Here are a few random thoughts on The Walking Dead episode 412, “Still“.
[Spoilers ahead.]
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We may not have been completely sold on the Mythbuster’s Zombie Special. It was a weak episode at best with little of the stealth education that makes Mythbusters so amazing. The myths favored opinion and luck vastly more than than any specific science and seemed forced.
True, actual myths may have been less than family friendly. How hard is it, really, to decapitate somebody with various weapons at various stages of decomposition? How much force does it take to crush a skull? Can you really disembowel somebody with bare hands?
Still, the episode was a lot of fun and had the added bonus of allowing a whole crew of rabid fans (of both zombies and Mythbusters) to help out. For as much glee as the cast and crew generated, nobody seemed able to top Adam Savage. His sheer exuberance made the episode, weak as it was, a joy to watch. For this, we celebrate him!
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Here are a few random thoughts on The Walking Dead episode 411, “Claimed“.
[Spoilers ahead.]
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Horror/Comedy – 2013 – 84 Minutes
The poster for this film let’s one know in nice, big letters that Kim Newman, reviewer for “Screen Daily” claims this movie is: “A worthy successor to ‘Shaun of the Dead’ [IMDB].” “Shaun” is, as you may have seen me mention numerous times, a perfect movie. Any film that could carry on that torch must be worth seeing, right?
Well, I’m afraid to say, Kim Newman is a damn, dirty liar. Or maybe has never actually seen “Shaun of the Dead”. Or is possibly insane. “Stalled” isn’t a complete waste of time, but a worthy successor to “Shaun of the Dead” it definitely is not.
It’s the office Christmas party and, for some reason, a fumbling janitor is still working. He enters the lady’s restroom to do… something or other, and hides in a stall when he hears others approaching. After a completely gratuitous bit of ridiculously out-of-place titillation the room fills with zombies leaving him, and as we discover, somebody else, trapped.
It’s a bottle movie. With very few exceptions the entire movie takes place in the toilet. This is completely fitting as much of the humor belongs there, but it doesn’t bode well for the movie’s staying power. The idea may have made an excellent experimental short film, but doesn’t really have the gas to round out 80 minutes. When additionally weighed down with the extended subplot of his never-seen companion survivor, the movie ends up waddling around instead of taking flight.
There are some cute ideas and some passable running jokes, but there’s also groan-inducing silliness and noticeably lazy writing. There are a few decent call outs to classic zombie flicks, but some are incredibly heavy-handed. The big twist ending (oh, how I loathe twist endings) is awkward as hell and not half as clever as they think it is.
I’m likely being harder than I might be on this movie due to the unwarranted comparison to “Shaun of the Dead”. It’s a clever concept and that alone earns it some points. I’ve also got a soft-spot for no-budget, labor-of-love productions, so more points there. It’s not a particularly good movie, bit it’s fun and (sometimes) clever.
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Our month-long celebration of the the PS3 classic, Burn Zombie Burn, has been filled with an incredible amount of emotion. The amazing highs, the nostalgic lows and the uncontrollable tears have made it the most memorable thing that you’ll ever… remember.
Only one zombie in our horde could possibly close out the festivities in the style that they deserve. The only one with that indefinable je ne sais quoi to elevate our proceedings into the realm of legend.
A dead guy in a tutu.
Burrowing up from the earth with droves of his friends he leaps into the air with blissful abandon! He spins, twirls and prances with the grace and elegance of… well, of a dead guy in a tutu.
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Boing Boing brings us David Mizejewski’s “Zombies vs. animals? The living dead wouldn’t stand a chance“, an entertaining thought experiment considering how Mother Nature might deal with a horde of animate human corpses. A sneak peek: it likely wouldn’t go well for the dead.
The article is liberally supplemented with videos graphically demonstrating how various animals both create and deal with carrion. It also offers some intriguing ideas such as survivors raising beetles that feast exclusively on dead tissue as a biological defense mechanism.
All told, if Mizejewski’s is correct, it seems like a zombie apocalypse may be the ultimate environmental boon.
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WatchMojo.com has put together their list of the top 10 zombie movies of all time. I might have ignored nostalgia and moved “Sean of the Dead” to the top of the list and included such under-appreciated experiments as “Fido” and “Deadgirl” but I’ll agree to disagree.
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Here are a few random thoughts on The Walking Dead episode 410, “Inmates“.
[Spoilers ahead.]
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Our celebration of the the PS3 classic, Burn Zombie Burn Month, continues with the psychotic, anti-social, suicidal exploder!
It’s unclear why anybody would strap high-explosives to a zombie instead of using high-explosives on the zombie. It’s even more unclear why they would then top things off with a warning light. What is pretty clear is that, whatever the reasons may be, that people is really screwed up.
These little guys mope around the arena until you get close and then beeline for your tender flesh. Shooting them from afar will set them off early which may actually be useful. Accidentally hitting them with the chainsaw when they’re 20 inches from your face is… less useful.
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Here are a few random thoughts on The Walking Dead episode 409, “After“. This is the mid-season premier and begins what looks to be a long, hard look at the aftermath of the attack on the prison.
[Spoilers ahead.]
