The only thing this trailer was missing was Freddie Prinze Jr.

I don't know what you guys are talking about - this movie is gonna be awesome.

Anyone actually see House of the dead?
 

It made over $5 mill this weekend. So someone had to of seen it.
I am curious how it was.
Out of 12 reviews on rottentomatoes.com, all 12 were negative.

Funny story, When I went to purchase Kill Bill tickets Friday afternoon there was a guy ahead of me yelling that his "patna" purchased 4 tickets for House of the Dead and only recieved 3. He continued to say loudly "I'm trying to see dis House of the Dead f**ker, so give me my tickets my patna paid fo". It was pretty funny. But in the long line I waited in no one was getting HOD tickets all Kill Bill.

I saw the first 25 minutes of house of the dead... I didn't have to pay to see it though, I work at a theatre. I walked out and caught "GOOD BOY!" instead...which was a huge improvement... that should give you an indication of how terrible HOTD is... pure shit

MATT

I watched it. Along with another friend .. It was a empty cinema, other than us and two other people.

My verdict? Simply one of the worst movie's in recent time...Let me list some problems.

• Errors. When I say errors, I mean continuoty errors. Example: It's raining on one guy, pooring the rain and then it goes to the kid's on another part of this extremely small island. It's dry. No rain.
  
• It's raining on one guy. He's soaked. Next scene, he's perfectly dry.
  
• Dialouge.. At one point, they stumble across a book and the main character says this.
  "It's an old book.Let's see if it has something that can help us."
  
  Or when they come across a vial of blood..
  
  "It's blood.. It's not human.. It's mutated. This forumla is f**kin' brilliant!"
  
  Some of the worst dialouge in recent time.
  
• Zombie's. Not scarey. Infact, if you look at points you can see most the extra's smiling from ear to ear. Hell, I spotted a few zombie's without make up!
  
• They pull a small crate out and the next thing you know, this crate is opened up and stock-piled full of shotguns, machine guns, gernades,etc. It has things that are TWICE the size of the crate. It doesn't show them pull those items out of the crate, as it's not possible.
  
• The Matrix effect. Argh! There was 10-15 mintue action scene (or so it seemed) and the whole time, each character got a Matrix-slow-mo effect. It was annoying. Even the damn zombie's got it!
  
• Video game clips in the middle of the movie. In a scene where a zombie jumps out, it cuts to videogame cene. In action scenes, zombie's being shot, it goes to the videogame of the zombie's being shot...And to top that, they used negative images on those videogame shots!! ARGH
  

I could keep goin', but this was a diaster. I can't wait to see how bad this director kills the 'Alone in the Dark' movie.

I actually saw a few people buying tickets when I went to see Kill Bill......I actually want to go see it.

Not because I'm interested, I know its bad, I'm curious as to how bad it is. Maybe it'll venture into fun-bad by accident.

Well I'm a sucker for zombie movies so I checked it out. This movie was good for laughs and that was about it. When a bad movie can't even be saved by having Clint Howard in it there is no hope. Tons of continuity errors and just god awful dialouge. My favorite bad lines being. Something likeHero to villian " You are doing all this cause you want to be immortal. Why?" Villian "Cause I want to live forever." The line about the old book is even funnier in context cause they are in this old run down house and EVERYTHING is old and she says oooh this book looks really old. If this had been marketed as a spoof on zombie films it would have been much better. Oh yeah one other good one. One guy gets stuck in a tippped over porta john which is funny in itself but later he is hiding from a zombie and they show the zombie sniffing for him then running off. It would have been funny if the zombie held his nose or something but you mean it cant smell a dude covered in sh@t?

Sounds like an awesome movie to just rent and laught at.

Seriously. I'll have to check this out on cable and do an MST3K on it.

Typical Guy Question:
 

Is there any nudity? :D

There is some at the beginning of the movie. After you see the second girl naked, leave the theatre cause nothing good happens after that.

Proving once again that hip-hop and zombies go hand in hand ;).

Do you think I will like it if I liked Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Double Dragon, Tomb Raider 1 & 2, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 and The Wizard? I'm just a sucker I suppose. I am A HUGE video game freak, so if the movie is about video games, I automatically like it.

The only things that would cause me to hate a movie are boringness, like just people talking to each other and not being funny. Such as About Shmidt or as I call it, About Sh**. If a movie has one or more of comedy, action, car chases, etc, to me it is automatically good.

Sorry, but none of that stuff seems bad to me. I mean c'mon, "We're meeting G (pause) over (pause) there." from the game. The movie is supposed to be like the game with it's bad dialouge. I didn't mind it in the House of the Dead or Resident Evil games, so I wouldn't mind it here. And the matrix stuff I think is cool too. This is coming from someone who ABSOLUTLY loves Underworld, The One and The Tuxedo, but thought Matrix 2 was good, but a bit boring in parts.

