I was heartily impressed by Sal’s ability to fall asleep yesterday evening during the zombie romantic comedy Shaun of The Dead (wonderfully housed on the InterWebNet at romzom.com). Those leather seats and footrests at the fabulous Electric cinema are mightily comfy, but it’s still no mean feat to nod off, however briefly, while a woman is being impaled on some garden furniture and Dylan Moran is having his intestines removed by a gaggle of marauding Spaced fans dressed as zombies.
There was no chance of me falling asleep, though, as I was thoroughly enjoying the film (positive reviews having already prepared me for the shock of it being a half decent British comedy film), and regarded the plush leather upholstery/red wine combo provided by the Electric as a bonus, rather than an aid to slumber. What a lovely cinema–I don’t think it will be the last time we go there.
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Did you really like it? I thought it was a massive disappointment after Spaced. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg held back too much, I reckon, trying to make the thing too generic and appealing to the common (Hollywood-stuffed) denominator.
Anyway, my hastily-scrawled thoughts on it are here. Apologies for the slow server – a mate offered us a new server and we took him up before we realised it was some 486 in the Ukraine.