Zombieland.

I finished work early today. The plan was to go to The Baltic art gallery, just to hang out, and hopefully be approached by a girl with glasses, clutching a book on pop art to her ample bosom. We would get chatting, and would end up falling for each other, because she could see through the loser call centre worker facade to the erudite and charming man inside.
But then I read a magazine, and a film called Zombieland was showing. And Bill Murray has a cameo in it. So I went to the flicks instead.
It was two thirty in the afternoon, so there was me, and about half a dozen other people.
And you know what? I really enjoyed it. From the genuinely inventive and witty credit sequence, to the barnstorming ending. Sure, the characterisation was paper thin. The dialogue cliche ridden. But it was funny, scary, thrilling, and had moments of genuine pathos.
Some of the scares were telegraphed a mile off. I mean, when one character states in a voiceover that the only thing more scary than zombies are clowns, you know a zombie clown is gonna shuffle on to the screen at some point.
By the way, I don't believe people are really scared of clowns. It's just a knee jerk thing to say. For everyone person who is actually scared, there are ten people who just say it.
Anyhow, having the climatic zombie showdown set in an amusement park was a great idea. Bill Murray was genius. And I swear I saw Tom Cruise as a zombie. For the whole running time, I was engrossed. I even forgot about the coffee I'd bought.

The only thing is, on the bus ride home, the whole film started to slip away. I kind of struggle now, three hours after, to remember a whole lot about it. But so what. This film was made purely to keep you entertained. The violence was tongue in cheek. Never nasty or spiteful. Characters you actually grew to like. The action scenes, of which there are many, were filmed with a locked down camera, no shaky cam bollocks here.
Then I read the paper, and North Korea have launched another missile. So I suggest you go and see it soon, before the planet really is a barren wasteland, and we are the only survivors.