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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Zombie Santa?

So, I'm woken this AM by my Mom who is petitioning Hallmark for the inclusion of a new holiday; '6 Months Till X-Mas Day!' To date there are no official cards, however last year I photoshoped up my own to send to my Mom, who had for the first time forgot. Today, she got me. To celebrate, Liz and I went to go see Romero's 'Land of the Dead'. We had just previously rented 'Day of the Dead' and were ready to get served up a couple-a hours of pure cheeze. We were not dissapointed. Although it's hard not to like a movie where characters kill zombies with shotguns in their spare time, I'll be the first to admit it was on the 'cult' side of good. However, the cheeziness actually staved off the Hollywood factor that was the only thing I didn't like about the remake of 'Dawn of the Dead'. Well, that and the fast zombies. I don't care who ya'are, slow zombies a better movie make than fast zombies. What I will say for 'Land' is that the setup actually got me interested. I don't particularly like the actor playing the lead which imdb.com tells me is named Simon Baker, but I did like his character and his slow witted, sharp shooting buddie. I dug the big Samoan dude who teamed up with them in the end, and there was a cameo by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the lead actor/co-writer and director of 'Shaun of the Dead'. So that was cool. I think I'll start a tradition myself. I'll make 6/25/2005 a day to watch zombie flicks, just to help remind me that it's only 6 months till X-Mas... Mom's right, there's no good holiday in June.

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