20.10.11

Biozombie.

There weren’t too many zombie films produced in the 90s.  As a result, the ones that were produced have a much bigger hole to fill, unlike the saturated 2000s or the gory excess of the 70s and 80s.  In 1998, a film from Hong Kong, "Bio-Zombie", directed by Wilson Yip, splashed onto the scene with extreme hilarity.  Let’s find out what the guys have to say about it.  Start movie.  Subtitles on. Language original. TOKYO SHOCK!!!!!!!

[...]

[Introducing the main characters and their phenomenal bromance.]

Starkwell: Are they supposed to be the same age?

Lovelock: Who cares, they’re sooooo cool!

Starkwell: But, they’re two grown dudes, hanging around the mall.

Lovelock: Totally.  I bet you like the nerdy sushi chef.

[...]

Starkwell and Lovelock then got into a discussion, one I’ve heard before, about how Chinese people are just naturally funnier than us.  They got really off topic, and somewhere between “Aces Go Places” and “God of Cookery”, I brought them back to the movie at hand.  Seriously though, they’re right.

[...]

[Some deal between military and sketchy mafia types.  Zombie gets loose.]

Lovelock: That’s why I never deal with the Indian Mafia.

Starkwell: I really don't think that they were Indian.

[...]

[Woody and Bee are responsible for the zombie outbreak in the mall.]

Starkwell: Hit a guy with car, feed him mysterious soda pop, see him be dead in trunk, give nerd purple nurple, play video games… The recipe for disaster.

Lovelock: The recipe for entertainment.

[...]

[Bee takes picture.]

Lovelock: Is that a Gameboy Color?

[...]

Starkwell was impressed with the use of a negative color scheme for the zombie point of view.  Lovleock was impressed with how intense it has already gotten.

[...]

[Zombie Sushi Nerd brings present to Rolls.]

Starkwell: The whole “Frankenstein’s Monster” thing never works in a zombie movie

Lovelock: Yeah, it’s soooo unrealistic.  Like that would happen when the zombies come.

[...]

[It’s Bee’s birthday, Woody forgot.]

Lovelock: The piano music is touching.

Starkwell: I should hate these characters, but I don’t.  I love them.

[...]

[Zombie Sushi Nerd kills cop.]

Starkwell: Did you ever notice how much dust flies off of people when they get smacked, in Hong Kong cinema?

Lovelock: It’s called awesome powder.

[...]

Lovelock and Starkwell were just sitting back and enjoying this thoroughly entertaining movie.  They were no longer saying very much, they were mostly repeating lines from the movie, choice lines like “You’re a piece of shit!”, “I was taking a dump!”, “Eat shit!”, and of course, “Everybody grab a weapon!”  These may sound generic enough, but when you see those words float across the screen in their beautiful context, it’s truly amazing.

[...]

[Montage of zombie killing.]

Lovelock: Which is your favorite?

Starkwell: I don’t know.  There are so many kills to choose from…

Lovelock: I feel like a kid in a candy shop!

Starkwell: I think the the results are in.

Lovelock: Drill in the mouth.  Unanimously.

[...]

They might get mad when I say this, but when the pair had to part ways, they both cried. 

[...]

[The movie gets real.  Mad real.]

Lovelock: Man, it’s all silly and then BAM, they hit you with the intensity and depressing ending.

Starkwell: I tip my hat to you, Wilson Yip.

[...]

All in all, they one hundred and ten percent loved this movie, although Lovelock thinks it would have been better if the Sushi Nerd was eliminated from the movie entirely and replaced with more footage of Bee and Woody being hilarious.  One of Hong Kong’s few entries in the genre, and an absolute gem.

5 comments:

  1. Furious G13:18

    This movie kicked ass! I forgot about it until now. For your 3rd Blog, you should do the same thing only for bad kung-fu movies. First on the list...Thousand mile escort.

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  2. That would be a short post (on Thousand Mile Escort). Starkwell and Lovelock would fall asleep, and I would wake them up in time to see the kid get shanked.

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  3. Furious G21:03

    That part was so rad. It's true though..if we edited out all the parts where nothing happened the movie would have been like 10 minutes long (that may be a bit generous).

    WE GET IT. HE HAS TO WALK A LONG DISTANCE....OH GREAT. MORE WALKING!

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  4. Anonymous22:05

    GameDoc says this movie is so amazing and is sad no one seems to talk about it. You know what's next for Starkwell and Lovelock don't you. VERSUS.

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  5. Anonymous22:05

    GameDoc says PS: scene with bootleg stephen chou movie best scene ever.

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