A PSA for my brain
Oct. 28th, 2010 06:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terajkJust because we have no antagonist, you cannot latch onto the zombie apocalypse meme. Stop trying.
But zombies are the duct tape of literature!
No. They are the duct tape of film--and we can barely make icons. Besides, what could Toph do against zombies?
Maybe you need to light them on fire and then bury the ashes.
Now you've made Ash Williams cry. Although we want Toph and Azula to need to handle the threat by themselves, we don't want everyone else to be DEAD.
They're not dead--they're zombies!
But you just said--
I say a lot of things.
You know that flesh-eating plague zombies only go back to 1960s Pittsburgh. The Avatarverse wouldn't have zombies.
But it could have a disease that makes people kill each other but doesn't make them undead.
Then why would those people need to be burned AND buried?
Uh.
But zombies are the duct tape of literature!
No. They are the duct tape of film--and we can barely make icons. Besides, what could Toph do against zombies?
Maybe you need to light them on fire and then bury the ashes.
Now you've made Ash Williams cry. Although we want Toph and Azula to need to handle the threat by themselves, we don't want everyone else to be DEAD.
They're not dead--they're zombies!
But you just said--
I say a lot of things.
You know that flesh-eating plague zombies only go back to 1960s Pittsburgh. The Avatarverse wouldn't have zombies.
But it could have a disease that makes people kill each other but doesn't make them undead.
Then why would those people need to be burned AND buried?
Uh.
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Date: 2010-11-03 02:02 am (UTC)Exactly! And Eli Roth knows how movies like that are supposed to work. Plus, it had tons of auditory cues in it. I even thought the virus made a noise (it sounded like Rice Krispies in milk), but I think maybe the speakers in the theater were just messed up.
Also: what?! They kept Paul [SPOILER] alive(ish)? Sigh.
Oh, no. It's brilliant, actually. (Or audience abuse. I'm not sure). Because it really is Rider Strong, but he's so sick/made up that you can't recognize him, he has no lines, and he stumbles around painfully until a bus hits him. Cue opening credits.
They also brought back the stoner cop and Giuseppe Andrews tries his damnedest, but he doesn't really have anyone interesting to play off of.
And that Zhao conversation - EPIC
He'd make his twitchy-face afterwards, of course.
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Date: 2010-11-04 03:29 am (UTC)Ok, that is actually pretty satisfactory! (though ... poor actor. That must have been an awkward conversation with his agent - 'yes! they are hiring you back! ... for a lengthy makeup session and not much else').
Interesting about the audio cues in the first movie - I can't remember the virus being rice-crispies-ish, but, wow, if so that is some excellent sound design.