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George Romero And His Softening Stance On Zombies
When you hear the name George Romero, the only thing that you can possibly associate it with is zombies. With Night of the Living Dead in 1968, he created the zombie apocalypse genre, as well as redefined what made up the cinematic zombie. Prior to Night of the Living Dead, zombies were generally people under some type of voodoo spell, not the reanimated dead. I think we all owe him a debt of gratitude.
I recently treated (some might say subjected) myself to a Living Dead marathon, watching Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, and Diary of the Dead back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back. There are worse ways to spend a day.
What struck me the most was that, as the movies progress, Romero starts looking more favorably on the zombies and more …
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Tags: death, George Romero, lifestyle, undead, zombie
Do Movies Still Have The Power To Change Our Lives?
I’m going to make a couple assumptions here. First, that you have seen or don’t care about the ending of The Mist. It’s just those last few minutes of the movies to which I’ll be referring, so if you don’t care about the ending and still want to read on, you may want to catch up with a review of the movie. Second, I’m assuming that at one point it was expected that watching a movie could change your perspective on life and that generally speaking, those days are long behind us.
I suppose I’m making a third assumption as well- that you’d believe I hold myself to be a fairly pragmatic person. It may seem there’s a plethora of evidence on this site to the contrary, but my normal course of business is to rely more …
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Tags: book, emotions, ending, perspective, stephen king
All Eyes On: Michael Dudikoff
Then the calendar turned to 1985- Dudikoff’s career, and heck, all of human history, would never be the same. He was cast to play Joe Armstrong in American Ninja.
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Tags: Action, Must See, Ninja, Opinion
Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn
So, every day I wake up, as you might guess, Furious and feeling furious. There are many reasons for that, but the smallest and most insignificant is that the hardest working man in show business doesn’t get the recognition he deserves. Obviously, I’m talking about Dolph Lundgren.
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Tags: Feature, Must See
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