{"id":647,"date":"2004-04-18T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/04\/shaun_of_the_de\/"},"modified":"2004-04-18T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T18:58:07","slug":"shaun_of_the_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/shaun_of_the_de\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0365748\/\">Shaun of the Dead<\/a>, and well worth a visit to the cinema it is. Essentially this is zombie spin-off from Spaced, but that&#8217;d do it a disservice.<br \/>\nI was a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaced-out.org.uk\/\">Spaced<\/a>&#8230; OK, I <i>became<\/i> a big fan of Spaced. You see, I entirely missed out on the first series, and only caught some of second after my brother expressed surprise that I wasn&#8217;t watching it since it&#8217;d be so much up my street. So I turned to DVD, where a series like this absolutely belongs.<br \/>\nWhether there&#8217;ll ever be any more Spaced seems doubtful, although we can but hope for the odd one-off. But in the meantime, Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright have handed us the first decent British comedy film since, well, I don&#8217;t know really.<br \/>\nThe setting&#8217;s not quite the same, although Pegg still seems to be living with Nick Frost in a flat, although this time without a landlady. But we all move on. Pegg has a girlfriend played by Kate Ashfield, the only face that&#8217;s not completely familiar in the whole production. Lucy Davis from The Office, and Black Books&#8217; Dylan Moran provide other characters along with  Bill Nighy and a cast of lots of other familiar faces.<br \/>\nFunny and scary at times, this is a great zombie movie, even if it seems wrong that the whole thing&#8217;s set in North London. Worth catching at the cinema, and I feel the DVD will be a compulsory purchase.<br \/>\nAs a side note, I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120804\/\">Resident Evil<\/a> on video this morning, and the poorness of that zombie film was amplified by my having seen Shaun the day before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got around to seeing Shaun of the Dead, and well worth a visit to the cinema it is. Essentially this is zombie spin-off from Spaced, but that&#8217;d do it a disservice. I was a big fan of Spaced&#8230; OK, I became a big fan of Spaced. You see, I entirely missed out on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}