My Life In Fandom: Geek Gab Talks "Army of the Dead" Next Week

This week's episode got delayed so next week Dorrinal and Daddy Warpig talk about Dave Bastista's new movie by Zack Synder, Army of the Dead, and I fully expect some useful insight along with a Warpig rant. I'll be in the chat. I expect a lot of regulars will be also. Expect spoilers somewhere along the way.

As for my own take, here's what I can say now: forgettable, pointless trash that's unworthy of your time or money.

• Name a zombie trope that every normie knows. You can guess how this heist film--and this is a heist film--goes down. Lots of Idiot Balls being tossed around here.
• The set up concludes with sequel bait that, predictably, expands the scope to a much bigger zombie outbreak due to someone hiding a bite and breaking containment.
• There are not--as there never is--any protocols, backed up by armored NBC suits with big fucking guns, to forcibly check and quarantine returning operatives for exactly that or worse.
• Synder did this clearly to set up future work for himself and whomever of his friends that needs it, following Paul Anderson's example with those atrocious Resident Evil films. If this somehow pleases the financiers, expect more of this shovelware crap because even high-end zombie films are fucking cheap to do.

The metric is this simple: if I could see this being played out using All Flesh Must Be Eaten, by players that would end up being eaten during the opening credits (so, the people parodied by Knights of the Dinner Table), then I don't see any reason to waste the time and resources making it into anything but a wargame scenario prompt for people to use to entertain themselves.

Army of the Dead is exactly that. It would be a fantastic scenario prompt for All Flesh, or something like it. It is absolute shit as anything else.