All we wanna do is eat your brains

Vancouver's hosting an onslaught(er) of zombie-themed events

By Angela Espinoza

re you tired of communicating A: a civilized manner? Does

the thought of conforming to society’s standards sicken you? Wouldn’t it be nice to just kick back, relax, and munch on a few brains? Well faithful reader, you’re not alone. The city of Vancouver has heard your plea, and has answered with a chorus of monotonous wailing. When there’s no more room in hell — which will apparently happen in August — the dead will walk Vancouver.

2™ Annual Dead on Film

Competition: The greatest little indie theatre on Commercial Drive is hosting its second zombie-themed film festival. On August 19, the Rio Theatre will be screening their top ten independent short films as part of the night’s competition. The winner will be selected via audience

vote, with the grand prize including the coveted Z-Oscar trophy and $1,000 in cash! I don’t know about you, but I’d : KILL to be there.

. Vancouver Zombie Walk 2011: They did come back to walk the earth, after all. For a number of years now, Vancouver has hosted one of the most well known zombie walks around. On August 20, the zombified and zombie-slayers alike will be meeting at the Vancouver Art Gallery for an afternoon of gut gushing and limb dragging. Keep in mind that this is meant to be a family-friendly zombie gathering, so respect your fellow dead babies. Doing so will reward you with a 19+ Zombie-A- Go-Go after party at Sanctuary later on!

George Romerothon:-This lovely decay-filled weekend concludes back at the Rio on August 21 with the most epic of marathons. From 4:30pm—11:30pm, the theatre will have back-to-back screenings

of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), and Day of the Dead (1985). You of course have the shameful option of viewing just one or two of the films, or you can be awesome and marathon the... well, the marathon. Seriously, you’re dead, where else do you really need to be? : However you choose to spend Vancouver’s zombie-filled weekend, know that these gruesomely delicious options are available to you. Further details, such as the Zombie Walk route and Dead on Film times, can be found on each event’s respectful Facebook page. You know the DRILL, lock those names in the search engine; you'll DIG them up eventually. Remember to aim for the head, and enjoy your month of the living dead!

AUCUST 20

Captain America: The Last Cinematic Avenger’s Origin Story

By Kenny Chia

jorgoing editing on my final papers,

I went to see Captain America:

The First Avenger as soon as I could. Any decent geek would know that Captain America is one of Marvel’s premier and oldest heroes, paralleling Superman from the DC mythos. Thus, in a somewhat odd move for Marvel, his modern movie outing came out last after establishing other heroes such as Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor.

Directed by Joe Johnston, the movie is about the journey of a Brooklyn kid, Steve Rogers, becoming the patriotic and morally uncompromising Captain America during World War 2 era. The title character is played by Chris Evans, who does a great job in giving Steve Rogers a rather likeable personality and is certainly the movie’s strongest feature. Besides

that, he did a good job in distinguishing Captain America from another Marvel character that he played, the Human Torch (RIP). Furthermore, some fantastic CGI was used to show a frail and small Steve Rogers, but Evans made it evident that his valour and heart was hardwired in him before the Super Soldier serum.

However, I was utterly disappointed with the film’s main antagonist, Red Skull, played by the brilliant but wasted Hugo Weaving, as I expected him to steal every scene in the movie. However, this isn’t on Weaving, but rather the character just wasn’t well developed on screen (he gets a pretty cheesy montage to explain his origin) and also the writing for him was rather flat and uninspiring. The supporting cast does a pretty decent job as well in fleshing out Captain America’s story.

As for the movie itself, I think it

faltered mainly in the second half because most of it was bland Hollywood action movie affair as there wasn’t any real standout scene that people will geek out on after seeing the film. Also, the editing for the movie was a bit sloppy as there is one notorious scene where Captain America jumps on a hanging chain, swings with the momentum. ... and the next cut shows him running on the ground again.

Splitting hairs here, but it did take my focus away from the movie as I pondered about the missing scene showing the jump off the chain, and whether this was a more modern version of Hollywood cutting or just cookie cutter editing. Not trying to bury the movie here but I didn’t enjoy his romantic sub-plot either and cringed at their conversation near the end of the movie. On the other hand, I suppose the movie’s best scenes

are when Captain America is leading his Band of Brothers-esque team and storming Red Skull’s bases.

As much as it pains me to say, I found this story less engaging than Marvel’s other summer movie, Thor, which I actually quite enjoyed. While the potential for the character is clearly developed in this movie, you don’t really see it here; thus it ultimately feels like the movie’s only purpose is to serve as a cinematic prelude to a future ensemble (hint, hint) movie.

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