Feb 18 stuff

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02
/14/AR2008021403847.html

Thomson makes an aesthetic argument (in a very ironic sense) that George Romero's Diary of the Dead is not innovative because, unlike Romero's previous films, it does not address issues critical to our times. "Beyond the midnight-show scariness of his movies, Romero used the subgenre as a way to be ahead of the zeitgeist, most memorably in "Night of the Living Dead," which opened the wounds of race and racism; and in "Dawn of the Dead," which attacked our gross consumerism by setting the carnage in a shopping mall. And so on. But with "Diary," Romero has joined the satirical rank and file, the filmmakers who simply reprise existing notions that reflect our times. The target this time is too obvious and easy: the downloading, amoral, perpetually media-obsessed youth of today."