Dawn Of The Dead.
<div class="IPBDescription">Good zombie movies are hard to find...</div> If you haven't heard of it, then that's no surprise. I didn't till a week and a half before itoday, the first day it was released. A zombie movie with the same name as one made back in the 1980's, but most likely different.
Story starts out with a nurse in a hospital, holding a head X-ray of a guy in a bar fight. She's tired and wants to go home. She leaves and while she's leaving, a guy with massive blood lost comes in through the door. Passes an ambulance with a tired guy sleeping in back that wakes up to respond to a call. She gets home, gets kinky withher husband then goes to sleep. The husband wakes up to their daughter opening the door, and chomping on his neck. Husband dies from massive blood loss and goes after the wife. And it gets worse...
The RE movie made a few years ago was a massive let down as that it didnt' focus on the actual RE story line and kinda went along a different beat. But years before that in the 1970's, the first Night of the Living Dead was made. It was a head of it's time with make-up and gore. It enjoyed a rather loyal fan abse and through the 1970's to the 1980's, more zombie movies were made for the flesh hungry public. Then sometime in the 80's, they disappeared. No one bothered to really ask and got along with their daily lives.
I have always liked a good zombie movie, and I thought the NotLD remake in the 80's was good. But unforutnatly, at that time, I couldn't rent zombie movies because I was a kid. When I got old enough that I could, they were no where to be seen. Watching DotD was like reliving the first time I saw NotLD. I was on the edge of my seat, wondering what was going to happen next. But instead of the slow stumbling zombies that can be pushed around, these zombies can RUN, like 28 Days Later. Unlike 28DL, this moive offered a more suspenseful edge of your seat action that was rather satisfying. If you have ever liked zombie movies or like to watch one on occasion, then I would reccomend DotD. It has a few moments where you will mourn over the loss of one of the survivors. But for the most part, most of them are just there to stand, talk and die, gruesomly.
Story starts out with a nurse in a hospital, holding a head X-ray of a guy in a bar fight. She's tired and wants to go home. She leaves and while she's leaving, a guy with massive blood lost comes in through the door. Passes an ambulance with a tired guy sleeping in back that wakes up to respond to a call. She gets home, gets kinky withher husband then goes to sleep. The husband wakes up to their daughter opening the door, and chomping on his neck. Husband dies from massive blood loss and goes after the wife. And it gets worse...
The RE movie made a few years ago was a massive let down as that it didnt' focus on the actual RE story line and kinda went along a different beat. But years before that in the 1970's, the first Night of the Living Dead was made. It was a head of it's time with make-up and gore. It enjoyed a rather loyal fan abse and through the 1970's to the 1980's, more zombie movies were made for the flesh hungry public. Then sometime in the 80's, they disappeared. No one bothered to really ask and got along with their daily lives.
I have always liked a good zombie movie, and I thought the NotLD remake in the 80's was good. But unforutnatly, at that time, I couldn't rent zombie movies because I was a kid. When I got old enough that I could, they were no where to be seen. Watching DotD was like reliving the first time I saw NotLD. I was on the edge of my seat, wondering what was going to happen next. But instead of the slow stumbling zombies that can be pushed around, these zombies can RUN, like 28 Days Later. Unlike 28DL, this moive offered a more suspenseful edge of your seat action that was rather satisfying. If you have ever liked zombie movies or like to watch one on occasion, then I would reccomend DotD. It has a few moments where you will mourn over the loss of one of the survivors. But for the most part, most of them are just there to stand, talk and die, gruesomly.
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Most zombie movies I've seen aren't scary or suspenseful at all.. just lots of groaning, creaking walking corpses and lots of blood and zombie gore flying all over the place.
OH!! Except, of course, Wild Zero, which features none other than Guitar Wolf saving the world from zombie-creating UFOs, along with zombie romance and a crazy arms-dealing woman that runs around in what looks vaguely like a race queen outfit.
i almost read that
I think it all stems back to seeing the video for Thriller when I was only 5 or 6 :P
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Meh, he only described the trailer...
