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So…I tried to reply to your CRAZIES thread and WordPress gave all signs that it had posted it (including telling me I’d already posted it when I tried a 2nd time) with the minor technicality that my words aren’t actually there. I posted my post to your Facebook page instead, hope you don’t mind. It’s probably a bit anticlimactic after all my trials: a defense of DIARY OF THE DEAD, a WATCHMEN slam…
That’s what Snyder’s WATCHMEN was missing: Dennis Weaver!
Weird. Well, I cut and pasted your reply into the Crazies thread. Largely agree, though for me the Dr Manhattan stuff was spoiled by the HAL voice and recycled Philip Glass music (Koyaanisqatsi, I believe), both evidence of unthinking cliches being embraced.
February 28, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Whenever the subject comes up, I am reminded of the chilling story of wolves that is told about halfway through Willa Cather’s MY ANTONIA.
February 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Ooh, you’ve piqued my fancy. Never read her, but I like the sound of it.
February 28, 2010 at 2:02 pm
So…I tried to reply to your CRAZIES thread and WordPress gave all signs that it had posted it (including telling me I’d already posted it when I tried a 2nd time) with the minor technicality that my words aren’t actually there. I posted my post to your Facebook page instead, hope you don’t mind. It’s probably a bit anticlimactic after all my trials: a defense of DIARY OF THE DEAD, a WATCHMEN slam…
That’s what Snyder’s WATCHMEN was missing: Dennis Weaver!
February 28, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Weird. Well, I cut and pasted your reply into the Crazies thread. Largely agree, though for me the Dr Manhattan stuff was spoiled by the HAL voice and recycled Philip Glass music (Koyaanisqatsi, I believe), both evidence of unthinking cliches being embraced.
Wait, I should be typing that OVER THERE.
February 28, 2010 at 3:25 pm
The Company of Wolves is one of Neil Jordan’s best. I am also partial to Joe Dante’s The Howling