[REC] + Quarantine - RANT

Predictable and incredibly annoying. "What's going on?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!" x1000 = annoying. Extremely annoying. Asking all these redundant questions. You're all locked in the building together, how come YOU don't know what the *bleep* is going on, huh?

Prepare for RANT. I'm going from end to beginning, but may jump around as I remember things.

God I hate that. Why is common sense completely absent of both these movies? Crazy people trying to eat your flesh and you let them wander about the building your locked in? *bleep* that, get me a weapon. You SUDDENLY remember there's a sewer escape route when you're at the TOP of the building? Does fear jog your memory? Speaking of memory, when they couldn't remember where the head resident guy lived, why didn't they just rewind the tape? No, they have to go down stairs to find his address. Waste of time. Eh, but it was cool to see the woman lying down and then suddenly she's standing, watching them.

It's incredibly frustrating trying to watch a movie, letting the tension build, when you have some dumb bimbo constantly asking stupid questions and or crying/screaming 80% of the time. "What's going on, Pablo?!" "What's happening, Pablo?" Blah, blah, blah.

Next, in the attic, why would you try to squeak by the zombie that doesn't know you're there? Bash that B's head in! Just grab something heavy and go to town. It was obvious that the girl was going to knock something over- forgiven because it was dark- and the zombie-thing was going to come after them. Why continue screaming? You've already established it can't see you. Stop screaming= it can't eat you alive. Simple.

Also, what happened to the boy in the attic? He just decide to stay up there and sit this one out? If he was a flesh-eater like the 5 second shot lead you to believe, it's not plausible that he'd just sit up there. That whole scene, in fact, was complete rubbish. Why would a zombie wait until the lens is on him to scream? The light? Wouldn't it make more sense if the light alerted the zombie to the cameras presense and then the boy grabbed Pablo's hand?

Next - Killing the zombies & the fireman. Wtf fireguy? It took you how long to kill the girl on the stairs? The first zombie you just snapped that guy's neck. You couldn't do that to the girl zombie who was practically placid in your arms? No, you have to bash her head in with a sludge hammer. Twice. :/ <-- This is a my *beep* face.

Towards the end everyone seemed to be turning pretty quickly. In the beginning it took a long ass time for anything to happen. Mutation or just impatience? I'd buy one turning quickly, since it was mentioned that different blood types are effected differently, but everyone suddenly? Nah.

I'll give REC credit for having the health guy cuff the infected guys, however, he should have cuffed BOTH of them at the SAME time. Not one and then the other a few minutes later. COME ON! I call BS. And again, four of you, one loose zombie. BASH his head in and be done with it!

Predictability - Once something totally off topic is mentioned, you know it's the major plot point/major detail to plot. I.E. "Oh, we just sent our dog to the vet. He's really sick." "My fatha is bery, bery sick." Racist ass dubbing for the Asians, BTW. Can anyone tell me if her dialogue is actually written how it was spoken in the dubbing?

I don't understand why you would approach the little girl when you know she's already turned. You saw how fast the M.A. guy turned, and he was a full grown man. Little girls turn faster. And if that isn't obvious, her spitting up blood and running off like a crazy person should have been a big clue. Cuffing mother to stairwell and then leaving keys with guy who's chasing after little girl = dumb. It's more logical to leave the keys with the person who is staying with the cuffed person, am I right?

And when the cop was getting attacked, what the hell was the camera guy doing? Was he getting a close up of the girl's face or was he trying to help? I couldn't tell.

Some good points:
It was hilarious when the fireman hit that old lady in the face.
The end of [REC] gave more background than Quarantine did. I liked that. I didn't like Quarantine's zombie idea at all. Rabies? Oh, *bleep* off. That being said, I don't fully know what [REC]'s reasoning behind the zombies is. If it's rabies, they can *bleep* off too.


Both Quarantine and [REC] sucked. Not scary at all. I was bored all through [REC], but I think that's more because I'd seen Quarantine beforehand and they were basically the same crappy movie, just with different people.

I'll be honest, I saw the trailer for [REC] 3 and really thought I'd found another "zombie" movie to get into. Of course I'd want to watch the first one instead of skipping. It didn't even dawn on me that this was the original to Quarantine until they sealed the building.

This isn't a rant on the movie per say, but more on the logical side of the movie. I want my movies to make sense and the actions of its characters to be logical. You can still make a good movie using good old fashion common sense, instead of having characters who do completely illogical things that leave me both frustrated and annoyed. This movie could have been a doll to watch but nope. I found the dead had more life than the living, and I couldn't wait for the living to die.

I'm still going to watch the other two. Well, if [REC] 2 reads like Quarantine 2, I'll probably skip right over that and go to three. Oh, and Quarantine 2 was WAYYYY better than 1.


P.S. - I skimmed through a bunch of Anti-American threads and I just have to say, as an American, I personally wish I had watched the subbed instead of the dubbed. I hate dubbed. I hate the generic English voices they use. I watch a foreign movie expecting the foreign language. If you're too lazy to read subs, don't watch a foreign movie. Children excluded.


P.P.S - If you're wondering why I watched the whole movie if I hated it so much, let me tell you,

1. I was hoping it would get better/scary.
2. I wanted to see if Quarantine really just "Copy & Pasted".
3. I knew 20 minutes in I was going to write a rant. If I'm going to bitch about something, then I'm going in 100%. As the saying goes, if you haven't seen it or read it, your opinion is INVALID.

And to those who liked the movie, good for you. You obviously saw something in it that I did not or could not see.


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Only zombies star in zombie movies. Everyone else is fodder.