Horror Movie Month: Zombieland

Zombieland is a 2009 movie directed by Ruben Fleischer and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and Bill Murray. Two months after most of the American people have been turned into zombies, survivors "Columbus" (Jesse Eisenberg), "Tallahassee" (Woody Harrelson), "Wichita" (Emma Stone), and "Little Rock" (Abigail Breslin) join forces to try to find a non-zombiefied place to live.

A little about the non-zombies of Zombieland:

"Columbus": has IBS and tons of phobias
"Tallahassee": obsessed with Twinkies and great at violently killing zombies
"Wichita" and "Little Rock": sisters and con artists
Bill Murray: awesome

I'm usually not that into zombie movies, but Zombieland is funny and has a cameo by Bill Murray, so it's my favorite of the zombie movies I've seen. Though the movie is a comedy, some of the zombies are pretty scary-looking...especially the clown zombie (of course).

My rating: 8/10

Ghostbusters: The Best Quotes

In tribute to Harold Ramis, I decided to watch Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 this week.  It's been a few years since I've seen them, so I thought it would be fun to do a blog post with my favorite quotes from the movies.

Ghostbusters

-“Back off, man…I’m a scientist.”-Peter Venkman

-Ray Stantz:  Symmetrical book-stacking, just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.

 Peter Venkman:  You’re right.  No human being would stack books like this.

-“You’re not gonna lose the house.  Everyone has three mortgages nowadays.”-Peter Venkman

-Janine Melnitz:  Do you have any hobbies?

 Egon Spengler:  I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

-Dana Barrett:  Well, of course I’m telling the truth.  Who would make up a story like that?

 Peter Venkman:  Some are people who just want attention.  Others are just nutballs who come in off the  street.

-Dana Barrett:  You know, you don’t act like a scientist.

 Peter Venkman:  They’re usually pretty stiff.

 Dana Barrett:  You’re more like a game show host.

-“He slimed me.”-Peter Venkman

-Egon Spengler.:  There’s something very important I forgot to tell you…don’t cross the streams.

 Peter Venkman:  Why?

 Egon Spengler:  It would be bad.

 Peter Venkman:  I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing.  What do you mean, “bad”?

 Egon Spengler:  Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your  body exploding at the speed of light.

-“If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.”-Winston Zeddemore

-“I don’t have to take this abuse from you.  I got hundreds of people dying to abuse me.”-Peter Venkman

-“She’s not my girlfriend.  I find her interesting because she’s a client and because she sleeps above her    covers.  Four feet above her covers.”-Peter Venkman

-“Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes!”-Winston Zeddemore

-“This chick is toast!”-Peter Venkman

-“Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown.”-Peter Venkman

-“Nobody steps on a church in my town!”-Peter Venkman

-“We’ve been going about this all wrong…we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble.”-Peter Venkman

Ghostbusters 2

-Prosecutor:  Dr. Venkman, would you please tell the court why it is that you and your co-defendants took it  upon yourselves to dig a very big hole in the middle of First Avenue?

 Peter Venkman:  Well, there’s so many holes in First Avenue, we really didn’t think anyone would notice.

-Louis Tully:  My guys are still under a judicial “mis-strangement” order, that blue thing I got from her.  They  could be exposing themselves.

 Peter Venkman:  And you don’t want us exposing ourselves.

-“We’re the best!  We’re the beautiful!  We’re the only…Ghostbusters!”-Peter Venkman

-Peter Venkman:  Dana’s just come over to my place.  Well, actually her-her tub tried to eat her.

 Ray Stantz:  Are you serious?  Oh, that’s great!

-Dana Barrett:  It’s so late, I really ought to put him down.

 Peter Venkman:  May I?

 Dana Barrett:  Yeah, if you want to.

 Peter Venkman:  You’re short, your belly button sticks out too far, and you’re a terrible burden on your  poor mother.

-Dana Barrett:  So what happened with my apartment?

 Peter Venkman:  Well, the guys spent the whole night there. They went through all your things, your  personal stuff.  They tried on some of your clothes, made some long-distance phone calls, cleaned out the  fridge…

-Janine Melnitz:  You’re very good with children.

 Louis Tully:  Thanks, I practiced on my hamster.

-“I used to have a roommate, but my mom moved to Florida.”-Louis Tully

-“If we don’t do something fast, this whole place is gonna blow like a frog on a hot plate.”-Ray Stantz

-Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker’s God-given right.”-The Mayor of  New York