Tuesday morning stuff
Jun. 21st, 2005 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiMy brain's basically telling me go get some coffee, or else it'll shut down on me. Stupid brain. Stupid exhaustion.
Speaking of brains, for those who aren't familiar with the series, the Romero zombies aren't really brain eaters. Sure, they'll eat them if they have to, just like I might eat a McDonald's burger if there's no other choice, but these guys are all about the intestines, liver, stomach, and other juicy bits.
The whole zombies/brains thing really got its start in Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2 (#3 was all about Mindy Clarke and her piercing fetish, and was pretty much brain-free). Dan O'Bannon wrote and directed the first one, and it's a blast. The zombies there are actually already as advanced as the zombies we get in the later Romero flicks, but the movie is much more of a comedy.
Actually, I'm not sure the "brains" concept has ever not been played for laughs. Aside from the RotLD movies, you've got the one Tick episode, as well as the zombies in various comic strips (almost always played out with the zombies ignoring Stupid Butt of Jokes because he doesn't have brains), and the unique zombies in Diablo 2.
But the Romero Zombies? Aside from being slow, steady, and strong? Definitely organ meat creatures.
Speaking of brains, for those who aren't familiar with the series, the Romero zombies aren't really brain eaters. Sure, they'll eat them if they have to, just like I might eat a McDonald's burger if there's no other choice, but these guys are all about the intestines, liver, stomach, and other juicy bits.
The whole zombies/brains thing really got its start in Return of the Living Dead 1 and 2 (#3 was all about Mindy Clarke and her piercing fetish, and was pretty much brain-free). Dan O'Bannon wrote and directed the first one, and it's a blast. The zombies there are actually already as advanced as the zombies we get in the later Romero flicks, but the movie is much more of a comedy.
Actually, I'm not sure the "brains" concept has ever not been played for laughs. Aside from the RotLD movies, you've got the one Tick episode, as well as the zombies in various comic strips (almost always played out with the zombies ignoring Stupid Butt of Jokes because he doesn't have brains), and the unique zombies in Diablo 2.
But the Romero Zombies? Aside from being slow, steady, and strong? Definitely organ meat creatures.
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Date: 2005-06-21 01:35 pm (UTC)Supposedly Parts 4 and 5 are being filmed back-to-back. Like our lives were empty without that.
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Date: 2005-06-21 02:42 pm (UTC)Didn't care for drag queen poodles and Robert Englund painting rings around his nipples, eh?
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Date: 2005-06-22 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-21 01:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-21 02:44 pm (UTC)As far as the whole brain eating thing goes, really the only place where I've seen it done in a serious manner was in All Flesh Must Be Eaten, but then again that was an RPG.