Dawn of the Dead - the remake

[Drifter]

Anyone seen this one yet?

As a fan of George Romero's original, I went in with mixed feelings, hoping for the best, but expecting an MTV flashiness throughout. In the end I was pleasantly surprised by an entertaining remake. It has some intriguing premise twists (details withheld) and is surprisingly sly and knowing in its development, grotesquely tragi-comic in the film's consideration of fatherhood. Although it may lack some of the subversive satire and humour of George Romero's original, it for a while nicely incorporated the sense of human conflict that was found in Romero's own sequel, Day of the Dead to compliment the expected zombies vs. humans scenario. Despite the odd reservation, I'm glad I saw this one - a fine addition to zombie-lore.

[Salamander]

Apparently it's pretty good

[Enemy]

I'll be the first one to say that I've watched it...well I watched it yesterday. Not too bad of a movie, very gory! got some good scenes...gets a little boring but yeah not too bad :) I'd give it a 7/10

[amy_b]

I really liked it. I also found it quite a bit more scarier than I found the Romero version. The fact that the zombies could move really fast when they spotted prey was a good change, cause in the Romero films the zombies could be avoided by running around them most of the time.

[KingSpud]

I havent seen the original, probably would be good of me to but I wasn't alive when it was made. Saw the remake last Friday. Really liked it, some parts were actually quite funny (such as 'passing the time' with a game of spot the celebrity ;) ). One or two jumpy moments and some very good gore. I generally liked it. 8/10

[UltimateFreq]

I generally liked it although after the movie had finished, and was talking to a friend about it we both pointed out that it didnt have much of a story line at all as it didnt really explain the beginning or the end of the movie. So it sort of left us thinking WHY. I'd give it about a 7/10 but if it was based on story line and plot i would give it a 2/10, and wouldnt really recommend the movie to anyone.

[Watcher]

Been meaning to reply to this for a few days now......
The original is one of my all time fave movies and I was a little worried about what they would do with this remake.
Having now seen it, I'm very pleased with what they did.
It was good to see that they took the basics from the original with the mall and zombies, but took it a little further with things like the guy on the roof of the gun shop, the whole try and escape in modified mini busses thing and having the zombies moving a hell of a lot quicker than in the original movies. Showing the fate of the survivors in the end credits was pretty cool too.
The movie was fun, had a good touch of gore and moved along nicely.

9/10 (really 8/10, but it gets an extra point because it's a zombie movie:D).

[Drifter]

Almost a week later, I'm still musing on the film. Partially because I got around to seeing 28 Days Later also - I wonder if the recent push to zombies/plague scenarios (there was Resident Evil too) is in any way a reaction to post 9-11 fears of chemical/biological apocalypse. Anyway, back to the remake of Dawn of the Dead: one part that really got to me was...

...the man who keeps his wife tied to the bed even when she becomes a zombie, just so he can have the child he's always wanted, so desiring to be a father is he that his madness was both affectingly tragic and absurdly funny... I like the way this subplot toyed with the notion of whether the zombie plague can jump the placental barrier...

This aspect and the speed at which the zombies moved also seemed to make a reference to the Romero-inspired parody, Return of the Living Dead. Just as an afterthought, there was an under-rated vampire-zombie type apocalypse film which was rather interesting, Lifeforce. But that one's perhaps more indirectly tied into AIDS-era hysteria by its mid-80s release.

[linton]

The poorly adapted video game (well, it is supposed to be loosely based on it) of House of the Dead makes its way onto R4 this month too I think, and another one I'm yet to see is House of a 1000 corpses(I think that's the title?).
I think there has always been a zombie movie or two lurking in the shadows, but as you mentioned, they have been coming out of the woodwork over the last few years. :eek:
I'm looking forward to see how they go with RE: Apocalypse, the teaser trailer has be salivating already. :)