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Post by sostie on Apr 6, 2017 12:53:00 GMT
Zombie films:
Romero's Night/Dawn/Day Of The Dead
Dawn Of The Dead remake
Shaun Of The Dead
Wild Zero
Train To Busan
Rammbock
La Horde
Dead Snow
Zombie like films without actual zombies:
28 Days/Weeks Later
the REC films
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Post by lakelander on Apr 6, 2017 17:20:56 GMT
Zombi is an absolute must since it's a classic. It may bore you at times, but you have to see it. I also liked Shock Waves (though I hate the title). It's one of those Nazi zombie films. I wouldn't say it is imperative that you see it, but I came away with a positive impression. The same goes for The Grapes of Death. And as Johan said, Living Dead at Manchester Morgue is pretty good too. Christina Galbó is at her finest! Shock Waves is really good. They played it a lot on late night horror shows in the late 70s and early 80s. When I went to get it on home video about 2004, it wasn't easy to find.
Manchester Morgue was pretty spooky first time I saw it. I had a PAL video of it, but I always liked the alternate title of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
That just reminded me of a nice 1972 low budget film called Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. A pretty good film.
Directed by Bob Clark, who was killed with his son in a head-on car crash by an undocumented immigrant drunk driver. IMDB, always PC, only states this about it:
He died on April 4, 2007 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
Even though they regularly go into great details about the circumstances of anyone else who has died.
Funny how there was never any sort of outcry from the Hollywood community about this. I mean funny in an ironic, hypocritical way, not as in humorous.
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Post by sostie on Apr 6, 2017 18:01:47 GMT
Directed by Bob Clark, who was killed with his son in a head-on car crash by an undocumented immigrant drunk driver. IMDB, always PC, only states this about it:
He died on April 4, 2007 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
Even though they regularly go into great details about the circumstances of anyone else who has died.
Funny how there was never any sort of outcry from the Hollywood community about this. I mean funny in an ironic, hypocritical way, not as in humorous.
Maybe because it wasn't as a hot a topic 10 years ago. Was there an outcry that it was an undocumented immigrant by the non-Hollywood community? Not sure what you are trying prove/achieve bringing this up. How far back shall we go with news stories to emphasise a current political view point...whether it is one from the left or right? |
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Post by lakelander on Apr 6, 2017 23:46:48 GMT
It was just as topical outside the Hollywood community then as it is now, and there was an outcry among those who never got listened to, so it's not just a "current political viewpoint". You probably just never thought about it or heard about it yourself.
I'm not proving anything or trying to prove anything, hothead, just talking about a good zombie film that happened to be directed by someone whose killing was basically forgotten about because of the Hollywood PC culture then which still stands the same now.
You're too easily triggered. Relax. Maybe you should stop posting about anything that's older than a year, so you won't be "out-of-date".
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Post by Flynn on Apr 7, 2017 3:56:31 GMT
Zombi is an absolute must since it's a classic. It may bore you at times, but you have to see it. I also liked Shock Waves (though I hate the title). It's one of those Nazi zombie films. I wouldn't say it is imperative that you see it, but I came away with a positive impression. The same goes for The Grapes of Death. And as Johan said, Living Dead at Manchester Morgue is pretty good too. Christina Galbó is at her finest! Shock Waves is really good. They played it a lot on late night horror shows in the late 70s and early 80s. When I went to get it on home video about 2004, it wasn't easy to find.
Manchester Morgue was pretty spooky first time I saw it. I had a PAL video of it, but I always liked the alternate title of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
That just reminded me of a nice 1972 low budget film called Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. A pretty good film.
Directed by Bob Clark, who was killed with his son in a head-on car crash by an undocumented immigrant drunk driver. IMDB, always PC, only states this about it:
He died on April 4, 2007 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
Even though they regularly go into great details about the circumstances of anyone else who has died.
Funny how there was never any sort of outcry from the Hollywood community about this. I mean funny in an ironic, hypocritical way, not as in humorous.
