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I like zombie movies. The premise of a zombie outbreak that comes kicking the social statu quo in the balls is a pretty amusing, pleasing idea in a gleeful way.

While the countless waves of zombies would bring despair among the ranks of peons, it’s basically bringing back the Darwinian selection in the most brutal way, while stripping people down of shit that doesn’t matter anymore.

RAWR BRAINS!

You can watch zombie movies through the prism of a timeframe’s fears. Back when Night of the Living Dead was released, it was the fear of the nuclear holocaust but also the traumatism of the racial segregation, thru the death of the last survivor.

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I am not going to into a long rant about his questionable position regarding the firearm regulation issue, I mean, I read H.P Lovecraft who is notoriously a racist; or listen Varg Vikernes’ music who has shown his extreme right-wing sympathies. And his role, while not as notable as Luther King’s, in the Civil Rights movement is not something to conveniently forget.

Instead, I would like people to remember his actor performances in either peplums like Ben Hur or The Ten Commandments, science-fictions classics like Soylent Green or the ever powerful Planet of Apes, and many more movie. His charisma, his presence carried the movies in which he starred, those movies that marked my childhood.

Farewell Charlton.

Let’s all rewatch one of the most powerful endings in cinema history.

And Soylent Green is…

I’ll be honest here:

Back in the 1980s and 1990s (with the expection of Millenium), I hated them. Very often, the only bits of excitment were coming from Heather Locklear (okie, only in that one cop series) and car chases, BUT I never cared for car chases and didn’t care about hpw this cop or criminal has awesome driving skills that lef to the entire town to be wrecked. *rolleyes*

I has not given a damn over how the husband has cleverly set up the perfect plan to assassinate his wife.

It changed in the 2000s. First guy to change that was Monk , there were something awesome about this obsessive-compulsive detective I just could not describe.

Then came the CSI series, especially CSI: Miami. I watch it for the unusual deaths and Caruso’s corny one-liners.

Crossing Jordan is close to my top favorite of mine. The primary reason I started watching it was the presence of the Sliders guy in the character cast. Then I got hooked on the characters’ chemistry, something I often found lacking in the CSI series (this is my opinion).

Finally, my personal favorite is Criminal Minds. I am biased toward it because, like Millenium in its time, it dealt with one of my two fascinations in the criminology: the serial killers. Criminal Minds has a dark tone, it makes you wonder how people can be so messed up, cases get solved, but the damage is here and gradually takes its toll on the FBI team. It could be the reason I am liking it.

To think I did not believe my teacher in grade school when he told everyone that people’s tastes change with time!