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Another Peek At The New DAWN OF THE DEAD!!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
Alright, hell, I’ll admit it. I’m curious. I want to see this film. This despite the fact that I thought last year’s TEXAS CHAINSAW remake was one of the most witless pieces of unflushable shit I’ve seen in recent memory, enough to scare me off ever seeing a remake of a classic horror film again. The trailer for this one got me interested, and the reviews we’ve been getting have been fairly consistent and complimentary. Check this out, for example...
I want to remain anonymous, a friend and I were approached on Saturday to see the movie on Wednesday. I went thinking it might be Dawn of the Dead and went in expecting it to be okay or sub par. I wasn't originally going to write this, because I felt when I left the theatre that it was close to a solid film and not only that but the audience reaction seemed ecstatic. Upon reading some of the negative reviews however I am finding some falsehoods such as the "Bruce Campbell" comment. That did not happen and if it did the guy whispered it, because this was the type of crowd that yelled, hooted, and hollered-never to a point where names where shouted out though.
One of the annoying things that I have seen in the reviews, though, are that half of these aspiring filmmakers seem to think they know what works best. I don't think that is the case, they want to criticize just to criticize. My friend and I are aspiring filmmakers and we that the film was great. Filmmaking is a juggernaut type of art you never know what works until you finish or abandon the product. I however thought the end credits sequence did not work and hope for its deletion when the film is released. That was my only complaint.
I think the nagging criticism of too many characters is unfounded. This film reminded me of Aliens in that aspect. It is like saying too many characters went on LB426 and they are just waiting to be eaten by aliens. Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Ty Burrell contributed admirable performances, as did the rest of the cast. I think the point of the lack of characterization was to show that the world and its inhabitants were stripped of their lives and have to deal with their new reality. The same happened in the original Dawn of the Dead which I have seen and felt it was a great altough it too had its flaws.
Again, I have to say that the remake is solid with the exception of the ending and that this was a "work in progress" I look forward to seeing it when it is completed and hope they did not stray too far from the work print.All I want is a decent horror film. I promise… I won’t carry the original into the theater with me. Just give me something good, and I’ll judge it on its own merits. Consider my fingers crossed.
"Moriarty" out.
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Feb 18, 2004 7:28:35 AM CST
Wow - I finally get a chance to be a total asshole and say 1st
by rikkiebags
Still, gotta say. How can you honestly take a zombie seriously if he runs....
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Feb 18, 2004 9:33:12 AM CST
People who complain about people who are are complaining about p
by glen quagmire
Heh, you take a running Zombie seriously because he'll run down your sorry ass and chew your jugular out in under ten seconds!
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Feb 18, 2004 12:24:14 PM CST
i hope the only movies this guy aspires to make are home videos
by bobleeswagger
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Feb 18, 2004 12:28:07 PM CST
i hope the only movies this guy aspires to make are home videos
by bobleeswagger
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More like a mission statement. Where's my pitcher?
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I've seen more depth, thought, and cohesiveness in a Bazooka Joe wrapper. Nice work!
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LONG LIVE 'FLY-BOY' - THE GUN-TOTING SPAZ..! p.s. Love Savini's remake of NOTLD... lots of giggles and jolly japes.
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I still think there were too many characters on screen than this movie could handle. ALIENS had a longer running time and less people to deal with so it was able to balance everything out, DAWN is a whole different story.
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I'm all for the running zombies. (Oh, shit, there's a zombie coming after us, walk faster!) Forget dogma. Also, 28 days later (which I really enjoyed)gets referred to a lot as a zombie movie, but couldn't you just as easily call it a "Cujo" rip-off with rabid humans instead of St. Bernards? And what was that zombie/albino-or something movie with Charleton Heston from the 60's or 70's? I was like 4 or 5 when I saw that on TV (a double feature with "the day the earth stood still") and I still remember parts of it and I've always been curious to see it again. Anyone know the title and is it any good?
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Feb 19, 2004 2:19:57 AM CST
Me thinks the production company is feeling a little insecure ab
by theginger twit
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That is frigging weird. I watched 'Catch 22' last night and was planning on using that name for something... props. Anyway, I actually have a real reason for responding-- that Charlton Heston movie is called 'Omega Man', and it roolz. There's a hilarious scene where he's watching the Woodstock documentary, lip-synching the words, and then says: 'They sure don't make 'em like that anymore'.... too true. remakes are usually only better in a cosmetic sense.
