Movie Appreciation: Friday, 4/3/09, Period 3

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Mr. Dex wasn't in the classroom today. Instead, assorted sports equipment was piled in a large box near the door and Tony stood at the front of the room bouncing a cricket bat lightly against his hand.

"Mr. Dex was kinda busy, so he asked me to cover," Tony said. "So, okay, when weird sh- stuff goes down, there's not usually a lot of reliable information. You gotta go to the folklore to find anything useful. In the old days, they told stories around the campfire, but now our folklore gets filmed in full technicolor. The movies are full of zombie stories. I've got a few clips here to show you and then whoever's actually faced the ones outside can tell us how accurate they are. Maybe the movies'll give us some ideas how to deal with these things."

He showed clips from Vaughn of the Dead: fighting zombies and blending in; Against: fighting zombies with guns and 31 Days After: an infected soldier.

Tony gestured at the box of sports gear. "Dinah and I found this stuff in storage, so if you don't have anything to fight with, go ahead and grab something from here. Not saying you should run out and find something to fight; just be ready. And be safe." A couple of baseball bats and hockey sticks were visible on top of the pile, but Tony and Dinah had grabbed whatever they could find, so there was all kinds of totally moddable stuff if you looked through it. There were golf clubs, padding, helmets, cleats and even a bowling ball.

[Drop-ins welcome! Please wait for OCD can smell your brains! Hulu requires sign-in for R movies, sorry! All clips may be NWS due to violence.]

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You should get points just for showing up today.

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[carsexual]

Sam Witwicky

Watch Clips

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In case you haven't had enough of the walking dead outside.

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Despite her conversation with Miss Bennett in class yesterday, Angela was in fact here, and looking disgusted by the movie clips.

She'd had quite enough of the zombies outside, thank you.

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[bad-nose-job.livejournal.com]

Horrified, Penelope could not sit here and watch these clips. She got up and ran out as fast as she could. She didn't care if she got yelled at for running out of class. She'd serve detention cheerfully if she had to.

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[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

Emmett was so excited about zombies, both the ones here and outdoors.

Which would explain the big grin on his face.

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter watched. He made a mental note to sit down with Sam to find out more about dealing with zombies.

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"This is so not okay," Claudia chanted to herself.

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[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam watched the clips closely, mentally adding things to his notes from phys ed.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was... taking notes.

Hey. She remembered better when she did that!

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin did not watch the clips. Well, he watched the one about blending in. Hmm.

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[gobrookeyourself]

Brooke was looking like she really really really really wanted to be anywhere else right now, and also looking like she might try to sneak out because no.

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[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

Bender looked like he was taking notes during the movies. Instead, he was scribbling down corrections for the studios - he figured they'd pay something to get their special effects to look something more realistic.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka tapped his foot impatiently. He'd already SEEN most of these.

Discuss

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Share time! How does your experience compare to the movies?

Choose Your Weapon

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Dig through the box, talk to your classmates or just handwave it.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco looked at the weapons, Marco glanced up, Marco grinned. "I have a very, very bad idea."

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[flashesforinfo.livejournal.com]

Angela tugged a field hockey stick out of the pile, testing the weight of it a moment. Not that she really knew what would be good, but it seemed like the thing to do.

She'd been relying on running and hiding for the past two days, but a weapon would probably be a good idea.

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[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam grabbed a baseball bat from the pile and wondered if he could snag a practice staff from the gym...

You know, to use when he wasn't morphed.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah still had her baseball bat, but now had appropriated cleats, and elbow and knee protectors. Kind of like wearing armor, a little. Zombie-fighting being a full-contact sport.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka was tempted -- SOOOOOO tempted -- to suit up and strap one of everything to his body, just in case. SOOOOOO tempted.

Idea number two was to put on shoulder pads and a hockey goalie mask, and stick a bunch of hockey sticks in a golf bag. He kinda had the feeling that'd been done before, though.

No, he'd do best to stick with his boomerang and machete. Keep it light, lean, and mean, because with zombies, dodging was CRITICAL.

Talk To Tony

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Movies he knows. Zombies, not so much.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"So." Dinah gave the bat a slow swing. "I don't think I can stand staying inside today."

If someone was going to get hit with a bat, it should probably be someone undead.

OOC

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Much thanks to jetpack_monkey for the movie recs. And I would really love to see someone use a bowling ball against zombies.

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[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

I have learned something new today. I have learned that Hulu has movies!