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Death and zombies, death and zombies – go together like a horse and carriage. Or so Frank Sinatra did not sing, ever.
But he should have done, because they are a great combination.
Like fish and chips or Madonna and the chronic desire to plunge nails into your eyes.
Of course, that’s because zombies are actually dead, but still somehow manage to die again and deal out death.
(Before you start, we know they are actually ‘undead’).
Zombies – got to love them. Seeing their slow, shiftless bodies somehow catch up with and eat the brains of their unwitting, fully agile victims never ceases to amaze.
Their grotesque faces, their cold, emotionless eyes and laboured movements – it’s just like watching X Factor, only remarkably not as popular.
We cannot get enough of them. Maybe we secretly want to be one.
Shuffling mindless droves, drooling, stumbling towards you with their vacuous black eyes – it’s not easy going out to the cinema these days. Luckily, Zombieland is one of those films that’ll pick-up a cult following on DVD (and Blu-ray), much like its main inspiration Shaun of the Dead.
Shaun’s influence is as much admitted by the film’s creators, but this doesn’t make the mistake of being a carbon copy. Firstly, it clearly has a budget that stretches past the few teabags that their UK friends had. And it also manages to supply a decent amount of zombie bludgeoning to go along with the ample helping of comedy.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing Michael Cera Columbus, whose MMORPG/wankathon lifestyle has left him with the neuroses akin to one of Woody Allen’s balls; leaving him surprisingly well-prepared for the zombie-apocalypse. It’s not until he matches this intellect with the gun-toting Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), that the film finds its stride.
Right and wrong.
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Big week for the weekend box office this week – just look at all the incredible films that were released on Friday.
There was Michael Moore’s latest, searingly topical, effort. Drew Barrymore’s debut as a director. The latest breathlessly-anticipated movie by The Coen Brothers. That Ricky Gervais film that’s garnered glowing reviews from all corners. Which one of these equally worthy new releases ended up topping the US weekend box office chart?
Oh, it was Zombieland. A film about Woody Harrelson shooting a bunch of zombies while wearing a funny hat. Of course – why didn’t we think of that?
