"like when they pulled up the coelacanth out of the ocean"
In my post about Crank my brother commented and posted a link to a review (of Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects) that is truly fine, even if I didn't like it as much Wellington did. I like it enough I didn't want to just bury it in the comments, so here we are. This is some really good stuff:
At no time does Zombie insult his audience. At no point does he assume we’re so stupid or morally listless we need our hands held or our consciences rebooted. He never apologizes for his characters, who are truly villainous, and yet he never lets our sympathies waver, either. You know who you’re rooting for and you know you don’t want to examine what that says about you and in the end, in the truly sublime ending of this film, it’s all made okay, you are forgiven for having had a good time and you get to go home.
And this guy writes zombie novels too. Cool.
At no time does Zombie insult his audience. At no point does he assume we’re so stupid or morally listless we need our hands held or our consciences rebooted. He never apologizes for his characters, who are truly villainous, and yet he never lets our sympathies waver, either. You know who you’re rooting for and you know you don’t want to examine what that says about you and in the end, in the truly sublime ending of this film, it’s all made okay, you are forgiven for having had a good time and you get to go home.
And this guy writes zombie novels too. Cool.
