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    Best Kiss-Off Line Ever: "Go F—k Yourself, Spaceman!"

    Brain Scans Reveal that Teen Bullies Get Pleasure from Your Pain

    War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    04/29/09

    In reply to Best Kiss-Off Line Ever: "Go F—k Yourself, Spaceman!"
    IIRC, this movie was originally called Dark Angel. I had this on cheap VCR copy as a kid, and watched it maybe a dozen times, mostly due to there being exposed boobies in it.
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    Image of m0unstr0 m0unstr0
    04/28/09

    In reply to Best Kiss-Off Line Ever: "Go F—k Yourself, Spaceman!"
    Alien: I come in peace

    Lundgren: You go in pieces


    Thats just some awsome writing there.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    04/28/09

    @m0unstr0: That is one of the most classic lines ever. EVER. And should be the clip here.


    (hey, my avatar shows! meet the Evil Tortie herself!)

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    Image of Geekmansworld Geekmansworld
    04/28/09

    @m0unstr0: That really was the climax for me. I'm a bit disappointed it didn't make it into the clip.


    I remember when my childhood friend's dad got a fancy new laserdisc player, there was very little available for it in the way of titles. But one of the films was this cheesy b-movie. Even as a kid I could tell it was awful. But for some, that's the appeal.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    04/29/09

    @Geekmansworld: Sorry! I felt like this clip was already going too long... and I wanted to include the part with the razor frisbee as well as the harpoon wrestling....
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    04/29/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: Sorry... I didn't want the clip to go too long and I wanted to include the frisbee as well as the harpoon wrestling... but it's an incentive for people to track down the film for themselves!
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    Image of Moff Moff
    11/07/08

    In reply to Brain Scans Reveal that Teen Bullies Get Pleasure from Your Pain
    So really, when I pay that cheerleader to spank me with a hairbrush, I'm doing a good thing.
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    Image of ElizabethVatia ElizabethVatia
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    the movies Heavy Metal and Heavy Metal 2000, if I recall correctly, didn't have zombies in them.
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    10/29/08

    @ElizabethVatia: The first Heavy Metal did, in the final story of the anthology--although arguably they were more like green mutant religious fanatics than like shambling, brain-eating zombies.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/30/08

    @Anekanta: We used an admittedly expansive definition of zombie, as I mentioned in the post. I realize this will horrify zombie purists.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    SQUEEEE!!!! HELLO NEW NETFLIX QUE!!!


    goodbye fiancee :|

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    Image of cyr3n cyr3n
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    I dont think this chart is really accurate when you take into account population and number of people with access to filmmaking equipment & skills.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/29/08

    @cyr3n: I talked about that in the post -- you can still see spikes in production, even correcting for the fact that there are just more movies being made in general.
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    I think this chart needs to be normalised against average total movies produced that year.


    It would be more clear to see a correlation, if any, if the fact the total number of movies has been increaseing.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/29/08

    @twDarkflame: If you do that kind of normalization, I will add it to the post!
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    10/29/08

    @Annalee Newitz: If you find the data, I'll do the normalization :p


    Had a quick google around and couldnt find anything too good, but I might not be hitting the right keywords.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/29/08

    @twDarkflame: Try searching IMDB by year. You should get a sense of how many movies were released year-by-year. We used IMDB to get our data, too, so we'll be working with the same dataset.
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    Image of sterling32 sterling32
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    You haven't really done that great of a job picking your data to prove your point.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/29/08

    @sterling32: Well given the highly scientific nature of this study, I figured the best way to do this would be to pick sample events that caused social unrest. I mean, there is no "social unrest-o-meter" so I picked ones that were obvious and that affected many countries simultaneously.
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    Image of Taed Taed
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    I'd really want to know how that correlates to the number of pirates in the world. :-)


    I actually don't think that there is such a great correlation and that it's hand-picked data. It also doesn't take into account the number of films being made. The Y-axis should really be the percentage of films that have zombies in them.


    I think that it might actually correlate better to Republican Presidents better than "global unrest" (which is pretty hand-wavy and lends itself to hand-picked data). Note the seemingly low spells during the Carter and Clinton years.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/29/08

    @Taed: I know, that struck me too. But since the movies themselves came from Europe too, especially during the early 70s, I didn't think that US presidents were a good data point.
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    Image of Clarox Clarox
    10/29/08

    @Annalee Newitz: One could draw the conclusion that republican presidents cause global unrest and thus a spike in zombie movie production.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    10/29/08

    @Clarox: Maaaybe, though I doubt Nixon had much to do with the Basque rebellions in Spain.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    10/29/08

    In reply to War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production
    Zombie movies cause war!
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