[edit again]Hehe befoire I forget: spoilers![/edit again]
Well kiddies, just got back from the movie theater and you knw what that means: I'm about to tell you stuff about zombies!!! WOOOO!!!!
The first thing I noticed about this movie was the fact that there was almost NOONE there in the theater. I only counted 19 people (including the two I went with), and that's just pathetic, even if it was a 4:20 showing.
Anyways, onto the movie. As I expected I had some EXTREMe problems right from the beginning, the zombies are NEVER explained. At all. And I don't mean that it's unexplained WHY they are zombies, it's not explained HOW they are zombies. In a traditional Romero-ian scenario one can become a zombie by either 1)being bitten or 2)dieing in any way in which the brain/spine is intact (since the official cause of zombies in Romero films has always been some sort of "cosmic radiation" or some sort of global thing that affects all corpses). But in THIS DotD (hereafter refered to as: DotD04) one can only become a zombie by being bitten, which leads us to believe that it is some sort of biological thing which frankly really coms off as trying to hard to be 28 Days Later. This is something that the movie suffers from a lot, it tries WAAAAY to hard to be other movies, which actually sometimes comes off as cool.
The movie starts off as 28 Days Later, turns into Dawn Of The Dead, turns into Mad Max for a while, then turns into Day of the Dead for a few minutes, then turns BACK into 28 Days Later towards the end. Oh yeah, and EVERY action sequence (camera angles, use of slomo, etc) comes off as a complete ripoff of the movie Undead, an Australian zombie movie that actually kicked a lot of buttock, especially in the way it's action sequences were done, so at least DotD04 is completely solid in this area.
It's not to say that this movie did not have some parts that were good, it had a bunch. The aforementioned action sequences, the whole Mad Max-esque kinda thing was pretty cool as well, many of the comedic bits were well executed (the muzak gags had some chuckle appeal, and the bit where they shoot the zombies based on what famous person they remind the people of is remeniscent of the many visual zombie gags in the origional) the movie also has some of the trademark so-rediculous-it's-funny moments of all zombie movies (I for one got a kick out of the fat chick zombie and the zombie baby most of all, although the "old white lady vs young black dude" battle was also funny). Oh yeah, and the fact that they gave the Bruce Cambell Look-alike a chainsaw kicked azz (although the way he dies gave me 28 days Later flashbacks like nobody's business).
Even though I had heard about how different it was supposed to be, I was still suprised by just how much it had changed (no wonder Romero disowned the movie). Although it did manage to get one (or maybe two, I can't be sure, and the credits were danged hard to read) of the origional actors back for cameos, none of the origional chracters had counterparts in this movie except fot the quintisential "black guy who kills things" chracter that is in all Romero movies. The whole concept was changed around, th eonly scene that was even REMOTELY like the origional was the scene in the mall set to a jazzed-up version of "down with the sickness", a scene which was quite entertaining for the same reason the origional was. And now that I think of it, this movie was amazingly gore-free compared to the origional triligoy as well, with very little gut-shots and only slightly more blood splatter.
Basically the whole gist of what I'm saying is that this movie was not as bad as I thought it would be, but it is still not a masterpeice, especially compared to the origional. It was entertaining, but had none of the cult appeal or rewatchability of the origional.
[edit] Oh, and BTW, Frost, you got all your numbers wrong. Night came out in '65, Dawn in '78, and Day (which you seem to have forgotten) was made in '85. Oh, and the remake of Night was made in 1990.[/edit]
Sonic: shopping mall. And don't forget the one set in the unerground bunker! That's the one most peopel forget.
i just saw it it was 1337
The first thing I noticed about this movie was the fact that there was almost NOONE there in the theater. I only counted 19 people (including the two I went with), and that's just pathetic, even if it was a 4:20 showing.
