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Do you reckon this is better than Shaun of the Dead?


I didnt really think much to Shaun of the Dead on the whole, it was just over hyped.
This movie is *beep* awesome, much better deaths than hitting some old guy with snooker cues to "dont stop me now" that wasnt even funny.
if you want out of context music listen to the credits of this or watch the editing sketches from Big Train series 2. nothing funnier than watching a man and his son crying at the grave side to "Rockin all over the world by Status Quo" lol.

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To me Braindead is a much better English speaking "foreign film" (Being not American) than Shaun of the dead is. The dialect is charmful in Braindead, while I tire of the use of the brittish dialect, and the constant quarrelling of details in a stuck up way all the time. That's the whole comedy. I like it to an extent, but it gets too much for me. Shaun of the dead is ok+, saw it once, I don't regret it, while Braindead is more spot on. And more honest, cause the comedy comes of people's genuine stupidity and the absurd situations rather than people exaggerating funny things to say all the time to make points.

Brittish people talk too much and are too stuck up. That being said New Zealand has a lot of Brittish influence, but they're a bit better to relax and are a bit easier to be portrayed as genuinely stupid. I don't know which country that was an insult to.. I'm sure there are a lot of better and funnier brittish movies than new zealandish movies, but this one at least landslides. 28 days later and 28 weeks later are a really good example of good brittish movies. It steals from Hollywood rather than brittish talking-films, and the characters are stupid. and not only stupid, some of them are smart. But silly movies, still. Gory, bloody and genuinely making you happy that you're watching it and not living it,

But it's popcorn material. No, I'm a bit tired of popcorn. Some other candy-material. lol, Candy-material. That's what Keanu West is made of. He raises his voice without real confidence, cause he's made of candy. Sorry for the digress and my ADD-ending there

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Shaun of the Dead is a much better film than this. Shaun of the Dead was funnier and had better performances.

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