Splattercast 79: Indiana Zombie and the Kingdom of Drunken Deejay
May 19th, 2008 by MaT
episode is now up for your listening pleasure
Deejay hosts this week as we talk about the first weekend of shooting “Outpost Doom”, review Rob Zombie’s garbage filmography, and talk about the new Indiana Jones flick.
Enjoy
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Bryan (Drunken Zombie) said:
Diary Of The Dead does suck. Romero has no clue how to write dialouge for anyone under 40 anymore and now beats you over the head with his messages now.
Stevie-poo said:
That’s exactly how I felt while watching the movie. The only real social commentary in the movie is on how people video tape people in danger instead of helping the person in danger and he doesn’t just beat you over the head with it, he fucking smashes you in the face with a sledge hammer with it. There’s a little bit of the usual commentary on how humanity can seem to work together but it really takes a back seat to how he feels about the “Youtube generation”. Also in the older films it was like you had a choice. You could just watch the movie and enjoy it as entertainment or you could choice to pay close attention and get the hidden messages from the film. There is no choice in Diary of the Dead. You can’t escape the commentary here.
Stevie-poo said:
I probably should have put all that in a review.
MaT said:
Diary of the Dead was idiotic. I rolled my eyes when Romero tossed in some racial social commentary again. They run into a bunch of armed black guys who are now like “WE run things now!”…dumb.
Also, the entire foundation of the film is screwy. Romero wants us to believe that these characters know the “rules” of horror films during the making of the Mummy movie…yet as soon as they see video of dead people coming back to life, they have NO IDEA what is happening or what is going on. Give me a break. The first thing everybody on earth would think if they saw some dead person come back to life is “ZOMBIE!” and the first thing anybody would do is shoot it in the head. That wouldn’t have been such a problem if Romero hadn’t gone out of his way to show that the characters are conscientious and self-aware about horror movies.
Nothing in this movie works. At all.