I've been on the outside looking in, even as an american. Trust me, the average american is unaware that they are dense.
"A flea thinks the dog is the world" is an apt analogy.
I like English humor to a point. I thought a lot of the subtle things in shaun of the dead were great, like Shaun lumbering along with a hangover, oblivious to the massive bloody handprint on the fridge door at the convenience store. Had me rolling.
I dont htink 28 days Later was terribly derivative, ithought it was a great spin on an old idea. While the disease thing had always been mentioned in "Zombie" films, there was never an actual root cause, aside from Return of the living dead, but i considered the first 2 spoofs.
Another great thing about it was that it was a non-zombie zombie film. Not a single walking corpse in the whole movie.
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