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Post by Professor Gommel on Oct 21, 2007 17:51:22 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with music at all, (the thread DOES say talk about anything here!) but I just saw, (actually, purchased, then saw,) the movie, "28 Weeks Later."
Maybe its the Hallowe'en thing going, but Man! I really enjoyed that. I absolutely loved the original so I got this once it made DVD and Yeah! Good stuff.
Robert Carlyle, (Hamish MacBeth, Ravenous, Angela's Ashes, etc.) kicks ass. As good as the original. Gruesome, creepy, violent, scary, chock full of corpses, despair and virally-altered, living dead-ish, rage-infected baddies. THUMBS UP!
Again, Sorry its not music related or anything, but I thought I would toss out a reccomendation.
If it helps, I was drinking a shitload of Guinness and strumming a bouzouki while I watched it.
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Post by NJPADDY on Oct 22, 2007 17:07:38 GMT -5
I was a big fan of the original "Night of" and "Dawn of" so it was hard for me to accept fast zombies. One of my non-zombie favs is "Dog Soldiers". This weekend my daughter tried to get me to watch Black Sheep ("40 million sheep in New Zealand and they're pissed off"). Dont know if I'm ready for a herd of mutant flesh-eating sheep yet, but tomorrow FIDO comes out with a flesh-eating zombie playing like Lassie. A boy and his pet zombie, sounds heartwarming.
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Post by Professor Gommel on Oct 22, 2007 20:19:08 GMT -5
I watched "Dog Soldiers" yesterday! Great flick. My wife saw the scene in the beginning where the hardass special forces guy shoots the dog, (I know, not even part of the horror!) and refused to see any more. I politely reminded her that there was another TV she could watch...
Earlier this evening, I watched "Night of the Living Dead", (the surprisingly good, 1989 George Romero/Tom Savini remake,) and it had the original, slow-moving zombies, heck, it makes a point of how slow they are. But, in the "28 Days/Weeks Later" films, they aren't dead, just infected. They still possess all of their gross and fine motor capabilities, just not their ability to reason from their state of rage. I'm not fond of the fast movers from the "Dawn of the Dead" remake, either. I think it came about because of the speed of the infected in "28 Days," to compete with the new trend... But the "thinking zombie" in "Land of the Dead" was kinda stupid. I much preferred the original "Day of...," bleak as that was.
I am thinking of going to see "30 Days of Night." That looks interesting.
Never heard of "Black Sheep," or "Fido," though. A zombie collie? Good for a watchdog, I guess.
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Post by NJPADDY on Oct 22, 2007 21:14:32 GMT -5
I watched "Dog Soldiers" yesterday! Great flick. My wife saw the scene in the beginning where the hardass special forces guy shoots the dog, (I know, not even part of the horror!) and refused to see any more. My wife actually made it thru that one, but she was put off some by the liberal use of the "C" word. Fortunately she had a hard time understanding some of the dialog. Too bad "Dog Soldiers 2:Fresh Meat" never got made.
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Post by Tom Fucking McSod on Nov 5, 2007 15:29:01 GMT -5
Hehe. I jus' saw weeks, recently m'self.
One o' my roommates an' I have a goin' discussion, 'bout how those movies are basically... well.. a period. It's less zombie, an' more of a 'rage' as they've said. Transmission involves blood.... Not to mention... 28 days. <.<
Still, damn good movie the first one was. The second had some pretty good shite in it. I'm a huge post-apocalyptic fan (zombies, as well but again.. I don't know that I consider this a zombie flick). I'd say they're both definately worth watching.
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Dead Reckoning actually scared me. The idea o' zombies tha' can learn was far more frightening t'me than' anythin' fast. Not to mention cameos from Simon Pegg, an' Edgar Wright (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead) who are two of my heroes. Plus.. It's fuckin' Romero. You can't argue with Romero.
Heh. As a side note: Simon Pegg turned down one of the leads for Dog Soldiers to make Shaun as 'is first major starring role.
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