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DAWN OF THE DEAD poster hits and is pretty damn cool
Hey folks, Harry here... Now as much as one's natural geek instincts make one scream out for the deaths of all involved in remaking George Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD, while not financing his own final chapter... I have to admit that #1- the script was pretty damn good for this. #2- the cast is pretty damn good for this. #3- the new one sheet kicks a lot of ass! Going against it was a first trailer that had flying leaping hyperactive zombies (which I personally hate) and an unknown first time feature film director that is, as of yet, unproven. Here's the original one sheet for Romero's...
And here is the one that EmpireMovies.Com posted! Well, I prefer the new one, although the original has an iconography of sentiment. This new one is graphically, for me, more cool. Here ya go...
For people that think I'm "slowly coming around" to this... let me remind you that back in September of 2002, I wrote a script review of James Gunn's DAWN OF THE DEAD script that was quite favorable. Also, the PG-13 fuss was wrong. The film is R-rated. As a reminder, here ya go!
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those are some tall-ass zombies
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I'm looking forward to Wright and Pegg's Rom-Zom-Com more than this shit...
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still I have hopes for this one I thought the trailer was pretty cool. I predict 70 million bucks at the national box-office
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I should have said something, but it loses its luster when It is not first, because no one reads past first anyway....And thus, second, or third! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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not like that last fake poster
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nope, no sir I don't like it.
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but it looks like someone smeared poop down the front of it.
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and I ain't talking about Bennifers new flick. For Harry to pull a 180 on this they must have paid some whore to dig through the flab of Harrys mass to find his turtlehead cock and suck it silly. Poor bitch. I pity the ho. Seriously, I guess Paul Anderson couldn't find it in his budget for Aliens vs Predator or else we'd start reading how Harry really loved Soldier.
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Harry thought the new Texas Chainsaw was really good too.
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Jan 08, 2004 11:30:03 AM CST
You pathetic fools come see what all you pricks that defend Resi
by harrysoldout
Actual scary zombies, not actors that got cut from Michael Jackson's Thriller Video, Finally flesh being torn apart, fear, transformations, YES....haahahhahahahahahahahhahah
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Hmmm. This poster reminds me of the inside cover of my "Zombie" dvd.
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That's pretty damn cool if you ask me. I was expectin Wing Rhames mug up there with the rest of the crew but I'm sure that when it draws near the premier we'll see a poster like that.
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eh. sk
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The new poster is a tad menacing, but is it good?
Did someone think they were channeling Jackson Pollock with that whole "image drip" deal?
I can't help but think they took some poor schlub from Universal's Art Depratment and said: 'Look, we don't want something that will knock people's socks off. Limit the use of color to keep it dark. Don't get creative with the title fonts. And make sure the artwork is creepy but vague, in case we have to scrap the whole thing.'
If the Japan one was real, it's way better. If it was phony, they should hire the guy who made it.
BTW, I will go and see this but hold no high hopes for it. Too many disappointments in the past. -
Why remake something which had nothing wrong with it? TURKEY written all over it. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was destroyed last year and now this. Buy the original instead, save you wasting your time on this shit.
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If they made a movie about, say, a Red Lobster where all of the seafood came back to life and started attacking people, could they call it "Prawn of the Dead"? Forget it, I've got nothing...
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Any douchebag who thinks this will rock just beacuse it has acool poster needs to get a fucking clue. Fact is, this will suck, just like all of Romero's sub-literate pieces of primitive garbage. It will never be half the movie RESIDENT EVIL was or, NEMESIS will be. Eat it.
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Jan 08, 2004 12:36:49 PM CST
People, People! We're forgetting the most important thing...
by glen quagmire
Sarah Polley is in this movie! That's Box Office GOLD! Well ... in Canada at least. Apparently we love her up here or something.
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Huge fan of the original. Completely open-minded about the remake.
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She's sneaky hot. There's something about reserved Canadian girls .... mmm, mmm good. Better than Aero bars and Jones Soda. Has her career gone far enough in the tank that she needs to start doing nude scenes to be taken "seriously" yet ?
