Watched a few movies in the past few days. George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is really a classic horror. Released in 1990, it lacks the gory stuff that makes today's horror movies horrifying. Instead, it uses the ugly-zombie-moving-slowly-towards-you kind of effect to create that fear in the viewer. I like it. I dislike gore. It's disgusting and unnecessary.
Which is one reason why I think 28 Weeks Later is a crappy movie. All that blood was totally pointless. It wasn't fear that made my heart beat faster - it was the grossness that made me want to cover my eyes. And I especially dislike seeing things being done to the eyes, somehow. So that scene in which the first infected guy did all that stuff to his wife was, to me, one of the most useless parts of the movie.
And in 28 Weeks Later, it gave me the impression that the English are seriously brainless. I know it's not true, generally, but that's what the movie seemed to convey to me. In the first part where the guy abandons his wife when she tries to save the boy, I could understand if the boy is unable to get out of the closet. But for the woman to want to pull that boy out when she knows how close the angry dudes are, is foolhardy at best. And that old grandmother who stood at the ladder while watching in horror as her husband got pulled down... I don't know. Maybe that made sense. Frozen in horror and shit.
Next in the part where the people returns to London, the fact that the two kids would run out after being warned that there are still infected animals out there irritated me. I mean, the whole world in the story knew that the virus practically wipe out all humanity in England. That should have given unimaginable weight to that warning about infected animals. Yet the kids ran out and brought in the carrier. Wow? And the boy stood there looking at his mother when he should have ran at the first strange noise. Holy cow! That really got on my nerves! I mean, whatever living creatures out there have to be infected, so isn't it logical the siblings should be totally paranoid and jump at every sound? INSTEAD OF BEING CURIOUS AND WALKING TOWARDS IT TO CHECK IT OUT?!? And then, the woman wasn't enclosed in extremely secured room after the doctor saw various signs of being bitten. It was obvious that she was infected, but affected in a unique way. They should have been paranoid and isolated her somewhere. If there is a virus that managed to wipe out all humans living in England, I don't see why they should be so relaxed, even if it was 7 months after the outbreak.
My next complaint is on the part where they massacre everyone. Shouldn't they have a rule that if they spot any group of survivors walking together and showing signs of being normal, they should bring them to safety? It's not that hard to see who's normal and who's not when they come in a group. Especially when one of them was normal enough to use A FUCKING MIRROR TO SEARCH FOR THE SNIPER! I mean, if even one of them in the group was infected, that group can't possibly be normal at all. That crazy sniper shooting them deserved that shot. And that time when they burned the good sniper while he pushed the car! Where was the logic in that?
Here comes the last bit. The part where the boy got attacked by his infected father. He was right to run away from his sister. But his sister went after him! Yea I know that's love, but... that's stupid. I mean, there's nothing she could have done to help, and she could have got infected. It would have been a useless gesture of love that even her brother would not have comprehended if not for his immunity. That is a good example of thinking with the heart and not the brain.
Overall, 28 Weeks Later is an infinitely inferior sequel, compared to its prequel, 28 Days Later. This may be the first movie I have hated.
The Invasion is a nice movie. Made me think that maybe it wasn't that bad if everyone got infected in the end. Of course it didn't end that way, but what if...
The infected humans were not truly human, because emotions and our myriad of ways to express them are what define us as humans. Without them, how different are we from a well-designed robot?
The Invasion is a good remake. I haven't watched the original, and I have no motivation to watch it. And Nicole Kidman is gorgeous.
Now playing Sins of a Solar Empire. Good game, unique that it has no campaign. This is the first real-time strategy game I have ever played that lacks a campaign mode. But it's a nice game, an incredible time-consumer. It really makes you feel that your space empire is huge, because travelling between each planet takes quite some time, and between each star is even longer. The graphics are decent, not impressive, and I seldom have any reason to zoom in close to appreciate the ships.
Now I'm playing this huge randomly generated map, 3v3v3. Been at it for more than 6 hours, and it is apparent that I have won. I rank 1 in all 3 categories at the moment, and my empire covers about half of the 5 solar systems. Basically, they cannot compete with me when it comes to pirates because I have more money for bounties than they can ever get. My fleet is so powerful because I have researched everything and have maximum number of crew for capital ships. I have only 2 left. Gets kind of boring now, but I want to win this game for the medal for winning while using the Advent race.
The Advent race is the SoaSE's counterpart of the Aeon race - Fanatics of some religion with a group mind. And not to mention that cool-looking designs of their structures and ships.
Somehow I can't win in a 1v1 vs a Normal AI, but owns the enemies when its 3v3v3. Perhaps it's got to do with my reluctance to get a huge fleet in the early game.
Alright, I now have a Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead. More zombie movies!
And D-Wars too! But that's not a zombie film.
Must be the influence from Urban Dead.
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