i thought it was just gonna be a floofy little nothing - basically a heist without the zombies when "heist movie with zombies" is the primary draw of Army of the Dead, which is a fine movie but not compulsively watchable - but first, it's really good. like. better. more substantial, i think

obvs i will be rewatching aotd again soon

but anyway there's this kind of weird out-of-almost-nowhere exchange in aotd where a character proposes that they could be stuck in a timeloop. i say almost bc there are apparently corpses the team encounter who are dressed like them

i noted it as obvious fanfic fuel (and was correct) and left it at that

but Army of Thieves is focused on the team's safecracker, Dieter, and how he got into the criminal life. it's set in Europe just as the zombie infestation in the US is starting to get attention, and Dieter is having zombie nightmares throughout

the most recent one rather unsubtly mirrors his death in aotd - in the dream, zmbies crowd him into a safe he's just cracked, where in aotd, he dies shoving another team member into the safe to protect him

I'm just gonna transcribe what a character in aot (none of this team show up in aotd, more's the pity), has to say when he says he "dream about them again": "Maybe they're prophecies, not dreams. Maybe you saw your own death [...] or maybe simply your psyche's manifestations of your own self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy. [cont]

You know, you should be that big, tough man. Be able to fight them. And yet again and again, they just destroy you."

kids, i think we got ourselves a canonical timeloop

... huh

The individual moments of dialogue themselves are easy to dismiss in context as being frivolous or just weird, but taken together with those strange corpses, plus mixing in the Zack Snyder of it all? i think these movies are up to something

I mean I thought the corpses were not "in reality" dressed exactly like them, that whole scene was very dreamlike and I figured that was a "what if" kind of scene, so I never took it as "they are clearly the same team". but throw in zombie dreams and you know, maybe

yeah. one of these three things and eh, but put them together and hmmmm

and even if i'm full of it, this prequel is really freaking good and i'm thoroughly enjoying it

I'll have to watch at some point then ^^

. . . given that we've all been brainwashed by Marvel, i will save you five minutes: there's nothing during or after the credits

/snerks

I mostly just listen for the music these days tbh