All I'm saying is Adam Driver was born to say the word "Ghouls". Also Tilda Swinton being an alien and just leaving is a pretty decent metaphor for rich people planning to check out before consequences finally reach them.
Yeah, fist they show themselves to have big plans and ideas for the future, maybe write a book or two to "start the conversation," make, I don't know, electric cars or something, donate to this charity and that charity... then, when that fails because the problem needs world-wide system changes that include radical restructuring of international laws and regulation, economy and cultural changes instead of individual action, they'll probably use their massive wealth that they made thanks to the systems in place that are driving us to climate catastrophe in the first place, and bounce.
"Survival of trhe Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind" by Douglas Rushkoff. As if they could avoid being deliciously burnt to death eventually by the people with the actual brains that served them a bit earlier.
This movie was gold! It was actually refreshing to see great actors doing a zombie movie with 70s comedy. Personally, i think Romero would have been a number 1 fan of this movie.
Honestly it's not even complacency. It feels like burnout. You can't move the mountain so your brain gives up and tells you to return to monke just to save you. Zombies would be the shit trying to cling to a fan covered in shit. Just another thing that'll affect my bills and another reason to hate the world, oh hey have heard about Superliminal
It's definitely a movie I wanted to like more than I ended up. The moment where Adam Driver's character walks into the crime scene and just exclaims "oh yuck" had me legitimately laughing out loud. But as the movie went on I just didn't really appreciate the tone and direction it went. I really wanted to like it more 😔
maybe that was the mistake...you wanted to like it so much you missed the moments it would have made you ("The more you desire sth. the more you would push the soothing Solution to it furtherr away from you. If you let it come on its own it will find you..Salvation is a shy puppy so dont let your expectations scare it off and it will deliver you these moments you need so your ends could be met...HAPPY END ! ;D
@@davidkruse4030 Yes, the ending was terrible, purposely. "This is going to end badly" is referring to the film itself, not just the characters' fates. It goes back to the Brechtian techniques discussed in the video.
despite being a big fan of Jarmusch movies and zombie movies who nonetheless despised The Dead Don't Die, this video actually made me enjoy reflecting on it, and now I even feel somewhat glad that I went to see it in the first place, so thanks for that!
I absurdly love deadpan humour, but this movie was a lot of deadpan without humour and I found that depressingly boring. There was so much I liked in this movie and if it actually had the missing humour in it, it would have been an amazing movie. But ultimately I found it falling flat.
The alienation of one's audience was a BIG part of Zappa's performance activities, which is not insignificant for a movie literally set in a Zappa quote: "Centerville, A real nice place [to raise your kids in]".
Direct nod to Frank Zappa and his life on the road film 200 Motels. Centerville A real nice place to raise your kids up Centerville It's really neat! Churches Churches And liquor stores
Your reviews of Midsommar and The Dead Don't Lie are so well considered, well composed, and well presented. Really thoughtful long-form critique. I would love to see more content of this type.
After Dawn of the Dead, this is THE zombie film for me. To me, atmosphere is what makes or breaks a zombie flick. And the slowness, the fact that I could feel the air and I could get to know these chararacters daily routines, making me feel like i'm actually there is just the best. It's so much more real to me than the panicky apocalypse that usually happens in films. The repetition is incredibly funny as well. It's one of my favourite movies ever, now that I think about it.
I saw this movie in theaters and my date and I both really disliked it, he actually apologized for bringing me to the film😭 For me, it was the relentless retelling of the same jokes that killed the movie. Still, I’m glad someone enjoyed it!! You explanation actually does make me dislike it less :)
A heartfelt *"THANK YOU,"* Acolytes of Horror! _FINALLY,_ a RUclips video championing this excellent Jim - "I do it my way or I don’t do it" - Jarmusch film! Unfortunately, people didn’t realise this was the zombie movie we all actually *NEEDED,* rather than a zombie movie we _THOUGHT_ we all deserved...🤔 Oh dear; that probably didn’t make a whole lot of sense! _Maybe_ it’s the other way around?!!😳☺️ Edit: *AWESOME* ending!😎🪴🌱 #WorldSaved
Grest movie and I love to see those actors so concerned about the zombie movie. It is a dark comedy many funny scenes but the actors were needed to be really scared but they never let it show.
And i am an art mayor saying this... but really, it really feels like a first year student's attempt at "breaking conventions", were it's both not enough, not the first by any means either, but also too much. Maybe it could have worked better and exploit more it's brand of fourth wall breaking as a short film.
I liked Don't Look Up much better as well, yet I find it hard to compare the two. Sure, the massage the movies are selling is the same, in both cases it's not subtle and both are rather cynical comedies. However, The Dead Don't Die is much sillier, it wants to annoy the viewer. Plus the tone is very different. Don't Look Up is not deadpan at all. Everyone has clear motivations through out the plot and especially the PhD student played by Jannifer Lawrence is (appropriately) emotional facing the death of her and the rest of humanity. Don't Look Up feels way more realistic because we already know these conversations. Scientists warning, big corporations seeing only their immediate profits, politicians being corrupt, society divided. While Don't Look Up focuses mostly on this big picture, The Dead Don't Die deals with the individual reaction to a catastrophe.
I just gotta say, I watched this video when it premiered, I'm doing stuff for my own content that does involve zombies and the algorithm brought me back here. I said "let me just watch this really fast cuz I like the intro and the content in general." looked up and was like "oh fuck I just watched the whole thing again...............This isn't going to end well for my productivity."
Glad to see you're back. I was the only one in the group of friends who watched and enjoyed this movie. I didn't love it or anything , but it felt different , something about it I can't pinpoint made it enjoyable.
