Braaaaaaaaains.
Oct. 3rd, 2005 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianSo we did go off to see the Zombies in the end.
It was fun, but in the end not something I would have ordinarily risked migraine for. For one thing, there was this "I Am Legend" feel to it without any discussion of the morality or otherwise of the acts. There was no discussion of "Well, animals can learn to be tool-using, and many species demonstrate pack behaviour, so does the fact that the zombies are displaying those tendencies make them human, or just animals? And what does it make us?". No one ever saw the head zombie putting his fellows out of their misery and then bellowing in what you can only assume was grief. The zombie element was, for me, really not the point, and definitely not what made it a good film.
What I liked was the human interactions; specifically, how society rebuilt itself after the initial zombie wave. The social strata not dissolved and merged but amplified; the Haves had everything and the Have Nots ... well, had a lot less. Silence all dissenting voices by any means necessary. Go to war without proven cause. Bread and circuses. Everything that's wrong with modern Western society (and a fair bit of Eastern, probably) amplified by circumstance and lumped together in a socio-political mish-mash held up by fear of what's outside. Am I the only one thinking, "Weapons of mass destruction and terrorists"?
Of course, the zombies were frightening, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo laughed when I yelped during the "Zombie jumps out and chomps innocent moron" bits, but he insists it was in a "I know how you feel but you made the noise" sort of way. Still, it's kind of humiliating, but only because I'm daft. And John Leguizamo was brilliant, but he generally is. And Tom Savini ... he didn't even change costume between this and From Dusk 'Till Dawn. That was just funny. And I missed Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright; I didn't even see a photo booth.
So now the wait is for Serenity. I still want to do it on a weekday to beat any possible crowds, but it's going to be hard going.
Actually, the deal now is to finish this update, do a very brief Net perusal, pet the cat, shower and sleep. Another long day tomorrow.
It was fun, but in the end not something I would have ordinarily risked migraine for. For one thing, there was this "I Am Legend" feel to it without any discussion of the morality or otherwise of the acts. There was no discussion of "Well, animals can learn to be tool-using, and many species demonstrate pack behaviour, so does the fact that the zombies are displaying those tendencies make them human, or just animals? And what does it make us?". No one ever saw the head zombie putting his fellows out of their misery and then bellowing in what you can only assume was grief. The zombie element was, for me, really not the point, and definitely not what made it a good film.
What I liked was the human interactions; specifically, how society rebuilt itself after the initial zombie wave. The social strata not dissolved and merged but amplified; the Haves had everything and the Have Nots ... well, had a lot less. Silence all dissenting voices by any means necessary. Go to war without proven cause. Bread and circuses. Everything that's wrong with modern Western society (and a fair bit of Eastern, probably) amplified by circumstance and lumped together in a socio-political mish-mash held up by fear of what's outside. Am I the only one thinking, "Weapons of mass destruction and terrorists"?
Of course, the zombies were frightening, and
dodgyhoodoo laughed when I yelped during the "Zombie jumps out and chomps innocent moron" bits, but he insists it was in a "I know how you feel but you made the noise" sort of way. Still, it's kind of humiliating, but only because I'm daft. And John Leguizamo was brilliant, but he generally is. And Tom Savini ... he didn't even change costume between this and From Dusk 'Till Dawn. That was just funny. And I missed Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright; I didn't even see a photo booth.So now the wait is for Serenity. I still want to do it on a weekday to beat any possible crowds, but it's going to be hard going.
Actually, the deal now is to finish this update, do a very brief Net perusal, pet the cat, shower and sleep. Another long day tomorrow.