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Well, the move went swimmingly - only 6 hours from house-to-house on the hottest day of the year with about 1200 lbs of trash and garage sale stuff in between. Cleaning was another story...but I digress. I'm approved for my loan, with a few minor conditions, and should be signing the papers in a day or two. BOOYAH! I'm still without phone on the homefront, and broadband is at least 12 days away, but I'll live - more time to finish the next 2 proposals for our friends at Paradigm, knock out the Dragonstar material and do a little pinch-hitting for the 2003 Shadowforce Archer Threat Book (the Shop, for those in the know) and Stargate. Now to set up my desk...
28 Days Later
***WARNING: Some Spoilers Follow***
A good friend of mine's favorite movies are zombie movies - if he could get a picture of George Romero tattooed on his ass he would - so I ended up seeing 28 Days Later this Friday for a little A/C and relaxation before the big move. I'm sure you can read a boatload of reviews on the film on the web now, but my impression was that the movie is a very good, very intense film for the first half, then turns into Day of the Dead (3rd in Romero's trilogy) for the second. What bothered me the most was not so much the plot (which is never the strong suit of a zombie film - it's always a few humans clinging to their humanity while trying to repel wave after wave of undead) as it was the inconsistancy of the characters.
It's like the screenwriter wrote the first half of the script, set it aside for 6 months, then returned to it without rereading what he had written. Jim, our hero, who is allegedly reluctant to kill, flies off the handle and brutally murders a soldier (sure, it was the guy who shot the bleeding heart sergeant, but still, like that?), while Selena, who hacked apart her compatriot of 4 weeks when he had a cut on his arm after the zombie attack, doesn't try to fight or cut her way out of the situation with the soldiers (the 'give me my knife back' scene wussified her in particular). Unlike Day of the Dead, in which the characters are all trapped underground, the soldier's compound was not secure - they could have bailed. I liked it, but the second half, I feel, detracts greatly from the mood set by the first.
Well, the move went swimmingly - only 6 hours from house-to-house on the hottest day of the year with about 1200 lbs of trash and garage sale stuff in between. Cleaning was another story...but I digress. I'm approved for my loan, with a few minor conditions, and should be signing the papers in a day or two. BOOYAH! I'm still without phone on the homefront, and broadband is at least 12 days away, but I'll live - more time to finish the next 2 proposals for our friends at Paradigm, knock out the Dragonstar material and do a little pinch-hitting for the 2003 Shadowforce Archer Threat Book (the Shop, for those in the know) and Stargate. Now to set up my desk...
28 Days Later
***WARNING: Some Spoilers Follow***
A good friend of mine's favorite movies are zombie movies - if he could get a picture of George Romero tattooed on his ass he would - so I ended up seeing 28 Days Later this Friday for a little A/C and relaxation before the big move. I'm sure you can read a boatload of reviews on the film on the web now, but my impression was that the movie is a very good, very intense film for the first half, then turns into Day of the Dead (3rd in Romero's trilogy) for the second. What bothered me the most was not so much the plot (which is never the strong suit of a zombie film - it's always a few humans clinging to their humanity while trying to repel wave after wave of undead) as it was the inconsistancy of the characters.
It's like the screenwriter wrote the first half of the script, set it aside for 6 months, then returned to it without rereading what he had written. Jim, our hero, who is allegedly reluctant to kill, flies off the handle and brutally murders a soldier (sure, it was the guy who shot the bleeding heart sergeant, but still, like that?), while Selena, who hacked apart her compatriot of 4 weeks when he had a cut on his arm after the zombie attack, doesn't try to fight or cut her way out of the situation with the soldiers (the 'give me my knife back' scene wussified her in particular). Unlike Day of the Dead, in which the characters are all trapped underground, the soldier's compound was not secure - they could have bailed. I liked it, but the second half, I feel, detracts greatly from the mood set by the first.
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