I admit I came late to this discussion and didn't read all 1616 comments, but it seems no one mentioned the recent, soon to be classic, Jim Jarmusch take on zombies (and the movies about zombies), "The Dead Don't Die" starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Tilda Swinton!! All the usual small-town law enforcement, diner employees, etc. But, very tongue-in-cheek and they are willing to break the action in the movie by talking about the making of the movie! Good fun!
In neither of these movies have the main characters stopped in the middle of an urgent, life or death situation to emote, to feel sorry for themselves, to weep over some long past trauma instead of doing what they need to NOW. I HATE THAT.
By now, it is a truism that the dominant monsters in each period are reflections of society's fears. The giant bugs and lizards of the fifties were all about fear of the then-new atomic age. It seems obvious to me that zombies are stand-ins for the colored folk who are going to outnumber us white people in the foreseeable future. The fear of the loss of white supremacy scares a lot of us. The zombies are perfect "others", it is not only allowable to kill every one of them you can but it is laudable; race war without the moral complications. No doubt for biopic fans of the genre, the zombies are stand-ins for all the white assholes that have embittered their lives, for the power structure in its ubiquity and perviousness to reason, to negotiation.
The infected in The Last of Us are zombies, effectively, even though they don't have to die before chasing around trying to bite people. Didn't anyone else watch that?
In case anyone's in the market for even more brainss...err, zombies, my recommendation would be the largely unknown mini-series Dead Set from 2008. I'm referring to the British original, there have been some localized adaptations.
Written by Charlie Brooker, creator of the excellent Black Mirror series of media/tech dystopias, it takes the generalized insanity that was (back then) a British Big Brother eviction night and adds, you guessed it, our favorite cerebellum-munching miscreants.
It works well as a media satire and as a zombie tale. The protagonist, a tough minded production assistant, is easily among my favorite zombie heroes, standing proudly besides Dawn of the Dead's Peter Washington.
My baby boy gave his ol' man a shot of cortisone in my left knee yesterday and today I'm ready to dance.....err, ready to go muck out the stalls.
Got Mrs. Burger by the waist and tried to have a waltz around the kitchen earlier but only got a laugh and "Have you gone nuts?" reaction. Ahh... romance.
Welp on to the stables.
*btw: Best Line of the Week Award goes to:
"I can't say I'm sorry to see him go, but I think Mike Pence should have been forced to carry his campaign to term."
It remains the single greatest comedic joke of 2023 that any one thought this weird pissy tiny puckered asshole was going to thrive during the rigors of a presidential campaign. Youre on meet the press bud. It’s hardly debate club. He sounds like he’s about 5 seconds away from yelling MOM THEYRE UNFAIR.
I remember David Jolly saying DeSantis was not only a horrible person with no real principles who was trying to be a pale imitation of Trump, a sure way to lose on the campaign trail, but "...a terrible campaigner with bible leaf thin skin who won't be able to deal with any criticism. It will be a disaster."
I'm trying to branch off and watch some that I don't just usually re-cycle year after year (like The Shining, Rosemary's Baby, etc.).
So far, we've watched:
Unseen
Barbarian
No One Will Save You
Cobweb
The Menu
Talk to Me (really creepy and weird)
And some movie I can't remember the title of but it has "8" somewhere in there b/c the premise is that there's some kind of Tik Tok challenge or similar for people to sneak into a random person's house and stay there w/o being caught for 8 hours.
I really love those old Vincent Price Edgar Allen Poe movies. I know there's a new Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix, but I read the description and it seems like it really departs from the short story (which I sometimes don't mind, but sometimes I do).
Witches of Eastwick was filmed at the Crane Estate at Castle Hill in Ipswich. It's a beautiful property to explore. If tourists haven't taken all the parking anyway.
Inside America's most OVERVALUED housing market: Idaho underwent a property boom during the pandemic but experts say homes are selling 40% higher than their true worth
Our condo is the nicest one in our building and perfect for us. The one next to us was just purchased for TWICE what we paid for ours 11 years ago, which is an outrageous amount. My parents were like, you should sell! But there's no way we could afford anything as nice as what we have now!
(My mother especially is prone to wanting to move every 5 years, and thinks everyone else should too.)
my ex was like that- I've always suspected some Romany blood back when. She relocates the way other people flip through the channels. Once I get unpacked at all, I have no intention of going through all that again.
Housing prices are outrageous at this point in time. I am more than a tad horrified at what our property was recently determined to be worth by the local tax assessors.
My house went from being worth basically nothing to being worth a fortune. We own flat out, so we have to come up with those property taxes every single year and it's a nightmare.
