{"id":161,"date":"2008-10-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-10-29T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T16:00:00","slug":"sam-reviews-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2008\/10\/29\/sam-reviews-short-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam reviews (short version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/tgtv.jpg\" title=\"Because I can't be arsed with full reviews for these\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0892899\/\">Outpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This little gem of innocuousness is halfway between <i>Deathwatch<\/i> and <i>Dog Soldiers<\/i>. Same plot as <i>Deathwatch<\/i>, give or take; same style as <i>Dog Soldiers<\/i>, give or take. Definitely not as good as the latter, definitely better than the former. have to admire the guy who had to stay pretty much semi-comatose for most of the film. He didn&#8217;t even blink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0483607\/\">Doomsday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me. Come the zombie apocalypse the Scots will not need some gun-wielding Sassenach female to save them. They will probably be really very happy to put a wall there because it will keep the English out. The Daily Wail brigade love an excuse to hate the English, and I&#8217;ll bet the SNP were right there on top of the wall waving the flag and yelling &#8220;Freedom!&#8221; in their best faux-Australian\/American accent and cheering on the Smeatonator.<\/p>\n<p>Could have been so much better. Wasn&#8217;t. Not, however, as big a pile of necrotic tosh as <i>Sunshine<\/i>. Not that this is saying very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outpost. 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