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To recap.
Thursday day. Dad took me out to lunch at Vestige on St Thomas. I had Duck breast and orange salad. Glad I ordered from the light meals menu though as it was a massive salad, very good too. Dad had a smoked salmon and dill tagliatelle. Good but a little bland for my taste. Thurs night was dinner at Jaipur Palace to welcome Otake Nobutoshi Sensei. Pleasant, friendly chap though converstation was a little stilted what with the language barrier and all. The lamb Rogan Josh was competently executed, the soji was nothing to write home about though, kind of dry and bland.

Fri night was supposed to be dinner with several friends, but everyone bar T&D either cancelled or didn't pitch, have I pissed people off or something. Cozzies at Musgrave, tried their carnivore platter, good (especially the courizo skewers) but I'm not a huge wings fan. The cheesecake, despite getting points for being baked was substandard.
Then went to watch *cue cool voice* George A Romero's "Land of the Dead" */cool voice*, bumping into orpeusr there
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Loads of fun, but the political allegory was laid on a little thick. The zombies being inhabitants of the regions from which resources are extracted for the good of the rich. The lead zombie being a petrol station attendant (and black. To paraphrase gustavys, currently a terrorist seems to be defined as a brown person with a gun). The threatened destruction of the tower of wealth and privilege by someone trained and funded by the elite to kill socialists (possibly communists it's never established, but the Merkin audience probably wouldn't know the difference). The use of airburst fireworks to distract and awe the zombies during raids. Canada as the promised land. And the egregious final scene of electing not to kill the zombie leader because "they're just looking for somewhere to go".
Balls! The EAT YOU, but noooooo let's not kill the one who taught them to communicate and use tools (including guns) and who's death may revert them to their previous state let's rather leave the city's survivors at their mercy. That's where the allegory was stretched succiciently to break the internal logic of the narrative. The truck with the .50 cals, miniguns and rockets was damn cool though. In fact almost this cool( [a] "href=http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28181" [/a} ) Also amusing how the image to which everyone reacted most during the grossout zombies-eating-people scenes was a woman getting her belly ring ripped out. Perhaps it's just that that lelvel of pain is within our normal frame of reference whereas total evisceration isn't.
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Attached to the movie however were the trailers for Sin City (Huzzah!) and Serenity (Double Huzzah!). Mal just plain ROCKS, not enough Kaylee in the trailer though. Interesting approach to the trailer, they downplayed the western and comic aspects of the series, playing up the SF/conspiracy side. I suspect they may have done the same with the movie, can understand why if they have.