Weapons of Class Destruction

So, it's been a whole week since I saw Spidey 3 and I still can't get enough coherent thoughts to post about it on my journal. It was just so amazingly overwhelming; I know my sister and I just walked out of the theater almost in shock. She kept asking me, Did you like it, did you like it? And all I could do was nod dumbly. A day later I realized that, yeah, I LOVED it, but there was just something so...overwhelming (yes, that word again) about it. Raimi made some bold and bizarre choice, which is why I adores him; whether they were successful or not is a matter of debate, but I wouldn't want him to be doing anything else. It was certainly the most Raimi-ish of all three of the movies (I'm a die-hard Raimi fan first, so I loved that about it) and yay to Bruce Campbell in my favorite of all of his Spidey roles! Hopefully more thoughts will be forthcoming.

And, yays for jadeblood! I've no got myself my very own personal Madmartigan/Sorsha header! ♥ ! My jounral's gone all Lucas this month, with a Willow header and my prequel mood theme, because it's that time! The thirtieth anniversary of Star Wars is at hand (which coincidentally means mine is not far behind!) Well, Willow's a strech, but it is its twentieth anniversary next year! Erm, not like anyone'll remember 'cept me, but still! *Looks at the Madmartigan/Sorsha goodness and sighs dreamily*

28 Weeks Later comes out today. Looks so-so-ish. Don't understand why Robert Carlyle has been kinda type-cast as somebody's dad. I mean, obviously not in things like Eragon, where he's still type-cast as the psychopath (not that I'm complaining, mind!), but in normal-type roles. And of teenaged kids. Bleh. Throw them out to the zombies, I'll stay inside and make sweet, sweet love to Robert and call it my own personal post-apocolyptic utopia! *G*

And yes, they are zombies. You have to understand, I'm a purist. The George Romero shuffle is one of the scariest things I've seen put to films, and his movies are pure genius. But things change and evolve, in pop culture, but in culture in general as well. There are still those who complain that Romero's zombies aren't like "the real thing", i.e. voodoo-like. It's time to realize that new ideas take shape and influence the future. I might not be a fan of the fast zombie in general (c'mon! In things like the Dawn of the Dead remake, it's just plain reidiculous! They've been rotting for months! How the hell can they move that fast without bits falling off? And, hello, atrophy! That's just silly!) but 28 Days Later made its own mythos, it explained it in an unusual, convincing and frightening way. It reinvented the zombie movie.

Now others seem to be stuck between Boyle's vision and the tried and true Romero version, without allowing themselves to explore it in any unique way. Dawn of the dead was a rehash and, much as I loathe self-referential horror--because much as I love it Scream really ruined horror by blowing the whistle on its conventions--stretching to believe that the characters didn't even know that the bite is what changes people was a bit too much. And, you know, even Night of the Living Dead offered an explanation, albeit an extremely dated one about space satellites (though its message of racism will never be outdated!) Dawn of the dead--are we supposed to believe what we hear on the tv?! Hell's overflowing because of gay rights and the like? And people think this movie's radical in any good way?!

And, wow, that turned into an anti-Dawn of the Dead remake rant! I just don't get that movie. Great actors, but even the shock factor isn't high enough to make it memorable for me. Probably won't see 28 Weeks Later in the theater, and I should mention that the last third of the original 28 Days Later sucks ass big time, despite the presence of Chris Eccleston. (Yes, put those strong female characters in their place, threaten to gang bang them! That serves you right for being so independant at the beginning of the movie! Now simper girl, simper!)

Finally, check out this link: DibbukBox.Com. I remember when the original listing was on eBay; sheadog introduced me to it. Weird. The first story's creepy, the second anticlimatic, the third kinda offensive. I'm using a lot of it as the basis for a Supernatural fanfic I've started though.

Peace, Ghani