I loved it, soup to nuts. The diner scene is a massive crack up all by its lonesome, Driver's 'yuck,' the steel geetar on the jukebox, Driver's, 'I'm thinking zombies,' and 'ghouls.' Iggy Pop as a caffeine addicted zombie, Tom Waits as a hermit, soup to nuts a crackup. But I dig the Jarmusch deadpan/irony combo, all the way back to 'Stranger Than Paradise.' I lent that VHS tape out to a friend of mine back in the day, he watched it, and he looked at me like there was something wrong with me after viewing it.
So there has been a long-running joke about Tilda Swinton being otherworldly, like an alien, kind of androgynous and strange, and that's why she is an alien in this.
The meta-humor grated on me. Mostly the repetition of the song. I enjoyed "This is going to end badly" joke alright until the reveal in the script scene. I simply couldn't think of anything it added. At least he gave us Murray's character to express the frustration we were feeling I suppose. Hmmm. In fact, could that be the joke? That we're being purposefully annoyed to draw a connection between us and Cliff to establish a true melting of the fourth wall between us that culminates in the script scene where we realize that Bill Murray and we the audience, are both are being made a fool of by Jarmusch. That's kind of a fun take. It makes Jarmusch a bit of a bastard, but a good joke is a good joke. Especially when you add in that the idea that the alien scene, which Driver hadn't read, was basically thrown at the last minute as an anti-deus ex machina because Jarmusch didn't want to save these people. In fact, he was getting pissy and thought, "Screw this. No alien would be stupid enough to stay. She'd nope out asap. And you know what else? I HATE GAMEBOYS!" I'm referring, of course, to the separate but likely quite similar character of Jarmusch as referenced in the film as opposed to real life Jim Jarmusch. The song though? Still annoying.
Being made a fool of is still being a made a fool of. And is not a great pay-off to mock your audience when they realize they have paid 12 quid for the privilege...
@@stevenborg102oooh, I feel like I have discovered one of the reasons this movie was so badly reviewed. Maybe most people didn't feel like it was worth their $12 tickets? I saw this on netflix and felt like I saw it for free, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This movie is awesome!!! I didn't like it at first but when you realize it's not about the plot but how rediculous the characters actions are.... that's what makes it gold!
I usually despise zombie movies, but given their utility in the metaphors & allegories humanity needs... I’ll allow it. This movie had some iconic moments & superb insights. However, its theme really got bogged down in getting bogged down. “Waiting for Godot & Zombies”, yep. Thank you again for a fine video. I really enjoy your work. I wish y’all happiness in your new home!
I loved that film. The quiet deadpan tone is such a pleasant change of pace from the usual breakneck speed zombie film, and the characters are truly fun. It pains me that it failed at the box office.
Just watched this movie the other day and really liked it for it's uniqueness, and for multiple other reasons you've laid out in this video. I came here to see if there's others who share my opinion on this movie and so glad to know I'm not the only one who appreciated it! Thanks for the great analysis! I will point folks over to this video to try and convince them to watch it too.
I love this piece. I think choosing slow cinema instead of action flicks to contemplate climate change as a slow rather than spectacular apocalypse is a stroke of genius as it really reflects what we're all going through on a day-to-day basis. Your video is great. I love it.
I'm a massive fan of zombie movies, (still, to this day!), and I found 'The Dead Don't Die' a great addition to the genre. I'm hoping this movie will build an appreciation for it as time goes by. Thank you for the fun overview!
I finally watched this today with my partner and their parents and we kept asking each other about "a wild animal? Or several wild animals?" All evening
And that's how the apocalypse is going. It's a slow creeping disaster each day getting worse but beyond what we can perceive until we realize that many parts of Minnesota has a longer growing season than was normal 40 years ago.
I love your work. Have you seen The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals? It sounds like it has similar brechtian breaches of the form, and disdain for the slow burn of destruction. I never knew what a privet was before now.
“You probably didn’t see this or didn’t like it.” It’s true, I didn’t. It wasn’t the pacing or the tone, I just felt like the ending didn’t resolve what the movie set up. It just kind of ends.
And that's the point, instead of doing what every zombie movie does and explain "yeah they live happily ever after", this movie was just like "nah we gonna die, ok let's just die" then they die
@@SuperDababy2There's an interesting plot decision that COULD've been made with Cliff and Ronnie realizing "that wasn't in the script" giving them a chance, but to see them still roll over and give up was disappointing IMO.
First of all, your videos are amazing and I love using them to find new films to watch. The thing I found really interesting about this film was that I desperately wanted to connect to the characters, but they were so deadpan there was nothing to latch on to. It was frustrating, they were so disconnected from the world that I couldn't engage with it. Minerva was the only character that seemed to get it, and she was so frustrated that nobody else cared that she killed herself. I think that feeling of "why can nobody see that the world is falling apart" is something a lot of us can relate to.
Yeah, I noticed that Minerva was really the only person of the main cast who was reacting appropriately (which I assume was the point-that nobody else cares).
Thank you for letting me understand this movie a bit more. I still don't care for it very much, but it's great to hear a different perspective. It's very optimistic of you to think the young delinquents escaped and survived - I just felt like the script forgot about them. The chemistry and humor of the Murray/Driver duo was pretty great, but the alien reveal felt like too much - just being weird for the sake of it. I'd describe my experience as mostly frustrating punctuated by morbid humor.
