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jonathanlhoward

Onwards, Ever Onwards

Oct 14, 2009 09:40

Right, well, the second draft of the second book, Johannes Cabal the Detective, went off to Doubleday and Headline on Monday. I'm sure it will go to a third draft, but that one should be relatively quick to do. ( Zombies, and fairies, and novels, oh my! )

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deathmask_revel October 14 2009, 19:44:41 UTC

Uh...good luck!

Glad to see progress being made on JCtD--have you yet decided whether you liked Zombieland or not? I'm waffling myself on deciding to even see it. I mean, Where the Wild Things Are comes out I think this weekend, here, and I might just rather spend my money on that bit of nostalgia...

fabula_umbrae October 15 2009, 00:27:59 UTC

Good luck! :)

I think one of the important things to keep in mind about Zombieland is that it's a comedy, not a horror flick. Yes it has zombies in it, but it's a comedy with zombies in it and lots of fun over the top violence. When it comes to the trend of faster more explained zombies in recent years I think it's a side effect of two things. One being the idea that for a new horror movie of a classic creature has to reinvent it to be interesting. The other being that it's hard to make something that can't move very fast really scary without putting some work and actual thought into it. It's like how there are more and more startle films out there and fewer and fewer horror films.

jonathanlhoward October 15 2009, 10:16:28 UTC

Thanks ( ... )

fabula_umbrae October 15 2009, 20:44:42 UTC

I keep hoping that someone will do more with the zombies that don't stop when you knock their heads off. Where there are things like disembodied limbs crawling around adding to the sense of impending doom of the whole scenario. I want to see someone shoot off a zombies head and have the zombie keep coming after them. There are a few movies that did that but I think all of them were made before 1990. I feel really bad for not being able to list them but I haven't marathoned zombie movies since I was about 10 and several of them have melded together into a sort of mental Legion.

"Dead Set" sounds interesting. I'll see about finding a copy, I'm sure someone I know has it.

qualapec October 24 2009, 07:39:34 UTC

I've heard good things about Zombieland, although I haven't been able to see it yet.

But I'm very curious about your thoughts on Inglorious Bastards. I, too, had to think about it for a while before pretty much coming to the same conclusion. I didn't like it, but for some reason can't exactly pinpoint whether it's a matter of personal taste, or if it was a poorly done movie. I've had a bit of a hard time analyzing it.

qualapec October 24 2009, 07:41:38 UTC

Oh sh*t! I really hadn't intended to use the antagonistic icon. Sorry!

jonathanlhoward October 26 2009, 17:43:59 UTC

That's okay, no offence taken. I'm made of hardy stuff, me ( ... )

qualapec October 28 2009, 02:59:00 UTC

In retrospect, what bothered me most from a personal standpoint WAS the German/Nazi connection, if maybe for a different reason ( ... )