Dawn Of The Dead: Remake Review(Spoilers?...Maybe?)

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Ai Takahashi

All video game movies are garbage. ALL. It's just a standard these days. They just can't pull off a good movie.

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie will prove you wrong every f'ing time

[Mikey the Party Turtle]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie will prove you wrong every f'ing time

MK was average, but SFII doesn't count since it's animated. Now the real Street Fighter movie....*Shudders*

[Brodie]

The Ending:....I missed the ending, the real ending the first time, but I've seen it, and am here to explain it to you.

Anna dies. The last frame is of her as a zombie. However, it is that Terry and Kenneth live. How much does that suck for The two guys. But those two were cool cats, so I'm happy.

[Skeletoncrew]

Huh. I'd have to watch it again. My eyes were kind of straining at the end there, so I didn't really catch what happened.

[Wes]

Okay, fiiiiinally got around to watching it. I'm with EZWeasel -- this movie was awful. I and a friend were even tipsy when we went to see it! And it killed our buzz.

In all seriousness, folks, this is the worst zombie movie I've ever seen. Yes, even worse than Resident Evil -- at least that flick had a smattering of character background and development.

But I've never seen House of the Dead, soooo...

[Brodie]

No effin way!

Seriously, there's more back story with DOTD, than with RE, you barelly get to know the names of people. In DOTD you get to know that Anna is a nurse, and has a family, and her husband dies, and Micheal is a father but fails at that, and wants so hard to be good at things.

Better than the Resident Evil ****. And I LIKED RE.

[Wes]

That's two characters. And it's funny that you mention the thing about the names, since I don't even know who Michael is. Seriously, we barely got to know the characters by name in this one too. I assume Michael's the one they left on the docks at the end, though, since he did mention that during the scene where they were sitting around and talking. But note that he was the only one who got to say anything there.

Maybe I've just seen too many good zombie movies (and good movies period) to have been anything but extremely disappointed with this one, especially having watched the original Dawn of the Dead last week. That one actually had some depth, but this was pretty much two hours of shooting zombies with a couple of breaks here and there. If I wanted to see that, I'd just go hang out in an arcade near an old House of the Dead machine. And if I made small talk with a couple of the people waiting to play, I'd probably learn more about them then I learned about any of the characters in the Dawn remake.

But keep me posted on your zombie movie hunt, Brodie -- I'd be curious to see how you think this Dawn compares to other zombie flicks.

[Brodie]

I just don't know why people can't just let tid bits about this movie slide. Zombie movies are becoming few and far between. We should be happy we get zombie flicks that hit theatres. And like them. But as a whole hate House Of The Dead. I wanted to shoot myself while watching that. How the hell did Romero think that movie was "genius"?! Old bastard.

Dawn held me off until RE4.....it's coming..it is...really.....

[Wes]

Tid bits slide? Like everything awful about the movie? But honestly, I'd rather not have new zombie films come out than have bad zombie films in theaters. I've got plenty of decent ones on dvd and I can always watch them again (or buy one I don't yet own, like Return of the Living Dead 3) instead of mindlessly running to the theater like the zombies in Dawn just because a film has a zombie in it.

And did Romero really call House genius? I haven't seen it, but I haven't heard good things about it... Now I'll have to find it and give it a look, since Romero's movies are the best zombie flicks out there, bar none.

[Brodie]

The DVD, he's interviewed, he said he wished his mocies were more like that than his originals.

It was horrible.

And let the running zombie thing go! It's about muscle structure. I can't express that enough. Zombies dead within hours or days arent decayed enough to have their muscle structure gone, and the longer a zombie is dead the slower they are, the muscle structure is decomposed.

[Mobius One]

Yeha, running zombies i think are more real, because just because they are zombies, doesn't mean that they are too stupid to run, cause I just got done watching the original, and let me tell you, it is so funny and stupid (but a classic, nontheless) and they say that they are brought down to their most primal instincts, and wouldn't one of those be to run. I don't know though, I did really like the remake more than the original, just because, it was awesome. I think that is the best descibing word for it. AWESOME. I mean, exploding propane tanks, bajillions of head shots, and zombies getting trucked over is just damn cool. I also thought 28 Days Later was just better because they did explain things a lot more plus it was a more serious movie. That might even be one of my favorites.

[Wes]

Oh, I was just using it there by way of analogy/simile.

But where are you getting this muscle structure thing? It certainly wasn't mentioned in the film. And so what if it had been? But I'll admit that I prefer the slow zombies -- they're much more terrifying. Will you try to run past them? From them? Will you fight? They're coooooming..... But with these new zombies, it's just like HISSSSS and they're running towards you in a frenzy -- you've got no choice but to start shooting. There's a subtle sense of sloooooowly encroaching dread with the slower zombies that these new running ones just don't inspire.

Originally Posted by DemoGoblin87

I mean, exploding propane tanks, bajillions of head shots, and zombies getting trucked over is just damn cool.

And yeah, I guess if that's all you wanted to see, I can see why you'd like this movie more. (But let me point out to you that there are way cooler and better zombie movies along these lines. Bio-Zombie, Wild Zero, heck, even Fulci's Zombie had this stuff, and an underwater battle between a zombie and a shark to boot.) Me, I prefer to get a little character development in there, so that I actually care when the characters are in danger. Give me more quiet moments where the characters get to sit down and catch their breath -- like in Resident Evil, it makes the scary parts all that much more terrifying, since you had a chance to come down from the last encounter. Give me some subtlety. Give me some wit. And if you give me some sly social commentary and something to think about, that's even better. That's what makes a movie a classic. This was just AHHHHH ZOMBIE!!!!!! BLEAAAAAAARGH BANG BANG BANG BABY ZOMBIE BANG BANG RUN RUN LOTTA ZOMBIES GO BOOM THE END.

[Brodie]

My girlfriend brought over a copy of Fucli's Zombie, but we didn't get around to watching it, by friday I'll have seen it. Is that the one with the shark thing?

[Wes]

Yep, that's the one that has the shark/zombie battle. It's a pretty good fight, too.

[Brodie]

....That makes me wonder...Do zombies float? Oh, and in House of the Dead the zombies swim. Horrible, horrible film.

[Wes]

If you've played Primal, you already know the answer. Like Scree, they just sink and walk.

[Brodie]

That's crap. Just crap.