It’s the third week of Month of the Living Dead, and again I get to play compare-and-contrast with this week’s selections.
One is a well-known minor classic of the genre…
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
…and the other is, charitably, not.
Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
#1 by MatthewF on October 23, 2010 - 1:11 am
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Awesome, Deadlands 2. I look forward to Deadlands:The Series, Deadlands 3: The Deadening and Deadlands: Voyager.
Honestly, not all properties are made to be franchises.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on October 23, 2010 - 9:47 am
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The fact that I made no reference in my review to Deadlands 2: Electric Boogaloo saddens me.
#3 by El Santo on October 23, 2010 - 12:02 pm
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Somebody needs to release a new sequel with a subtitle as unapologetically ridiculous as Electric Boogaloo, so that movie nerds can spend the next 30 years beating a different joke into the ground.
#4 by Nathan Shumate on October 23, 2010 - 12:10 pm
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[raspberry]
#5 by Cullen on October 23, 2010 - 4:24 pm
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They did. It was Highlander II: The Quickening Or am I the only one who uses that one too much?
#6 by Blake on October 24, 2010 - 8:57 am
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Yeah, the OTHER joke is to say (whatever) II: The -ening.
#7 by MatthewF on October 24, 2010 - 11:16 am
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Is it personal this time? It is, isn’t it?
#8 by El Santo on October 24, 2010 - 12:22 pm
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All of which date back nearly as far as “Electric Boogaloo,” and are therefore no help at all in 2010.
#9 by Nathan Shumate on October 24, 2010 - 2:42 pm
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Respect the classics, young man!
#10 by Cullen on October 24, 2010 - 5:42 pm
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There’s always <b?Movie Name 2: Movie Name Harder
#11 by Blake on October 25, 2010 - 5:41 am
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That’s still 1990, which is probably what El Santo wants to move past. We could have a new joke (if it doesn’t already exist) based on the “Snakes on a Plane” model: [Noun] in/on/at a [Noun]. Or American moviemakers could go the Japanese anime route and make movies whose names consist of a noun modifying another noun, which serves as the title of the main character (“Alien Hunter Ripley” or “Audience Killer Schneider”).