Thread: Dawn of the Dead

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This movie was awesome. I loved some of the special effects. When the truck is driving backwards and slamming into zombie heads, I was clapping. The characters were cliches (the street smart black kid, the total ahole rich guy, the gee-whiz kid) with some great characters thrown in like the tv sales guy that steps up to the plate. Also, this has the coolest soundtrack I've heard in a long time. They do a montage with Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine singing Get Down With The Sickness. It an instant classic. I only had 2 problems with the movie. When the networks stopped broadcasting, some evangalist guy comes on the tv explaining why hell is full and the dead are walking the earth. i found this implausable at best. The emergency broadcasters can't continue to broadcast, but some tv preacher can? The other problem was the camera work. I hate this high speed film and hand held camera ala Blair Witch. It makes everything very disorienting and It does not have the intended effect on me. I just make me think that the director is hiding something.


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Did you watch any of the extras? The short documentary on some of the unique zombies, like the one without legs, was pretty cool.

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Ever seen the original???? Of course. I was raised on horror movies. When I was a kid, I would map out my whole day based on what horror movies were on. I would watch the creature double feature, chiller theater, Night Gallery, Ghost Story, et al. I would read Creepy magazine and Famous Monsters of Filmland. I would build the Revco models, Dracula was my personal favorite. I saw every episode of The Twilight Show, Land of the Giants, The Time Travelers, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, UFO, Planet of the Apes, One Step Beyond. I watched so my horror and sci-fi when I was a kid, I'm amazed that I know how to read and write.


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The best zombie movie ever made! The storyline was great, the music was fitting to the movie itself (loved the Johnny Cash at the beginning) and the special effects were outstanding. The extras on the dvd were almost as good as the movie itself.
The best part for me was the fact that these zombies can move...none of that stumbling, foot shuffling at a snail's pace for these guys. When you see them coming you better RUN! LOL
This was my best movie purchase this year and I highly recommend it to anyone who don't mind lots of gore. This is definitely not a movie for the kids though.

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I, too absolutely loved this movie. I attempted twice to see this movie in theatres. The first time was a blind date. My date showed up drunk, fell passed out in the theatre and I had to leave a note screwed under a water bottle cap telling him in so many words to F*&% OFF! The second attempt was another blind date, but this one was okay. He kept trying to feed me M & M's. I really enjoyed the flick and am about to purchase the DVD. I just wish they had showed the zombie baby longer. Making it jump from it's dad's arms and crawl quickly on the floor for a few seconds before having it's head shot off would have been nice....

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JOHN - The only reason the preacher was in that scene that you didn't like is so that Ken Foree (the original guy in Dawn of the Dead) could do a cameo and say some of the most famous lines from the zombie film genre, "When there is no room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth!" That quote actually comes from ZOMBIE 2 by Lucio Fulci, it just goes to show how much the director LOVES zombie films! That's primarily the reason for that scene!

I agree with you that it was weird that no emergency network took over but maybe there wasn't any, due to the zombie outbreak!

I was SO skeptical going into this film and even lambasted the fact that they were remaking the Romero classic here on this forum but I was SO wrong!

Granted some of the scenes were shot in a pseudo Blair Witch photography style but it really was not that film that influenced this film, it was 28 Days Later! That's where that photography style really came from, also, where the fast moving zombie idea was pulled from!

If nothing else JOHN - Romero's 4th Zombie Extravaganza will be out in the Summer of 2005! He has finished filming it and it is in the editing process now! I personally cannot wait!

Actually I heard that a company had remade Day of the Dead and did kind of s straight to video hack job on it and wehn Universal saw how successful Dawn of the Dead was, they got the rights to Day of the Dead and are remaking that. Nothing like one successful zombie movie to bring on a slew of others.
Of course I recognized Ken Foree from the original. It was good to see him in there and the scene was appropriate, but why didn't they put that scene in earlier. It would have made a lot more sense. I just find that kind of oversight distracting.
As far as zombie movies go, I didn't like 28 days. It was kind of boring amd slow moving. Maybe because I had built up my hopes for that movie.
Anyways, bring on the zombies.



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