Seeing zombies??? no spoilers (that you didn't already know)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

Just saw Dawn of the Dead last night...thought it was pretty good. Exactly what I expected...good makeup...no plot outside of "RUN"...good amount of gore...mediocre acting...good for a zombie flick...

Any other comments???

[vi5]

1. I liked it a lot.......

I also liked the remake of Texas Chainsaw, but that was a lot more sadistic in nature. This was a little more fun, at least for a horror movie.

I thought there were some great old fashioned gore effects, especially for a mainstream movie.

I didn't like that they added so many new characters halfway through the movie, but some of them added to the movie so I didn't care all that much.

I didn't think the acting was that bad. In fact I'd say it was a cut above the average horror movie, especially with Ving Rhames, Mekhi Pfeiffer and Sarah Polley.

The only thing I didn't like was the whole bit with the dog. Lame-O and cliche.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

14. definitely a cut above

and worth seeing...the effects were IMHO quite good...just a fun movie...my wife, however, would NOT have approved (I wouldn't be able to leave her side for months...heck, HouseII scared her)

theProdigal

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. decent but there is a chineese zombie flick

Bio cops that i liked better

[matcom]

3. seeing Zomby gives me nightmares

[Zomby Woof]

9. *snork*!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. had to happen...

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[SkipNewarkDE]

4. See the Original

It was a real streamlining of the more thoughtful (and gorier) original. A good movie, scary and fun, but a different kind of movie than George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" from 1979. The original movie featured the zombies as these slow moving, lumbering, almost pathetic creatures that overwhelmed humans not because of their hunting prowess, but because humans just couldn't get their shit together and work in a united fashion. The people in the original film essentially TALKED about what could be done, or fought amongst themselves, with the tendency to factionalize as civilization constraints broke down. The message was essentially that it was human nature that brought their downfall against the zombie plague. All of the technology and means was there to fight the invasion, but we are crippled by our own natures.

There were also some interesting pokes at the consumer nature of capitalist society in the original, and it made you wonder who the real zombies were.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. i remember the original well

and that is what sparked my interest in this remake. You definitely notice the difference in the speed of the zombies ... kind of odd ... you seem them lumbering about aimlessly UNTIL 'fresh meat' arrives and then they go into a superhuman mode...

Despite the differences, I still think it was pretty good remake even if it was not true (as no remake is) to the original in all ways!

theProdigal

[frylock]

7. george romero's social commentary is always refreshing

[ihaveaquestion]

5. I went to a drive-in to see it

at the last drive-in theater in Tampa. Really took me back to those teen-age nights in the 70s! Try it, you'll like it!

[absyntheNsugar]

8. I'm trying to peg the social commentary on this one

I saw it and the theme to this one seems to be children. Not sure what they were trying to say, but somehow it involves children.

I would go into detail but that would require spoilers...

[rumguy]

10. I read that there were social implications in it

Dealing with fear, terror, and our reactions to it, etc. - as well as some subtle knocks at the shallowness of our culture...

[redqueen]

11. Thanks for being careful about the spoilers

The thread's claim of no spoilers is the only reason I clicked the thread!

Can't wait to see this -- I do so LOVE zombie flicks. :)

[FunBobbyMucha]

12. I enjoyed it more than the original and I was a huge fan of it.

Unlike the above poster, though, I always thought Romero was a half-baked director/writer. See "Day of the Dead" or his awful King-Arthur-on-motorcycles flick if you doubt that.

Good cast--loved Sarah Polley, but that's hardly anything new for me. I thought this remake did a lot more to humanize its core characters than the original did with its cast. The character whose last line is "Figures..." was interesting because he/she grew as a person.

Making the zombies run instead of shamble just upped the tension.

Word on the Drive-In. Wish I was near one. Saw the original at the drive-in...sob, sob...the 70's...

[slackdude]

13. Best Review EVER!

There's a hysterical review of Dawn of the Dead side by side with THe Passion of the Christ at http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17222