Rug Burn Junky on 2/1/2008 at 18:27
1) In the opening newscast, they're showing football scores along the bottom crawl and it says "Giants lose to Patriots for second time this season 23 to 7."
Here's the thing, being that they're in different conferences, they cannot play each other twice in the same season. Hell, they can only play each other once every 4 years (as anybody in the US who was paying attention knows, they played this past weekend, and won't again until 2011).
UNLESS, of course, they play in the Super Bowl. Which would no doubt be listed as "Patriots win Super Bowl by beating Giants for second time this season." That's just a basic fuck-up. Fuckers in LA don't know football.
2) The houses along the north side of Washington Square Park are ridiculously expensive. We're probably talking in the $10-15+ million dollar range if they were ever on the market. There's no way in hell an Army colonel is affording to live there. In fact, they are historically protected landmarks, so that lab he's got humming along in his basement? Not happening (yeah, yeah, I know "He could have built it afterwards." Not fucking likely: Come on, he's installing that bullet proof glass shield by himself?)
3) The zombies followed them when she rescued him? How? She was zipping along in the car with them on foot.
And they didn't attack THEN, even though she surely couldn't have gotten all of the shutters closed in time by herself, even if she knew that they were there.
And she made it to his house without directions, based only on the address, in spite of the fact that she's a nurse from fucking Brazil, and presumably hasn't spent enough time in NYC to really know the geography? Fuck, I know lifelong residents that can't navigate the village without a GPS.
4) If I believed that there was only a pound of bacon left on Earth, and somebody else just ate two-thirds of it? You'd best believe I'd shoot first, ask questions later.
Ulukai on 2/1/2008 at 19:20
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
We already cleared this up, and discussed Omega Man and Last Man on Earth and their 'similarities'.
Uh, cleared what up? The fact that I would like to wholeheartedly add weight to the recommendation that anyone who hasn't experienced Heston's 71' Omega Man, either through not being alive at the time, oversight or foolishness make the effort to do so?
"No one else may add weight to the love for a classic film in this thread because we already had a discussion about it." Excuse me if I failed to acquiesce to your charmless request, letspostlolmeister
D'Juhn Keep on 2/1/2008 at 19:58
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
3) The zombies followed them when she rescued him? How? She was zipping along in the car with them on foot.
Isn't this pretty much spelled out by them having great olfaction, especially (only?) for blood? I don't know how following scents in a car works in real life but that would be their explanation vov
Rug Burn Junky on 2/1/2008 at 20:17
I suppose, but he specifically says that they "followed" them home. So then how come they never had before, like when he was dragging Sam's bleeding, soon-to-be-zombie-dog, sorry-ass carcass back to the house with a ripped open thigh?
Besides, then why would it matter if it was still dark the night before when she brought him home? Maybe the scent was still fresh, but why did they turn around and leave, instead of just attacking?
It doesn't matter, it's the bacon thing that really bothers me. The world's last remaining bacon is worth killing over.
Shoshin on 2/1/2008 at 23:03
Quote Posted by Ulukai
Uh, cleared what up? The fact that I would like to wholeheartedly add weight to the recommendation that anyone who hasn't experienced Heston's 71' Omega Man, either through not being alive at the time, oversight or foolishness make the effort to do so?
"No one else may add weight to the love for a classic film in this thread because we already had a discussion about it." Excuse me if I failed to acquiesce to your charmless request, letspostlolmeister
I recently watched "The Omega Man", and the only thing that would make that POS watchable is if it were being mocked by puppet robots. Which, in my head, it was.
demagogue on 2/1/2008 at 23:11
Are you sure that's not just your gut reaction to any early '70s movie? You have to keep it situated in its time and place. Acting styles and the spirit of the times were different then.
Scots Taffer on 2/1/2008 at 23:28
Yeah, I'm left wondering how he turned a lovely Washington Square Park townhouse into a fortified semi-laboratory... but I guess these things aren't consequential to the plot. Neither is how in only three years he's apparently developed a fake life for himself, talking to store mannequins and what-have-you. I'm about a half hour in, not terribly impressed but I wasn't expecting to be either.
D'Juhn Keep on 3/1/2008 at 00:10
I think you're underestimating the human need for companionship there. I'm fairly sure that after 3 years I would have killed myself out of loneliness.
You have me with those two points, Ruggums, but surely you could have some vampirebacon from the vampirepigs??
Scots Taffer on 3/1/2008 at 00:26
I'm sure the dog could cater to all his needs.
Ulukai on 3/1/2008 at 00:29
I bet your dog is gay, tho'
Quote Posted by Shoshin
I recently watched "The Omega Man", and the only thing that would make that POS watchable is if it were being mocked by puppet robots.
Philistine! Nothing can save your bacon now :D