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Trailer zombies = fast and menacing, poster zombies = slow and creepy. Also there is the 70's look to it. I prefer the Japanese poster with the little girl on it. Contemporary and creepy!
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Harry, Harry, Harry, dont you know that taking payoffs to publish a favorable opinion of something is wrong?
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yeah man, it gave me douche chills! I wanted that poster in my asshole so bad I was creaming for it. So I printed it out and shoved it right up there. I let that poster have it's way with me cause silhouetted people walking is HOT. I would love to masterbate on the dvd too. Oh yes. Sexy DVD of zombies. Now I have to go and make sure that paper is biodegradable or we'll al have some problems. Douche out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Seriously? Personally I think the original Dawn poster is probably the coolest poster of all time. I've never seen a reddish one like the one in the picure though. Looks even better than the standard one. The new movie, incredibly, actually looks quite goood imo. On a completely unrelated note: I know it's been over a week and I don't mean to nag, but I can't believe there hasn't been a proper Anita Mui tribute on this site. I even sent Harry one myself, although he himself certainly could do a much better one.
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According to Mr. Skin's site ... she's only ever been naked (partially) in a flick called "Guinevere". Although! She DID wear that black dominatrix thing in "No Such Thing" - so ya never know ... she'd probably be up for full blown nudity someday. Anyhoo, this SHOULD have been filmed in that West Edmonton Mall too! Could have used the savings in Canadian money to put towards more CGI! Heh ... kidding.
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So who says that this thing is legit? I seriously doubt it as it's not even on the film's official site. Has anyone seen it in theaters? Probably just another case of a bored fanboy with too much time on his hands.
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the zombies are made of shit and they melt in sunlight? seriously, romero or not, this will do no better than house of the dead and you all know it to be true.
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I will say this first, to each their own, and I guess I just don't "get it". But why do movies like this get you guys so excited? (And before any of you start typing a bunch of curses, note that I'm not making fun of you or crapping on the movie.)
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Jan 08, 2004 1:31:56 PM CST
Who knows, maybe Harry is slowly changing his opinion on this on
by fluffyunbound
You know why I think this? Because that is what is happening to ME, so I can identify. I want to not like this movie. It offends me, as it does Harry, that the studio would prefer to copy Romero than finance his final chapter. So I saw the trailer and I said, "This will suck!" and "This is BS!" and all that. And then I heard that they are going for a PG-13 and I screamed "This will really suck! Fuck that PG-13 crap!" But slowly my anger is receding and losing its fire, and I am realizing that a copy of a zombie movie - particular a copy of the BEST zombie movie - is better than no zombie movie at all. I also think that the set-up is a can't-miss: Group of folks [including a very hot chick] holed up in shopping mall while zombies destroy the world. I would watch that same movie if they remade it 100 different ways. I would watch the "Mr. Bean" remake of that concept. Frag some zombies, play some hoop in the mall atrium, get scared, geat eaten. End of movie. What the hell - it has to be better than Matrix: Revolutions.
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Zombie films are a particularly satisfying form of apocalyptic storytelling. To understand their appeal, you have to try to understand why something like the Book of Revelation has such a timeless appeal. People like stories of the apocalypse because they signify a release from conventional responsibilities. People identify with the "survivor" characters and on some subconscious level are attracted by the prospect of setting up a fortress in a mall, instead of going to work every morning and listening to people bitch. The zombies reflect the "damned" of apocalyptic vision, and are completely dehumanized. As such, they stand in as surrogates for all the people in life that we hate and resent, whether we admit it to ourselves or not. In a Christian eschatology, those people "get what's coming to them" but it's Jesus that administers the punishment. In zombie movies, that step is taken out, and the even more satisfying alternative of getting to shoot those people in the head yourself is offered instead [hey - they're zombies - they want to eat us- we HAVE to shoot them in the head - etc. etc. etc.]. Please note that this analysis applies mainly to "broad stroke" zombie movies like the Romero series and 28 Days Later, where the zombie phenomenon actually takes down society and creates the preconditions for the type of plot situations I am describing. Something more small scale, like Zombie Lake or something, is really just a slasher film, and would fall under the morality-play sort of analysis that slasher films are typically seen through.
