Do No Harm

Oh my! You are all so spiteful with your comments about Jerry Falwell dieing today. Hey... say what every you need to say, but be careful not to stoop to his level.

I'll never rejoice over someone's death, but I'm hoping that he can now understand the true harm that he has done in life.

Though I do enjoy the irony of his claims that God was sending us messages through recent disasters and wars. Well, Mr. Falwell, what is God saying when she gave two men heart attacks in the last two weeks?

God allowed my father to continue his work here, but took Falwell away. "Sorry, Jerry. You've done enough harm in my name. Time to take you out of the game."

99 Minutes Later...

We went to see 28 Weeks Later tonight. What a piece of crap.

This movie seems to miss the point of its predecessor, 28 Days Later. The first movie was about how the small group of survivors struggled to escape the horrors of the Rage zombies. 28 Weeks is really just an excuse to show both zombies and non-zombies get shot, chopped, crushed, gassed, munched, trampled, burned, gouged, and all around mutilated. Days was gory of course, but it was used sparingly.

I have a growing distaste for realistic violence. I've hated war movies for a long time. Ray guns and alien monster, no problem. But human on human violence is too close to our current reality.

On top of all the violence, the characters in 28 Weeks are just plain STUPID! Our friend Don, who went to the movie with us tonight, is fond of saying "There wouldn't be a movie if they didn't go into the house." Right, they wouldn't be in this mess if they didn't do stupid things. I actually think they could have written this movie in such a way that they can do everything right and still have things go horribly wrong.

( 7 Points of Stupid - contains spoilers )

I'm sure there were plenty of other things wrong with this movie, like its lame attempt at recreating the quirky eeriness of the abandoned London from the first film, but I can't think of them all right now.

My advice... save your money. If you have to see it, wait for cable or Netflix.

( I'm just afraid that now we're going to get 28 Years Later. )

At least now we have Resident Evil: Extinction to look forward to.