Yeah, Haitian-style voodoo zombies don't bother me either. I've been around enough stoners in my life, no worries about something that mellowed-out. Nor do the Return of the Living Dead zombies, which I think moved in too obviously human a fashion—they clearly read as people in makeup. The Romero zombies, the ones from the Romero remake, and the 28 Days Later hyperactive pseudo-zombies all raised the hairs on my neck, though.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 15, 2006 2:54:23 am PDT #1327 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Nutty - Apr 15, 2006 6:35:52 am PDT #1328 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
There's a funny (not intentionally) Icelandic saga that explains zombiedom among our frozen cousins, with an anecdote about how Skalla-grim (name translates to Skull-grim) died, and his son planned carefully so that the body could nto come back to haunt him.
Skalla-grim died at home, so they busted a hole in the wall of his house, and carried the corpse out that way, and then after the funeral immediately fixed the hole. Since zombies follow their own trails back to the place where they died, the plan was that zombie!Skalla-grim would crash into the exterior wall of the house, possibly repeatedly, instead of inviting himself in the front door.
(Norse zombies, unlike Haitian ones, are just really mean corpses, not shambling idiots. I mean, they sometimes talk, they wield weapons, and people re-slay them -- by cutting their heads off and placing the heads far away from the bodies --, but they are still dumb enough to bash themselves into a wall because it wasn't a wall last time they passed it.)
Volans - Apr 15, 2006 7:40:45 am PDT #1329 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Ha! That explains why when someone dies in a Navajo hogan, they bash a hole in the wall, carry the corpse out that way...and then leave the stove-in hogan and go build another one.
Lee - Apr 15, 2006 7:10:41 pm PDT #1330 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I was watching Robots, for about 5 minutes, and then I stopped. Is there any reason to go back to it?
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 16, 2006 5:10:03 am PDT #1331 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Laughter at the convenience of the glowy red "destroy humanity" setting the robots are given?
Lee - Apr 16, 2006 6:39:48 am PDT #1332 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hmmmm....
Kalshane - Apr 17, 2006 5:29:52 am PDT #1333 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Laughter at the convenience of the glowy red "destroy humanity" setting the robots are given?
Wow. I wouldn't have expected humanity destroying from a kids movie.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2006 5:35:28 am PDT #1334 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IJS.
Kalshane - Apr 17, 2006 5:47:40 am PDT #1335 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I meant within the movies plot, not that the movie itself was spawned from the lower depths of hell.
tommyrot - Apr 17, 2006 5:51:08 am PDT #1336 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I suppose you could argue that there's a subtext to that movie that says, I am Barney, destroyer of worlds.