Movies: Shaun of the Dead and Game 6
It took a while for Shaun of the Dead to get started, but it was a lot of fun once the zombies showed up! Although the first half-hour was a bit slow, I really liked the way that there were many scenes filmed so that ordinary people who were tired, zoned out, or whatever, *looked* like zombies for a moment until you realized they weren't. Also in the beginning, the characters' lives were portayed as so bleak and dead-end that TODS and I had two reactions: (1) They live in LONDON! Where the BRITISH MUSEUM is! How can they possibly be BORED? (2) I have to credit this one to TODS - he observed that their lives are so empty that fighting the zombies is actually an improvement, which is actually pretty cool. The trivia section on the IMDB page for this movie has a lot of great tidbits of information.
Game 6, about a playwright worrying about a critic reviewing his play the same night the Red Sox play the Mets in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, was a dull and pretentious movie about extremely annoying people. It was well-acted, which just made the people more successfully annoying. I sorta liked the radio traffic report guy whose voice we heard periodically, who talked about everything *except* the traffic - his rambling commentary reminded me a tad bit of Ken Nordine's word jazz.
Game 6, about a playwright worrying about a critic reviewing his play the same night the Red Sox play the Mets in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, was a dull and pretentious movie about extremely annoying people. It was well-acted, which just made the people more successfully annoying. I sorta liked the radio traffic report guy whose voice we heard periodically, who talked about everything *except* the traffic - his rambling commentary reminded me a tad bit of Ken Nordine's word jazz.