Zombies. I can't get enough of em'. I just can't. Lately, a lot of film makers (good and bad) seem to share my obsession. My poor wife has had to sit through countless movies with zombies. Some suck (The Ghouls). Some rock. I tried to show her how cool zombie/demon movies can be with Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2. The latter being one of the greatest movies of all time.
There is SO much geek appeal to it. Sam Raimi (homeboy that makes Spiderman flicks now) and Bruce Campbell (one of my favorite actors). Anyway, I've always liked cheesey gore/horror movies. Dead Alive still remains one of the goriest ever. The part with the lawnmower. FUCKING AWESOME!! Sigh. Sorry. Back on track.
Maplecrisp and I have been renting TONS of movies. It just makes sense financially...plus I always get in trouble at the theater. Pee Wee didn't blaze as many trails as I thought. They get PISSED when I watch a movie naked. So now we rent movies. Which is cooler. No crying babies, lice on the seats, cell phones, or people talking. Oh, and we get to see indie movies. Like Dead and Breakfast.Now, I realize this won't appeal to a lot of you right away. Because you've seen too many romantic comedies or reality tv.
But you HAVe to see this movie. I wouldn't reccomend it if I thought y'all would hate it. Afterall, it's MY genre...Hugh Grant isn't in it. So why would you like it?Witty. It's got some funny ass dialoge. The segue between scenes is completely original. It involves a gas station attendant
that also has his own Rockabilly/Punk/Country...Rap band. The rap comes later. Holy shit. The lyrics are HILARIOUS. I thought of Amber Alert and Mr. Slag so many times. The wife found some of them inappropriate and I got in trouble for laughing at them...so rad. Man. I need to buy this movie. Still not enough?How about guest stars galore. The French dude...oh man....you'll recognize him. And the best one? The Bride. I'll give you a hint: Bluth. You guys, see this movie. Yes, there's a part where a deaf mute gets killed with shears. Yes a hammer gets
stuck in a chicks head (who is listed in the credits as "The Chick with the foaming mouth"). YES YOU SHOULD SEE IT! The music alone...I'm watching it again. Fuck y'all.
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Bruce Campbell was just in Portland last week. Nice new background on your blog. Didn't you have that wallpaper as a child? Reminds me of my Laker/49er split in my parents' old Vancouver home. Nothing like having posters of sweaty black guys all over your walls....somethings never change.
He actually lives somewhere in Oregon...near Mt. Hood. Is it creepy that I know that? Yes. Yes it is.
Don't forget about the black and white photos that you would use a highliter on. So artistic!
OH MY GOD. I am a zombie movie freak. As well as the fact my boyfriend makes zombies, we have almost every one of them in our collection. We actually met when he intervened in a heated argument I was getting in with somebody about which Bruce Campbell movie was truly the best. Fucking A anybody who digs zombies is cool with me! I will stop now before I reveal my inner nerd.
Wait. Shit.
Your boyfriend MAKES zombies? Is he a scientist? And if so, is he really a scientist and not just using it as a front to make zombie porn?
Oh, and what movie were you sided with as the best? I'm so down with ED2...when he dances with the lamp! I LOVE DAT SHIT!
I was SO Evil Dead 2, and he was sitting behind me (we were at a screening of Repo Man) and he leaned forward and totally agreed with me.
The lamp dance is the fucking best. I liked ED 2 because it had so much more going for it than the first and now that Raimi knew he could get away with it, he did every fucked up thing he could think of. I love the use of multicoloured blood, too, to get away from rating issues. God that shit's wicked. Then again, I would sit back and listen to Bruce Campbell read the telephone book.
Zombie porn doesn't seem entirely logistical to me, as you know--zombie body parts rot off rather easily...BUT if you are into punk rock, zombies, aliens, conspiracy theories, heist films, and undead lovin', you need to check out the Japanese film _Wild Zero_. It was, interestingly, the first DVD ever to be produced with a built-in drinking game.
You need to get on that shit immediately, RyBoy.
(The only zombie movie my heart didn't immediately warm to was the D awn of the Dead remake. Nobody can outdo Romero, in my opinion...)
A SCREENING of Repo Man? Was Emilio there?! I think of that movie every time I hear "CD REPO MAN" by the Aquabats.
ED2 is sooooo effing great. As long as you disregard that ED1 happened. My wife asked "why is he going back to the cabin?" I said "No more questions. This is genius." I have no idea why he went back. As far as the DVD goes, the commentaries and explanations for the blood...just awesome.
Bruce reading the phone book? You know what would make that COOLER? If he and Christopher Walken took turns reading the phone book. I just #3'd.
I've heard of this Wild Zero you speak of. Sounds like I'll be hitting the local indie video store. Another Japanese zombie? VS. That's the title. VS. Check it yo.
Damn. This is a long comment. I'll finish it with this: Drinking game. It's funny you mention that. We watched Dark Water (Japanese one) yesterday. If you had a drink for every time the mom said "Iko Chan"...you'd be dead. 1
Boring?! Maybe we can have a discussion regarding "About a Boy" or "4 Weddings and a Funeral"? Orrrr "I Dig em' in Pigtails."
Yeah, well, my friend Brian and I made the mistake of going to see the Dark Water remake...if I'd drunk every time Jennifer Connelly sucked in that movie, I'd be dead.
I haen't seen the reamake. But I doubt it's any better than the original. Total crapfest!
*SPOILER*
And what's with the Japanese obsession with putting little girls in wells and having mother issues?
We decided since the original plot sucked so much we re-interpreted to be that the little girl had amazing mindfuck powers and drove her mother crazy. It's more fun when you blame it all on the little kid.
By the way. If you're going to ask a question like that, you might as well add, what is it with those crazy old Japanese men and their love of schoolgirls' underpants?
That's right. I said it.
Wait. I don't understand the question. Is it rhetorical?
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