Tackling zombies with a pair of Val's knickers

Call me picky, but when I see a glaring error in a film it rather spoils the whole thing for me, and this is the case with the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead.

I admit I'm not a fan of zombie films at the best of times, but this one was going along nicely until, for some reason, the writers decided to leave poor, old Andy trapped in the gun shop. I say decided, because that whole sequence was completely unnecessary. As any child who has ever watched Blue Peter knows, Andy could easily have been rescued by the simple implementation of a bosun's chair which could have been constructed using material found around the shopping centre.There would then have been no need for anyone to leave the building. Admittedly, this would have made the film somewhat shorter and less exciting but infinitely more realistic - if you can use that word to describe a piece in which the dead come back to life and attack the living.

I wonder if that is why very few zombie films are made in the UK. Maybe, having spent our childhoods absorbing this kind of knowledge, we would find it only too easy to tackle hordes of brain eating corpses.

Oh, and if you happen to be a zombie, or know any who are feeling a bit lonely, try Zombie Harmony, the free online dating site for the shuffling dead.

A case of creative casting methinks

Jonathan Rhys Meyer (above) appears as Henry VIII in The Tudors. However, as we all know, Henry VIII didn't look like that . . .

Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

. . . he looked like this

Anthony Worrall Thompson

Courtesy of Wikipedia

So, wouldn't the chap above have been a better choice?

And while we are on the subject of creative casting,

The handsome fellow above is Henry Cavell who plays the Duke of Suffolk

Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

This is the real Duke of Suffolk, who looks like the overweight (and sympathetically painted) brother of this chap -

Still, I suppose it wouldn't be half as much fun with realistic people LOL

Updated to add: If you find the whole idea of historical lookee-likees as fascinating as I do, head over here.

As a child I was very stupid and only did things if actors told me to.

For some reason, the British Medical Council object to the depiction of Geoff Goldblum and Will Smith smoking cigars in Independence Day, yet say nothing about the scene where an elderly man (Judd Hirsch) encourages his son (Goldblum) to drive above the speed limit. Do they not realise that is probably directly responsible for the rise in joy riding?!

And what about Jeff Pullman's portrayal of the American president as a tough, macho man with not much between the ears? I think we all know where that led.

Just wondering . . .

. . . if James Bond is a secret agent working for the Secret Service, how come everybody knows who he is?