed or something like that he tells him to go live in the shed and then he is that's what I mean like oh fucking like because I remember that ending I was able to catch something

Starting point is 00:21:53 that I would only get on a rewatch and to see that like oh that's so smart it's so smart yeah I don't I don't feel this way often but I feel like this is one of those films I really really would like to watch a director's commentary to see the thought process of how came up with certain shots what was his thinking and making those decisions early on and just the way he was able to construct certain shots and to use those to accentuate the characters in the journey yeah if you're calling the Sean of the Dead I think the really easy thing that happens in one's brain is you go okay so it's like a zombie parody movie of Dawn of the Dead you know like that's where from one might go.

Starting point is 00:22:33 Right. Instead, they actually told a real story with a character you can really root for. I really rooted for the guy and I love the nuance

Starting point is 00:22:42 of the relationships even with the, especially with Bill Nye. Yeah. Like to bring all that up in his dying words and they were establishing that earlier.

Starting point is 00:22:53 I'm like, oh, God, genius. You could see the additional layers were there the whole time. Yeah. And the fact of what, this movie is 20 years old now

Starting point is 00:23:01 and it's fucking brilliant it's pretty it's near perfect i would say so yeah i mean you know it from a from a character and plot perspective oh like the zombies kind of waiting in the winds was like a little like like okay but you know all all the stuff surrounding that was it was really really um well done it's funny this movie came out in 2004 because obviously this is a british film and just comparing contrasting what american comedies were like the early 2000s versus what this is like it's just i feel like it's just leagues smarter than a lot of the comedies that are coming out in that era and also like the zombie genre we we we didn't get zombies the way we get zombies now we you know when the era of franchises and streaming which this movie did not

Starting point is 00:23:47 come out then it's like we get so much of everything now you know like there's a billion walking dead shows uh we got last of us we had a movie called world war z you know we've had other zombie pop up you know and it's a reminder of like oh yeah because i was when i was a kid i was really obsessed with the of the dead movies the original run um night of the living dead dawn of the dead day of the dead land of the dead and i actually didn't watch the rest that came out after that but i really love those first four a lot um and so i i love the zombie genre so it's like really cool to watch a movie where i'm like oh yeah this is a zombie film with its own pace you know like zombie films are usually slower or something and there's a there's a

Starting point is 00:24:36 there's an excitement there's a there's a push this is this like it's weirdly inspiring it's a weirdly inspiring as a person who likes to write you know like I wrote a script this year again and it's one that I became very passionate about did it in half hour chunks over the course of several months primarily and I haven't I have to be rewriting and I haven't been in the last couple weeks and I was like damn i really want i got to get back into it like that really uh propelled like i love my job i love what i get to do for a living it's the best job uh but you know like i i still want to pursue other stuff might as well you know like i my career my career is fine my career is good i can keep doing then now i'm trying to add something else on not replace you know yeah i feel like it's

Starting point is 00:25:20 you can have multiple passions and you know pursuing them you know in the way that feels satisfying is like what we should be doing i think that's great I loved this movie. I loved it, like, a lot. I'm trying to think, like, was there something that if I, there's a, I think in the Winchester finale, there's some of the stuff with David, I think, kind of stretched out a little too much for me at times when I was like, I get, like, this guy is just so, so irritating and such a narcissist. And there, I felt like the character's. That's a real guy, though. that's the thing that's what he keeps coming back to it's like but it's felt real you know

Starting point is 00:26:02 and sometimes i did think ed was a little too stupid in moments like especially with playing the arcade and winning and it going loud like come on man i get your you're you're dumb but sometimes you're a little too dumb it's so micro but like so micro that i i wouldn't nothing ever happened that made me go i'm now i don't like this now or i don't like this character now it would be like a little bit of a moment that i would then get past right away yeah but even in their friendship though i i liked it because this is like a strange comparison but oh and it's kind of like a dog in the sense that he's like he's loyal but you know he's in the i think that the fact that his appeal for sean is the fact that he doesn't feel judged by him because he is one of his