It’s the last movie I saw last year before the pandemic started. I went in with my girlfriend at the time, and I remember laughing my ass off at every scene you mentioned. She, unshockingly, felt way weirded out. It was the most fun I’ve felt in the cinema for a while. I wanted to then watch Only Lovers Left Alive, but I guess I was afraid that she won’t understand it. Oh, that makes me sound pretty pretentious, I’m sorry. In the end, things didn’t work between us, but I’ll remember seeing this movie with her for a few years to come. Sometimes, it feels good that the things you’d consider your natural reactions are acknowledged by a figure you respect, I’m convinced that when the end comes, everyone will be too watered down by our own semi-earnestness, complacency as you say, to see it as anything more than a weird but somehow fitting finale. As always great vid, big fan!
I heard mixed reviews about this movie so wasn't completely sold on watching it until i couldn't find anything to watch and decided to give it a go. I'm so glad i did because it has so many amazing actors in it and is actually hilarious. I admit the ending did have me a little confused resulting in me finding this video, however i still thoroughly enjoyed the whole movie.
I loved this movie. I’ve loved it since I saw it and I still love it. I think it’s funny and clever and am one of the only people I know who likes it. Adam Driver is just so good in this and it’s so strange and so good. Thank you for appreciating it like I do 🥰🥰🥰
When i went to see this, it was only me and 2 other people in the whole theatre. The 1 guy walked out 25mins in. But yea it was a good "i have time to waste" movie for me
I saw this movie with my parents, and I remember thinking some parts were really funny and others were kind of underwhelming but after watching the video I realized that most of what I remembered were the parts my parents were complaining about so... I think I might rewatch this with a new perspective and see how it goes. I really loved this video!
Jarmusch is so underrated!!! He creates his very unique takes on popular genres: Western (Dead Man), Gangsters (Ghost Dog), Romance (Broken Flowers), Vampires (Only lovers left alive) James Bond (The Limits of Control), the biopic (Patterson, which is genius because it's a 180 turn on the famous alcoholic womanizer poet).The dead don't die is a great twist on the zombie genre because it follows the social commentary of the original Romero films, but with enough dry humor and metacomentary about our passivity in the middle of an apocalypse of our own creation. And it became prophetic with the pandemic... Such a great artists!!! Great video!! Thanx!!!
I was giggling when the lady on the news made the 'several wild animals' jole for a fourth time and my gf was just sitting there going, "i dont get whats so funny, its the same joke again" 😂
The pretentious read is that the characters being aware of the script is some nod to the Zizekian Ideological. Knowing the script and openly disparaging it reinforces the doom they'll suffer, just as we act out our parts in the capitalist story of the death of our planet even if we know that we are killing ourselves for nothing and even tell each other as much.
i knew abt both donations to climate deniers and like pr campaigns pretending a company is doing stuff abt climate change but it never occured to me the same people would be doing both before, having learnt abt both in isolation from each other
Admittedly I'm one of the people who was really unenthused by this movie. But watching your video added a ton of depth and I'd like to give it another try! Thanks for these awesome film analyses.
First of thank you and Phoebe for another great video 😁 (so glad you introduced us to the amazing eye behind the camera! Great work Phoebe 🙆🏻♀️). Second thanks for talking about this movie, it had completely escaped my radar and I actually enjoyed it a lot, and your analysis really added it to the experience and to the reflection afterwards. Good luck with the renovations!!
So - I have not and will not watch this, and many other gory horror films - but I LOVE film and I love weird stories and I miss out on a lot of this stuff. So thank you! I am totally still your target market!! :D Edited to add: THANK YOU for including recommendations for other channels!!!! This is good work.
noticed on a rewatch that nathan's prolonged eye contact would fit well in any deadpan screenplay. now got to rewatch his other great material to see if a pattern emerges.
Ah, the theme song. When the song opens the film, I loved it. As the song kept coming back, I hated. By the scene where the out-of-towners play it in the car, I loved it again. When Cliff flings the cd, I exploded with laughter. I loved the idea of creating the song, making you kinda like it, making you hate it & then having the main character express that hatred onscreen. As a longtime Jim Jarmusch fan, I know he can be a self-indulgent-- that shot from Broken Flowers just made me remember that movie exists, which made me a little angry-- but Dead Don't Die was my favorite movie of 2020. Many of the people who don't like this movie may be missing the point. I think the film is a response to the kind of films audiences rave about: zombies, meta-humor, big stars, "will they/won't they" subplot, setups/callbacks, pop culture references, product placement soundtrack, shattering the 4th Wall... it subverts each trope it indulges in by *telling* you what it's doing instead of hoping to manipulate you through the artifice of cinema. The fact that a number of characters with little to no information piece together what's happening in Act 1 nearly killed me. I've complained since I was a kid that almost any theory presented by a character onscreen is correct unless them being wrong is a story beat, so seeing that subtly be presented as a stupid thing by a in movie was a 5-star comedy moment for me.
I really loved this film and I’m so happy to see that you enjoyed it too! Loved the vid, thanks for the love for this film that is definitely underrated.
I got a minute into your video, saw the casting, and decided I had to give this a watch. Thank you for turning me onto this movie - I absolutely loved it and I can't wait to now start your analysis and compare it to my own then share the movie with friends and see what they take away from it. You have given me a real treat here and it means so much to me =D
The Sturgill Simpson joke is one of my favorite Jarmusch touchstones in this one. Coffee and Cigarettes comes to mind with the humor in random repetition.
I haven't watched the film yet, but your review has me hyped for it! After the government has abandoned the people during Corona and an economic depression and are now delaying a measly $1400 promised (originally $2000 during Georgia election while other countries have been doing UBI), the fact that many Americans are simply accepting the situation rather than donning yellow vests and striking everywhere sadly gives credence to the film
I didn't dislike the movie because it wasn't bloodthirsty, I disliked it because it was so cringy. On the plus side: the moment when Ron unfolds himseld out of his tiny car in front of the diner had me in stitches. But that is really the only thing I remember enjoying about the movie :/
The Brechtian bit was brilliant! I laughed so loudly that my sleeping dog jumped off the couch. 💕🇮🇪 P.S. Your role-modelling calling your politician was awesome, further proving the point that apathetic response you received from the office jockey is indicative of the futility so many people feel in regards to the climate crisis. Also, privetts!
