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westsidewolf · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject: What zombie movies can teach us

Yale's take.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/28543
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CavWarrior · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject:

Knowing there is a lesson in zombie flicks kinda takes the fun outta them. I want to be entertained, not edumacated!!!
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RedJacketMan · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject:

Its even better if you can get both.

Acr1dapple · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:24 am Post subject:

Aye aye Jacketman. I like the movies you can learn something from but only if you pay attention. That way the people that just want flashy lights, shiny objects, and pretty colors get what they want without realizing it can teach you something too
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mehillus · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:

Edutainment?!?! Aww hell.
but there is a point to this, i mean really, think about it.
there are those out there [and in here] that would begin to think "if this really happened, how long would it take?".
and im pretty sure that we have had a plethora of intellectual disscussions on the subject.
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CavWarrior · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

True enough. At least it's not like sitting in a boring lecture.
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Tron · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:59 am Post subject:

1911A1Bob · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:17 am Post subject:

This is linked from today's MSNBC Homepage:

http://a-list.msn.com/default.aspx?cp-searchtext=Zombies
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RedJacketMan · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject:

Thats alot of zombie stuff comin out. Im actually planning to watch Night of the Living Dead. Is it good?

Doctor_Bedlam · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:

Rrrr... depends on your taste.

I liked the original NOTLD a lot... but I am old, and I like old B&W movies.

If you are young, the NOTLD remake is quite good; directed by Tom Savini in 1990, it preserves much of the plot and charm of the original, and has a few surprises as well. And OMG, the CAST they got for it...

The 3D version with Sid Haig ... well... it's not THAT bad. But it ain't great, either. Recommended for rabid zombie completists.

The original NOTLD has the advantage of being in the public domain, which means you can find it anywhere cheap, or legally download it from any number of video sites; I'm pretty sure you could find it on YouTube, for that matter. The remake can be found on DVD without much trouble. For some reason, the 3d remake is a bitch to find...
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mehillus · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:37 am Post subject:

westsidewolf · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject:

CavWarrior · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject:

What Wolfster said! NotLD has to be seen to be appreciated for its impact on modern film and even society. Putting a black man in a leading role over whites was huge. The message Romero wrote so subtly into the movie was a statement about the times he lived in. Now I don't know if Romero borrowed elements from "The Last Man On Earth", but he did borrow heavily from the Matheson story "I Am Legend" from which "Last Man" was taken. Romeros' genius can be further seen in the original Dawn of the Dead and to a lesser degree in Day of the Dead. He seems to have lost his mojo though of late and his films don't have the same edge they used to.
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Tron · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:27 am Post subject:

Vincent Price was one bad mofo in that show.

Doctor_Bedlam · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:44 am Post subject:

Romero and Russo, on the commentary track, talk about how they were driving into Pittsburgh with the completed film in the can... and they heard on the radio that Martin Luther King Jr. had just been murdered.

We have here a film released in the late sixties... with a black man in the lead role... (seems he and Barbara were the only professional actors in the whole show)... in the world where MLK had just died, and it seemed like the world was going up in flames. Dead Kennedys. Cuban Missile Crisis. Vietnam war. Johnson refusing to run for president. Nixon. Societal upheaval. And now, MLK.

If there was ever a time for a zombie movie, that was IT, man. No WONDER it left a dent...
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