Comments on: Episode 53: Pieczone Gołąbki

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:20:27 +0000

@Mlawski I did see a girl stoner comedy recently, Smiley Face, but she didn’t have a buddy. She was also both the protagonist and antagonist. Which made for cute but awkward moments.

On the note of stoner comedies and movies with an end credit songs, I just watched Pineapple Express on DVD and the end title was “Pineapple Express” by Huey Lewis and the News. In a way.. its an orgasm for your ears. That one was for you Fenzel. :)

By: mlawski

mlawski — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:05:41 +0000

@Amy: I think you’re right that some bromance movies fail to consider the bromantic relationship too much. But! I haven’t seen it yet, but there’s a movie that came out this weekend called Hump Day which seems to be primarily about the male-male companionship. Also, I’d argue that the last third of Superbad was one of the more romantic things I’ve seen in a movie in a long while.

But I totally agree that we need more antics-based chick flicks. More girl buddy comedies! More girl-focused sex comedies (of the “I need to get laid by graduation” type)! Girl stoner comedy? Uhhh, why not? (Is it wrong that the last true “girl-centered non-romantic comedy” I can remember watching is Mean Girls?)

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:05:32 +0000

Wow – I fell behind the pack on posting.

@Belinkie – I completely agree with you. How much easier would it have been if Grahame-Smith had showed a little ingenuity and written an entire adaptation of P&P chock full of Zombie goodness. I don’t know if I’m more outraged by his laziness, only adding 20 odd pages to the book, or that some lame ass publishing company was putting together other combinations such as Ulysses with Pirates or Alice in Wonderland with Ninjas…. although I might actually be interested if Ninjas popped up and offed the Queen of hearts.

@Gab – you are completely right the _Traveling Pants_ movies are very much damedies, and bad ones at that. They are based on a series of books by Ann Brashares, aimed towards tweens. Given his affinity, I’m surprised Wrather hasn’t read them yet. ;) The story revolves around pants that travel via the postal system, and four girls trying to find their places in the world. Most definitely not a buddy comedy Lee; nice try though.

I was informed by my best friend that I must have wrote my letter with a mental block, because one of our favorite movies is what she would consider the closest example female buddy comedy. I submit to you and the panel, “The Sweetest Thing,” featuring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma blare. Raunchy shenanigans abound, and a musical number about the male member to boot! If you haven’t scene it, I suggest it. Minor sappy love scenes are counter balanced by a glory hole scene… it all works out.

I must disagree with the idea that the Bro-mance movies also are by relationships. They are cursory, or at best, catalysts for the antics to begin. Whereas many, many, many “chick flick” movies are solely driven by the longing for the companionship of the male species.

You guys also need a car person to go along with the sports person and the token female. It could be a matching set!

Oooo… Zombie Shakespeare! I smell a contest! :)

By: Dan from Canada

Dan from Canada — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:17:45 +0000

Romeo and Juliet could finally have a happy ending too. After the mutual suicide (Spoiler warning!) they could live on forever together. How romantic!

By: Dan From Canada

Dan From Canada — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:13:16 +0000

Trojan brand zombies to reduce the risk?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:03:15 +0000

Literally, a Caesar salad. Literally. And the Zombiliad would probably be better cast as the Zombaeneid, if you really wanted to focus on the Trojans.

By: Matthew Wrather

Matthew Wrather — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:32:51 +0000

@hazbaz It’s just something we never hear in the States. An American would say “Zero Degrees”. Plus I’m just generally an anglophile.

By: Hazbaz

Hazbaz — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:07:18 +0000

I come to bury Caeser, not to eat him

By: Dan from Canada

Dan from Canada — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:29 +0000

Alas poor Yorick, I knew him Horati-arrrgghhh

By: Gab

Gab — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:32:43 +0000

::geeking out:: oh em gee, ZOMBIFIED ILIAD!!!!

Maybe not *all* of the Greeks are zombies- it would be kind of neat if Achilles kept Patroklus secretly hidden or something. Maybe the “wrath” of Achilles is he can turn people into zombies somehow, or he tosses those he would direct said wrath at into a pit filled with undead. And what would happen if a
freshly zombified Hektor sprang up and started attacking while his father was negotiating for his body’s release? And Menelaus is actually a secret zombie, too, so he does everything Agamemnon tells him to do because he’d being blackmailed…

Nononono, I just need to stop right now.

The idea of epic format to a zombie story is highly appealing, too.

Hm, that also makes me wonder, what would a Shakesperean zombie play look like?