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Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by South Florida Lawyers

South Florida Lawyers — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:32 +0000

Did you catch the recent documentary, Starz Inside: Zombiemania, which details the history of zombies and has great interview segments with Romero?

I wrote about my hate for fast zombies here:

http://southfloridalawyers.blogspot.com/2009/10/fast-zombies-suck.html

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by bill

bill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:55:28 +0000

George Romero was a guest on the October 31 episode of the NPR game show “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” A few of his comments:

*”I didn’t call them zombies. I just called them flesh-eaters or ghouls.”

*”My guys don’t talk, they don’t say ‘braaaains.’ And they don’t run. Some of the new films have them running….If the real living dead tried to run, they’d snap their ankles.”

*”I tried to keep a certain logic. My guys aren’t even strong enough to dig their way out of their graves.”

*”My first job was for Mr. Rodgers.” He filmed Mr. Rodgers going in for a tonsillectomy.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:27:23 +0000

That’s the point Jack. People walked out of the original.

The original is genuinely disturbing, the best and truest vision of worldwide apocaplypse ever rendered on film. The original depicts the Rapture in a world where no one is worthy of going to Heaven, yet the dead still rise.

The remake is wholesome summer family entertainment, suitable for kids of all ages. A zombie movie as interpreted by Disney, or Michael Bay, complete with catchphrases. I’m surprised Burger King didn’t offer special Dawn of the Dead collector’s cups, only a quarter extra with every Double Whopper Extra Value Combo purchased.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Jack Marshall

Jack Marshall — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:23:43 +0000

“Shoddy and inferior”? Nonsense. “Dawn of the Dead” the second is by far the best acted, best written, best directed zombie movie yet. And yes, I like my zombies FAST!
As for the original, it is one of five movies I’ve walked out on, along with “JFK,” “The Silent Scream,” “The Lincoln Conspiracy,” and “The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz,” starring Bob Crane.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:08:17 +0000

Slow zombies are only dangerous in urban areas. Here, in NW Montana:

1. More guns than people.
2. Zombies unlikely to appear en masse anywhere but bars and Wal-Mart – easily avoided.
3. One highway runs through most towns – simple task to establish barricades against marauding bandits.
4. Winter. Have you ever seen a zombie try to climb uphill, a few feet of snow on the ground? I have, and I’ll tell you: it does not inspire terror.

I fear no zombie horde, because I am more than prepared to go Wolverine. If I lived someplace like San Francisco, though, I’d be fucked.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Grandy

Grandy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:06:38 +0000

The Dawn remake was ok. I’ve seen many superior horror movies. 28 days later (flaws aside) was a better at what the Dawn remake was doing, but a long shot.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Max Power

Max Power — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:18:54 +0000

The (new) Dawn of the Dead was a fantastic stand alone movie, not really a remake. The only thing it had in common was the title and the premise of being holed up in a mall. If you are a Romero purist then sure, it was nothing like the original, but I think it stood out on its own merits, was thoroughly entertaining, and is probably in the top 5 zombie films of the past decade.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Jdog

Jdog — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:10:25 +0000

Zombies are easy. Break the brain; break the zombie. Werewolves are a bitch — turns out, alas, Winchester Silvertips don’t have any silver in them at all.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:50:59 +0000

In addition to firearms, I keep a real cavalry sabre (designed to behead) in my home, and a sledgehammer in the trunk of my car Ezra. I’d have more, but my foolish wife and the blind police won’t take the threat as seriously as I do.

Comment on Pernicious Misconceptions: The Walking Dead’s Best Friend, And Humanity’s Worst Enemy by Ezra

Ezra — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:08 +0000

Firearms jam or run out of ammo. Have you checked your aluminum baseball bat, machete or World War Z spade today?

Comment on It’s Like You’re There! by tim

tim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:42:13 +0000

@eric t

The big ben twitter account tells you nothing about the value of being followed. Its cute. That’s all. Its like blogs that follow lolcats. Who cares? 95% of what is out there (on twitter, blogs, etc) is pure trash. Personally I really only care about .01% of twitter. But that .01% has proven invaluable to me and my job and it allows for more of real time public conversation on a topic then blogs will ever accomplish.

Comment on It’s Like You’re There! by Eric T.

Eric T. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:08:22 +0000

And it has 10,000 followers. Which ought to tell you something about the value of being followed on Twitter.

Comment on The Second Popehat Award For Web Design by Bob

Bob — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:50:26 +0000

Apparently the State Party Chairman asked him to remove the Republican logos from his website.

http://georgehutchins.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=132939&p=3&topicID=31387218

Comment on The Second Popehat Award For Web Design by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Well obviously what we need, in these hard economic times, is a government that’s run with Prussian efficiency Nancy.

Comment on The Second Popehat Award For Web Design by Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:20:39 +0000

What I don’t understand is the part about being in the German Army.

http://www.nimcrown.org/h1.htm

(That’s not from his site, I found it when I Googled him). Does he think that being a member of the German regular army will bring him votes?