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October 22, 2015 1:47 PM Subscribe
I dunno, the trailer makes PaPaZ look like a straight action film.
“No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.”
The book is 100% a farce.
posted by Orange Pamplemousse at 2:16 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
“No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.”
The book is 100% a farce.
posted by Orange Pamplemousse at 2:16 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
This seems five to ten years too late, really. But they're doing an Angry Birds film, so who knows?
posted by Artw at 2:17 PM on October 22, 2015
posted by Artw at 2:17 PM on October 22, 2015
David St. Hubbins: It's such a fine line between stupid, and uh...It doesn't look like the line is too fine here.
Nigel Tufnel: Clever
posted by Marky at 2:21 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
Never heard of this. I wanted to make fun of it, and it does seem kind of dumb but.....c'mon, it combines two favorite things for my wife and I with apparently a decent budget and acting. How often does that happen? It's not like Catholic Star Wars: the Modernists Strike Back is going to be a thing, so we'll have to settle.
posted by resurrexit at 2:28 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by resurrexit at 2:28 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
I have always detested zombie movies, removing a head really must be done the proper way.
posted by sammyo at 2:34 PM on October 22, 2015
posted by sammyo at 2:34 PM on October 22, 2015
I thought this (PaPaZ) was a pretty shallow joke as a book and was surprised it did so well.
They should have buried that joke a little deeper. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a dead horse in possession of existence must be in want of a Hollywood beating.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:34 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
They should have buried that joke a little deeper. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a dead horse in possession of existence must be in want of a Hollywood beating.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:34 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
The idea of a regency-era horror action film fronted by a cadre of sisters is just too good to pass up.
I mean, I'm sold on at least a digital to rental based on that previous sentence alone.
posted by The Whelk at 2:34 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
I mean, I'm sold on at least a digital to rental based on that previous sentence alone.
posted by The Whelk at 2:34 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
CHARLES DANCE
LENA HEADEY
im excite
posted by poffin boffin at 2:42 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
LENA HEADEY
im excite
posted by poffin boffin at 2:42 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
I've always wanted more things to exist in that slim Venn diagram overlap of my interests in FANCY DRESSES/ FINE COUNTRY ESTATES and BLODDY ACTION/UNDEAD SLAUGHTERING
posted by The Whelk at 2:48 PM on October 22, 2015 [13 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 2:48 PM on October 22, 2015 [13 favorites]
Wow, I have the book but was still sure for a minute that the trailer had to be a joke -- how the hell did that movie pitch ever succeed? More power to 'em, though.
posted by FelliniBlank at 2:53 PM on October 22, 2015
posted by FelliniBlank at 2:53 PM on October 22, 2015
I've always wanted more things to exist in that slim Venn diagram overlap of my interests in FANCY DRESSES/ FINE COUNTRY ESTATES and BLODDY ACTION/UNDEAD SLAUGHTERING
Well, then you'll love my new movie, "Gone with the Head." The night is dark and full of Tara!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:56 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
Well, then you'll love my new movie, "Gone with the Head." The night is dark and full of Tara!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:56 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
"No, I don't think I will bite you, although you need biting, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be bit and often, and by someone who knows how."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:59 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:59 PM on October 22, 2015 [5 favorites]
I had hoped that Adam Roberts' parody of this genre would sink it permanently to the depths of wherever Cthulhu resides, but no.
posted by thomas j wise at 2:59 PM on October 22, 2015
posted by thomas j wise at 2:59 PM on October 22, 2015
"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry for brainssssss again!"
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:01 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:01 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
Okay, Hollywood, where's my fucking check?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:01 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:01 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
the thing that disappointed me about PaPaZ was the lack of sex. like, really? You add zombies, ninjas and explosions and you can't pop in a little fucking here and there?
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 3:10 PM on October 22, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 3:10 PM on October 22, 2015 [2 favorites]
I thought this (PaPaZ) was a pretty shallow joke as a book and was surprised it did so well.
