The idea of Love.

It's just sounds like a completely ridiculous and common idea. Almost every movie nowadays centers around a plot with love in it. We're aiming for something different here people, we don't want to churn out a movie with a thoroughly predicatable plot. If anything love oriented goes on, only one of the many P.O.V.'s going on should be love and I think that one of the people should ultimately be turned into a zombie. That's the only way I would accept love in this story.

Yeah, I think that love = two thumbs down. It just doesn't work with anything containing zombies.

There is already a thread for this...

I concur as well. No love story. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This is a ZOMBIE flick.... not "How to lose a guy in 10 days"... not "The wedding date" but a ZOMBIE movie. I even read somewhere on here of an idea concerning multiple love stories from all corners of the world???? huh??? What bloody purpose would that serve other than making the lamest zombie film EVER? None.... that's what I say. Furthermore, if two people were to fall in love somewhere in this story, I vote that they fall subject to the Jason Vorhees laws of love in a horror movie. That being anyone who falls in love, makes out, has sex, gets naked etc.... gets killed. Plain and simple. Anything more pronounced than that will just be lame.
If you want a love story, I suggest you go on You Tube and make a video entitled "Let's make a chick flick!" because frankly, if you're just going to try and copy what has already worked, why not rip off yet another idea while you're at it.
However, for the benefit of THIS movie, I think we should remain on topic w/ ideas for a ZOMBIE film.

Peace,
Silkvein

Silkvein wrote: If you want a love story, I suggest you go on You Tube and make a video entitled "Let's make a chick flick!"

Brilliant!

I resign effective at noon tomorrow. Aggh will be sworn in.

Oh, whatever, Skipshot. And yeah, it will totally fail. We should totally do a chick flick from youtube! That would be so terrible and stupid.

Silkvein wrote:if two people were to fall in love somewhere in this story, I vote that they fall subject to the Jason Vorhees laws of love in a horror movie. That being anyone who falls in love, makes out, has sex, gets naked etc.... gets killed. Plain and simple.

lol that's freakin genius XD i completely agree!!

KileyWiley wrote:

Silkvein wrote:if two people were to fall in love somewhere in this story, I vote that they fall subject to the Jason Vorhees laws of love in a horror movie. That being anyone who falls in love, makes out, has sex, gets naked etc.... gets killed. Plain and simple.

lol that's freakin genius XD i completely agree!!

You volunteering?!

EDIT: Yay for perverted comment for my 100th post.

techy158 wrote:Yeah, I think that love = two thumbs down. It just doesn't work with anything containing zombies.

then by defying that and making a love story WORKS wouldnt that be a successful way of making this film different and anti-cliche? isnt that exactly what it would do?? I think so.

and yes, there IS already a thread for this where the subjetc has been thoroughly discussed, so go there before you get all riled up and read what people have already said.

A: It seems as though you are the one getting riled up... not us.
B: You just used the words "Love Story" and "Anti-cliche" in the same sentence..... How does that make sense?

If we are going for out of the ordinary, why don't we make it so that each zombie has his/her own puppy? hmmm... nope, that doesn't work
oh wait!!! Instead of attacking people, the zombies can HUG people instead!......nope, that doesn't work either.

My point is to leave the cutesy stuff for cutesy movies. People don't watch zombie movies to watch people fall in love. They watch zombie movies to watch people get their faces ripped off and their intestines turned into spaghetti.

I would LOVE to volunteer for "death by sex".... best way to go out in my opinion.

Furthermore, YES there is another thread on this topic. I think that the fact that there are two threads in which the majority of people REJECT the overall idea of a main stage love interest is a clear indication as to the direction this is following.

THIS is why I say we need more polls to accurately gauge who is for or against a certain idea. The general population may be against an idea, but things will never move forward when there are always three or four people out there who insist on pushing a dead concept further.

In conclusion, a love interest is by no means required to make a movie about zombies eating people nor is it an original idea (example: Shawn of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, etc...) by any means. If it were a case of portraying humanity and desperation as two lovers are torn limb from limb by a horde of zombies, that is alright and not a bad idea. However, IMHO basing any sizable section of the story on a love plot is unnecessary, adds no originality, and only serves to introduce an element that zombie movie goers aren't seeking in the first place.

Hope that helps...

Peace,
Silkvein

Look, love is a human emotion.
You cant get over it jsut like that.
Include it and it makes it more realisitic and relevant to the human nature.
It doesnt have to be "zomfg love u lolz" but could even be a mere crush.
But you cant just say no to an emotion, nearly all movies have traces of love, even 300 ffs.
So if you say no to love, why not say no to horror or shock or even hate?

i think the main problem with having a love story in a zombie film is that the audience immediately knows that one of two things will happen:

either a.) ONE of the lovers will be zombiefied and killed in some horrible way, leaving the other (who is probably the film's hero) to fight in their dead lover's honor, or b.) they will end up together, although it will be a long and difficult road with lots of fighting and zombie killing to get to that point.



in my opinion, neither of those things are particularly satisfying to me anymore.
they were satisfying the first 30,000 times i saw them on the big screen.
i'd be up for a love story if it were written in a UNIQUE and meaningful way.

but i REALLY, REALLY dont want to see the plot of When Harry Met Sally for the thousandth flipping time.
seriously.

i also have a problem with love stories in that they tend to be incredibly stereotypical towards women (and men) in general, and it seriously irks me.

I'm pretty sure everyone just wants some zombie killing action in this movie. haha

Fuzileer wrote:Look, love is a human emotion.

But except love, human also has the instinct of survival, so when a person's loved ones are turned into zombies the person must decide: kill them , or be eated alive.

^ I know.
So youve just agreed love is an important aspect.