Topic Searching

So far, we have watched around fifty minutes of the movie Land of the Dead. Most of the main characters have been introduced up to this point and there have been a number of topics that have jumped out at me. Most of the ones that I thought of though were not present on the list. I have to say that this sort of movie is not my first pick when I walk into the movie store, but I am learning more about analyzing movies and realizing that perhaps I fall into advertising traps.

After I glanced over the topics in class today, I realized that I have very limited exposure to movies of this kind. I have not seen any of the other related movies to this series. However, the topic involving fandom, which I later learned dealt with fans, jumped out at me. This topic seems like fun to research and write about because I am not in this particular "fandom." As the readings have stated, people often fall into advertising traps and do not properly analyze a movie when viewing it. To some embarrassment, I am absolutely one of these people. This movie is not boring and fake to me. My preconceived notion of this flick was completely wrong. The reason I am enjoying this movie so far is because I hardly ever watch a real zombie movie. Usually my movies involved comedy in relation to American Pie or Old School with all the same jokes just presented differently. This movie presents more opportunities to research and learn more about a certain aspect of this movie. So far, it looks as if I'll be researching fandom and The Land of the Dead.