Starting point is 00:26:54 oldest friends. He doesn't necessarily improve upon his growth and development as a person, but you know, he's someone that allows him to express these elements, aspects of himself without the expectation to rise above from

Starting point is 00:27:10 his other people. But in that, he's someone to lean on for comfort rather than the development of himself. He did come in of importance as the plot went on, you know, to be of aid and to helping him figure out what was happening but ultimately he's still like the same dude at the end of the day

Starting point is 00:27:28 and the fact that he was able to uh admit that he was holding him back and and felt that himself was kind of um cathartic and you know he needed to go on with uh with Liz to yeah Liz right to yeah to I don't know to to yeah her photo and IMDB is like it looks like a completely different yeah yeah I was like wait am I the right Jake but yeah um and the fact that he was still able to you know have his friend at the end was kind of sweet oh yeah and and ed is the kind of character that i normally just find repulsive honestly like in the real life and and in movies you know it just kind of like gross to me like some the kind of character i'm like i feel like i can smell you when you don't smell nice you know like you smell like someone who like pick their butt

Starting point is 00:28:15 that kind of vibe but there's he's not just funny like you see the heart and you can see why they love each other as friends and like you see the nuance of yes yeah I can see how this guy is actually a negative influence but I can also see how it's nice

Starting point is 00:28:34 to have those positive influences like I'm a super motivated dude I'm a guy who loves to work who loves to hustle who loves to get creative and figure things out and problem solved i love to be that guy and sometimes i'm on way too much and i have like a friend i have a couple friends and i have one for even tony tony's like the total opposite of me he's not like fucking ed but like he's a responsible guy he works and uh you know takes care of his whole family

Starting point is 00:29:02 uh but he is like so opposite for me in the sense of like he's an incredibly just like calm chill reserved guy you know he like he's great likes things simple he wants to care of his family it's not that he's not motivated or something we're just very different people and he's one of my closest friends and it's nice to be around that energy too of like oh yeah i can i should like slow down and appreciate the little things in life away instead of constantly thinking about what's next you know and to have that so i was able to see some of that there like the joy of just laughing and playing video games together like it's you take things like that for granted in a world that breeds you know like fucking hustle and keep going to

Starting point is 00:29:45 working and you got to remember to have that of just leisure time like true leisure time because it's those moments you're going to regret not having enough of and i loved seeing that with him and then you know like the detail too of how everyone looks so down on this guy but it's like barbaric ways really do come in handy in this apocalypse time like sean has to really rise to the they what was cool is that the apocalypse situation brought something out of them and it didn't feel like the same thing you know Sean when the body first like that reaction when he when he feels like he killed a human being when she falls on the pipe and he like covers his mouth is like completely different than reaction than what Ed's having

Starting point is 00:30:35 you know and there's something like kind of telling about like it's a funny shot and an iconic shot I've seen that shot before so many times like screenshot it but when they're killing the two and the backyard and they're like pounding it's like when you're watching them change it's like a true physical physical transformation that you were seeing that is emotional transformation that's taking over them physically because we emotionally transform you carry yourself and you behave different and you talk different when you're emotionally transforming so the a physical transformation

Starting point is 00:31:05 does occur right and uh i thought they really i i could talk i could keep talking about this this is like a brilliant film this is brilliant film this is brilliant yeah master's And it's only the first of this trilogy. So I'm excited to see how Edgar Wright continues to grow as a director. Yeah, I know people, hot fuzz, yeah, for sure. The one I remember the absolute none of is World's End. That's like the least popular one. That one is the sci-fi one, if I'm not mistaken.

Starting point is 00:31:34 Oh, is it? Hot Fuzz is the action one. Okay. This is the poorer one. Interesting. So they're all a different genre. Okay. Well, I'm excited to see him genre hopping.

Starting point is 00:31:43 That's really cool. Heck yeah. i'm excited man i'm excited all right guys well which one of this cornetto trilogy is your favorite do you hold this in high regard is there any flaws you see with this movie anything pointed out we got to take this down aggressive about it take it down a peg stay frosty friends all right guys i don't have a third one to top it off i'll see you guys Thank you.

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