I actually just watched this movie after seeing this review. I mean it has Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Caleb Landry Jones, Tom Waits, and more. It was a complete disappointment. All that incredible talent wasted. The movie started well, and then it slowly fell apart. I laughed maybe a couple of times. There are several plots and ideas that end up going nowhere and are just there for no reason, apparently. The subplot with Tilda Swinton was interesting... goes NOWHERE. There is a subplot with 3 teens in a building... goes NOWHERE. There is a subplot with another 3 teens that stay at a motel in town... goes NOWHERE. There is a subplot with Hermit Bob (which I enjoyed his character a lot)... goes NOWHERE. The plot about why these things are happening in the town because of the fracking... goes NOWHERE. This is a 2 out of 5 stars in my list and that is only because of the actors. =)
Oh man - just found your channel through your Green Knight video essay (fantastic btw!!!) and YES so glad to see a video on this movie. I loved it as well. It's funny and grim and laughs at itself, we could use more of that. Patterson is in my top five favorite movies of all time, you described it so well.
I watched this movie and the normal horror of watching a zombie movie was replaced with the uneasy sensation of recognizing how unprepared we are IRL for so MANY disasters. Don't Look Up, it's Zombies. Jim Jarmusch is saying "I Bertoldt you so".
I really rather loved this film, even if I found parts of the ending clunky. The opening and middle part were so funny and horrifying, continuously subverting and killing dead every zombie trope, leaving the whole film feeling like a giant waste. Much like the world. My ex hated it.
When I first heard about the movie, I was psyched because if the cast. Then the reviews came out, and it made me not watch because people said it wasnt very funny, people didn't get it. Now after watching your video, I wish I had not paid attention to what folks were saying. This makes me want to rewatch The Only Lovers Left. I loved it, but couldn't explain why, but I see that it's the directors style, and I love it! Keep 'em coming!
Thank You so much for this! The Dead Don’t Die is one of my favorite movies ever, and I was surprised when I looked it up and saw it had such mediocre reviews. It’s really nice to see someone who enjoys this film as much as my family and I do!
I just watched this movie because I saw your video thumbnail. I immediately watched your video afterwards and I almost wish I had done it the other way around. I think going into this movie blind may actually do it a disservice. If I were to watch it now, I think I'd feel a lot more existential terror in all the quiet moments and realizations. Although the tilda swinton alien twist would've probably lost a little of its comedic effect. thanks for the insight and recommendation!
All I'm saying is Adam Driver was born to say the word "Ghouls".
Also Tilda Swinton being an alien and just leaving is a pretty decent metaphor for rich people planning to check out before consequences finally reach them.
Yeah, fist they show themselves to have big plans and ideas for the future, maybe write a book or two to "start the conversation," make, I don't know, electric cars or something, donate to this charity and that charity... then, when that fails because the problem needs world-wide system changes that include radical restructuring of international laws and regulation, economy and cultural changes instead of individual action, they'll probably use their massive wealth that they made thanks to the systems in place that are driving us to climate catastrophe in the first place, and bounce.
@@Lambda_Ovine like making scientific advances in tech for space so they can eventually leave us and live in mars or whatever
"Survival of trhe Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind" by Douglas Rushkoff. As if they could avoid being deliciously burnt to death eventually by the people with the actual brains that served them a bit earlier.
Yes, the word has been waiting all this time for Adam Driver to come along and truly say it RIGHT.
So you're telling me this movie has Adam Driver and Bill Murray in an indifferent take on the apocalypse?
I'm sold already.
Right? I couldn't fathom the negative reviews when it first came out.
It’s because it’s honestly not that good and I wish it was
Yeah, how dare anyone not take the zombie genre as seriously as your average Walking Dead fan. The horror, the horror...
It was a good film. Dunno what's up with all the shade.
This movie was gold! It was actually refreshing to see great actors doing a zombie movie with 70s comedy. Personally, i think Romero would have been a number 1 fan of this movie.
Honestly it's not even complacency. It feels like burnout. You can't move the mountain so your brain gives up and tells you to return to monke just to save you. Zombies would be the shit trying to cling to a fan covered in shit. Just another thing that'll affect my bills and another reason to hate the world, oh hey have heard about Superliminal
It's definitely a movie I wanted to like more than I ended up. The moment where Adam Driver's character walks into the crime scene and just exclaims "oh yuck" had me legitimately laughing out loud. But as the movie went on I just didn't really appreciate the tone and direction it went. I really wanted to like it more 😔
The ending and third act came off like a fuck you by the direction and writing.
Exactly! Listening to him hype it up *immediately* after watching it didn't help. There are some good takes in the comments though :)
maybe that was the mistake...you wanted to like it so much you missed the moments it would have made you ("The more you desire sth. the more you would push the soothing Solution to it furtherr away from you. If you let it come on its own it will find you..Salvation is a shy puppy so dont let your expectations scare it off and it will deliver you these moments you need so your ends could be met...HAPPY END ! ;D
WHy did that make you laugh out loud? What's the punchline? Do you have the sense of humour of a 4 year old? I dont get it.
