Braaaiiiinnnsss!
Recently saw The Omega Man “I Am Legend”. It was totally awesome. If you like zombie movies you should see it. Two items I need to mention however. First: my wife said the zombies did not eat nearly enough brains. They spent all their time leaping thirty feet in the air when they should have been lumbering about moaning on about brains. Second: I apparently have seen too many post apocalypse movies. At one point he is wandering around the ruins of NYC, and I said, “There has to be a lion that jumps out and scares us at some point here. I mean it is NYC after the apocalypse!” And no more than three seconds later, there was a lion! This movie has it all, zombies AND the apocalypse. What could be better? (Admittedly there were no monster men to rock out with, but plenty of Marley.)
(Also saw Iron Man, which also totally rocked, but in a completely different way. I Am Legend was a pretty serious movie which was actually quite depressing at points, while I Am Iron Man was just a rollicking, unabashedly testosterone heavy, roller coaster ride of a movie.)
July 19th, 2008 at 09:30
I really hate how people have come to associate zombies with brain-eating. That trope comes from a not-terribly good spoof of Night of the Living Dead, where the zombies ate any part of a non-zombified human they could. Brains, fingers, toes knees, gullets, taints, shoulders, etc.
Of course, the original zombie legend is a bit different (and if you haven’t seen it, rent White Zombie sometime), but still, I either want my zombies to be the kid you can get rid of by serving them salt or the kind that hunger to eat the living. Brain-eaters are mere wanna-bes.