1) Down with Sno Balls!  Up with Twinkies!

2) Rule #2: Double Tap.  Heck yeah.

3) I'm Flushing, New York.  And you are....?

I read that as "Rule 34: Double Tap". I've been corrupted.

I take it you gave Zombieland viewing, Angela? And that you enjoyed it? :3

My sister and I saw it in the theater and loved it. In fact, I loved it so much that I felt compelled to buy it the moment it was released. XD Good times!

"You're like a giant, cock-blocking robot!"

Yeah, I got it the day it came out as well. Not usually compelled to do that, but Zombieland was definately one of the better movies I saw last year.

"Snoballs!? SNOBALLS!? Where's the ^%$#ing Twinkies!"

Yeah, it was definitely a blast.  Never mind the Best Supporting Role nomination he got for "The Messenger", Harrelson is the man here and now.

My two favorite parts of the film?  Columbus's confrontation with ........406, and the vignette of car conversations the group share during the roadtrip.  There's something inherently funny about Willie Nelson and Hannah Montana being discussed in the same scene.

Harrelson totally made the movie for me. He was fantastic, even if the Twinkie references didn't sit right with me (a cultural thing I guess, I've never had a Twinkie, and there's a big part of me that thinks I've seen a character with that same Twinkie obsession in some other film or show).

Some good zombie action, though the purist in me doesn't actually think there were any zombies in this movie, and definitely some funny moments. The actions of the female characters were baffling at times and, while the interlude was fun (you know the bit), it did suddenly seem like there weren't any zombies any more for a considerable chunk in there. But the climax, as baffling as the choices were that took us to it, was excellent and I think it ended in a way no other zombie (or equivalent) movie has ended before.

In ways it struck me as being the American answer to Shaun Of The Dead. Or, where Shaun was the comic answer to Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, this was the comic answer to the Dawn remake. Or something... somebody's answer to something...

Overall, a really fun movie. I've just bought the blu-ray but haven't yet rewatched it. Looking forward to it though.

Did I shamelessly plug my little zombie blog here at all?

@Jay: plug away! I love reading about zombies. Also, I'm far from a zombie expert, but I'd be interested in hearing why you didn't feel Zombieland's monsters were real zombies. A couple of years ago I took an advanced writing / analysis class that explored monsters as a theme in both film and literature. Our teacher was Kyle Bishop and he was a hardcore zombie enthusiast (I believe he had written / was writing his PHD dissertation on zombies). Anyway, needless to say it was awesome! And I've been rather obsessed with monsters in general (and zombies in particular) every since.

I think comparing Zombieland to Shaun of the Dead is a solid move. That was the first thing that came to mind for me as well.

Glad you enjoyed it, Angela! The car scenes were pretty great. XD I enjoyed watching the separate groups of characters come together to form a "family" at the end. It was both an interesting theme and ending for a zombie movie.

A PHD dissertation on zombies? Fantastic. I'm a huge fan of zombie films. Absolutely can't get enough of them. I think I'm drawn to the idea of the downfall of society.

On the Zombieland zombies and why they wouldn't be zombies, well, I'm a bit of a zombie purist and I guess it's an old discussion (and well-worn since the Dawn remake) but, in Zombieland, there is clear mention of a virus related to mad cow disease and they run like Olympic sprinters and those together, to me, would put them more in the 28 Days Later-type infected. I'd have to rewatch it but I'm not sure they're even completely dead, which would be an absolute requirement for zombie classification in my books.

Personally, I'm more of a fan of the Romero-type zombies. Romero understands the pathos that goes with the undead, and even the comedy. People have argued that they're scarier when they run because, well, I guess you can't just walk away from them at a brisk pace. But, for me, that misses one of the huge draw of slow shambling zombies as a movie threat - alone or in small numbers, they're rubbish, even ridiculous, but it's exactly that that has people let their guard down and, ultimately, they have strength in numbers. Night Of The Living Dead was made fantastic by their shambling nature. They're far from the house, then closer, then closer, shit they're at the house! That sort of thing I love. A slow build.

Speaking of Romero zombies, I got Survival Of The Dead last week on blu-ray and actually really enjoyed it. Didn't expect that after being severely disappointed with Diary.

Anyway, I'm rambling and derailing Angela's thread.

My little zombie blog is here - http://toomanyzombies.blogspot.com/ Basically, I draw a zombie a day, write up a few words about them and that's all there is to it. Each illustration is done on an iPod Touch with my finger. Took me a while to get the hang of that so the first lot are a bit rubbish (actually, most of them are probably a bit rubbish). I've got over 200 there now.

Oh, on some of them, I have running threads or little stories going through them but, due to the nature of a blog, they're posted day by day so, if you read from the top of the page down, you'll be reading them backwards. If that makes any sense...

Saw this last night. Loved it! What an awesome road-trip.

What I wouldn't give for a game like this.