Halloween is the time for ZOMBIE MOVIES, so today we’re taking a look at Frank Sudol’s City of Rott. I don’t really have a whole lot to add that isn’t in the review, but I was really disappointed with this one for all of the reasons mentioned therein. Utterly worthless movies like New York Minute and Flightplan may be infuriatingly painful to watch — especially when they come out of Hollywood — but bad, pointless films where talent was clearly involved add sadness and a longing for what might have been to the mix. Somehow that makes them a little easier to stomach, but they still suck. 🙁 Anyway, more Halloweenish Spectare reviews to come, along with more Foodstuffs pieces and (someday) the Baltimore Comicon review.
And yeah, we’d review a zombie movie in February because this is SCARY-CRAYON, but I figured I’d pretend to be festive and milk the Halloween connection. 😉
Such a waste.
That’s what I always think about wasted potential stuff like this. Another good example of this is Waking Life, (also independant animation). It gets cool toward the end but it’s mostly just pretentious boring monolouges, one after another, about various philosophical subjects. It sounds much cooler than it is. It would have been much better had they remembered that they were making an animated film and not an audio book, and illustrated it’s philosophy visually instead of just having the characters chatter endlessly (not that I mind a reasonable amount of philosophical dialouge, I am a Mamoru Oshii fan after all).
The concept is great (a guy wandering through his dream, wondering why he can’t wake up), but it only gets explored through the end. The rest of the movie is the people in his dream giving him long endless sermans about various subjects. The animation is great but, since it’s just people talking, they don’t do anything cool with it.
If I want cartoons that explore dreams, Winsor McCay did it fantastically A HUNDRED YEARS AGO with his “Little Nemo” and “Dreams Of A Rarebit Fiend” comics and silent animated shorts. Little Nemo (which is amazing BTW) even being well remembered enough to spawn an anime film and video game in 1989.
Sorry for the tangent about a different movie than the one reviewed. Anyway, I’m sad to hear this cool looking Zombie toon didn’t live up to it’s expectaions.
BTW the baby carrots idea is great! I’ve even noticed alot of kids like them too.