{"id":97,"date":"2010-02-17T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T17:30:26","slug":"more-zombies-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"More Zombies? Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I finally got around to watching Zombieland<\/span>, and I must say my expectations weren\u2019t all that high.\u00a0 But to be honest, they weren\u2019t that low either.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the movie was in theaters, I had seen some commercials, and I was interested in what appeared to be a movie about fighting zombies at an amusement park.\u00a0 In fact, when I re-read that thought, a movie about fighting zombies at an amusement park still sounds awesome to me.\u00a0 They even decided to use the same actor from the movie Adventureland<\/span>, and to tell you the truth, if Adventureland<\/span> had zombies, I would\u2019ve liked it a lot better.\u00a0 Plus, Woody Harrelson was in the commercials looking like a zombie-fighting baddass, so that was a huge bonus too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For one reason or another I didn\u2019t get around to seeing it at the theater even though it was the highest grossing zombie movie ever, but the other day we had some friends over and decided to rent it from the Redbox down the street.\u00a0 Long story short, I liked the movie.\u00a0 I liked that it had fun with itself.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take itself seriously.\u00a0 As someone who enjoys the zombie mythos, and someone who believes that yes, you can<\/em> make a bad zombie movie, this is the first zombie movie I can remember that really made me laugh and smile.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sure, Shaun of the Dead<\/span> was funny, but that was British humor.\u00a0 I enjoy British humor from time to time, but\u2026this is Woody Harrelson and zombies! That idea is hilarious. In my opinion I put Woody Harrelson\u2019s character of Tallahassee in Zombieland<\/span> up there with Shuan from Shaun of the Dead<\/span> and Ash from Evil Dead<\/span> and Army of Darkness<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I know right now it seems like we\u2019re inundated with zombie fiction, but it\u2019s good to see that a fun little gem like Zombieland<\/span> can pop up in the midst of it all. If you haven\u2019t seen it, and you like funny zombie fiction, Woody Harrelson, and a surprisingly intelligent look at living in the world after a zombie apocalypse, then check it out.\u00a0 It\u2019s definitely worth a dollar rental at the Redbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if you liked Zombieland<\/span>, you\u2019d probably like any of Max Brook\u2019s books like The Zombie Survival Guide <\/span>and World War Z<\/span>. Last time I checked, there was a World War Z<\/span> movie in the works. And if you\u2019re looking for more awesome zombie fiction after you\u2019ve seen every zombie movie, check out a comic written by Robert Kirkman called The Walking Dead<\/span>. There are a bunch of collected graphic novels out, and AMC recently picked it up to make a TV show which I\u2019m hoping will be good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh! I just looked on IMDB, and it appears there is a Zombieland 2<\/span> in the works.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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