It IS capitalist madness. It's also a desire to punish poor people who stayed within their means and worked hard to pay off their homes so they could tell a bank to fuck off. It's a vicious circle.
If it weren't for Maryland's Homeowner's Tax Credit program, I'd be in deep shit. The last couple of years it cut my tax bill in half, on account of being old and poor. This year I procrastinated until the state sent me a delinquent tax notice, threatening to take my house and auction it. I really truly deeply hate filling out government forms, as well as examining my finances, both of these things give me the aggravated fantods. Still waiting to see if they'll refund any of the 4K I sent them last month- probably not half, because I had to take over 10K out of my 410K last year, thus raising my reportable income to over 30K. It was an expensive year- a dead tree removal and a dead clutch repair.
I have a mortgage, and I also have to pay those taxes every year. Even here in Commiefornia, my taxes have nearly doubled in the ten years I've had this house. My fault for making improvements and getting permits for them, I guess.
I admit I came late to this discussion and didn't read all 1616 comments, but it seems no one mentioned the recent, soon to be classic, Jim Jarmusch take on zombies (and the movies about zombies), "The Dead Don't Die" starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, and Tilda Swinton!! All the usual small-town law enforcement, diner employees, etc. But, very tongue-in-cheek and they are willing to break the action in the movie by talking about the making of the movie! Good fun!
So the treacherous coward lives to betray two more people to their deaths. Wait- three. Don't remember hating a movie character as much as that shit
So, they're going to kill the last two survivors? Looks like it. Well, that's sufficiently bleak. Shit, there it goes.
In neither of these movies have the main characters stopped in the middle of an urgent, life or death situation to emote, to feel sorry for themselves, to weep over some long past trauma instead of doing what they need to NOW. I HATE THAT.
First time I 've ever seen someone try to fist fight a mob of zombies.
Too bad we didn't get to see Mr. Lock Them Out get his, the pig-faced asshole.
I can't wait to see Steele die screaming, the vicious asshole. Let him see how funny he finds it all now.
By now, it is a truism that the dominant monsters in each period are reflections of society's fears. The giant bugs and lizards of the fifties were all about fear of the then-new atomic age. It seems obvious to me that zombies are stand-ins for the colored folk who are going to outnumber us white people in the foreseeable future. The fear of the loss of white supremacy scares a lot of us. The zombies are perfect "others", it is not only allowable to kill every one of them you can but it is laudable; race war without the moral complications. No doubt for biopic fans of the genre, the zombies are stand-ins for all the white assholes that have embittered their lives, for the power structure in its ubiquity and perviousness to reason, to negotiation.
Be love centered
The infected in The Last of Us are zombies, effectively, even though they don't have to die before chasing around trying to bite people. Didn't anyone else watch that?
I’m so bummed I missed last night!!! I would have loved to share the movies with you guys. (But I had to work!).
In case anyone's in the market for even more brainss...err, zombies, my recommendation would be the largely unknown mini-series Dead Set from 2008. I'm referring to the British original, there have been some localized adaptations.
Written by Charlie Brooker, creator of the excellent Black Mirror series of media/tech dystopias, it takes the generalized insanity that was (back then) a British Big Brother eviction night and adds, you guessed it, our favorite cerebellum-munching miscreants.
It works well as a media satire and as a zombie tale. The protagonist, a tough minded production assistant, is easily among my favorite zombie heroes, standing proudly besides Dawn of the Dead's Peter Washington.
PSTT! All the other kids are in the New Pence Post!
I read that as Fence Post, which makes as much sense.
My baby boy gave his ol' man a shot of cortisone in my left knee yesterday and today I'm ready to dance.....err, ready to go muck out the stalls.
Got Mrs. Burger by the waist and tried to have a waltz around the kitchen earlier but only got a laugh and "Have you gone nuts?" reaction. Ahh... romance.
Welp on to the stables.
*btw: Best Line of the Week Award goes to:
"I can't say I'm sorry to see him go, but I think Mike Pence should have been forced to carry his campaign to term."
____ Betty Bowers
Hang in there and stay safe.
Archie, the Ginger Menace™, now has taken to nipping my elbow for attention when sitting at a desk. Who teaches these beasties this behavior?
I've narrowed it down between Jughead and Reggie.
Tales from fifth place: Mr Charisma edition turning the world on with his smile
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1718636161298514110?s=46&t=QTHD9GMfDGpAyfUoOmtJMw
It remains the single greatest comedic joke of 2023 that any one thought this weird pissy tiny puckered asshole was going to thrive during the rigors of a presidential campaign. Youre on meet the press bud. It’s hardly debate club. He sounds like he’s about 5 seconds away from yelling MOM THEYRE UNFAIR.
