'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.