Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140913190950/@comment-397235-20140918022350

Here it is, in a nutshell:

George Romero is an American filmmaker largely and eroneously credited with creating the modern zombie with his film Night of the Living Dead (that at no point are the undead called zombies in the film, nor that Romero admits he ripped off Richard Matheson's I Am Legend is ever discussed). I'm a huge zombie buff but I really don't like his movies; Shane has the opposite opinion.

Keith David is an American actor. He's really a B-lister; aside from John Carpenter's They Live! the only other things I've seen him in where: Platoon (also terrible), both Agent Cody Banks movies (Frankie Muniz as a teenage-spy; David is his commander; they're not quite as stupid as they sound), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (he plays Sergeant Foley and spends the entire American portion of the game making you do ludicrously dangerous things in an apparent effort to get you killed; look up the "Ramirez! Do EVERYTHING!" meme for an explanation), and the Arbiter in Halo 2 and Halo 3.

They Live! is an American sci-fi/horror/propaganda movie made by John Carpenter. Basically it's about how society and capitalism are really an evil alien race bent on ensuring humanity is kept passive and docile by hidden propaganda; the human resistance tells potential converts "They live, We sleep," hence the title. The main character finds a pair of glasses which allows him to see through the alien propaganda, and prompts him to go on a violent rampage to bring an end to their reign. It's where the "I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum" line comes from. Not much else is worth remembering or mentioning.

As for The Thin Red Line, it's an awful attempt at making something which is both a war movie and an art film. Honestly it fails at both: the cinematography is horrid, the pacing is dull, the actors and writing are crap (Woody Harrelson's death, where he literally blows his butt of with his own grenade like a moron, is especially, and unintentionally, hilarious). On the plus side, it has an awesome Hans Zimmer soundtrack!