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I disagree with you Tom. I think zombie movies rule. Though I wasn’t too impressed with Milla’s latest photo spread in Maxim (eat a cookie already,) I think she rules too.
RE was a bit dumb, but if you view it with your B movie goggles on, it fairs better than most thriller/horror movies. It’s campy, but it’s fun and I enjoyed it.
I used to hate horror movies, but I think that changed somewhere over the span of six summers when I worked at Wal-Mart. I guess fantasizing that something like Dawn of the Dead or even Red Dawn would happen, sending me to sporting goods to tear things up made the time pass by more quickly. For that I have movies like this to thank.
I will be seeing Resident Evil: Apocalypse this weekend if I can.
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You would have to be living under a pretty formidable rock to be unaware that actor Christopher Reeve passed away this weekend from hear failure. Some of you may have wondered why I’ve been relatively quiet on the subject until now.
Mostly it was because the news of his death didn’t enter the news cycle until Monday morning after that day’s comic had already been posted. I also didn’t want to mention it into the blog like it was some kind of historical footnote. I knew a comic strip dedicated to his memory was the only way to go. Being a site about movies, it should be expected. I know I certainly expected it of myself.
The reason behind the kind of confrontational attitude in the comic had a lot to do with the opinions I’ve been collecting since Monday. Trolling the internet as I do, you’ll see a pretty wide variety of reactions to Mr. Reeve’s passing. By in large, I would say the response has been shock and sadness. But every so often, you encounter a bitter soul that can’t seem to find anything positive to say about a man that left behind a legacy of inspiration and lobbied tirelessly for the advancement of research for the paraplegic.
I was particularly emboldened to go ahead with today’s strip after reading comments left by Absath over at Ctrl+Alt+Del. An unfortunately uneducated reader sent him an e-mail calling Reeve selfish for trying to find a cure for his paralysis only after suffering the affliction himself…
# THE REST OF THIS BLOG POST WAS LOST WHEN THEATER HOPPER MOVED TO WORDPRESS IN JANUARY 2009 #
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