Shaun of the Dead

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Oh, well, that was certainly familiar.

Fuck! I made a game which is quite like this movie. And because it took me so long to make it, this guy got his movie out in the UK (April 9th according to IMDB) before I got my game out onto the Internet (June 22nd according to my memory). I can't do the Douglas Adams bit about "June 22nd coming somewhat before April 9th" although the development process of both products makes me cribbing from it impossible and the fact that I made a grotty text game makes it impossible for anyone to crib from me. For the record, though:

A Crimson Spring: Adam thought that there was a lot of similarity between it and the comic Powers and what I took out of it was that the concept I had for my game was publishable.

Fallacy of Dawn: Roody and Bruce mentioned a book that had a lot of video game references (shit, what was it called again?) that I have intentionally not read because Fallacy of Dawn: THE NOVEL is still in development and I don't want to be influenced.

Necrotic Drift: If only this Shaun of the Dead movie wasn't so bloody good. But listen. I started ND in 2002 and this whole zombie craze -- I'm telling you, it did NOT exist. January of 2002 was before the movie 28 Days Later, it was before the remake of Dawn of the Dead ... I was personally inspired to do a game about zombies because I was watching old flicks with Walrustitty and because it was so vacant. (Although actually I expanded the thing from "zombies" to "all D&D monsters" so I guess there's that.)

Shaun of the Dead has a terrible name -- I would have gone with "HE'S NOT MY DAD" (Ah ah ah!!! See how I.... ok) but has the best gap between title and quality that I've ever experienced. I love it so! I also got a chance to see it at Walrustitty's home theatre, which I recommend for the rest of you only you all hate him so much. Christmas just left and I spent a lot of money, but I'm spending another $25 on football Sunday to get this DVD. I loved the movie.

[Worm]

As I keep on only hearing about people saying "I just watched Shaun of the Dead" I'm probably not watching it.

[bruce]

Fallacy of Dawn: Roody and Bruce mentioned a book that had a lot of video game references (shit, what was it called again?)

Lucky Wander Boy.

Bruce

[Vitriola]

Great movie, agreed.

[Lex]

You guys should check out Spaced. I don't know if it's available in the Us on DVD, but it's quite cheap to get a European release. The whole film is based around one episode Simon Pegg did, Episode three: The "Resident Evil" episode, where Simon's allergic reaction to twiglets makes the game come to life.

Simon Pegg's great. Spaced it great. Download it if you must ;)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Hey, did that guy get back to you on the Gameboy? Did you win it?

[Guest]

Lex: I did recommend "Spaced" to them, and in fact have been recommending it feverishly over on groucho for several months now. OK, so I'm a "wanna-be" who didn't see Spaced until after SotD, but then, I saw SotD quite a long time ago.

Spaced played on Bravo here in the States, but, of course, with swearing and such cut out. I've got copies of the UK DVDs - great stuff, very entertaining.

Jonsey & Vit: Glad you enjoyed it. Too bad we didn't get a chance to catch Zombie 2 (aka Zombie) as well. The splinter-in-the-eyeball will have to wait until next time!

I got at least a fair amount of stuff watched over the holidays but somehow most of it was actually things I've seen before, so it means that the review section at groucho has been quiet. :( Though I'm certainly not complaining about SotD, I had been wanting to watch it on the big screen. I'd only seen an SVCD screener of it before.

Supposedly the US release might have a tiny bit of extra gore? Not sure. It was the UK release that we saw.

[Jethro Q. Walrustitty]

Oh, that was me, in case it wasn't obvious.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Jesus, how long does it take Barnes & Noble to ship a simple DVD? Which one do I complain to? Barnes? Fucking Barnes. Just tell me which one is Goofus and which one is Gallant and I'll ask Gallant why my goddamn flick hasn't shown up yet.