@@davidkruse4030 Yes, the ending was terrible, purposely. "This is going to end badly" is referring to the film itself, not just the characters' fates. It goes back to the Brechtian techniques discussed in the video.
despite being a big fan of Jarmusch movies and zombie movies who nonetheless despised The Dead Don't Die, this video actually made me enjoy reflecting on it, and now I even feel somewhat glad that I went to see it in the first place, so thanks for that!
Wow... word for word my thoughts exactly.
I cant believe i wasted 2 hours on this shitefest.
I absurdly love deadpan humour, but this movie was a lot of deadpan without humour and I found that depressingly boring. There was so much I liked in this movie and if it actually had the missing humour in it, it would have been an amazing movie. But ultimately I found it falling flat.
@@ayoelang plenty of deadpan *attempts* at humor though
@@StevieSubrizi attempts being the keyword
The alienation of one's audience was a BIG part of Zappa's performance activities, which is not insignificant for a movie literally set in a Zappa quote: "Centerville, A real nice place [to raise your kids in]".
Not sure what to think about the first character name heard in the movie being Frank, and he's a MAGA dude tho
❤ Zappa knew how to make you eat that question.
@@SorrySoup Oh god, I am the American dream...
I paused it after the "An animal? Several animals?" joke and watched the whole movie. It's so fucking funny.
The Tilda Swinton twist was SO CLEVER.
I paused it right after the SAME bit and scrolled down to the comments with the same urge. I'm convinced, brb watching the movie. EDIT: 3/5...
🙄🙄🙄
What exactly is clever about it?
@@devinmorse9112 same question
What was clever about it? Please explain
Hold up, this may be the one horror film that I actually want to see and not get spoiled for. I'm just going to leave a like and watch later 😁
i literally did just that lol
SAME. I'm going to go watch it now and then come back here. :3 I heckin' love Bill Murray!
Ha! You read my mind
It’s not that good
I thought it was completely brilliant! Laughed the whole way through.
Centerville sounds like a pretty enlightened town if you catch my drift.
Find your center. 🧘♀️
Direct nod to Frank Zappa and his life on the road film 200 Motels.
Centerville
A real nice place to raise your kids up
Centerville
It's really neat!
Churches
Churches
And liquor stores
Siri, play Willie Nelson.
Your reviews of Midsommar and The Dead Don't Lie are so well considered, well composed, and well presented. Really thoughtful long-form critique. I would love to see more content of this type.
After Dawn of the Dead, this is THE zombie film for me. To me, atmosphere is what makes or breaks a zombie flick. And the slowness, the fact that I could feel the air and I could get to know these chararacters daily routines, making me feel like i'm actually there is just the best. It's so much more real to me than the panicky apocalypse that usually happens in films. The repetition is incredibly funny as well. It's one of my favourite movies ever, now that I think about it.
I saw this movie in theaters and my date and I both really disliked it, he actually apologized for bringing me to the film😭 For me, it was the relentless retelling of the same jokes that killed the movie. Still, I’m glad someone enjoyed it!! You explanation actually does make me dislike it less :)
A heartfelt *"THANK YOU,"* Acolytes of Horror! _FINALLY,_ a RUclips video championing this excellent Jim - "I do it my way or I don’t do it" - Jarmusch film! Unfortunately, people didn’t realise this was the zombie movie we all actually *NEEDED,* rather than a zombie movie we _THOUGHT_ we all deserved...🤔 Oh dear; that probably didn’t make a whole lot of sense! _Maybe_ it’s the other way around?!!😳☺️
Edit: *AWESOME* ending!😎🪴🌱 #WorldSaved
Grest movie and I love to see those actors so concerned about the zombie movie. It is a dark comedy many funny scenes but the actors were needed to be really scared but they never let it show.
Honestly, "don't look up" achieves this much better.
And i am an art mayor saying this... but really, it really feels like a first year student's attempt at "breaking conventions", were it's both not enough, not the first by any means either, but also too much. Maybe it could have worked better and exploit more it's brand of fourth wall breaking as a short film.
I liked Don't Look Up much better as well, yet I find it hard to compare the two. Sure, the massage the movies are selling is the same, in both cases it's not subtle and both are rather cynical comedies. However, The Dead Don't Die is much sillier, it wants to annoy the viewer. Plus the tone is very different. Don't Look Up is not deadpan at all. Everyone has clear motivations through out the plot and especially the PhD student played by Jannifer Lawrence is (appropriately) emotional facing the death of her and the rest of humanity. Don't Look Up feels way more realistic because we already know these conversations. Scientists warning, big corporations seeing only their immediate profits, politicians being corrupt, society divided. While Don't Look Up focuses mostly on this big picture, The Dead Don't Die deals with the individual reaction to a catastrophe.
I just gotta say, I watched this video when it premiered, I'm doing stuff for my own content that does involve zombies and the algorithm brought me back here. I said "let me just watch this really fast cuz I like the intro and the content in general." looked up and was like "oh fuck I just watched the whole thing again...............This isn't going to end well for my productivity."
Glad to see you're back.
I was the only one in the group of friends who watched and enjoyed this movie. I didn't love it or anything , but it felt different , something about it I can't pinpoint made it enjoyable.
I loved it, soup to nuts. The diner scene is a massive crack up all by its lonesome, Driver's 'yuck,' the steel geetar on the jukebox, Driver's, 'I'm thinking zombies,' and 'ghouls.' Iggy Pop as a caffeine addicted zombie, Tom Waits as a hermit, soup to nuts a crackup. But I dig the Jarmusch deadpan/irony combo, all the way back to 'Stranger Than Paradise.' I lent that VHS tape out to a friend of mine back in the day, he watched it, and he looked at me like there was something wrong with me after viewing it.
I absolutely loved this film. It was just a treat to watch; demoralizing and hilarious all at once.