Was it supposed to be like the game with a rave scene on a island? Get serious for one minute, and tell me that even yourself a fan of video game movies hasd a problem with this movie paying no homage to the source material in any shape. In the HotD games I had some hope for this movei but based on the reviews here I can wait until its on video to rent.

Im sorry but there is a world of difference between bullet time and spinning the camera around the action. I wouldnt call it a "Matrix" affect like everyone else does.

It was the most hilarious film I've seen this year.

And I saw Dreamcatcher!

Just an FYI, this thread's posters are 57.5% of the people that saw House of the Dead in theatres.

So the dozen or so people here spent over 2.5 million dollars to see it? :hscratch:

I saw House of the Dead, it's loud and mindless (big shock) and the end swordfight was like Highlander directed by someone with ADD ! So if you have zero attention span, this is the film for you.

Yep the movie was a disaster.

They somehow tried to tie to the game series at the end with special surprise cameos (OMG!!)!!!

As for:

Yeah, you'll love it....for all the wrong reasons. I've seen all of those movies (minus Double Dragon) and enjoyed them all for the most part (minus TR2).

This movie is MK2 bad. MK2 with titties, Clint Howard and the dumbest cinematography ever. You'll get a headache watching it. It's schlock re-defined.

I recommend going to the theater either: High, drunk or both.

To quote someone else:

"You'll suffer like G did!"

Since I have no desire to pay for this "movie" who are the special cameos made by?

I work in a theater as well, and i was going to check it out since it started close to the end of my shift, but after seeing about 20 minutes here and there, i skipped it. Worst movie ever, at least of what i've seen. The only thing this movie had over Mortal Kombat 2 was that i had to pay to see MK2.

Well guess what, I saw it and I actually liked it. OK, I did like MK2 (the only thing I didn't like in MK2 was Raiden's new look) also, so shoot me.

Why even bother to use spoiler tags when my friend and I were probably the only ones in the world that actually enjoyed the movie, and it seems no one will go see it anyway?

So it's not the best movie ever, but I at least thought it was decent. I LOVED Resident Evil, and House of the Dead I thought was pretty good. So they used maybe a bit too much of game footage in the big fight before they go into the house. It is a prequel to the game series and rumor has it that House of the Dead 4 (the game) will be based on this movie. I actually thought it was cool using the game footage in the opening credits and as scene transitions. Right up until they started using game footage every time someone shot. That was a little annoying, nothing more. I will buy this DVD on day 1, but that's just me. To me it was 10,000 better than crap that most people actually like, such as the Jack Nicholson movie, About Shmidt. I just can't stand movies that are boring and just a bunch of people talking about boring crap I don't care about. House of the Dead starts out a little slow, and I really don't know why they would waste $1000 just to go to a dumb rave, but I thought the action scences were cool. I really had no serious problems with this movie. I only like movies that would win MTV Movie Awards, not fu**ing stupid oscars. Oscars are for boring movies. Anyway, I don't ever listen to reviews and I just see what I want to see. (I was dragged into About Sh**.) So I give HOTD 3 out of 5 stars. If you like mindless action (and I LOVE mindless action) you'll like this movie I think. It's not scary, but then again, were the games scary? Nope. Just go into the movie with super low expectations and you may be pleasantly surprised. By the way I don't really know the game characters much, but G shows up with the AMS at the end, which I assume the game House of the Dead 1 picks up from. I assume Rudy is from the games as well? Maybe, but I don't remember him, but then again, the only name I remember is G.

Okay, I caved and saw this (with a discounted ticket). Is it bad? Sure, for a theatrical release. But it's no worse than any of the direct-to-video horror stuff out there. It's certainly better than any of the Leprechaun movies, Jack Frost, Children of the Corn or Howling sequels, etc. It actually works somewhat as a dumb teen zombie movie. The characters have bad dialogue, make stupid decisions, etc. There's a few nice boob shots in the beginning, and some gore here and there. It's no Romero (who is namedropped in the movie), more like the zombie equivalent of a lesser slasher movie.

The problem is when the filmmakers decide to get 'hip'. The big 'bullet-time' action sequence is pretty repetitive, and lacks any sort of suspense. Basically just all the charcaters unloading guns into zombies while the camera rotates around them. Perhaps they were trying to stick with the game's premise, as there was many scenes with individual characters shooting zombies. Most of the time they were shooting them in the chest, BTW. Maybe that's part of the game's mythology, but it seems to lack logic... does that mean someone who is shot to death couldn't be a zombie, or can zombies be killed and resurrected repeatedly in this world? And the game clips were pointless... if you're into the game you already get that this is suppsoed to be a tie-in, if you're not it's just confusing.

And I love the 'underground rave' setting, with the big 'Sega' banner. I can't decide what's funnier about this: that these kids are so excited about a coroprate-sponsored 'underground' party or that the Sega corporation is sponsoring a party with kegs and topless dancers on stage. What would Sonic think of this? :)