Absolutely, I reckon we need way more imagination and realism in the depiction of zombies. I mean, I liked the World War Z movie for effects and there have been a few OKish movies in that style, but most have no innovation in either the depiction of the zombies or the “heroes”.
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Well, I have always viewed the best ones as working due to being cultural commentaries. Night of the Living Dead did it entirely by chance. Only afterwards did Romero realise that there were racial and cultural themes woven throughout it. Dawn of the Dead is when he overtly went down that road and was aided by the demented soundtrack by Goblin: The go to for any good exploitation movie.
It gave a glorious whimsy to proceedings and was then reworked as the outro theme for Robot Chicken.
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I am finishing off a collection of lessons for my Tiny Monster. Obviously they need to be accurate but completely irreverent. So, Over Simplified will be relied on a lot.
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Great choice @SquirrelSmash.
The original 1978 Dawn Of The Dead has to be one of my all time favourite zombie films to date and the catchy outro music called The Gonk by Herbert Chappell just fits it perfectly.
https://screenrant.com/dawn-dead-1978-where-are-actors-crew-now/
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Indeed, I am really tempted to queue it up as part of this week’s media. I am also pondering whether I can make a Land Raider play The Gonk when the front ramp opens.
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As it is one of those weeks, I thought I’d share a few differing opinions regarding Utter Charlie Mk3.
Obviously I have a dim view regarding him, particularly as he still owes me legal fees. But there are others with equally valid reasons to dislike Europe’s oldest institution in organised crime:
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Thank you for the suggestion. This will be new to me and I’m always excited to see something new for a change.
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Well, I’d love to hear your feedback as The Prisoner is an institution almost beyond description.
With Fallout being the summit of surrealism where few have ever managed to crawl to its base camp by comparison.
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I remember watching The Prisoner when I was a shortie. Didn’t follow it enough to get hooked but I recall trying to figure out what those bouncing blobs were all about.
“I am not a number. I am a free man!”
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Ah, those blobs were Rover. The main border guard for The Village.
Be seeing you!
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Do you like looking at attractive, talented women? You might like Nine. Daniel Day Lewis as leading man and every talented female entertainer from Fergie to Sophia Loren to Judi Dench and many more you know. I found it fun. Takes place in early 1960s Italy.
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I don’t mind looking at attractive talented women and men in movies, but still does not make me want to watch a musical. It’s not about who is in it but rather the genre itself.
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I totally understand. It’s not usually my first choice of movie type. But I liked Nine. Just thought I’d share an unusual choice for me that may break the mold.
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Some trivia…The show was also the inspiration for an Iron Maiden song. It’s the 3rd track titled ‘The Prisoner’ on their 1982 album “The Number of the Beast”. Classic heavy metal! 
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As one of those kids, that was fact was filed in my memory.
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Last night, I decided to see if a rewatch of Midsummar would change my views of it. Sadly, I gave up halfway through due to its self-indulgence, obvious pretentiousness and utterly predictable plot.
Luckily, I had a few back-ups queued up just in case and Renfield managed to refresh me: It does go balls to the wall and arms through the chest in hamming things up more than a mixed grill at an English pub on a Sunday afternoon. I could only raise three issues regarding it and they all became clear from when the second trailer came out. The first being ‘unfunny Katy’ from Shang-Chi and the Failed Cash-In. She keeps trying to ham things up to be amusing but fails to note that Nicholas Cage is reinventing his finest scenery destroying role and checking whether all can go to 15.
The next is the use of Marvelesque quips which do deflate the impact of a few scenes. And the final is more of a technical one: The movie does not shy away from showing some of the ultraviolence, though some of its uses of CGI does look a bit cheap. I can understand that going fully practical on gore is obscenely expensive these days but, when you want to relish in impromptu amputation, a few purely practical effects would really make them shine.
So, I would personally recommend Renfield as a fun movie to watch at the end of a long week, especially if you’re one who salivates at Cage going full uber Cage.
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Drones! What drones?!
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Last night was the fun of watching the despecialised Star Wars with a focus on Marcia Lucas’ editorial choices. Frankly, it is amazing how petty someone can be after a divorce and the key reason why George has not presented a copy to the Library of Congress when they wanted to induct it.
Tonight I shall prepare myself for explaining the pomp, pageantry and lunacy of coronations. Although, I think Glorious George is more likely to have given a better speech: The man who didn’t want the role and was not trained since birth for it.
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