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[thedeadite]

i'm wondering if the people who find the remake of dawn a better movie are a younger audience....and i don't mean that as any type of offensive comment/question. Younger audiences are used to more modern movies that are more about a visual experience than a story telling one. That's how all movies have been evolving over time though...people of an older generation then me find movies of the late 70s and 80s to be more about what you see than what is being told compared to the movies of their time... it's a cycle...

 

[Majik1387]

Maybe Captain Rhodes will end up being the twin brother of the Ving character in Dawn of the Dead. It was never proved that his brother died.

That's what I said in the other thread.

 

[Mr. Credible]

i'm wondering if the people who find the remake of dawn a better movie are a younger audience....and i don't mean that as any type of offensive comment/question. Younger audiences are used to more modern movies that are more about a visual experience than a story telling one. That's how all movies have been evolving over time though...people of an older generation then me find movies of the late 70s and 80s to be more about what you see than what is being told compared to the movies of their time... it's a cycle...

well i'm 22, so i never saw the original dead trilogy in theatres... but i rented them all one night when i had that blockbuster movie pass thing, and i loved the night of the living dead (remake, i couldn't sit through the black and white version) had luke warm feelings towards dawn, and loved day.

maybe there was some kind of political undertones and whatever else at the time, but the only one that really hit me at all having not seen them when released was the racism in 'night'. i didn't really see, or catch on to the satire of consumerism in the original 'day', and honestly, most of the zombies looked like pale green painted people, and that really turned me off to it, too.

i did love the remake, though. i didn't see anything wrong with it, other than the fact that (seemingly) all the zombies were fast, i would have liked it more if they got slower as they deteriorated.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I don't think it has to do with age. I'm only 16, but the original Romero "Dead" films are three of my favorite movies ever. They're in my top 15 favorite films. I enjoyed the "Night" remake a little bit, probably because it stayed mostly close to the original, due to the fact that Tom Savini directed it and Romero had a lot of input. But the "Dawn" remake was pretty bad. It was a mostly enjoyable action film, but absolutely nothing more. It was pretty, but there was nothing there. I expect the "Day" remake to be very similar.

I haven't even touched on "Land of the Dead" because I'm still torn on that. I suppose it was alright, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first three.

 

[Majik1387]

I really enjoyed Land and I'm happy that Romero is thinking of a sequel to it, with the characters returning.

 

[Mr. Credible]

exactly... 'land' had alot, and i mean alot of social commentary about it, but it didn't make it a good movie by any stretch of the word. i mean, i liked it enough and everything, but not because of that... mostly because of all the zombie violence.

oh, and 'smart' zombies suck ass.

 

[Majik1387]

^Yeah, I wasn't to keen on them all looking to one zombie as their leader. I liked that they learned to use guns but I would rather they held it other than the way they did. I also didn't like the CGI that much.

 

[Zilleraut #66]

Bah to some of you...
Dawn of the Dead (original) - Clint Eastwood
Dawn of the Dead (remake) - Ashton Kutcher

 

[Mr. Credible]

the remake was hardly ashton kutcher.

 

[ToddIsDead]

the remake was hardly ashton kutcher.

I'd tend to rank Kutcher a notch above the remake.

 

[LordSimen]

I liked the Dawn of the Dead remake just as much as the original. It was a fantastic movie.

 

[Majik1387]

I liked both Dawns for seperate reasons but as a remake it sucked. Well I don't know how reliable Wilkipedia is about upcoming movies but they have Mena Suvari cast as Sarah(possibly the same or a similar character with the same name from the original) and Nick Cannon as Miguel Salazar(I hope he's the first to die).

According to Reddick, this film will not have any connection to Zack Snyder's 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead. Reddick told ComingSoon.net:

It's going to be a separate movie, he told us. We wanted to pay homage to the original with the military and the scientists and the socially relevant stuff that George Romero always does, but we wanted to put a fresh spin on it. There will be similarities, but there'll be differences as well that I think fans will hopefully dig. Steve Miner (Friday the 13th Part 2) is directing, which I'm really excited about.

 

[Mr. Credible]

I'd tend to rank Kutcher a notch above the remake.

then you're either gay for ashton, or you are a bandwagon hopper... take your pic.

the dawn remake was in every way a good movie. was it as good as the original? that's up for debate, but it was a well made movie, and to imply it was as bad as that ****e ashton kutcher really speaks to your character.

 

[Hype Police]

What the hell. The original Dawn is one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Every aspect of it is brilliant. Romero is the absolute authority on zombie movies for a reason. He made the genre, then perfected it, then took it places nobody else would've thought of. The new Dawn was a crappy MTV zombie horror movie that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. It was pretty much in every way a terrible movie. The characters made me want to rip them out of the movie and slap them silly. Entertaining? Slightly, yea. Who doesn't love gore and zombies getting killed? But really, there's no debate on this. If you think the new Dawn surpasses the old you're an absolute moron who doesn't deserve to watch cinema with such little understanding of it. Go to hell you losers.

