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Brilliant! I can't believe
how incredibly funny I found this movie. After
laughing my ass off out loud while watching it by myself, I
watched it again less than three days later with my
girlfriend and Mike and laughed just as hard.
Wait, that's not true. I laughed even f**king
harder. Perfectly scripted, every single line
of dialogue comes back as a joke in the film. Every
line. Listen carefully to the bar conversation between
Shaun and Ed after Shaun gets dumped. Everything they
say is going to happen happens, just with a twist.
Each character, even the side ones, are distinctly scripted
and acted so that everything that happens matters, as far as
insane comedy goes. Add in a great Bill Nighly
performance, and we have one of the greatest zombie movies
ever made. Now, out of all types of fictional
cautionary tales, zombie movies have been traditionally the
most political, commenting on materialism, 80s excess, 70s
excess, 90s excess, 60s excess, all kinds of excess being
damned by "higher thinkers" of Hollywood. At the very least
zed-word movies tend to comment on our dead-walk through
life, doing our daily duty, unthinking, unwavering, dying
having made no difference but fulfilling what society has
deemed be our purpose. (See W.H.Auden's great poem,
"The Unknown Citizen"). And out of all these zombie
movies, "Shaun of the Dead" is the best. The best
commentary with the best message, the best ending and the
best "higher thinking". Shaun of the Dead,
though containing all the requisite gore of a quality zombie
film, is a movie everyone should see, restoring hope in
humanity one impaling at a time. Eating habits
Joe De Matteo
Solid
This
is a story about people with poor eating and drinking
habits. Shaun and his friends, like our friends
at
Office Space, hate their mundane lives and
unfulfilling jobs. That is why they spend, what seems
like, all of their spare time drinking at the local pub; and
that is why they don't seem to notice that those
other zombie like people in town, are not unhappy in their
lives, they are zombies. So we have two groups
of beings: 1. unhappy young people with high
alcohol-blood-levels, and 2. the ghouls that want to eat
them. Shaun of
the Dead may very well be described as a story that asks
the question, "can a young boy from a boring town in England
find fulfillment as a zombie killer?" The answer may
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I think that says it
all. But if you don't like Brit humor, you may not
agree.
Here is a fun idea,
when the DVD comes out have a Shaun party. Show
the movie and cater it with pepperoni pizza and very rare,
roast beef and tomato sandwiches, with lots and lots of
mayonnaise. UM, UM good. |
