Don't Eat at Joe's, but rent "Joe's Apartment"

I am very surprised that I liked this one, I figured I'd be disappointed by a decidedly D-List cast (I hated O'Connell in Sliders and what ever else it was I saw him in), the disgusting premise, and over-used plot.

The thing is, this show has all those things, and I still loved it!  It made me smile with it's silly musical compositions, cheesily bad special effects, and, most of all, it's simple minded (everything about this show is simple-minded) good heartedness.

'Zombieland' is a cool movie, and related rambling.

I just watched Zombieland, very cool movie, not what I expected, but funny and scary in the parts where zombies show up, well funny through the hole movie, but scary where there were zombies ... oh, and the zombies were funny too, just scary along with being funny.  I liked Bill Murray's cameo (oh yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, you shouldn't have read this sentence.

And now for the paragraph where I go off the rails a bit.  I don't like the zombieism/vampirism/werewolfism as disease trope.  Not just because of all the slashes and all the -ism suffixes, but because it's trying to pass off horror as science fiction and it just doesn't wash.  It's a simple-minded ploy to make the idea of monster-x sound more plausible, but you either have to pretend that infections can cause people to defy physics, or you end up with "zombies", or "vampires", that are just sick people with no special powers at all.  So let's just agree that horror genres are a sub-set of fantasy, and let the zombies be the reanimated corpses they are meant to be.  Vampires the blood sucking undying evil that Brahm Stoker introduced us to, and werewolves be evil warlocks in league with the devil, and for two hours in the dark we'll believe the superstitious nonsense our ancestors lived there entire lives with.

Movie Review: Moulin Rouge

In this movie, Obi Wan Kenobi and Count Dracula vie for the hand of the lovely courtesan who is dying of consumption, whilst lipsyncing more than a battalion of drag-queens.  Not that there are any drag-queens in the movie, unless you count that one scene where the midget is dressed like a nun.  So knock a star off the final score for no drag queens, but put it back up there for midgets. Hurray for midgets!

Where were we, oh yeah, so Obi Wan woos Nicole Kidman by lipsynching to pop music and Rogers & Hammerstein show tunes (but he's totally strait), while Dracula offers wealth and fame and exudes more creepy perviness than a phalanx of chicken-rapists.  Which begs the question, who would win in a fight, Obi Wan, or Dracula?  but the question just hangs over the show like the fscking Sword of Damocles, while Nicole pulls a Mimi and dies in the end, but not before professing her love for Obi Wan.

I just can't wait for the sequel Moulin Rouge II, Revenge of Puccini.  Where Puccini and Murger come back as zombies kill the writers, and beat Baz Luhrmann to a bloody pulp while lipsynching to Lady Gaga songs and juggling flaming chickens.

Oh, and watch Moulin Rouge in the mean-time, it's actually a pretty fun show.