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Because a.) Anderson is not directing and b.) it has the Nemesis, one of the coolest fucking monsters ever! With Lion's Gate releasing UNDEAD as well sometime this year 2004 should be a great year for zombie flicks!!!
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As much as I enjoyed the originals, I am not going to let that keep me from at least giving the new one a chance.
Honestly, what is the worst that can happen? You go and spend $8-$10 on a ticket and wind up not liking the movie? Do you seriously mean to tell me that just because you see one bad movie, your life is going to be ruined?
Face it, the flow of new and original ideas is fading.
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To whoever it was that asked. The original DotD posters had a blue-ish tint if I recall correctly.
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that
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Don't know much about the movie. Can't say I'm a fan but that's a very well designed poster. It really grabs you. I'd even go so far as to say it's better than the Kill Bill poster of Uma's hand holding the sword with the hankerchief. Nice one.
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come on, we haven't had a new one since "dead raped deer".
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Jan 08, 2004 2:58:04 PM CST
Blade Runner Unit you missed the boat completely on NOTLD
by m.d. douche
If they had his int he basement the WHOLE night instead of fighting the zombies upsatirs the zombies would have had all night to bang that door down instead of the few hours they ended up having. The door held for short while. It would not have held the night. Also the black guy killed like half the zombies in the area. Also he passed out and made NO NOISE. If the basemen was full of assholes jabbering it would have attracted even more zombies. Staying in the basement was a stupid coward portuguese thing to do. You dumb fucking euromexican.
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Jan 08, 2004 3:36:30 PM CST
I like BRU's point about the hero not being the "right" one in t
by fluffyunbound
Although I thought that he actually was right, but that his plans were continually undone by the bald guy, because of the bald guy's selfishness and spite. That was the way in which NOTLD was critical of American society. DOTD lampooned its banality and consumerism, but NOTLD went right for the jugular of criticizing America precisely for her democracy. The people in the farmhouse are undone because it is more important for them to be "right" and to be "the leader" then it is, literally, for them to live. They die because they talk and argue rather than finding a way to agree. And, one final point - the black guy does NOT survive. He lives only until the morning, when the rednecks shoot him, because they think he is a zombie. It's one of the great anti-endings of all time: the guy has survived an epic struggle with the forces of darkness, only to be killed accidentally by his "rescuers". It's the other pole, the mirror image, of the ending of "Taxi Driver" and from this other pole it does a similarly impressive job of viscerally communicating the director's notion of the absurdity of the human condition and our notions of heroism. YES! I just compared Romero to Scorcese! Deal with it!
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Yeah!!!!! This poster made me happy! Too bad the trailer was a total disappointment. Why do the zombies have to run? :(
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Jan 08, 2004 4:18:50 PM CST
I can't believe people are using the New Texas Chainsaw as a rea
by blok narpin
Remakes, as a general rule, are a bad idea. If it was done right then you don't need to do it again. Still, I can't believe that people can actually try to use the recent Texas Chainsaw to prove this point. That movie was so good, and was one of the few remakes that actually worked (like Carpenter's Thing, Cronenberg's Fly, and the recent Willard). If you want to illustrate the point that remakes suck use a bad one like Van Sant's Psycho to prove your point.
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...and this one will suck too.
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The new Jordan Ladd version of the Club Dread trailer is very nice. Long may it reign on AICN. You can call me nust if you want.
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It takes more than a cool poster to make a good Zombie movie.
