Re: Random movie talky stuff.
I recently bought 'The Crazies' on DVD. It's a remake of an old George A Romero film (from the 70's I believe. It wasn't a part of his 'dead' series and hasn't gotten too much attention these days), in which a virus goes through a town turning people mad. They don't become zombies, they just go bat shit insane, most violent, some just these creepy little singing and staring routines. A group of survivors is trying to escape the town as the military puts up a quarantine.
So, not your basic zombie film though it could be put in the genre. There's no eating of flesh as the insane folk use weapons, or simply fuck with your mind. Some groups of infected people are radically different from the next, making it interesting to see what a sick person will do. There's a fair bit of fear and paranoia amongst the survivors trying to escape when they discover how the virus spread initially and each wondering if the others are sick or not. Sure there was some scenes that were rather gory, but it's another one of those movies that doesn't need to shove a bunch of gore in your face like a 10 year old child yelling "Look at me mommy! I'm all grown up I swear."
Now don't get me wrong with that last line, I enjoy watching gory movies, as my love for Dawn of the Dead will attest to (both remake and original), but some recent movies like Saw and Hostel just have me shaking my head.
So, the Crazies was a good flick, though it had a few parts that were rather predictable, and some might not like the slower pace it has. Surprisingly little of the movie actually deals with attacks from the sick.
As for The Last Airbender, I have no desire to go see it. I've heard of one person so far that's actually liked it, and most people who don't outright hate it are defending it by saying "well they did pinch 10 hours of content into 2". Which is a bullshit defense. Utter bullshit. X-men, Punisher, Spider-man, Batman and so forth have taken years of cartoons and comics and did an initial movie of 2 hours, sometimes to great success. Then there's Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter. How much was cut out of those two books in order for them to fit the screen time, but they still did well, and were enjoyable movies.
Finally... someone tried to convince me to see it because it was so horrible. I now know why Hollywood keeps pumping out shit. Because people want to see shit. I told all my family members to go see the movie Paschendaele when it came out, just because I knew if it did well, there might be another attempt at a Canadian war movie. So, all this money that bad movies make from people going to see it because its "so horrible" just means that they will pump more shit because they think that's what we want, because we say so with out cash.
I recommend it for fans of zombie films, anyone who likes horror, or George A. Romero buffs intrigued to see how his stuff is remade.
