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Okay, so watching the Resident Evil movie (for the first time ever last night, haha, I'm slow) and THEN pretty much tearing through Syne Mitchell's The Changling Plague in a day (no kidding; I picked it up this morning for the first time and am now already something like 200 pages into it >_>) aren't exactly the most fun of combinations when one is about to go work on a lab. 8D
On the other hand, I liked the movie -- I've heard so many mixed results, and I don't know if that's because most of the people I talked to aren't fans of "zombie" movies, or just that they were embittered fans of the game? Not really knowing the game, I liked it, though I have to confess that the first part -- where all the people were dying, really ooged me, more than the actual zombies and violence did. >_> Especially the, uh. Decapitation via elevator. :p It sort of actually played on all my own vague paranoias/fear about working in a lab, especially now that I'm spending so much time in the Health Sciencies building and I walk by open labs all the time. |D
(My biggest problems with movies like that is I have a low squick factor when it comes to VISUAL things -- I can't stand the sight of someone else's blood in live-action movies, what the hell. But for me, it's not the reading things or the seeing things that really bother me -- it's hearing them. If I can hear the people in the movie screaming and crying out for help, it really squicks me. >_>)
There were some really nice things they did visually, though the one "monster" was really sort of. Um. It felt sort of like the movie dated itself, because the CG was really well-done, but so ... obviously CG, in some undefinable way.I also had issues with the way they HANDLED a lot of the character-deaths, but that might just be my own inner would-be director complaining.
And then I turned around and started reading The Changling Plague, which is totally all kinds of awesome and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes a sort of sci-fi/medical not-quite-horror story. It made the small chem geek in me awfully happy, and all of the specific DNA-related stuff she actually explains in the narrative, so no one really gets "left out" of the story.
... also, the author is a really nice lady and people should support her stuff coff.
I mean, to me, "horror" is not so much about ghosts and evil magic or zombies -- it's about stuff that has its grains in reality. Resident Evil is not scary because of the zombies, but because of the very vague plausibility of the virus.
I mean, not that I think a virus that makes people into zombies is going to suddenly sweep the nation, but a sort of -- well. I guess as a Biochemistry student, the idea of a genetically-altered disease is creepiest of all. >_>
Now that I have rambled, though, I am going to do my HOMEWORK. Haha.
On the other hand, I liked the movie -- I've heard so many mixed results, and I don't know if that's because most of the people I talked to aren't fans of "zombie" movies, or just that they were embittered fans of the game? Not really knowing the game, I liked it, though I have to confess that the first part -- where all the people were dying, really ooged me, more than the actual zombies and violence did. >_> Especially the, uh. Decapitation via elevator. :p It sort of actually played on all my own vague paranoias/fear about working in a lab, especially now that I'm spending so much time in the Health Sciencies building and I walk by open labs all the time. |D
(My biggest problems with movies like that is I have a low squick factor when it comes to VISUAL things -- I can't stand the sight of someone else's blood in live-action movies, what the hell. But for me, it's not the reading things or the seeing things that really bother me -- it's hearing them. If I can hear the people in the movie screaming and crying out for help, it really squicks me. >_>)
There were some really nice things they did visually, though the one "monster" was really sort of. Um. It felt sort of like the movie dated itself, because the CG was really well-done, but so ... obviously CG, in some undefinable way.
And then I turned around and started reading The Changling Plague, which is totally all kinds of awesome and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes a sort of sci-fi/medical not-quite-horror story. It made the small chem geek in me awfully happy, and all of the specific DNA-related stuff she actually explains in the narrative, so no one really gets "left out" of the story.
... also, the author is a really nice lady and people should support her stuff coff.
I mean, to me, "horror" is not so much about ghosts and evil magic or zombies -- it's about stuff that has its grains in reality. Resident Evil is not scary because of the zombies, but because of the very vague plausibility of the virus.
I mean, not that I think a virus that makes people into zombies is going to suddenly sweep the nation, but a sort of -- well. I guess as a Biochemistry student, the idea of a genetically-altered disease is creepiest of all. >_>
Now that I have rambled, though, I am going to do my HOMEWORK. Haha.
