By Rob Bricken in
Miscellaneous
Monday, Mar. 15 2010 @ 4:04PM
If you weren't swayed by my review of the Pride & Prejudice & Zombies prequel Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Quirk offers this trailer, which, to be frank, is totally, totally awesome. It might be better than the actual book. I mean, I liked the book a lot, of course, but man I would love to watch a movie about give Victorian girls with samurai swords who train in their dad's dojo and wander the English countryside decapitating the undead. This is like Kill Bill but in the 19th century and with zombies. Which makes it largely unlike Kill Bill, but there are still girls with swords. Gotta give me that.
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EVula said:
Yeah, I'm way more excited about this book than I should be.
Mr Wesley said:
Not one of those girls knew how to do a push up.
...On the other hand, neither can I, so what the hell am I talking about?
Lithroe replied to Mr Wesley:
Wasn't that the point? I figured they were being shown at their worst for a bit, then at their kick ass best.
Jaeric said:
I wanted to read the first book, but was swayed by the reviews that there was not enough original material; more Pride than Zombies. However this book is original, more Zombies less Pride. Me thinks I might read the first as well just because of how impress I am by the trailer. I hope to all that is pure they made a full length movie and will unveil it after the book is a best seller.
The production values are awesome and they could just spend a few more months and make the movie with the cast they have and all!
DoctorSmashy said:
Dude, this contains almost as much awesome as the Iron Man 2 trailer. This is what the PaPaZ movie trailer should look like, except with better effects and more ass-kicking Natalie Portman, of course.
Lithroe said:
I can only hope that the new Natalie Portman movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is at least half as awesome as this trailer for the book. Truthfully, I'd rather have this as a feature.
Violence Jack said:
I love cheese. The more cheese the better. However, there's this ratio of bad and good with things like this. For me, the girls and their kiai yells bug me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiai
They sound worst than US dubbed anime yells. I guess there was no voice coach for them. Oh well.
Denjiro replied to Violence Jack:
Yeah, they were pretty bad. Worse though are these girls I've seen in kata tournaments on ESPN and whatnot. They just shriek. And what makes it so bad is these are all very technically sound martial artists. They just either don't know how to do it properly or are shrieking for aesthetic purposes. Then again the kata tournaments they show are more dance competitions than anything, even the mens.
Alex M said:
While reading the first book, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, I had the best Zombie killing dreams of my life. I can't wait to read this!
DoctorSmashy replied to Alex M:
All my zombie related dreams are about running away and hiding for a long time then being devoured. Guess it says something about my personality.
Yopparai said:
What a trainwreck, movie adaptations of these books deserve better acting than this.
jestergoblin replied to Yopparai:
You do know that this is a trailer for a book, not a movie, right?
Yopparai replied to jestergoblin:
Book trailer, feature movie or soap ad, the acting is still horrible.
Yakub Shabazz said:
....a butterfly net.
Sci-Fi Gene said:
Shaky handheld cameras in the 1800s? and surely they wouldn't have had kitchen foil to make that shuriken star either... but still awesome. Definitely coming round to the idea of book trailers.
Manwards said:
Anyone else have the same situation as me?
I liked the idea of P&P&Z, but wanted to read Jane Austen's original novel first, because a parody is obviously only truly effective when contrasted with its source.
I ended up enjoying and respecting the novel so much that I didn't actually WANT to read the Zombies version, as funny as I'm sure it is. But hey, if nothing else, I'm grateful to the creators for spurring me into reading a work of classic fiction that I otherwise might not have.
christwriter said:
I have refused to read the first book because I am a mammoth P&P fan, and there are just some things that should be left unmolested.
That said, my first reaction after seeing this was, please god let them make this movie, please got let them make this movie, please oh please oh please.
I know it will never be a movie but ... Elizabeth, Darcy and zombies. Come on. Date movie perfection. You'd never fight again.
Jeff said:
This movie may be good because the only thing it will have in common with Pride and Predjudice is the setting and the names of the girls.
The books dont make any sense because it goes from killing zombies then goes right back to the original book like the zombies never existed.
lewen said:
Do you think they purposely cast someone who looked David Tennant as the sensei to make the nerd girls drool?
It's working.
