Monday, 29 June 2009

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  ROBOTS & ZOMBIES

  Had a pretty action-movie packed weekend the past couple of days……! 

   

  Friday night, I took Alchemystfury’s suggestion and checked out Robot Trifecta down in Little Tokyo – a showing of old-school anime from way back when.  They featured such classics as Astro Boy, Gigantor  and my childhood favorite - Voltron. 

   

  Now maybe it was the offer of free beer from 7:30 – 8:30pm that made me think this event would be catered towards young, active single twenty-somethings like myself, but I was really thrown off by how many families and little kids were there….although they all cleared out as soon as they Voltron came on the screen.  And with good reason. 

   

  

   

  Voltron ended up being…..a lot more graphic (and morbid) than from what I remember it being as a child. 

   

  Never mind the Voltron vs. Ro-beast violence, there was an episode where King Zarkon starved an entire planet while he forced them to build his new fortress.  Guards later threw them scraps of meat for food….made from their fellow slaves. 

   

  In other words, Zarkon forced his slaves to eat each other. 

   

  .......that’s pretty messed up for a children’s cartoon. 

   

  Of course this was the Japanese version (with English subtitles) so maybe the translation is what makes it more disturbing. 

   

  

   

  

   

  ALSO  – I FINALLY got to see a film at the L.A. Film Festival this past Saturday:  the movie – ZMD:  Zombies of Mass Destruction.  I have a big love for Zombie movies, so this film had some pretty high expectations to meet – and it did not disappoint. 

   

  Tagged as a “Political Zomedy,” the movie is pretty much a social satire on racial profiling.  I don’t wanna give too much of it away (because there’s a very good chance you might see this in a theatre near you some day) but let’s just say that this is pretty much everything a zombie movie should be. 

   

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