Wow. I have never heard him speak. That man is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
"We're handling it strong."
*eyeroll*
We don't call you DeathMantis for nothing, you cold-blooded, sanctimonious gawd damned LIAR.
Wish she had found that moxie to hold Dump to the fire, instead of just letting him steamroll her and lie, "let's move on" is not journalism.
I remember David Jolly saying DeSantis was not only a horrible person with no real principles who was trying to be a pale imitation of Trump, a sure way to lose on the campaign trail, but "...a terrible campaigner with bible leaf thin skin who won't be able to deal with any criticism. It will be a disaster."
He wasn't wrong.
Cry harder, Tiny D.
"Whadya mean, I can't just lie through my teeth?"
That dunderfucking failure is so pathetic.
We've been trying to mix up our movie selection this Halloween season. So far, we've watched:
Witches of Eastwick
Practical Magic
Last Voyage of the Demeter
Lost Boys
Nope
House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price version)
House of Usher (also Vincent Price)
Army of Darkness
A few Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors
Nightmare Before Christmas (technically, we haven't watched it yet, but it'll be on while we wait for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night)
I'm trying to branch off and watch some that I don't just usually re-cycle year after year (like The Shining, Rosemary's Baby, etc.).
So far, we've watched:
Unseen
Barbarian
No One Will Save You
Cobweb
The Menu
Talk to Me (really creepy and weird)
And some movie I can't remember the title of but it has "8" somewhere in there b/c the premise is that there's some kind of Tik Tok challenge or similar for people to sneak into a random person's house and stay there w/o being caught for 8 hours.
I really love those old Vincent Price Edgar Allen Poe movies. I know there's a new Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix, but I read the description and it seems like it really departs from the short story (which I sometimes don't mind, but sometimes I do).
What did you think of Cobweb? Hubs said he wanted to watch that one...
It was really creepy! Pretty good, IMHO, as far as those things go.
Witches of Eastwick was filmed at the Crane Estate at Castle Hill in Ipswich. It's a beautiful property to explore. If tourists haven't taken all the parking anyway.
I used to live in Ipswich in the early 90s. Right on the water. Freezing cold place with the washer dryer in the garage. Lovely place.
It was a bitch to commute into the city though.
Especially during greenhead season
Inside America's most OVERVALUED housing market: Idaho underwent a property boom during the pandemic but experts say homes are selling 40% higher than their true worth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/property-value/article-12673083/Inside-Americas-OVERVALUED-housing-market-Idaho-underwent-property-boom-pandemic-experts-say-homes-selling-40-higher-true-worth-leaving-owners-risk-negative-equity.html
Our condo is the nicest one in our building and perfect for us. The one next to us was just purchased for TWICE what we paid for ours 11 years ago, which is an outrageous amount. My parents were like, you should sell! But there's no way we could afford anything as nice as what we have now!
(My mother especially is prone to wanting to move every 5 years, and thinks everyone else should too.)
my ex was like that- I've always suspected some Romany blood back when. She relocates the way other people flip through the channels. Once I get unpacked at all, I have no intention of going through all that again.
'kin vultures, man.
I see a bubble forming.
It's already taking form.
Oh, I'm sure they learned their lesson after 2008, right? Right?
Rethugs?
"Learn"?
[dissolves into helpless, mocking laughter]
U R funneh.
Housing prices are outrageous at this point in time. I am more than a tad horrified at what our property was recently determined to be worth by the local tax assessors.
This is capitalist madness.
My house went from being worth basically nothing to being worth a fortune. We own flat out, so we have to come up with those property taxes every single year and it's a nightmare.
It IS capitalist madness. It's also a desire to punish poor people who stayed within their means and worked hard to pay off their homes so they could tell a bank to fuck off. It's a vicious circle.
If it weren't for Maryland's Homeowner's Tax Credit program, I'd be in deep shit. The last couple of years it cut my tax bill in half, on account of being old and poor. This year I procrastinated until the state sent me a delinquent tax notice, threatening to take my house and auction it. I really truly deeply hate filling out government forms, as well as examining my finances, both of these things give me the aggravated fantods. Still waiting to see if they'll refund any of the 4K I sent them last month- probably not half, because I had to take over 10K out of my 410K last year, thus raising my reportable income to over 30K. It was an expensive year- a dead tree removal and a dead clutch repair.
I have a mortgage, and I also have to pay those taxes every year. Even here in Commiefornia, my taxes have nearly doubled in the ten years I've had this house. My fault for making improvements and getting permits for them, I guess.
Throw in a bunch of Private Equity douchecanoes, and the circle is even MOAR vicious.