 

[Hype Police]

Oh and running zombies suck, and always will. The zombie mytho was built upon the staggering number of hordes of the undead that were coming. No matter where you hid, eventually they would find you somewhere. Not at all threatening one on one, but that was the tension of it. What if a couple of those sonsa biatches snuck up on you? And like Joker said, there has to be at least some science behind the horror and he is dead on about the rigor mortis setting in. Hell, the origin of the word zombie contradicts them moving fast. You can't just all of a sudden screw with the mythos for no reason other than cheap scares. That's pathetic. Do what 28 Days Later did and call them something else. They aren't zombies.

 

[Zilleraut #66]

the remake was hardly ashton kutcher.

OK Vin Deisel then. Brainless action and a few laughs. I don't hate the remake but thats all it was.

As for running zombies, I think that the dead's freshness should be the call on their flexability. Newly dead run, rotten dead walk, falling apart dead crawl and pick on the scraps...

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

i enjoyed both films as two seperate films, and wouldnt try and compare them


also running zombies isnt an orginal idea, return of the living dead started it and it sone of the best zombie movies ever

 

[Horrorfan]

exactly... 'land' had alot, and i mean alot of social commentary about it, but it didn't make it a good movie by any stretch of the word. i mean, i liked it enough and everything, but not because of that... mostly because of all the zombie violence.

oh, and 'smart' zombies suck ass.

Yeah the whole all rich people are evil and canada is a super safe haven was ******ed, not to mention the fact that they let a group of dangerous zombies go free to murder and roam.

You could easily do the same with a conservative zombie movie, make all liberals zombie hugging idiots who cause there own death defending the zombie's rights and getting eaten in the process (of course they wouldnt carry guns to defend themselves either

But aside from the social commentary which was lame, i quite enjoyed the movie.

 

[Horrorfan]

OK Vin Deisel then. Brainless action and a few laughs. I don't hate the remake but thats all it was.

As for running zombies, I think that the dead's freshness should be the call on their flexability. Newly dead run, rotten dead walk, falling apart dead crawl and pick on the scraps...

People who act like George Romero's movies are all so smart forget that it doesn't exactly take a genius to equate zombies with mall shoppers. You could equate it to tonnes of things, like shaun of the dead did (with gamers and shop assistants, playfully). So let's not act like the films are a bastion of intelligence because it painted out a fairly obvious and easy metaphore.

 

[Spidey Rules 2]

I'm 36 and I saw the original Dawn of the Dead at the drive in. I thought it was great, keep in mind that I was a little kid back then. I then saw the new one in the theater when it came out and I loved it. I went hope and tried watching the other one and I was pretty bored. I had to fast forward my tape to the part when they go to get has for their helicopter, even then, it was kind of slow (not as good as when I first saw it). I guess I liked the scariness of the dead running after you.

 

[Majik1387]

People who act like George Romero's movies are all so smart forget that it doesn't exactly take a genius to equate zombies with mall shoppers. You could equate it to tonnes of things, like shaun of the dead did (with gamers and shop assistants, playfully). So let's not act like the films are a bastion of intelligence because it painted out a fairly obvious and easy metaphore.

That's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. The thing that Romero did with his zombie movies that others tend not to, is he uses what's going on in society at that time and transforms it into a zombie movie. I tend to like them more than any other zombie films because, again unlike other movie makers, Romero made the movies about the people not the zombies.

 

[HighVoltage]

Captain Rhodes


This has been reported on sites like dreadcentral.com and bloody-disgusting.com, along with other tidbits. The filmakers say it would be arrogant to assume they could just refilm the original and make a better movie, so this will be a reimagining, more in the vein of the dawn of the dead remake than anything.

I can't wait for this movie!

This is a sequel to Dawn Of the Dead Movie?

 

[Majik1387]

This is a sequel to Dawn Of the Dead Movie?

It's been said that it's not. It's a reimagining of the original Day of the Dead.

 

[Horrorfan]

That's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. The thing that Romero did with his zombie movies that others tend not to, is he uses what's going on in society at that time and transforms it into a zombie movie. I tend to like them more than any other zombie films because, again unlike other movie makers, Romero made the movies about the people not the zombies.

But you don't understand...it's an OBVIOUS metaphore. It doesn't take a genius to understand how simple it is. Im not taking away from the movie, but it isnt exactly something you have to be a rocket scientest to think up.

Like I said too, it is slightly hypocritical to make such a point about commercialism making a commercial product (ie a movie) with a million bucks of someone else's cash, is it not?

 

[Flexo]

the dawn remake was in every way a good movie. was it as good as the original? that's up for debate, but it was a well made movie, and to imply it was as bad as that ****e ashton kutcher really speaks to your character.

No, it wasn't even a decent horror film, let alone a good way to spend an hour and a half.

And to say that ******ed cheetah people...er, "zombies" are part of a well made movie is preposterous.