Quote: EllieJP @ November 5 2008, 2:01 PM GMTI gagged atleats 4 times.
And if you hadn't been sucking off your boyfriend...?
Quote: Nil Putters @ November 5 2008, 2:10 PM GMTI enjoyed him being killed though. Very silly.
Silly? F**king ridiculous, more like.
Quote: Aaron @ November 5 2008, 2:22 PM GMTAnd if you hadn't been sucking off your boyfriend...?
He wasn't there. 
Alright, well your flatmate then. Same difference.
NO WAY!
Don't know if it's been mentioned already but Simon Pegg was writing about how he prefers fast zombies to slow zombies in The Guardian this week. He makes some valid points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set
Wow, he's changed his mind then!
Good read, cheers Chip.
Quote: chipolata @ November 7 2008, 11:56 AM GMTDon't know if it's been mentioned already but Simon Pegg was writing about how he prefers fast zombies to slow zombies in The Guardian this week. He makes some valid points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set
I just read the article and it's the other way around. He hates fast zombies. Go to any message board discussing zombie films and the debate of fast vs slow zombies is endless. I think that both are fine and I can enjoy Romero's zombies as much as Snyder's zombies.
I actually think that the fast style is just a new direction in the genre. Romero is cited as the single point from which all else spawned. It's as though, if it doesn't fit with Romero's vision then it simply is not zombie. I disagree with this viewpoint. The zombie genre goes back much further than Romero. What he did was take a particular aspect and give it new direction. I love his zombie work, but to state that anything Romero isn't zombie is no different to saying that anything not involving voodoo priests and tetrodotoxin isn't zombie.
There have been other films over the years where zombies run. Nightmare City and Return of the Living Dead are two that spring to mind. But I think it was with Boyle's 28 Days later that the running zombie/infected really hit home and became a benchmark for a new direction in the genre. After 28DL came Snyder's Dawn 2004 and of course Dead Set, both of which involve running zombies.
I find it amusing when people say 'dead people don't run' as though it's some all encompassing statement. I like to remind them that dead people do not reanimate and eat the flesh of the living either, but they never seem to get my point. At the end of the day it's made up entertainment, and in any genre it will always find new ways of re-inventing itself.
Def.
Quote: chipolata @ November 7 2008, 11:56 AM GMTDon't know if it's been mentioned already but Simon Pegg was writing about how he prefers fast zombies to slow zombies in The Guardian this week. He makes some valid points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set
He's not at all, just the opposite infact. And he's correct.
Quote: Deferenz @ November 7 2008, 2:04 PM GMTI like to remind them that dead people do not reanimate and eat the flesh of the living either, but they never seem to get my point.
You've never seen Joan Rivers.
I think running zombies have their place, but I have to remain a purist, shambling zombies for me every time.
Also the book "The Zombie Survival Guide" says they don't run and I take that as gospel 
Quote: chipolata @ November 7 2008, 11:56 AM GMTSimon Pegg was writing about how he prefers fast zombies to slow zombies in The Guardian this week. He makes some valid points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set
Which article were you reading?
I disliked the idea of them running in 28 Days Later, but it's grown on me. For modern, fast-paced horror, I think it's acceptable. But if you want to stick with slow, silent, creeping zombies who suddenly appear out of nowhere and bite a chunk out of you, then that's ok too.
In Return of the Living Dead, they can talk as well. At least enough to use a cop's radio and say "send more brains."
Quote: chipolata @ November 7 2008, 11:56 AM GMTDon't know if it's been mentioned already but Simon Pegg was writing about how he prefers fast zombies to slow zombies in The Guardian this week. He makes some valid points.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/television-simon-pegg-dead-set
What Deferenz, Nil Putters and David Bussell said.
Quote: Bad dog @ November 7 2008, 3:23 PM GMTI disliked the idea of them running in 28 Days Later, but it's grown on me. For modern, fast-paced horror, I think it's acceptable. But if you want to stick with slow, silent, creeping zombies who suddenly appear out of nowhere and bite a chunk out of you, then that's ok too.
They are NOT zombies!!!!!!