stringer bell is in it!
the only reason i may go see it. (might go....might.)

I love the cinematography in the original.
I'm wondering if it will be similar in this film?

I do not want to be rude. I like you Ian. This has to be as tired a conversation as "Why did Chauncy Gardner walk on water at the end of Being There".

Outside of White Zombie, the first zombie film ever.... Night Of The Living Dead (NOTLD) is widely regarded as the hallmark first zombie film.

The very first zombie we EVER see in the history of cinema runs like a bat out of hell, so the very first zombie in the very first movie ran. This argument is over. "They're coming to get you barbara"... when that zombie gears up to go after her after wrestling with Jimmy

Go watch it now. I will wait. SEE? That big lug is running like a fucking freight train after Barbara.

ALSO.... about "zombies"

1) Matheson's "I am Legend" vampires were... for all intensive purposes... zombies. It's metaphor. That was probably the advent of zombies. Someone can counter... but Matheson invented zombies by using a archetypical vessel (existing vampires) and redefining them.

2) the 28 days later zombies are not zombies, but allegorically, metaphorically.... they are zombies. Without a shadow of a fucking doubt.

3) Zombies are
a) about the impending onslaught. not that one will kill you... but that they will all, eventually, overrun you... and you will become one of
them.
b) It is ALWAYS more about the living people, than the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse. It is about the heirarchy.. the social norms
twisted..... like in NOTLD.... a black man telling white people what to do. In 1967... that was unheard of. I think it was made in 67,
released in 68.

Zombies are a metaphor. They are a social commentary at the inevitability of capitalism or consumerism eating you. It is about the mindless consumption of our society.... "Hey neighbor, I have a bigger garage"

"Oh yeah, look at my new lawnmower"

"Oh yeah, well I am going to buy that too"

Eventually everyone is just eating each other.

But they are a meme... or a tool to metaphorically direct the viewers, and the protagonists, that the culture they are living in will eventually consume them. One zombie is NOT scary. That, in fact might be fun.

But endless hordes of moaning undead? You can't escape it.....

and that is the point... whether zombies are a metaphor for Bush's administration destroying the planet, or about mindless consumerism and war mongering.... or about a changing society redefining race and gender roles in a new age (NOTLD's commentary on race and gender hierarchy....)..


so however the metaphor comes, it is still loaded with its original intent. Doesn't matter if they are technically zombies or not.




Cept when Uwe Boll gets a hold of them. The gun toting karate kicking zombie must die.

Well they all must die. So at least maybe Uwe Boll should die.

THOUGHTS?!?!?!?