I always thought it was simply a funny title for a book, and then someone went ahead and wrote a whole book around it. Now it's a whole movie around the book and that joke title--which is the thing--is lost in the shuffle. Same goes for that Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter thing.
posted by zardoz at 3:52 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
I always thought it was simply a funny title for a book, and then someone went ahead and wrote a whole book around it. Now it's a whole movie around the book and that joke title--which is the thing--is lost in the shuffle. Same goes for that Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter thing.
posted by zardoz at 3:52 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
The thing that bothered me about the book, was that the illustrations were of very poor quality, and hardly Regency at all!
So, at least they appear to have fixed that aspect.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:55 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
So, at least they appear to have fixed that aspect.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 3:55 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
This seems to validate many of my views on how to properly raise girls, so I will see it.
posted by humanfont at 4:40 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by humanfont at 4:40 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
February release date never bodes well but damn, it looks fun. It can't be worse than the humorless, one-plot-recycled-every-season, Walking Dead.
CHARLES DANCE
LENA HEADEY
Take my fucking money!
posted by Ber at 5:11 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
CHARLES DANCE
LENA HEADEY
Take my fucking money!
posted by Ber at 5:11 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
I just reread the real Pride & Prejudice for the first time in 15 years, and holy crap is it such a better -- funnier, more cutting, more meaningful, more brilliant -- book than I was capable of understanding in high school English class. It got me to reread all of Austen. I feel compelled to go around shaking everyone and asking whether they've read Persuasion yet and WHAT WHY NOT WELL WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL READING THIS.
posted by sallybrown at 5:14 PM on October 22, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by sallybrown at 5:14 PM on October 22, 2015 [8 favorites]
Nice subject. Well played.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:56 PM on October 22, 2015
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:56 PM on October 22, 2015
I, for one, am very excited about this. Women characters who can fight? Yay! I was trying to get all the way though to Mark Tufo's godawful Zombie Fallout but got so disgusted with his terrible female characters, I just couldn't finish it. It started out pretty entertaining but turned into a game of Let's Count The Cliches: women who can't figure out how to load a gun, wives who are bossy and make terrible meatloaf, lesbians who are either ultra butch who drink beer with the guys or ultra femmes who unfortunately can't be turned back into straight women and also turn hysterical in the crisis, oh and women who get distracted by shopping in a fucking zombie apocalypse.
So whatever else happens in the movies, I am totally looking forward to women in opera gloves kicking ass and sword fighting.
Has anyone heard anything about Mira Grant's Newsflesh series being made into a series or movie. I've never done crowdfunding but I'd donate in a heartbeat to that project!
posted by Beti at 7:00 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
So whatever else happens in the movies, I am totally looking forward to women in opera gloves kicking ass and sword fighting.
Has anyone heard anything about Mira Grant's Newsflesh series being made into a series or movie. I've never done crowdfunding but I'd donate in a heartbeat to that project!
posted by Beti at 7:00 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
As long as this scene is in the movie I'll watch:
“The creatures were crawling on their hands and knees, biting into ripe heads of cauliflower, which they had mistaken for stray brains.”
posted by troll on a pony at 7:26 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
“The creatures were crawling on their hands and knees, biting into ripe heads of cauliflower, which they had mistaken for stray brains.”
posted by troll on a pony at 7:26 PM on October 22, 2015 [6 favorites]
Seriously, you guys can't just have fun with this? Come on, it's Pride and Predjudice and ZOMBIES for God's sake! I bet J. A. would have LOVED it. Nothing livens up a dull country dance quite like The Undead, after all.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 8:03 PM on October 22, 2015
posted by WalkerWestridge at 8:03 PM on October 22, 2015
Screw them...CHARLES DANCETake my fucking money!
LENA HEADEY
LADY ROSE! DOCTOR WHO!
posted by Pinback at 9:59 PM on October 22, 2015 [1 favorite]
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