Comments on: Meet My Little Friends

By: Dain LaRaye

Dain LaRaye — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:20:36 +0000

Have you ever watched Romero’s last installment of his “Dead” trilogy, “Land of the Dead”? If you want allegory, that’s one’s loaded with it.

In the extras on the DVD, Dennis Hopper claims he modeled his character after Donald Rumsfeld. It’s an entertaining movie.

Yeah, fast zombies will require more practice with my first person shooter games to hone my targeting skills…

Cheers!

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:38:48 +0000

Oops. Was on the run when I typed that comment. I meant ’28 Weeks After’, of course.

Do we want to try to make the case that the military in ’28 Days After’ was more about Abu Ghraib than Iraq in general?

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Wed, 30 May 2007 01:36:20 +0000

28 Days or 28 Weeks? (Being the allegory for our occupation of Iraq.)

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:32:52 +0000

Caroline — Yep. We’re both obviously infested. I just got back in from a day in Austin with Rachael, and the littles lined up in the living room to greet me home. It was adorable.

Dain — Yeah, on ’28 Days Later’. Some folks are reading into it an allegory for our occupation of Iraq. Going in with confidence and the belief that you’re gonna do good, missing some crucial points due to incompetent planning and execution, destroying the thing you were sent to save, and killing a lot of innocents in the process, etc. I guess I could argue the case either way on that interpretation of subtext. I mean, if they didn’t mess up egregiously, what would be the movie, ya know.

On the Zombie Survival Guide, I couldn’t agree more. Should be taught in elementary schools, with refresher courses every few years.

Of course, if it’s fast zombies, we’re just screwed, I think. But Rach and I are not going down without a fight. If I can just acquire my motorcycle and get the mods done before the outbreak.

By: Dain LaRaye

Dain LaRaye — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:05:39 +0000

Hi,

Cool post. I, too, saw 28 Weeks Later. I thought it was pretty good (I’m sucker for zombie flicks, too) and I agree with you they some did some stupid things. Like whatever happened to the quarantine? Overall, perhaps the movie just illustrates the UN’s and the U.S.’s inability to fix every problem. At least that was my impression.

I also read most of World War Z. The first part of it was good and I did like it, but it kind of lost me in the middle and towards the end, maybe I’ll go back to now. Did you ever read Max Brooks’s first book “The Zombie Survival Guide”. That’s an entertaining read. There are nights when I lie awake agonizing that if there is a zombie attack, we are just not prepared! Have a good one.

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:55:45 +0000

Aieeeeeee!!!!!

More adorable kitties. Cheese and crackers, how am I supposed to get anything done with the sight of adorable cats in my head?

Must . . . pet . . . cat . . . now. . .