I'm not sure what the outcry is supposed to be about here. I don't see what it matters that the drunk driver was an undocumented immigrant. To me that's irrelevant. Lots of people drive drunk and kill other people, and it's tragic every damn time it happens, but to somehow hold this one example as a case against all illegal immigrants seems wrong to me. It's okay to dislike or feel apprehensive towards illegal (or even legal) immigrants. It's actually an innate biological response, as we are hardwired to prefer people who look and act like ourselves. And that's really it (at least I think so), as the significant influx of Mexicans into the US over the last 30 years has understandably left a lot of Americans feeling helpless and angry, as if the country has been invaded, with nothing to be done about it. The country we knew as children has changed. Culture has changed. And it has made many people uncomfortable. I totally get that. But at the same time I think it's best not to take arbitrary criteria as a justification for something else. The fact is that the vast majority of Mexicans who have come here are mothers and fathers who just want a better life for their children. What is wrong with that in spirit? If any of us were in a bad position in life and saw a brighter future in the next country over, we'd all surely choose that course. Sure, some illegal immigrants commit crimes and are involved in unfortunate fatalities, but that's sometimes partly due to a system that makes it difficult for poor people to get a leg up. Perhaps if we had a better immigration system in the first place some of those people would not have turned to crime. We always should consider each case individually rather than lump them all together. We need to look at the circumstances that made that person drink. Could we as a society have prevented that tragedy? Using this example as a way to generalize all illegal immigrants seems to me like an agenda, and agendas make me nervous. It's what Republicans and Democrats do, and I hate it. We basically just pick out wherever details fit our agenda. This time, it's an undocumented illegal immigrant, but next time it could be a case against some other form of person. You might hate women, so you pull out that detail as an example of why women shouldn't be allowed to drive, or you you don't like people from Alabama driving in Georgia, so you use the example to claim trans-state driving should be illegal. Politicians do this kind of crap all the time, and it's really not good. It also sets a bad example. The odd thing is: if we want undocumented immigrants to "go back home," the best way to achieve that is to help the Mexican economy. More jobs and a better quality of life will draw many back into the country. You talk about Hollywood PC culture, but I just don't see it. I don't see examples of political correctness in Hollywood. I see people in the film industry who are certainly into causes, but I wouldn't call that politically correct. To me, words like "Hollywood liberals," "top 1%," "special interests," and "activist judges" are buzz words that get thrown around but that mean very little. It's just another form of a ping pong match where the ping pong ball is the gullibility of the American people. Sorry for my rant, or was it a lecture? I was just trying to respond to your comments, and that took me in a direction all its own. Please excuse me. I'm a little upset today because of what the senate did. I hate the Republicans for not confirming Obama's Supreme Court pick, and I hate the Democrats for being so petty that they were unwilling to be the bigger party. I wish I could vote out every Republican and Democrat so we could populate congress with people who put their constituents above their own myopic party. Ordinarily I would be hesitant to facilitate the hijacking of a thread with unrelated comments, but this board is pretty dead. It's not like I'm distupting a lot of people. To sum up, yay zombie films. |
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Post by lakelander on Apr 7, 2017 14:40:12 GMT
Nobody was trying to generalize or use stereotypes of an ethnic nature or national origin. You're the one calling on that. I stated a SPECIFIC example of an incident that displayed the hypocrisy present in this particular situation, and how it extends to other situations.
You are not only ranting, you are raving as well. Though to be fair, the posts would be more appreciated on the politics board I expect.
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Post by egon1982 on May 16, 2017 18:49:37 GMT
Zombie films: Romero's Night/Dawn/Day Of The Dead Dawn Of The Dead remake Shaun Of The Dead Wild Zero Train To Busan Rammbock La Horde Dead Snow Zombie like films without actual zombies: 28 Days/Weeks Later the REC films What about Re-Animator or Return of the Living Dead? |
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Post by fangirl1975 on May 16, 2017 19:07:56 GMT
The greatest zombie film is the granddaddy of them all; the original Night Of The Living Dead.
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