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I know that the original had a mall scene too but I'm just so fed to the teeth with that old cliche. I mean they did it in the orig., they did it in "Night of the Comet" remember that one? (it had the great zombie line, "what I'd like to do to you, you wouldn't believe, not in your worst fucking nightmare you wouldn't believe...", fuck, they even did it in "Eight Legged Freaks" and to see yet another zombie battle with survivors in another fucking mall. Btw, whatever happened to that scene I read on here once about the people holding up signs to communicate with a guy in a ammo store or something...was that this movie? -
Im a Romero Fanatic. Hands Down ive seen Night (69) about 25 times. Seen Dawn about 30 to 45 times ( That includes Argento Cut,Unrated,Theartical hell I even have a copy for edited for televsion version) Seen Day about 20 to 25 times. Soon as I know Dead Reckoning is a go im going take whatever time is needed for work and im going to be a zombie extra and Romero will accept any extra thats shows. I love Night (1990) and wish 30th anniversary version of Night (69) to be burned and burned and burned and burned its heaping pile of shit. With that backstory in place im going in Dawn (remake) with no expectations. I know of the cameos of the original cast and the flyboy one is great. and I can accept the running zombies but otherwise there would be no way it could top the original Dawn Of The Dead (78) is not about Zombies its about people its about what really matters when its boiled down. Its a stab at the vanity of the world. Dawn is about the human condition it breaks us down shows us what we really are and whats really importnat. I hope this film does well I want the 4th Dead Dilm. I want savini effects back. I want Hatchet head for president. When Theres no More Men in the world but AICN talbackers and only women left Gosh darnit you boys still wouldnt get laid"
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with creepy Anthony Zerbe as the head albino freak.
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with Anthony Zerbe as the head albino freak.
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....That needs to become an official new Ain't It Cool Talk Back Catch Phrase (tm).
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Feb 19, 2004 12:56:04 PM CST
i, for one, WILL carry the original into the theater...
by mistergrimloch
since the producers of this assanine project saw fit to title it after Romero's masterpiece, and yet the studio could not be bothered to fund Romero himself for a 4th "correct" zombie film.
i'm totally sick of remakes, re-imaginings, and other redoings of older, superior works, without the participation of the original creators. there is not a fucking shred of original thinking in the vaccous shithole that is called Hollywood. clearly, this film will suck, AND be forgotten.
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if you are such a Romero "fanatic", then why would you make the mistake of Night being produced in 1969? it was 1968, young Jedi.
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...even _dead reckoning_ (or is that _dead in 30 seconds_? the only interesting cars in romero's oeuvre are johnny's brake-released sedan in _night_ and those two pintos -- one surrounded during the voiceover and one in the mall -- in _dawn_) gets greenlit. as we used to say in finishing school, fuck this cannibalized bullshit. is there no originality, anywhere, in this late-capitalist moment? back to the future? more like, forward to the past. "awwwwwwwww, there ain't no life nowhere!" -- james marshall hendrix. and poor fanboy cinastes like myself who are, a la the disaffected hero of _before the revolution._, nostalgic for the present...
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...but was filmed in '67. And according to Return of the Living Dead, it was based on true events that occurred in 1969. Heh.
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Feb 22, 2004 8:11:38 AM CST
All I want is some classic, in-your-face- gory as fuck scenes of
by red raider
Is that too much to ask? With today's hollywood, apparently so. I want to see biker bad guys getting their guts ripped out as they scream like little girls in a haunted house. Only George Romero & Tom Savini had the genius & the cajones to pull that off. Does anyone know who is doing the makeup for this remake? I hope it's KNB. Greg Nicotero (aka, "gut boy") would be back in some familiar territory! Let's hope they use lots of "chunks of flesh" on this film!
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Feb 23, 2004 11:47:31 AM CST
This was a review about nothing, why did you bother submitting m
by matrix_sux
I don't want to hear about aspiring filmakers. Just tell us if the movie was good or not. Did some parts work while others didn't? Compare and contrast with the original since that is what most of us want to hear. Treat it like a high school essay in that respect if it helps
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