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Jan 08, 2004 5:55:09 PM CST
I love Dawn of the Dead, but I am still looking forward to this
by smeg for brains
Of course I'm almost possitive it will suck, but this movie being made and sucking won't erase all existence of the original, so who cares? If you let this film effect your love of the original then you are a moron. If it doesn't suck, or is actually very good then we have just another good zombie movie to enjoy. Either way we are no better off than we were before. Besides I'm sure it won't suck nearly as much as Resident Evil did. And I'm sure that Resident Evil 2 will suck VERY MUCH. Resident Evil is something to be pissed about because it is total missed potential on every level. We could have had a new Romero zombie movie. Instead we got a steaming pile of garbage fried shit. With this Dawn remake we already have a classic, so the worst that can happen is that we still have a classic, and a shitty film that we can all just ignore. How is that different than 99% of the normal non-remake movies released?
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Check this shit out. Funniest shit i've seen all week!
http://www.filmrot.com/articles/filmrot/004353.php
they also have news on Grendel and
the Seed of chucky poster. Check it out. -
Looks good to me. Just take out the zombie gymnast and I'm in...
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Jan 08, 2004 6:37:26 PM CST
They used Sparklehorse's 'It's a Wonderful Life' on the trailer.
by silver_joo
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And it has zombies in it so it has to be better than ROTK... I'm just j/k, well kind of
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Resident Evil just plain sucks. No matter how you look at it, And basing the quality of a movie on a single character is ridiculous.
The reason that movie sucked had nothing to do with the director, but it did have some to do with the fact that it was based on a stupid puzzel solving video game that was based in "Racccon City"
which must be the most retarded name for a city, and was probably just a bad Japanese translation.
But I digress...I think the point that I was going to make in the first place is that a)no good movie has ever been made from a video game b)Resident evil was only a sub-par video game plot in the first place. So to sum it all up, Resident Evil sucks, as a video game and especially as a video game.
I BID YOU A GOOD DAY SIR!
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Jan 09, 2004 1:25:16 AM CST
cool tagline, poster looks like every single other friggin tease
by tall_boy
hey, silhouettes! Never seen that before! How inovative!
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Jan 09, 2004 4:23:23 AM CST
kinda off topic, the main problem with the RESIDENT EVIL movie..
by nexus-6
wasn't that it was particularly bad, it wasn't, really. Gets better after multiple viewings and has a ending that gives me hope for the sequel(granted, it had some horrible CGI and some poor acting). To me it felt more like a recent John Carpenter movie, but slightly better. The main problem was that the games are SCARY, the movie wasn't. The games are also DARK and dripping with atmosphere. Once again, the films were not. The games resemble a David Fincher-esque nightmare(particularly the Gamecube remake and RE ZERO), the movie looked like, well, an overlit/overedited high-low budget flick. Granted, the games aren't without fault either, they aren't very original, nor do the early ones in the series have very good voice acting, but they're terrifying) In all honesty, they could have done a shot-for-shot remake of SOMEONE PLAYING THE GAME BEGINNING TO END, added more character interaction and dialogue, and had one hell of a movie. Oh well, what's done is done. At least the original DAWN OF THE DEAD is getting the special edition DVD treatment here soon.
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Come on, face it folks Romero has gone off the boil. After producing two classics, Day of the dead was an awful film, and having read the script for Dead Reckoning (easily available on the net folks) it's just tragic. I have never read a more hackneyed piece of crap since his draught of Resident Evil, who would have thought that Anderson twat could have improved on the zombie movie that Romero intended to make. Seriously, read the dead reckoning script with it's almost non existent zombie threat, stock characters and tired clich
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HE MUST BE A PLANT!!!! HARRY, YOU SELLOUT MOTHERF*&#$R!!!! PLANT!!!!
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You have to be joking. It's not a zombie movie without blood, guts, and gore! If I want to see a bloodless zombie bore, I'll watch Resident Evil. Hollywood really doesn't understand the zombie sub-genre.
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Phew...I should have read Harry's full post. I was about to scream if they were going to rate this thing PG-13.
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Jan 11, 2004 2:38:21 PM CST
I think the poster should be re-designed with Hulk Hogan as the
by chaffros brother
"Hmm... let's see how it looks in Blue, brother".
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