Common sense? Come on, she tried to get her 18 year old to marry her baby daddy. She believes in abstinence only education… don’t even get me started.

So what you seem to be saying is, because she is an, “Attractive Lady,” with a capital ‘a’ no less, that she is therefore exempt from criticism and parody?

These things have always puzzled me. Any takes?

(It was somewhere over at FSR but the fucking site is down right now, hence no link)

*-”Twilight” does not count as vampire flexibility.

There’s also something sympathetic about them, as friends and family can become zombies after being “infected.” There is your personality: it’s the signs of their past lives, whether it’s a hard hat, a baseball bat dragging on the ground, a band shirt. There’s something vaguely tragic about zombies in that they are former human beings, robbed of their lives and personalities and left a hollow shell. It looks like your friend (more or less). and it walks as though it were a live, but nothing else about it is familiar.

Similarly – the rules for killing a zombie (via the Romero “___ of the Dead” series, generally considered canon): you gotta destroy the brain or separate the head from the skull (and don’t get me started on the Return of the Living Dead zombies – those just. do. not. stop.). For a zombie a few weeks old, this isn’t so hard. But the human skull is still pretty hard; your baseball bat is going to wear down; a gun will run out of ammo; a blade will wear thin. At any rate, there are always going to be more – there’s always another neighborhood that thinks it’s safe until one asshole doesn’t block a window, or a school that doesn’t know what’s going on. The odds are in their favor, and there’s almost never a zombie movie that ends with more than a handful of survivors.

Can you run the landscape forever, taking food from convenience stores as you avoid the roving bands of creatures? Think you can barricade yourself in a safe place? Imagine thousands of dead hands pressing up against the doors and windows. Build a wall? That’ll work for awhile, but eventually they’ll gather the numbers that some are just climbing over one another until you’re back to having them at your door. Separated by a body of water? They dont’ need to breathe – they’ll just walk the ocean. Can your supplies last you forever? Of course, they’re stoppable , but can you ward off the population of the world, turned into remorseless killing beasts, on your own? These are the considerations within the zombie genre.

As for zombie movies as movies, they can (and often do) provide good cultural satire, as in the original Dawn of the Dead. A lot of them turn into parables about the deceitfulness within mankind’s nature. I’ll agree to an extent that they are inherently lame monsters in many ways, which is why Zombieland, Dead Alive and Shaun of the Dead are effective comedies. But they’re still good for entertainments, as even the super-low budget Night of the Living Dead has an imminent sense of danger.

But, all that aside, if you were to argue that it’s a played-out meme that really needs to stop so that we can start over again with some good zombie movies in 20 years – I will agree with that.