So there has been a long-running joke about Tilda Swinton being otherworldly, like an alien, kind of androgynous and strange, and that's why she is an alien in this.
The transition for the opening was chef's kiss 👌🏼
Jim Jarmusch's Patterson has to be my favorite movie of all time. I had no idea how he was going to handle a zombie movie, but I really liked it.
The meta-humor grated on me. Mostly the repetition of the song. I enjoyed "This is going to end badly" joke alright until the reveal in the script scene. I simply couldn't think of anything it added. At least he gave us Murray's character to express the frustration we were feeling I suppose. Hmmm. In fact, could that be the joke? That we're being purposefully annoyed to draw a connection between us and Cliff to establish a true melting of the fourth wall between us that culminates in the script scene where we realize that Bill Murray and we the audience, are both are being made a fool of by Jarmusch. That's kind of a fun take. It makes Jarmusch a bit of a bastard, but a good joke is a good joke. Especially when you add in that the idea that the alien scene, which Driver hadn't read, was basically thrown at the last minute as an anti-deus ex machina because Jarmusch didn't want to save these people. In fact, he was getting pissy and thought, "Screw this. No alien would be stupid enough to stay. She'd nope out asap. And you know what else? I HATE GAMEBOYS!" I'm referring, of course, to the separate but likely quite similar character of Jarmusch as referenced in the film as opposed to real life Jim Jarmusch.
The song though? Still annoying.
Being made a fool of is still being a made a fool of. And is not a great pay-off to mock your audience when they realize they have paid 12 quid for the privilege...
@@stevenborg102oooh, I feel like I have discovered one of the reasons this movie was so badly reviewed. Maybe most people didn't feel like it was worth their $12 tickets? I saw this on netflix and felt like I saw it for free, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
This movie is awesome!!!
I didn't like it at first but when you realize it's not about the plot but how rediculous the characters actions are.... that's what makes it gold!
I usually despise zombie movies, but given their utility in the metaphors & allegories humanity needs... I’ll allow it.
This movie had some iconic moments & superb insights. However, its theme really got bogged down in getting bogged down. “Waiting for Godot & Zombies”, yep.
Thank you again for a fine video. I really enjoy your work. I wish y’all happiness in your new home!
I loved that film. The quiet deadpan tone is such a pleasant change of pace from the usual breakneck speed zombie film, and the characters are truly fun. It pains me that it failed at the box office.
Just watched this movie the other day and really liked it for it's uniqueness, and for multiple other reasons you've laid out in this video. I came here to see if there's others who share my opinion on this movie and so glad to know I'm not the only one who appreciated it!
Thanks for the great analysis! I will point folks over to this video to try and convince them to watch it too.
I love this piece. I think choosing slow cinema instead of action flicks to contemplate climate change as a slow rather than spectacular apocalypse is a stroke of genius as it really reflects what we're all going through on a day-to-day basis. Your video is great. I love it.
I just saw the movie, in netflix of course, and i think your analisis is pretty good and clearly one of the only ones in youtube
I'm a massive fan of zombie movies, (still, to this day!), and I found 'The Dead Don't Die' a great addition to the genre.
I'm hoping this movie will build an appreciation for it as time goes by.
Thank you for the fun overview!
Not gonna lie, that numb feeling from all the doom and just waiting for death, that's how I feel all the time. It's so much.
I finally watched this today with my partner and their parents and we kept asking each other about "a wild animal? Or several wild animals?" All evening
I've been hooked since I saw the video on The Lighthouse. Good stuff!
This movie is straight up like Gore Vidal's Duluth but with zombie and I couldn't love it more.
And that's how the apocalypse is going. It's a slow creeping disaster each day getting worse but beyond what we can perceive until we realize that many parts of Minnesota has a longer growing season than was normal 40 years ago.
I love your work. Have you seen The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals? It sounds like it has similar brechtian breaches of the form, and disdain for the slow burn of destruction. I never knew what a privet was before now.
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“You probably didn’t see this or didn’t like it.” It’s true, I didn’t. It wasn’t the pacing or the tone, I just felt like the ending didn’t resolve what the movie set up. It just kind of ends.
And that's the point, instead of doing what every zombie movie does and explain "yeah they live happily ever after", this movie was just like "nah we gonna die, ok let's just die" then they die
@@SuperDababy2There's an interesting plot decision that COULD've been made with Cliff and Ronnie realizing "that wasn't in the script" giving them a chance, but to see them still roll over and give up was disappointing IMO.
I'm sooooo hyped for this video
First of all, your videos are amazing and I love using them to find new films to watch.
The thing I found really interesting about this film was that I desperately wanted to connect to the characters, but they were so deadpan there was nothing to latch on to. It was frustrating, they were so disconnected from the world that I couldn't engage with it. Minerva was the only character that seemed to get it, and she was so frustrated that nobody else cared that she killed herself. I think that feeling of "why can nobody see that the world is falling apart" is something a lot of us can relate to.
Yeah, I noticed that Minerva was really the only person of the main cast who was reacting appropriately (which I assume was the point-that nobody else cares).
Honestly seeing RZA in the movie doesn't even surprise me since he's been in a lot of films lately
Thank you for letting me understand this movie a bit more. I still don't care for it very much, but it's great to hear a different perspective. It's very optimistic of you to think the young delinquents escaped and survived - I just felt like the script forgot about them. The chemistry and humor of the Murray/Driver duo was pretty great, but the alien reveal felt like too much - just being weird for the sake of it. I'd describe my experience as mostly frustrating punctuated by morbid humor.
