Comments on: America’s Goriest Home Videos. Diary of the Dead.

By: zombiwolf

zombiwolf — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:28:18 +0000

My friend’s dad just told me how he went to see the original ‘Dawn of the Dead’ when it came out in Boston, in the violent-Departed side of town. Anyway, packed-theater filled with suspicious people and halfway through some drunken idiot yells at Ken Foree “Somebody kill that n****r!” And the place erupts into a riot. Screen is torn, seats torn up and a half-dozen people dragged to the hospital. I kind of wish that theaters were once again like that or that modern films could incite a passion like that, however uninformed. This bored the hell out of me. I watched it right after I had my wisdom teeth pulled so I was pretty loopy. After I watched this I felt so good I went for a bike ride and bled all over myself.

By: Retroman DC

Retroman DC — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:50:49 +0000

Couldn’t agree more on the review. This was like the disappointment of seeing the Phantom Menace. It was even more painful due to the fact that reviews coming in for it were really good? I was wondering if I watched the same film they did. Where was the apocalyptic feeling of despair? What happened to characters we cared about? Where was the sense of creeping dread? instead we get a few scattered scenes of a few zombie kills and a mummy chasing a girl in the woods as a zombie…lame! argh!!!!! I was pretty luke warm about Land of the Dead but I figured that movie was lost to producer and the studios controlling Romero’s vision. This was supposed to be his pure vision back to his roots as a low budget zombie filmmaker and it’s quite clear that he’s lost his creative vision. I think he’s been through so many life changes much like Lucas that his skill level just isn’t the same and much like drawing or creative writing if you stop practicing you lose your edge. I have hopes that when World War Z gets adapted it will restore what a true zombie film should be like. Dawn of the Dead remake had moments of brilliance This was just a few scattered moments of interest.

By: MALACHE

MALACHE — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:57:59 +0000

SO is it at least worth a rent??