Anyways, onto the movie. As I expected I had some EXTREMe problems right from the beginning, the zombies are NEVER explained. At all. And I don't mean that it's unexplained WHY they are zombies, it's not explained HOW they are zombies. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just got back from seeing it in a packed sold out show.
awsomeness
You do know that it doesnt realy say how the zombies got started b/c this isnt the first movie in the story...
The origional Night of the Living Dead (actual story is seen more in the remake. dont count night of the living dead 2 and 3)
Then this movie Dawn of the Dead and the final movie /part of the story is Day of the Dead which hasnt been done yet.
Basically
Night of the Living dead is the first outbreak
Dawn of the Dead is the taking over and the massive spreading of the epidemic
and the Day of the dead is when its spread to the entire world.
I thought it was awsome.
Did anyone here stay and see "what happens" during the ending credits?
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Banned!
But seriously, I really wanna see this movie.
Uh.....dude.....Day of The Dead has been done for almost 20 years, I saw it last week on SciFi. And the reason I don't cound NotLD as the story for this movie is that they are so very different.
Uh.....dude.....Day of The Dead has been done for almost 20 years, I saw it last week on SciFi. And the reason I don't cound NotLD as the story for this movie is that they are so very different. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
oops was thinking of the possible remake that was in debate <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:red'>spoiler</span>
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>The part with the gun shop guy and his sniper rifle, shooting Jay Leno was hilarious. The black guy and his zombie family was kind of stupid.</span>
It's explained half-way through I believe.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->[edit] Oh, and BTW, Frost, you got all your numbers wrong. Night came out in '65, Dawn in '78, and Day (which you seem to have forgotten) was made in '85. Oh, and the remake of Night was made in 1990.[/edit]<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Night of the Living Dead came out in 68.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Which is this a remake of? , the one where there all stuck in that house or in the shopping mall?, They were both great films <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The one also in the shopping mall, but it's not to much of a remake. Still great though.
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I really couldn't stand that part... because:
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>SPOILER</span></span>
<span style='font-size:5pt;line-height:100%'>they all died!!!</span>
CUZ I HAVENT SEEN IT YET
/cries
It's explained half-way through I believe. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well I mean, how do they START being zombies? Their is no reason that kid should have been a zombie, wouldn't she have gotten eaten? But then again, noone seems to get really EATEN in this movie, just bitten once, except the guy who was getting really eaten in the back of that sports equipment place. WTH?
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Night of the Living Dead came out in 68.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Damn damn damn! I always mess one of em up! I suck with memorization.
Look at what happened with freddy.. You didn't know anything at all about him in the early movies, but the later movies were a joke because you knew all about him and how to defeat him.
Yeah, the girl was kinda dumb. Because, she wouldn't have gone outside in the middle of the night would she? And if she was eaten in her bed, wouldn't the zombie that broke in maked plenty of noise? Why didn't it go for the parents?
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I sure did, oh, and I also put up a spoiler sign.
<a href='http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film73/73image5_1_movie.swf' target='_blank'>Shaun of the Dead</a>
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That looks pretty cool, very Dead Alive-esque.
<a href='http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film73/73image5_1_movie.swf' target='_blank'>Shaun of the Dead</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wouldn't say better, but it looks funnier. The Remake did have some good LOL parts in it. I'm going to watch this, when's it coming out?
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Ok, thanks for clearing it up. Someone in the theater made a joke in the begining and everyone was laughing, you didn't hear much of the dialogue.
<a href='http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/film73/73image5_1_movie.swf' target='_blank'>Shaun of the Dead</a> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I wouldn't say better, but it looks funnier. The Remake did have some good LOL parts in it. I'm going to watch this, when's it coming out?
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The little girl was their neighbor.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ok, thanks for clearing it up. Someone in the theater made a joke in the begining and everyone was laughing, you didn't hear much of the dialogue.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Its nick frost!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Well that still don't exaplin why she wasn't just plain eaten......we know that they CAN eat you given the time, if they get you alone.......but they only seem to on a purely random basis. Weird.