Change? We fear change.

(Lonely Planet)

I guess its human nature, however I feel that change is what I need if I'm to escape the ever growing mundanity of my life (Why am I putting all this online? Hubris? Maybe its easier talking to no-one than someone... I digress) I guess this blog is part of my changes, in a way, but I hope to realise bigger and more sweeping ones in the weeks and months to come. Two years have gone pretty much to waste and it can't go on any longer.

SPOILER!

On another note, I just watched 28 Days Later for the first time. When it was firt released I wrote it off as an Omega Man rip-off, I stand by that evaluation but at the same time its a fairly entertaining movie. Perhaps my expectations were sufficiently lowered as to not be disappointed by it but I felt it moved along fairly well and I wasn't bored by it at any point. Some plot holes aside (the main being why choose to stay in a city full of thousands of crazy zombie types for 28 days instead of getting in a car and heading to the middle of nowhere?) I felt the main let down to be the characters, Christopher Eccleston's Major was lifted directly from the old Triffids show here in the UK, I would have preferred a slow burning descent into insanity (although granted he doesnt appear till late on) Eccleston's casting also signposted a crazy-turn ahead, the man just seems a little too good at that... The central characters are just a bit too whiny and selfish (human?) for me to really care about apart from Brendan Gleeson's Frank but then he ends up just as bad as the rest before his rather contrived demise. Whiny characters have a place but it is to contrast aginst someone who "has their shit together", or to allow an evolution from reaction to action in a character.
Not the best example of zombie horror but then again nowhere near the worst. Give it a try, after all there are people out there who thought Dog Soldiers was a masterwork...