Curious (and foul-smelling) Serendipity
Today was zombie movie day, if two films count as day-defining. (And one didn't start till midnight. A taxonomic poser, I suppose.) The original Dawn of the Dead and Dead Alive, shown as part of IFC's "Hey, go spend some money on the new Romero film" promotion, as best I can tell. And I guess I probably will, but anyway, after finishing Dead Alive I came in here to look up film trivia ("During the lawnmower scene, blood was pumped at five gallons per second."), and as I was closing the door I heard a bizarre crunching noise, and it wouldn't shut completely. I gave it another try with more crunching, and then opened it and heard a thud as something fell to the carpet. A pretty large stink bug had apparently been hanging out in the killzone between door and doorframe. And now the whole area has this weird industrial chemical smell to it.
And it is like zombies, see, because: unexpected dead things.
Anyway, I get that the theme in a Romero movie is Humans Die Because They Cannot Work Together, but, I don't know. I guess coming up with your own plans to survive the Zombie Apocalypse is part of the viewing experience.
As for Dead Alive: Huh. It reminded me a little of a Mel Brooks film, actually, in its manic nature. Or Sam Raimi, of course. I should note that I've only seen Army of Darkness, and liked it well enough, but I'm not crazy attached to Three Stooges references, or that camera-mounted-on-a-punching-fist-shot. And as for Mel Brooks, I watched History of the World Part I a while back and barely even smiled. Depressing, considering how much I remembered liking it. Maybe it goes in cycles.
Today was zombie movie day, if two films count as day-defining. (And one didn't start till midnight. A taxonomic poser, I suppose.) The original Dawn of the Dead and Dead Alive, shown as part of IFC's "Hey, go spend some money on the new Romero film" promotion, as best I can tell. And I guess I probably will, but anyway, after finishing Dead Alive I came in here to look up film trivia ("During the lawnmower scene, blood was pumped at five gallons per second."), and as I was closing the door I heard a bizarre crunching noise, and it wouldn't shut completely. I gave it another try with more crunching, and then opened it and heard a thud as something fell to the carpet. A pretty large stink bug had apparently been hanging out in the killzone between door and doorframe. And now the whole area has this weird industrial chemical smell to it.
And it is like zombies, see, because: unexpected dead things.
Anyway, I get that the theme in a Romero movie is Humans Die Because They Cannot Work Together, but, I don't know. I guess coming up with your own plans to survive the Zombie Apocalypse is part of the viewing experience.
As for Dead Alive: Huh. It reminded me a little of a Mel Brooks film, actually, in its manic nature. Or Sam Raimi, of course. I should note that I've only seen Army of Darkness, and liked it well enough, but I'm not crazy attached to Three Stooges references, or that camera-mounted-on-a-punching-fist-shot. And as for Mel Brooks, I watched History of the World Part I a while back and barely even smiled. Depressing, considering how much I remembered liking it. Maybe it goes in cycles.
