Movies Dawn of the Dead

Now *THIS* is what Resident Evil should have been. I saw it yestarday, and its perfect for all you horror buffs and deranged lunatics out there! It takes about a whole five minutes before the bodies start piling up, and the action and suspense don't let up (save a few hilarious parts) until the very end.

Its not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. Honestly this is the only movie I have ever went to go see that a grown woman actually vomited at a cetain part. Its zombie kill'an, brain munch'in, chainsaw massecur'in, undead baby fun for the whole family... well maybe the Manson familly but thats beside the point.

 

Remake!

Isn't Dawn of the Dead the title of the third Night of the Living Dead movie?
Night of the Living Dead
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Or something like that.

Yeah, IMBD says this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/
Original 1978.

 

I think it might be, because my mom keeps saying it's a Remake.

Any-way, I still want to see it.

 

Yeah, it is a remake, but I think it is of a film by the same name.

 

Wow, no one knows what Dawn of the Dead is... (Not that it's important or anything, unless you're a Horror fan, then shame on you!) In my opinion this movie was a mixed bag and will admit if not compared to the original, would receive a higher rating by my (and fellow DotD fans) standards.

I wasn't too thrilled with the idea of the turbo zombies, which was a direct rip from 28 Days Later, and they ran because technically they weren't dead, they were infected with rage. But since most of the undead were recently deceased, and the effects of rigor mortis don't set in until 4 hours (depending on environmental temperatures) it was understandable, but I would've like to see some scene where all the zombie weren't freaking olympic sprinters. But zombies were sprinting in Return of the Living Dead so this could be easily forgiven. But I got mention, WTF was it with a the jump the zombies did? These dead human being, not possessed demons, with added strenght.

One reason why the original DotD was so good was because of character development, and it's story. In the original we introduced to 4 main characters, and their character developed as the movie went us (the viewers) cared for them, so when one of them died, story seemed to get bit bleak depressing. In the new Dawn, I could care less of the character. When they die only thing I was thinking was "So many guys left?" and "I Hope they show the zombie ripping out that bastard's guts" (Which they don't) I mean, I didn't even know half the people in this movie and it seemed like they popped out of nowhere, like who the hell was blonde bimbo? If there only character development plot I liked, it was between Andy the Gun shop owner, and Ving Rhames' character Kenneth.

Story wise, everything is different from the original, other then the fact they were stuck in the mall, and the zombies were taking over. There too many plot holes in the movie, like how the hell does the group manage to get into the mall? I'm pretty sure the security guards locked up the whole damn place, How the hell did Sarah Polley's character, Ana manage to survive the car crash? After the all the zombies can sprint can't they? She should've been nothing but bone and bits and piece of flesh when Kenneth finds her in my opinion. How come thousands of sprinting zombie couldn't force their way into the mall barricade only by glass doors? The husband was certainly strong enough to crack the windshield with one punch. Did they barricade it some how, if they did they should've shown the audience, or at least a plan of it. Those some of the many plot holes I found in the movie. They did have some good ideas that only seemed to go to waste, such as the zombie wife, it's baby, and the husband but they wasted it (I smell Dead-Alive/Braindead)

I don't Know how many of you said it, but this movie wasn't scary at all. It mostly used cheap scares that were very predictable even by a casual horror viewer. Since they were using turbo zombie in the flicks, they should've taking advantage of it and created some tension by director Zack Synder never advantage of it. Also I hated the shaky cam, it was unneed, and would've done just fine in a third person POV, infact I think it was create a bit more scare using in the 3rd instead of the shaky 1st (personal opinion, can be dismissed)

Finally, the SFX and gore. This is one part I'm truly satisfied, as a lot of the gore was no CGI and applied using old-skool techniques. The shotgun scene and the chainsaw were very nice, and I have complaint in this section.

Overall, I enjoyed the sucker, but because the movie has the Dawn title, I was expecting a better movie then this and sadly I have to say Resident Evil did a better job then this movie. In the FX and action department it was superior, but comparing a 50 million+ budget and a 2 million budget isn't fair. Storywise, it sank faster then lead in water. The first ten minutes of the movies definitely rocked, but as it progressed it seemed Synder just more bored and bored and it just died. I hated the ending, and hated it ever more at the very end (After credits). I'll probably buy the DVD only because it has the Dead name attachted to it, but the original will always be superior.

(I can see this review sucks, probably because I haven't for almost 36 hours)

 

It goes like this:

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Night of the Living Dead Remake (1990)
Dawn of the Dead Remake (2004)

Day was suppose to be the greatest zombie movie ever (I read original script, it f_cking nice, in fact every Dead fan read it) with a $7 million budget, but because George A. Romero aimed for a X rated film, it's budget was cut in half, and we got sort of a dumbdowned film, it's still good though.

I will go on a rampage if hear some Hollywood hotshot planning to make a Day of the Dead Remake.

 

I, myself, am just glad that Tom Savini made an appearance. That man is a bloody genius, along with George A. Romero, and my hat goes off to him.

http://www.savini.com/filmography.html <=- For those who don't know

As far as the movie went... yes, this movie was not scary, in the least though it was certainly a good movie. Unlike c0ke I wasn't really bothered so much by the certain details (after all, I go to see a movie to enjoy it and if I enjoy it I see no reason to pick things out about it, not that I'm insinuating you're doing anything bad, c0ke).

Though I do have to agree about the character development tidbit. The original movie only had the four main characters and throughout the movie it was easy to detail them and fill in the tidbits, while this movie kept throwing people in and we found out little by little about them each time. Like "Oh, okay, that guy owns a boat... but wait, who's that blonde chick?". Though in this movie I felt the same way for certain characters, but others it was more like "Wait... why the Hell is s/he so important? Bah, s/he can die, I don't care">

And I personally missed the bikers from the original movie.

 

All in all, I agree with Amon Sena. But you gotta admit, the gun shop owner kicked ***. My favorite part of the movie was when they were picking out celebrities. Jay LENO! BANG!! BURT REYNOLDS! BANG!!

 

I saw this film yesterday and i have to be honest, the whole thing was totally pointless. I thought the whole thing was a waste of time save for the bits where your man is sniping celebraties and when one car plouges into another at 120mph. Other then that i don't think that it was worth seeing and there was no suspence in it what so ever. You could almost predict what was going to happen and who was going to die.
I might watch the original if i get the chance cause originals are usually better then the remakes.

 

I would've liked to see him take out Rosie O' Donnell, personally. ;P That would've been funny. And the first time I saw the movie, I missed the original ending (since I didn't stay for the credits).



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Though it is good that every last one of them died. >D Liked it better than how some actually got away in the original
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