>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:48:24 -0400, Joseph DeMartino wrote
(in article 
):
> On Oct 26, 1:14 am, Duggy  wrote:
> 
>> I think that ... ["Shaun of the Dead"]'s mostly a
"already likes Zombie 
>> films" thing.
>> 
>> I don't think you have to, but it's better if you do.
> 
> I'm not so sure.  I generally dislike zombie movies,  which tend to be
> formulaic to the point of idiocy.  I thought the original "Night of
> the Living Dead" had a raw immediacy that Romero never recaptured, and
> I only watched the first color remake (of what seem to have been 50)
> because Pat Tallman was in it.  Even then I only watched it once. <<
I'm going to agree with this (that you don't have to already lke zombie 
movies to like "SotD").  My husband hates horror movies, but he
enjoys comedy 
and particularly enjoys incisive parody, and so he's watched (and enjoyed) 
"Shaun of the Dead."
>> But "Sean of the Dead" was just fun - a comedy first,
and a "zombie
> movie" only incidentally. <<
That's "Shaun," same as Shaun the sheep.
>> I suppose you get more out of it if you're already familiar with the
> tropes of the genre, but like I said, you only have to have watched
> one or two zombie films the know all of those. <<
Exactly.
Amy
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