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The Zombie Renaissance
Ace of Spades HQ ^ | 12-19-04 | Ace of Spades

Posted on 12/20/2004 9:42:44 AM PST by Warhead W-88

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To: escapefromboston

'I was a middle-aged zombie' (Land of the Dead filming now)

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-12-01-zombie_x.htm


41 posted on 12/20/2004 10:37:32 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Warhead W-88

28 Days Later is another one. Truly a riveting movie.


42 posted on 12/20/2004 11:03:02 AM PST by wizardoz
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To: Billthedrill; escapefromboston; freepatriot32; Darksheare; lowbridge
Where are the West African, e-mail, spammer zombies?

(Curious Smiley.)

43 posted on 12/20/2004 11:41:35 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

LOL!

They're busy sending e-mails saying "send us 1000 dollars, we'll let you keep your shoes after we get done emptying your account."

Zombies have that brain diet thing going, and that gets expensive after awhile.


44 posted on 12/20/2004 11:48:28 AM PST by Darksheare ("His heart went dead underneath her gaze" - The Book of Foreshadowed Sorrows.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

45 posted on 12/20/2004 11:59:26 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: escapefromboston

Amen on the original black and white NOTLD being the best zombie movie.....as a young teenager watching it at the drive-in (I date myself) then going home (where we lived right below a very large cemetery) and not having air conditioning and having my bed within "arms reach" of an open window, I couldn't sleep with my back turned towards the open window for weeks !! (cue the burning truck zombie feeding scene...)


46 posted on 12/20/2004 12:08:53 PM PST by OB1kNOb (They're coming to get you, Barbara !!)
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To: Billthedrill

They're coming to get you, Barbara !


47 posted on 12/20/2004 12:15:34 PM PST by OB1kNOb (They're coming to get you, Barbara !!)
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To: Warhead W-88

did someone say zombie?

http://users.myexcel.com/ozechs3/images/zombie.wmv


48 posted on 12/20/2004 12:18:52 PM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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Bwaaaahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! snort...snort....


49 posted on 12/20/2004 12:23:09 PM PST by OB1kNOb (They're coming to get you, Barbara !!)
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To: Modernman
The remake of Dawn of the Dead this last summer was pretty good.

I thought it was fantastic. One of the best remakes I've seen. I love zombie movies!

Zombie movies are always pro-Second Amendment. In the remake, a big part of the movie was getting to Andy's gun store. Of course, all the firepower in the world couldn't save them from thousands of running zombies.

28 Days Later was set in gun-free England. I never understood why they didn't try to go to a police station and acquire some firearms.

50 posted on 12/20/2004 12:27:40 PM PST by Drew68
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Yeah, I suppose you had to give the zombies Carl Lewis-type speed, which I don't think was part of the original film, done by Romero.

Otherwise there would be no suspense.

I mean, how hard is it to blow the heads off of lethargic, brain dead cadavers?

51 posted on 12/20/2004 12:32:02 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: Warhead W-88

Ping.

Blaire Witch Project. Never saw the "witch". Terrified the viewers.

I had to sleep with the light on. Don't tell anyone please. Doh! Did I just post that on the interenet!?!?


52 posted on 12/20/2004 12:32:46 PM PST by SaltyJoe
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Yeah, I suppose you had to give the zombies Carl Lewis-type speed

An excellent scene was when Ana's zombified husband is chasing after her as she drives away and he sees some woman standing in her yard, bolts after her and starts chewing her up! Classic!

53 posted on 12/20/2004 12:44:04 PM PST by Drew68
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Yeah, that was pretty neat, now that I think about it.
54 posted on 12/20/2004 12:49:10 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: Warhead W-88

Zombies movies just provide more action and less thinking than other monsters because there's more of them, more chance of mindlessly blowing away hundreds. Modern Dracula movies suck (sorry) because modern filmmakers are too hung up on the sexual aspects of the story and because the bloodsuckers of Hollywood are a little ambivalent about that good v. evil thing (unless someone makes Dracula a Southern sheriff circa 1966). The key character in Dracula is Van Helsing, and the best Van Helsing by far was the one in the Bela Lugosi film (Edward Van Sloan). Laurence Olivier ruined the Frank Langella version, as did Anthony Hopkins in the one he was in. Weak and vacillating like a shield of butter.


55 posted on 12/20/2004 1:30:30 PM PST by jordan8
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I'm surprised by that.

Hopkins is one of my favorite actors.

Though I've never watched any of those dreadful "costume dramas" he's starred in-which are usually Merchant-Ivory productions-almost every motion picture he's been in has been worth watching, in my estimation.

56 posted on 12/20/2004 1:36:46 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Why did it take me so long to come up with a new tag-line, huh?! What's up with that?)
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To: wizardoz

I like that movie as well. I think Ill watch it again tonight


57 posted on 12/20/2004 1:42:07 PM PST by 12.7mm
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To: Drew68

I dont have much to contribute than to say this.

If you have a couple of free hours to kill then go to this site

www.raptorman.us

It's the online journal of a military officer trekking across the country trying to escape the living dead. It is extremely interesting, and pretty good for a first time writer.

It is somewhat engaging, although He quit posting this month for a while to work on the book version of the story.

It is silly, harmless fun.


58 posted on 12/21/2004 4:53:28 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Yep, ya caught me, ya caught the tater)
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To: Warhead W-88

zombie movies rock!

My favourites include:

Romero's living dead trilogy
Fulci's Zombie (but none of his other zombie films)
Night of the Comet
Zombie Flesh Eaters Two (only for the action scenes)
28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead

I have about 15 zombie flicks at the moment and am always looking for good ones.

Am getting Manchester morgue and Zombie creeping flesh soon.

Whatever you do do not buy zombie flesh eaters 3 it is god awful and has absolutely no redeeming features.


59 posted on 12/21/2004 5:01:17 AM PST by kingsurfer
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To: kingsurfer

Does anyone know of any good zombie movies or any to avoid?


60 posted on 12/21/2004 5:07:46 AM PST by kingsurfer
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