Comments on: Nasty Dead Island promo statue "belongs in museum"

By: blueelm

blueelm — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:43:00 +0000

I had actually forgotten plug-in air fresheners until you mentioned them. Ugh…

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:34:00 +0000

Initially this thing didn’t bother me as much as perhaps it should, but mostly because I used to have a couple of male counterparts packed away in my Halloween trunk, along with the severed heads and limbs I used to employ in my haunt. But I’m not going to make an argument that it’s not misogynist. If nothing else, for a corpse that purports to be the remains of the victim of a zombie attack, the head and arms are awfully cleanly missing, leaving behind what would be a conspicuously untouched torso packed with delectable meaty bits, which no ravenous ghoul would pass up. So the fact that the “sexy bits” are left in an arguably sexy condition, less the “thinking and talking bits” (i.e., the sources of annoyance for your garden-variety woman-hater) which have been removed altogether, demonstrates the mindset behind this deplorable prop.

At least my other torsos, icons of violence and depravity as they were, didn’t apparently carry this whiff of sexist subtext. And the Union Jack bikini isn’t helping matters.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:15:00 +0000

I was about ten years old before I knew that a zombie was something other than a cocktail.

By: M Carlson

M Carlson — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:21:00 +0000

Dang, I forgot what a great song that is/was!!

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:41:00 +0000

Free publicity.

By: Daemonworks

Daemonworks — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:18:00 +0000

I don’t mind zombies per se, but the stock western infection-zombie is one of the least interesting movie monsters there is for me.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

The entertainment industry is to a pop culture genre as the Native Americans were to the noble Bison—nothing left to waste.

(Unfortunately, we’ve reached the “OK, who wants the rectum?” part of that analogy.)

By: jsandin

jsandin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:43:00 +0000

I pray that someday I will live in a world where zombies and plug-in air fresheners have been forgotten.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:29:00 +0000

Hard to get up in arms about something so stupid…

Particularly if your arms have been violently torn from your well-endowed, highly objectified torso.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:27:00 +0000

Except for the people who are actually IN zombie movies/games/TV dramas/etc. They always say “the Dead” or “the Walkers” or “the Geeks” or “the Infected” or “Them” or “those decomposing corpses that get up and stagger around and bite you and then you turn into one of them.”

Never use the “Z” word if you’re actually confronted with zombies. It’s offensive.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:24:00 +0000

Mummies or GTFO

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:01:00 +0000

Zombie, zombie, zombie-ah, hey-ah, hey-ah, hey-ah, o-ho, o-ho, o-ho, o-ho, o-ho, o-ho, o-ho, hey-yaa, yaa, yaa, yaaaaaa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:10:00 +0000

I’ve had the same problem with squirrels chewing through my roof. Could you send some of those squirrel hunters you know over to my place?

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:59:00 +0000

I think people just like saying “zombie”.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:55:00 +0000

People who have this also own Hostel on HD-DVD.

By: UnderachievingSheep

UnderachievingSheep — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:53:00 +0000

Both items must be part of “The Forever Alone” line of home decor. Also known as “display when you want to make sure people only visit once”.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:52:00 +0000

Our culture is based on squeezing trends until every single molecule has been extracted.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:52:00 +0000

That plus the countless “zombie runs” and survival guides/tools that clutter the landscape now.

By: angusm

angusm — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:45:00 +0000

“squirrel-skinning misogynist” may become my new all-purpose go-to insult.

By: invictus

invictus — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:27:00 +0000

Compare and contrast

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:18:00 +0000

As someone that spent four years in a quite good art school and had to come up with analysis of work I can say, with some authority, that John Teti is full of shit in his analysis. Tongue in cheek is one thing, wasting the time, breath, and energy required to write what he did is a crime against humanity.

By: EvilSpirit

EvilSpirit — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:17:00 +0000

No, this is what we get after vampires were turned into elves. Zombies are filling the vacated niche.

By: Quiche de Resistance

Quiche de Resistance — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:48:00 +0000

It’s robots. Here they come.

By: dioptase

dioptase — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:43:00 +0000

I know several squirrel hunters. Really nice people. And a good number of them are skinning and eating squirrels to make ends meet. Other just like them. I’ve got all the respect in the world for someone willing to face reality and butcher their own meat (unlike a coward like me who would rather buy it at the store).

And after a couple squirrels chewed a hole in the roof of my house, I’m all for thinning the squirrel population. Dang fancy rats.

By: C W

C W — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:39:00 +0000

This is what happens when a trope.

By: Cocomaan

Cocomaan — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:36:00 +0000

Hard to get up in arms about something so stupid, but I guess people will try to be outraged over anything these days.

By: anansi133

anansi133 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:35:00 +0000

This is what we get after too much vampire. And the next trope to follow this one? It’s even worse.

By: anansi133

anansi133 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:34:00 +0000

This is what happens when a trope *tries* to jump the shark- and fails.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:32:00 +0000

You’re not the only one. I admit I find some films of the zombie genre very entertaining, but every time a new one comes out I wonder when it will end. Unfortunately it probably won’t ever end. Zombie films are cheap to make and the only brains required are the ones made by Tom Savini.

By: len

len — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:24:00 +0000

Why you gotta bring anti-squirrel meat bigotry into this?