dolari | (no subject)

Neither do I.

Me neither.

I think they're supposed to be unappealing.

But people seem to think that they're "awesome" for whatever reason.

Coz they know all the best places* to get spicy brains.

...I know they're trendy, but I likes 'em anyway.

*restaurants, cafes, schools, factories, hospitals, et cetera

Neither do I. At all.

I think you just have to be one of those people. I don't get vampires, either, or why they're popular. It seems played unto death to me, and not even terribly fascinating.

If zombies weren't so popular, I might have been able to sleep last October.

*is not fond of them*

Our fear of zombies is our fear of other people. When people laugh at zombies, they laugh at their own fear of others. When they zombie-walk, they're saying, "Hey, look, I don't have to be scared of you, because I'm scary, too."

Zombies are a very, very old fantasy. I think the appeal of is kind of self-evident: you're getting a dead loved one back! It's a great place to start a story because you could create a "ticking clock" hook (Pushing Daisies) or a "wasting away" hook (Death Becomes Her) or a "loss of mental function" hook (Shaun Of The Dead) or a "miracle" hook (Jesus) or a "curse" hook (Pirates Of The Caribbean) or whatever you like.

Could you think of any better shotgun fodder?

what you see in most Hollywood zombie movies aren't zombies anyway. That annoys me more then anything else about it.

When a zombie bites you the worst that would happen is you would get infection where it bit due to possible bacteria, but nothing that a shot of penicillin wouldn't clear right up.

The nearly complete lack of moral and ethical ambiguity about how one should react to them. There is no big picture with zombies, just survival.

I don't get the zombie thing either. However, the few friends I know who are into zombies tell me that the appeal is that you can gleefully blow a zombies head off and everyone will cheer.

I don't get zombies or vampires...or horror flicks in general. I don't really get Halloween, either. I usually don't watch anything scarier than "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" at this time of year.

The weird thing is I think Zombie are awesome...but for the life of me I cannot think of a reason why. I've just always loved freaky stuff like vampires (real vampires not that Twilight bs) and zombies and tv shows like Buffy and Supernatural. It's kinda like a neo-romantacism movement, which was the first time people really became obsessed with the macabre and gothic themes.

There seems to be a bit of a fad for insisting they're perfectly scientifically plausible, too.

It's cause ya can legally shoot them. they are technically human but already dead so it's ok to hack them apart.
err.. at least from complete psychos like me that's the appeal

As Max Brooks says, "All the other monsters, you have to go to. Zombies come to you."