Steve Crook

That's about as bad as in One of Our Aircraft is Missing where the escaping airmen are due to meet a fishing boat at a marker buoy and one of them (Hugh Williams) makes a comment about meeting their buoy friends!

It works well as long as people don't use that strange American (in some areas) pronunciation "boo-ey"

Steve

lordtednfs

Shaun of the Dead is an exellent comedy film and shows how the writers perceive British audiences and people to be today. Dead Boring. Look around you. How many people do you see smiling as you walk around town or travelling to and from work? Not many. The idea behind the movie is to show how much the Brits have become like zombies, get up, go to work, go to the pub, go home, go to bed, get up, go to work....its programming, it's like a virus, same as the zombie virus when they bite their victims, they follow the same routine. A brilliant film and very well acted. Love it.

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lordtednfs

I agree with you Aaryk Noctivagus, Vincent Price is not only a screen but a radio legend as well. What a voice. Recommendation here: Try to find some of his earlier radio works, def worth listening to. Turn the lights down low.

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Steve Crook

There's no need to be as glum as Blakey all the time. I see quite a few people smiling as I travel around and where I don't, I live by the adage "If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours"

I travel around London by tube quite a bit and I find that the received wisdom about nobody talking to each other or daring to make eye contact is also wrong. I don't mean that they're all chatty and cheery all the time, but they're certainly not all glum drones shuffling along with their heads down all the time either.

I don't think Shaun of the Dead was about that at all. I think it was a zombie comedy, and a very good one. Just because Shaun was having a dull life, I don't think that's saying that everyone in Britain has a dull life.

Steve

Rowdon

Don't think anyone's mentioned 1978's "Killer's Moon". Full of schoolgirls, one-legged dogs, and axe-murderers on acid but still manages to be not very good.

batman

This film has been discussed on the forum before and has even been the subject of an NTF. Check the search icon, there is some interesting chat on here about Killer's Moon. I saw it at the cinema, I didn't mind it. It was crap, but it was intriguing crap.

Bats.

"Daddy, look at that mess, Mummy will go nutters"

Rowdon

Thanks for that, Bats. I read the KM thread with interest - but what's an NTF?

Steve Crook

Name That Film
See the huge long thread about it. It's a long running competition.

Steve

Rowdon

Searched through the Name that Film thread and could find no mention of Killer's Moon.

However, there were many, many pages and I may have nodded off for a time and not realised.

The film means a lot to me, so I'd be interested in hearing anything about it. It's described in Jonathan Rigby's "English Gothic" as "as crass as they come", "crudely exploitative" and "Has to be seen to be believed" ... but at least it's described.

D Cairns

"I don't think Shaun of the Dead was about that at all. I think it was a zombie comedy, and a very good one. Just because Shaun was having a dull life, I don't think that's saying that everyone in Britain has a dull life."

Simon Pegg has said that zombie films are always a metaphor for something else, and that SOTD is a metaphor for laziness. Which could mean mental laziness, the unthinking, automatic way we do things -- you can see this in Shaun's life before the crisis, and it's illustrated vividly in the opening credits. And that's why the zombies are able to fit in so well at the end.

I think it's wrong to say something "sn't a metaphor, it's a western/thriller/zombie comedy."it can always be both, and the makers of films often do think about them quite a bit in terms of meaning -- especially the good ones.

Tom

Xtro..nuff said

pumpwater

For me the best horror film ever
'The Wicker man' (Scotland 1973)
The worst horror film ever
'The Wicker Man' (USA 2006)

batman

Xtro - truly awful. Although it does have one redeeming feature ... Maryam D'Abo!

Bats.

"Daddy, look at that mess, Mummy will go nutters"