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However, the second it's zombies vs. vampires, someone is going to link this to a Twilight fan board.... then it will get interesting... #monsters
10/27/09
I assume by "interesting" you mean the comments will be flooded with "OMG! [pretty, vapid Twilight actor] is sooooo dreamy! Zombies are GROSS!" Which you can pretty much copy and paste if you ever find yourself asking, How does wanion feel about this? #monsters
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So I'm going for the George Romero Zombie and the old school 'Curse of Tutankhamen' style mummy.
Zombies win hands down by those standards! 'Everything they kill gets up and kills', and added to that whilst (beyond Imhotep in The Mummy movies) Zombies have their own apocalypse attached to them, the Mummy is really after REVENGE. Even if they were after me that would be preferable than an entire planet filled with the hungry, infectious and possibly-fast-and-inexhaustible living dead.
Oh, and Zombie movies beat Mummy movies easy. #monsters
10/26/09
So I'm going for the George Romero Zombie and the old school 'Curse of Tutankhamen' style mummy.
Zombies win hands down by those standards! 'Everything they kill gets up and kills', and added to that whilst (beyond Imhotep in The Mummy movies) Zombies have their own apocalypse attached to them, the Mummy is really after REVENGE. Even if they were after me that would be preferable than an entire planet filled with the hungry, infectious and possibly-fast-and-inexhaustible living dead.
Oh, and Zombie movies beat Mummy movies easy. #monsters
10/26/09
If its THAT mummy then it wins.
[but i voted zombies cos I am stereotypically easy to please] #monsters
10/26/09
I'd say for this discussion to ignore the Fraser Mummy and stick to the old bandages type. Zombies come in numbers, but Mummies have stealth- they don't just chase, they sneak, they'll flank you and pop up where you don't expect them. If a zombie beats you because of tenacity and numbers, then that's your lot, but if one out-thinks you then your brainz were probably not worth his time to begin with.
I already voted Zombie, but I think I may have just convinced myself that Mummy is the victor. #monsters
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Plus, stabbing a zombie with a bone isn't a reliable way to kill it. The only sure way is a headshot, and with all those bandages, mummies have trouble getting their fingers on the trigger.
I think it'd be more like a buddy cop movie where they fight at first, but end up being friends...and maybe more?
10/26/09
Because, look: Imhotep would annihilate the shit out of a zombie. He's GOT an army of zombies. #monsters
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Cause I'm not going to be intimidated by a monster I could literally wipe my ass with. #monsters
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Not to mention all the Homeland Security alarms that would be rung by a man traveling from Egypt, covered head to toes in cloth, and carrying i.d. outdated by several millenniums.
10/26/09
There is no question that guy can get on whatever god-damn boat he wants.
Even if there was an H1N1 quarantine, which there isn't.
Also, man, you can't make all your mummy evaluations based on Monster Squad. #monsters
10/26/09
He doesn't have any actual functional currency, just be a pile of ancient golden coins and ingots and artifacts.
All of which are so extravagant in appearance and worth that the second he tried to fence it or cash it it in, about a million alarms would go off at Interpol.
Unless he had certificates of ownership printed for all of them, which would have disintegrated already anyways, everyone would assume he's just some crazy thief/grave robber.
And even if he could prove that it belonged to him, all that junk would either get seized by the government of Egypt since they legally own all those tombs, or he'd be forced to pay 5,000 years of back taxes, which mean's he'd spend the next 5,000 years at the Cairo Bazzar selling little plastic obelisks and camel rides to tourists.
10/26/09
Or selling the artifacts to UPenn, or any one of dozens black market collectors who will spend ridiculous amounts of money for Egyptian artifacts.
Or he could just fence it, wait for the interpol agents to come after him, and then curse the shit out of them. You can't be arrested for cursing people. It is factually impossible to file charges against someone for magically causing you to have lung rot.
MUMMY DOES NOT FEAR YOUR INTERPOL AGENTS. #monsters
10/26/09
The guy's immortal--not just undead, but functionally immortal--super-strong, he's got magical powers, and he doesn't have a rotten brain.
Shit, man, you can stop a zombie by going up a ladder.
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You sir, are my hero. #monsters
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(and if you throw in stuff like "vampires can't go out in daylight," you have to throw in the fact that - Marvel Zombies notwithstanding - a well-placed shotgun blow can take out a zombie.) #monsters
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Imhotep FTW! #monsters
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The Three Stooges fought Mummies, not Zombies. #monsters