1. Timothy Olyphant looks really good in khaki. Really good. Really good. Even the costume department agreed with me to the point where they did not let him wear anything but the khaki for pretty much the entire film. The costume department over at The Crazies clearly know a good thing when they see one.
2. Timothy Olyphant should play small-town sheriffs all the time. There's something so wonderfully natural about the way he takes on the roles of charismatic, dark and tortured men of the Law. This is to the point where his presence alone can make watching a bad movie a riveting experience, simply through the power of a look, or a gesture, or a walk, and The Crazies is no exception. This man is Can't-Take Your-Eyes-Off-Him-able.
3. Timothy Olyphant going around committing righteous murder and shooting stuff? Is never not hot. Never.
4. My existence is empty and meaningless because Timothy Olyphant is not my man and will never come running to save me from :
a. The government
b. The Zombie-But-Not-Really-Zombie Apocalypse
c. Vengeful knife-wielding widows
d. assorted crazy people
Damn my life.
Does someone have the technology to paste my head over Radha Mitchell's? Perhaps with this thing they call Photoshop? It'll look so much better, I tell you.
5. Timothy Olyphant making Sheriff-y phone calls? Hot.
6. Timothy Olyphant getting stabbed in the hand? Hot.
7. Timothy Olyphant saying "Fuck"? Very hot.
8. Timothy Olyphant drinking coffee? Hot.
9. Timothy Olyphant having an Emo Sheriff session on his own front porch while doing manly things like sawing wood and being emotionally distant? Hot.
10. Timothy Olyphant almost getting his testicles incinerated by a runaway bone saw? Hot.
11. "Do you want to give up? If you want to sit here and die, tell me, and I will sit here and die with you". So much potential for cheese in that line, but delievered by Timothy Olyphant it carries an emotional core and several different levels of heartbreakingness. And yes, beyond hot.
Seriously though, The Crazies is one of those rare B-grade horror movies that is actually good.I'd even go so far as to say it probably deserves to be watched just for trying so hard and so sincerely. It has a decent enough plot, some genuine scares, characters you care about, no one goes around doing the stupid things people usually do in horror films (going off alone to investigate a strange sound in a dark room, screaming a lot, walking around in underwear), it has intelligence, solid acting, pretty cinematography, and there is a Timothy Olyphant. And why, no, this post wasn't just an excuse to post pictures of the man. As if.
All in all, a very decent horror flick. If I were to make just one improvement on it...
There we go. Sheriff needs more Stetson.
In other news, I am back at campus for a brand new semester, and back to surviving on the Internet, pop tarts and instant soup sachets. The upside however, is that I did spectacularly well on last semester's finals and somehow made my way on the Dean's list, so there's plenty of academic motivation going on now. The Dean's list, you guys! And a belated Happy New Year, peasants!