It’s the last movie I saw last year before the pandemic started. I went in with my girlfriend at the time, and I remember laughing my ass off at every scene you mentioned. She, unshockingly, felt way weirded out. It was the most fun I’ve felt in the cinema for a while. I wanted to then watch Only Lovers Left Alive, but I guess I was afraid that she won’t understand it. Oh, that makes me sound pretty pretentious, I’m sorry. In the end, things didn’t work between us, but I’ll remember seeing this movie with her for a few years to come.
Sometimes, it feels good that the things you’d consider your natural reactions are acknowledged by a figure you respect, I’m convinced that when the end comes, everyone will be too watered down by our own semi-earnestness, complacency as you say, to see it as anything more than a weird but somehow fitting finale.
As always great vid, big fan!
I heard mixed reviews about this movie so wasn't completely sold on watching it until i couldn't find anything to watch and decided to give it a go. I'm so glad i did because it has so many amazing actors in it and is actually hilarious. I admit the ending did have me a little confused resulting in me finding this video, however i still thoroughly enjoyed the whole movie.
I loved this movie. I’ve loved it since I saw it and I still love it. I think it’s funny and clever and am one of the only people I know who likes it. Adam Driver is just so good in this and it’s so strange and so good. Thank you for appreciating it like I do 🥰🥰🥰
Thank you Phoebe!!
When i went to see this, it was only me and 2 other people in the whole theatre. The 1 guy walked out 25mins in. But yea it was a good "i have time to waste" movie for me
amazing video, unbelievably underrated. i can't believe you've only gotten this many views in a month it's outrageous
I saw this movie with my parents, and I remember thinking some parts were really funny and others were kind of underwhelming but after watching the video I realized that most of what I remembered were the parts my parents were complaining about so... I think I might rewatch this with a new perspective and see how it goes. I really loved this video!
Jarmusch is so underrated!!! He creates his very unique takes on popular genres: Western (Dead Man), Gangsters (Ghost Dog), Romance (Broken Flowers), Vampires (Only lovers left alive) James Bond (The Limits of Control), the biopic (Patterson, which is genius because it's a 180 turn on the famous alcoholic womanizer poet).The dead don't die is a great twist on the zombie genre because it follows the social commentary of the original Romero films, but with enough dry humor and metacomentary about our passivity in the middle of an apocalypse of our own creation. And it became prophetic with the pandemic... Such a great artists!!! Great video!! Thanx!!!
One of my favourite movies. Thanks for the video
A channel I just discovered covering one of my favorite horror, comedy movies.
2021 is going good for me.
I watched that movie in a small cinema. There were about 20 people there. I was the only one laughing. Good times.
I was giggling when the lady on the news made the 'several wild animals' jole for a fourth time and my gf was just sitting there going, "i dont get whats so funny, its the same joke again" 😂
The pretentious read is that the characters being aware of the script is some nod to the Zizekian Ideological. Knowing the script and openly disparaging it reinforces the doom they'll suffer, just as we act out our parts in the capitalist story of the death of our planet even if we know that we are killing ourselves for nothing and even tell each other as much.
Good point!!!! Wait, unless you’re being sarcastic… It’s still a great point!
i knew abt both donations to climate deniers and like pr campaigns pretending a company is doing stuff abt climate change but it never occured to me the same people would be doing both before, having learnt abt both in isolation from each other
Admittedly I'm one of the people who was really unenthused by this movie. But watching your video added a ton of depth and I'd like to give it another try! Thanks for these awesome film analyses.
First of thank you and Phoebe for another great video 😁 (so glad you introduced us to the amazing eye behind the camera! Great work Phoebe 🙆🏻♀️). Second thanks for talking about this movie, it had completely escaped my radar and I actually enjoyed it a lot, and your analysis really added it to the experience and to the reflection afterwards. Good luck with the renovations!!
Phoebe compliment always gets a like :)
I just love how there is always a 1 week old video on RUclips, that exactly describes what I think about a film...
I also love the intro!
Omg i didn't know this movie existed, but now it's at the top of my list.
So - I have not and will not watch this, and many other gory horror films - but I LOVE film and I love weird stories and I miss out on a lot of this stuff. So thank you! I am totally still your target market!! :D
Edited to add: THANK YOU for including recommendations for other channels!!!! This is good work.
noticed on a rewatch that nathan's prolonged eye contact would fit well in any deadpan screenplay. now got to rewatch his other great material to see if a pattern emerges.
I would NEVER have given this movie the time of day, but you've represented it really well. Well done!
Ah, the theme song. When the song opens the film, I loved it. As the song kept coming back, I hated. By the scene where the out-of-towners play it in the car, I loved it again. When Cliff flings the cd, I exploded with laughter. I loved the idea of creating the song, making you kinda like it, making you hate it & then having the main character express that hatred onscreen.
As a longtime Jim Jarmusch fan, I know he can be a self-indulgent-- that shot from Broken Flowers just made me remember that movie exists, which made me a little angry-- but Dead Don't Die was my favorite movie of 2020. Many of the people who don't like this movie may be missing the point. I think the film is a response to the kind of films audiences rave about: zombies, meta-humor, big stars, "will they/won't they" subplot, setups/callbacks, pop culture references, product placement soundtrack, shattering the 4th Wall... it subverts each trope it indulges in by *telling* you what it's doing instead of hoping to manipulate you through the artifice of cinema.
The fact that a number of characters with little to no information piece together what's happening in Act 1 nearly killed me. I've complained since I was a kid that almost any theory presented by a character onscreen is correct unless them being wrong is a story beat, so seeing that subtly be presented as a stupid thing by a in movie was a 5-star comedy moment for me.
I really loved this film and I’m so happy to see that you enjoyed it too! Loved the vid, thanks for the love for this film that is definitely underrated.
