{"id":1028,"date":"2009-07-19T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2009\/07\/1028\/"},"modified":"2009-07-19T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:45:00","slug":"1028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2009\/07\/1028.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong>HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO HELL<\/strong>: Three more thoughts about <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em>\u2013which I loved even more on rewatching!<\/p>\n<p>1. The extra material on the dvd is terrific. Two commentary tracks, which I almost always love; the usual deleted scenes; outtakes; but, fantastically, a section devoted to Plot Holes! The dvd points out three different huge plotholes and, via truly ridiculous comic-book pages, narrates how they might be fixed. I love that they did that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ETA<\/strong>: Now I\u2019ve listened to the entire director + writer\/star commentary, which is fine, and I\u2019m about halfway through the cast commentary, which is <em>hysterical<\/em>. Good grief, is there anything about this movie I don\u2019t love???<\/p>\n<p>2. This movie didn\u2019t actually hit my best-friendship buttons, because Shaun and Ed are too unequal. The more-competent one (relatively speaking!) is also the more-charismatic. So they don\u2019t work as a Pats-and-Eddie\/Harold-and-Kumar\/Withnail-and-narrator duo.<\/p>\n<p>3. I know I always whine about how post-Romero zombie movies don\u2019t interest me the way old-school, Haitian-style zombie flicks do. 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