I went to see Romero's Land of the Dead today. I decided to go about 2 minutes after it started showing, so I ran to the theater. Luckily for me, I got there just as they were starting the Serenity trailer, which looked wonderful. It actually looked like it was a movie-length version of the last episode.
At any rate, some bozo brought their year-old child, and did not leave throughout the movie, no matter how many people told them to take the damn baby out. The baby didn't cry at all, a fairly impressive feat for a baby watching a zombie film. Instead, it sort of cooed all the time. It sort of went like this:
Guy in movie: OK, I'll just wait for you guys here. I'll be fine! [Zombie pops up and eats the guys face, with flesh and blood splattered everywhere]
Baby: Coo! Gurgle!
Audience member: Take the fucking baby out!
Owner of baby, if there was one: [Silence]
Not only that, but I had another experience that I previously had in watching Eyes Wide Shut. About fifteen minutes into the movie, a mother and 4 of her kids, ranging from 12 to 4 years old, tramped in. For both of these movies, I just don't understand the mentality that a person uses to choose movies. Does she not know this was a zombie movie? I didn't see her later, she probably figured left soon, which was just what the person in Eyes Wide Shut did. Maybe it's the same woman, who specializes in taking her kids to wildly inappropriate movies. She followed me from San Francisco! Now that's scary.
At any rate, it was a good movie. As usual for Romero zombie films, it has some great satire. Kind of depressing though. A lot of people died. I think I'm getting too mellow, that thing would never have upset me before. But at the end I felt pretty good, because with O'Connor resigning, and the administration as usual dragging their heels on climate change in the G8 conference, I was feeling pretty down today. But now I realize that no matter how bad things are, at least we don't have to deal with zombies.
Posted by ahyatt at July 2, 2005 03:21 AM