I got a minute into your video, saw the casting, and decided I had to give this a watch. Thank you for turning me onto this movie - I absolutely loved it and I can't wait to now start your analysis and compare it to my own then share the movie with friends and see what they take away from it. You have given me a real treat here and it means so much to me =D
Just throwing it out there: I'm gonna enjoy the privets AND call my congressmen!
The Sturgill Simpson joke is one of my favorite Jarmusch touchstones in this one. Coffee and Cigarettes comes to mind with the humor in random repetition.
I haven't watched the film yet, but your review has me hyped for it! After the government has abandoned the people during Corona and an economic depression and are now delaying a measly $1400 promised (originally $2000 during Georgia election while other countries have been doing UBI), the fact that many Americans are simply accepting the situation rather than donning yellow vests and striking everywhere sadly gives credence to the film
I love that these analyses actually make me want to watch the movies more than before. Thanks for that!
I’m glad Jim made this film so I could watch this video.
I didn't dislike the movie because it wasn't bloodthirsty, I disliked it because it was so cringy. On the plus side: the moment when Ron unfolds himseld out of his tiny car in front of the diner had me in stitches. But that is really the only thing I remember enjoying about the movie :/
Adam Driver and Bill Murray have amazing screen chemistry. So awkward and hilarious. I love your take on this film. It was my favorite film of 2020.
I wanted to see this in theaters when it came out, and I just missed the window. Thanks for reminding me of it's existence.
The Brechtian bit was brilliant! I laughed so loudly that my sleeping dog jumped off the couch. 💕🇮🇪
P.S. Your role-modelling calling your politician was awesome, further proving the point that apathetic response you received from the office jockey is indicative of the futility so many people feel in regards to the climate crisis. Also, privetts!
I actually just watched this movie after seeing this review. I mean it has Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Caleb Landry Jones, Tom Waits, and more. It was a complete disappointment. All that incredible talent wasted. The movie started well, and then it slowly fell apart. I laughed maybe a couple of times. There are several plots and ideas that end up going nowhere and are just there for no reason, apparently. The subplot with Tilda Swinton was interesting... goes NOWHERE. There is a subplot with 3 teens in a building... goes NOWHERE. There is a subplot with another 3 teens that stay at a motel in town... goes NOWHERE. There is a subplot with Hermit Bob (which I enjoyed his character a lot)... goes NOWHERE. The plot about why these things are happening in the town because of the fracking... goes NOWHERE. This is a 2 out of 5 stars in my list and that is only because of the actors. =)
I didnt even know this movie existed but because of this video I have to watch it.
I love the Meta-humor bit where Acolytes purposefully broke character to portray meta humor.
I loved The Dead Don't Die. I found it refreshingly genuine. Great video, Nathan!
watched this film before watching through this and I have to thank you, this might be one of my top 3 films
Great video! You did an amazing job
love this one dawg, great work as always
“It feels very Brechtian to me-“
Me: ooh Brecht mention, I remember this guy-
“If you weren’t a theatre major, for whatever reason-“
Me: HEY!!!
Just the video i was looking for. Great channel! Subscribed
YOOOOO I WAS JUST WONDERING TODAY WHEN YOU'D HAVE A NEW VIDEO OUT, LOVE YOUR CONTENT KING :)
i didn't really like this film when i saw it, but this video gave me a new appreciation for it.
This film is one of the most underrated camp films I never heard of or knew I needed, a well written fever dream!
I love jarmusch patterson is one of my favorite films
Oh man - just found your channel through your Green Knight video essay (fantastic btw!!!) and YES so glad to see a video on this movie. I loved it as well. It's funny and grim and laughs at itself, we could use more of that. Patterson is in my top five favorite movies of all time, you described it so well.
I watched this movie and the normal horror of watching a zombie movie was replaced with the uneasy sensation of recognizing how unprepared we are IRL for so MANY disasters.
Don't Look Up, it's Zombies.
Jim Jarmusch is saying
"I Bertoldt you so".
I really rather loved this film, even if I found parts of the ending clunky. The opening and middle part were so funny and horrifying, continuously subverting and killing dead every zombie trope, leaving the whole film feeling like a giant waste. Much like the world. My ex hated it.
22:30 "In case you aren't a theater major..." followed by immediately needing to look at the script made me lol
When I first heard about the movie, I was psyched because if the cast. Then the reviews came out, and it made me not watch because people said it wasnt very funny, people didn't get it. Now after watching your video, I wish I had not paid attention to what folks were saying. This makes me want to rewatch The Only Lovers Left. I loved it, but couldn't explain why, but I see that it's the directors style, and I love it! Keep 'em coming!
Every single complaint about this movie is why I love it.
You’re saying I should support the green new deal to make this a happy ending?
Discovered your channel today. Binge watching all your videos. You are definitely gonna influence the future RUclips trends!!
Thank You so much for this! The Dead Don’t Die is one of my favorite movies ever, and I was surprised when I looked it up and saw it had such mediocre reviews. It’s really nice to see someone who enjoys this film as much as my family and I do!
I sooo effing agree! You nailed it!
Definitely my new favourite channel! Love this analysis. Thank you so much for sharing this content and good luck with your new space!!
I just watched this movie because I saw your video thumbnail. I immediately watched your video afterwards and I almost wish I had done it the other way around.
I think going into this movie blind may actually do it a disservice. If I were to watch it now, I think I'd feel a lot more existential terror in all the quiet moments and realizations. Although the tilda swinton alien twist would've probably lost a little of its comedic effect.
thanks for the insight and recommendation!
Great video! Didn’t see this film when it came out in theaters, but now I want to check it out. Keep it up!
Holy moly I found your channel again
YEEES