A thread to discuss the Overlord movie with anyone interested. **Possible spoilers ahead**

Overall, this movie was pretty entertaining. It was a lot less of a "zombie-esque" movie than the trailers made it seem. Really the first 1/2 to 2/3rds it was mostly just a WWII movie, with some Metal Gear or Uncharted-type sneaking around stuff mixed in. There are also a lot of jump-scares, so take that how you will. I know a lot of horror fans find that a cheap trick, and jumps are pretty predictable, however there is quite a bit of gore when you get to the second half/last third.

I kept thinking about how much the filming reminded me of videogames--which I was into. It was like WWII, some Metal Gear, a little Assasin's Creed, and in the end a lot of Uncharted and Resident Evil. This movie was almost what I imagine a videogame movie done well really looks like.

I think even if you didn't know Bad Robot productions/JJ Abrams touched this movie, you wouldn't be surprised. Blessedly no lens flares though, so don't worry. The camerawork and framing were superb though, and the effects team did an amazing job.

From what I've seen and read online, the reviews have been pretty polarizing around this film--at least as far as horror fans go. Which I guess I should mention as a little disclaimer: I'm not truly a horror fan, but I've grown up surrounded by them, so I'm more of a horror-adjacent fan. Or . . . whatever. I went into this movie looking for some action, some scares though a little campy, an interesting plotline, and the trailer made the overall aethetic and look of it look really good. The action was excellent (the first 10 minutes alone, guys, the first 10 minutes alone!), the scares were plenty (for this wuss), the plotline was okay (Nazis+weird science experiements isn't exactly new, but it was executed very well), and yes it was a gorgeous looking movie.

Has anyone else seen this yet? What did you think? What'd you like or hate? Why TF was it called Overlord?

Also, did you know people thought this was supposed to be Abrams' next Cloverfield installment? That's weird, right? I'm pretty sure that's not true, but it felt remiss not to mention it.

If you haven't yet, and you're interested, check out the trailer here.