Holiday Season is Upon us - what gives?

[Black Winter Day]

i think W&G was the best, but it's been a while since i read 1-3, so i might be wrong. wolves is a great novel that introduces a couple new subplots. it is fast-paced and action-packed, but... it kinda leaves you hanging. maybe it's just because i have to wait another 8 months to read the next one!

 

[J.]

Part three was awesome because Blaine, the riddle-starved train.

I'm hoping when all is said and done, and The Dark Tower series goes into legend alongside LOTR, someone will make an epic movie series that does the books justice. Peter Jackson, are you listening??????

 

[JayKeeley]

Peter Jackson, are you listening??????

No he's not because he's going to remake King Kong, and then do another Zombie film.

 

[Russell]

I'm going home for three weeks, but I have exams in January, so I'm going to be revising for most of the holidays

 

[Demonspell]

I'm a huge Dark Tower fan, and I hope the series never gets as far as the development stages of scripting. I enjoyed Wolves a great deal, more supsense than in the last novel, but that cliffhanger ending was just bizarre...

 

[Dead_Lioness]

ok, id like to talk about whats bothering me in this holiday season.


if i would hear the song "let it snow let it snow" one more time- i would surely DIE!!!
i cant stand the fact that very store i go into, all i hear in the background is those frinkin' x-mas songs... AHHHHHHHHHH

and those rain deers made of little light bolbs....
whats up with that?
jees, my neighbours across the steet put so much shitty x-mas decoration in their front yard, that it looks like day light shinning in my house...
AAARGGGHHHH!!!!!


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[pest666]

you think that's bad, everytime I go to Fred Meyer they have a Salvation Army lady out front who SINGS!!! She's not a bad singer by any means, but fuck is it irritating.... she sings in such a way that most of the Christmas songs sound the same!! Can't she just ring the bell??

 

[J.]

No he's not because he's going to remake King Kong, and then do another Zombie film.

King Kong. WHo the hell cares? There's already been a remake. THis will probably be like the Godzilla disaster.

Another zombie movie? Like we don't have enough of those.

 

[bloodfiredeath]

King Kong. WHo the hell cares? There's already been a remake. THis will probably be like the Godzilla disaster.

While in theory, the concept of another Kong movie does not thrill me, in the hands of Jackson, I have little doubt that it will be awesome.

Another zombie movie? Like we don't have enough of those.

That's it... you're going to timeout!

 

[J.]

Seriously, we just got 28 Days Later, and a remake of Dawn of the Dead will be coming out. Or is it Day of the Dead? Or Night of the Living Dead? Too damn many.....

 

[JayKeeley]

Were there any Zombies in 28 Days Later? Nope. So that leaves the remake. Yeah, I guess that one remake is too damn many...

 

[jimbobhickville]

yes, there were zombies in 28 Days Later, did you not notice all those zombies chasing them for 3/4 of the movie? They weren't undead, I guess, and maybe that's what you mean. I do believe the director referred to it as a zombie movie in interviews, though.

 

[JayKeeley]

Heh, that's Danny Boyle you refer to, who also directed Trainspotting and Shallow Grave. I think he might have mentioned his film drawing inspiration from Romero, but that's about it. Not even he would call 28 Days Later a "Living Dead" film.

The film depicts living human beings infected with the 'rage' virus. In addition, they only kill people, and of course a bite is infectious. They do not eat human flesh through instinct. And so on, and so on. Huuuge difference.

 

[J.]

28 Days Later was very much a zombie movie, maybe not in the traditional sense of "the living dead walking around hunched over looking to eat human flesh" sort of way, but a zombie movie nonetheless. Moreso, 28 Days Later was practically a rip-off of the campy 80's zombie movie Night of the Comet.

 

[Black Winter Day]

any good, gory zombie movie without shitty dubbing is always welcome

haven't seen 28, though

 

[JayKeeley]

28 Days Later was very much a zombie movie, maybe not in the traditional sense of "the living dead walking around hunched over looking to eat human flesh" sort of way, but a zombie movie nonetheless.

Well, I didn't realize there were other types of zombies! You realize a zombie is something that's been resurrected from the dead right? Well, I suppose with your logic, however, you would think The Omega Man is a zombie film as well?

 

[J.]

Never seen Omega Man. Like I said, 28 Days is not a traditional zombie movie. Hell, the director called it a zombie movie, as did countless movie reviewers. I can see where it might upset some of the purists, though. After all, it didn't have the zombies wearing blue makeup

 

[bloodfiredeath]

Zombies = reanimated corpses.

In 28 Days, a highly contagious disease turned people all wonky. I'll admit that in spirit it was similar to zombies, but they were not zombies. Also, being a big fan of Night of the Comet (also not a zombie movie) and having it on video, the movies are not remotely alike.

 

[JayKeeley]

Never seen Omega Man. Like I said, 28 Days is not a traditional zombie movie. Hell, the director called it a zombie movie

I think you just made that up!

 

[JayKeeley]

THE OMEGA MAN (1971): Directed by Boris Sagal, starring Charlton Heston

Classic movie based on the novel, I am Legend. Here's a description from DVD empire:

Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. And makes damn sure he gets undercover before sundown, when other "inhabitants" emerge.

The Omega Man adapts Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend into a high-impact, high-tension saga of[font=verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=-1]i[/size][/font]a fate not far removed from reality. Charlton Heston is Neville, fending off attacks by The Family, sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa (Rosalind Cash), another uninfected survivor - and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope.


Since 1971, this movie has never ever been considered a Zombie flick, and for the rest of time, neither will 28 Days Later.