Okay, so today’s pick is not exactly festive fare, but 28 Days Later does celebrate the importance of family along the way, and it even has some christmas lights in it! We mentioned this movie recently in Science Not Fiction’s list of the 10 Best Post-Apocalypses: not only is it a great movie in itself, but it also breathed new life into the Zombie Apocalypse sub genre. A small handful of survivors find themselves alone in a world in which nearly everyone else has been turned into a de facto zombie by a virus in this gripping film.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Dangling…. “nearly everyone else has been turned into a de facto zombie by a virus in this gripping film”
How did the virus get into the film? Did Kodak put it there? Should we call the CDC?
Move the participle: “nearly everyone else in this gripping film has been turned into a de facto zombie by a virus” or “In this gripping film, a small handful of survivors find themselves alone in a world in which nearly everyone else has been turned into a de facto zombie.”
December 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I think the grammar police need to get a life. There was nothing wrong with the sentence structure given the context. If the virus was in “the film,” it would have been improper to refer to it as “this film” because the supposed film was never mentioned in the article until that point. It was a reach at best.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
That’s not even mentioning the fact that the adjective “gripping” would have been misused. Your reading of the sentence assumed 2 mistakes when there were none to begin with.
October 1st, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Sadly they only have trailers…boo.