Highly Overrated But Still Good

A Brilliant Conflict

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is a great movie. I saw it cold, unsolicited and had never heard or read anything about it. I just sort of, stumbled upon it I guess.Spoilers- First things first, this is a different movie than any I had encountered before (and since have seen once through Warm Bodies). You follow the characters that have been turned into zombies through some infected soft-serve and beer. Not terribly believable, but still funny, and this film is at its heart a comedy.The way the film shows humans reacting from their point of view (like they are in fast-forward) is genius in my opinion. And drunk humans are able to understand them. Just pure genius.Cinematography was good. The use of black and white and color shots made complete and total sense, and definitely improved the viewing experience.Acting is pretty bad with some of the ancillary characters, but they take on an overall B horror movie aesthetic intentionally, so it fits.Don't come in here expecting a special effects blockbuster or a scary story. However, the story was good. I didn't think anything made no sense, which is a rare thing in the genre.Definitely worth the watch, and worth purchasing.

When a group of friends are accidentally exposed to a strange virus from their beer-laced ice cream at a bowling alley, they quickly realize their superhuman strength and invulnerability makes it perfect for them to battle the hordes of infected people running around town, but a secret soon turns their world upside down.An ingenious new zombie comedy, which manages to invert the usual theme of the zombies being hunted down by the humans who are the main focus of the film to instead have it be about the zombies, who think they've acquired super-powers and treat the normal humans as the infected ones all along, and by switching it between black-and-white for the zombie view-point and a colorized look for the regular world viewpoint. Feels really unique and rather clever, intertwining the two stories together rather than separate films. Not really all that impressive in the gore department or zombie make-up areas, but there's a huge boatload of humor to go along with some gags so that it's not a total waste.Rated R: Violence, Language and mild drug use

"Wasting Away" actually surprised the life out of me, being the zombie fan that I am, I can say that, yeah! The idea behind this movie is simply put amazing, and it was really nice to see a new approach to the zombie genre.The story in itself, is fairly mediocre, having a group of teenagers turning into the living dead by ingesting some chemical compound. I will not go into further details here, as to not spoil the movie. And then you see the world from their point of view, being zombies now. The world is different and people react to the teens oddly now (at least in their eyes).Yeah, zombies are slow moving creatures, if you are fan of Romero's zombies, and these zombies are slow as well, but they perceive the world around them as if the living are running around in double speed. Great idea, new idea, but it didn't work out too well in practical use. The result was a bit too childishly comical, which I didn't really enjoy.The movie takes you on an exciting ride at a good pace, and there are few dull moments in the movie. It is nice to see parts of the movie from both the living and the zombie's point of view.As for the acting, well I think the people they had in the movie actually did good jobs, despite it being people that I was mostly unfamiliar with. And I think only a handful of the known celebrity faces would have been able to carry this movie without it having to turn into a major money-turning machine. So hats off to the actors/actresses work here in "Wasting Away".If you are a fan of zombie movies, then you should definitely add "Wasting Away" to your DVD collection, because it brings a sharp edge and a new approach to the genre of the living dead.

Wasting Away is not a great film in my opinion, but it does do what other zombie films haven't done. It takes the perspectives of the zombies themselves, which hasn't been seen in any zombie film before. The uniqueness of this concept really made this film worthwhile. Using a comedic approach, there are a couple of good jokes here and there and overall it is a pretty damn funny movie. However, the acting is somewhat sub-par.If you look carefully enough you can see that the actors and the director did a pretty horrible job with this film, definitely not Christopher Nolan. Luckily this film didn't require special effects, otherwise it would've killed it.Overall, it was a film worth watching, although it was slow in some cases. I honestly ended up fast-forwarding most of the movie, so don't take my review too seriously. 6/10 because it is just over the borderline of being worth watching.