george romero "DIARY OF THE DEAD"

NY PJ1
NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS ????????????? :mad:
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    It looks good, but the critics are giving it a mix bag in the reviews.
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    i didnt know you cared. the reviews dont seem to live up to romero classics but its probably still better that 90% of recent zombie movies.


    also i did post something about this awhile ago on here, but it was tucked away.

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showpost.php?p=4713104&postcount=14
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    i didnt know you cared. the reviews dont seem to live up to romero classics but its probably still better that 90% of recent zombie movies.


    also i did post something about this awhile ago on here, but it was tucked away.

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showpost.php?p=4713104&postcount=14


    are u nuts


    ROMERO IS ONE OF MY FAVS !!

    dawn of the dead is classic old and the remake

    big big fan

    screw vedder solo tour this is real news lol
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    well i would have kept you posted. also i think there is a actually remake to cannibal holocaust in the works. alot of people have created what they called sequels but the same guy is actually behind this sequel. dont know if that intersts you.

    i didnt care for the dawn of the dead re-make. i agree with romero about the running zombie stuff.
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  • rearviewmiror
    rearviewmiror Posts: 894
    Got tickets for this tonight. Should be good. I don't pay attention to the critics for Romero anyways. It's not like they like the genre to begin with.

    Looking forward to real zombies and social commentary from the master. I enjoyed the dawn remake, but that fast zombie crap is ridiculous.
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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    well i would have kept you posted. also i think there is a actually remake to cannibal holocaust in the works. alot of people have created what they called sequels but the same guy is actually behind this sequel. dont know if that intersts you.

    i didnt care for the dawn of the dead re-make. i agree with romero about the running zombie stuff.



    interesting thanks

    well the remake wasnt as good as the original but i just enjoy the genre period
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    rearviewmiror wrote:
    Got tickets for this tonight. Should be good. I don't pay attention to the critics for Romero anyways. It's not like they like the genre to begin with.

    Looking forward to real zombies and social commentary from the master. I enjoyed the dawn remake, but that fast zombie crap is ridiculous.


    and since he made them fast..... its a whole new deal lol


    i like them slow lol
  • zircona1
    zircona1 Posts: 293
    NY PJ1 wrote:
    HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS ????????????? :mad:


    Well we were too busy promoting Jumper.

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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Fuck Running Zombies!

    I'm just sayin.
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    [REC] looks a lot better than Diary of the Dead.
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    I never even heard of it until now. Seems it has a pretty limited release. Eh. Oh hell, I'd watch it.
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    i didnt care for the dawn of the dead re-make. i agree with romero about the running zombie stuff.

    What did Romero say?


    This is the first I've heard of this too...thanks.

    and PJaholic - I have no idea what your sig is all about (assuming online gaming), but it keeps cracking me up :D
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Drowned Out wrote:
    What did Romero say?


    This is the first I've heard of this too...thanks.

    and PJaholic - I have no idea what your sig is all about (assuming online gaming), but it keeps cracking me up :D


    You should see the whole thing (The sig that is) it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Or close to it. Depends on how much you know about online gaming and stuff.

    http://www.4guysfromviewpoint.com/?p=76
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    You should see the whole thing (The sig that is) it's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Or close to it. Depends on how much you know about online gaming and stuff.

    http://www.4guysfromviewpoint.com/?p=76
    I don't know much about gaming...but that was freakin HILARIOUS. I didn't realize from the sig that it was about WWII. wow. thanks!
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    Drowned Out wrote:
    What did Romero say?


    This is the first I've heard of this too...thanks.

    and PJaholic - I have no idea what your sig is all about (assuming online gaming), but it keeps cracking me up :D

    ill try to find the quote or article or whatever it was but he said something like that they didnt understand zombies at all. that the horror was that one zombie is nothing its slow, its stupid and just nothing to really worry about. but a swarm of zombies something. they took what made zombies scary, the numbers and made it meaningless.

    and what ive liked about romero's version is the zombies arent really the villians in a sense. they just want to eat and just be. and the humans at first are happy to be and just live but eventually the get all greedy and start to make games out of killing zombies. the zombies kill to survive, like animals. the humans killed cause it was fun.

    in the re-make you didnt really have this. the zombies were evil and scary and the humans were the good guys, except for the standard bad-guy, zombie fodder.
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  • pouch15
    pouch15 Posts: 436
    intodeep wrote:
    Fuck Running Zombies!

    I'm just sayin.

    What running zombies?
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    pouch15 wrote:
    What running zombies?


    Like the dawn of the dead remake. Those zombies were fucking FAST. I wouldn't make it.



    And I shouldn't be bring this up but if you want another example, 28 days later. Just in a moving sense, the infected aren't really zombies.
  • pouch15
    pouch15 Posts: 436
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    Like the dawn of the dead remake. Those zombies were fucking FAST. I wouldn't make it.



    And I shouldn't be bring this up but if you want another example, 28 days later. Just in a moving sense, the infected aren't really zombies.

    I forgot that Dawn of the Dead actually had running zombies. I love romero, I thik this is going to be a great movie, but Im more afraid of the infected, 28 days later is one of the scariest movies I've seen
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    pouch15 wrote:
    I forgot that Dawn of the Dead actually had running zombies. I love romero, I thik this is going to be a great movie, but Im more afraid of the infected, 28 days later is one of the scariest movies I've seen



    The infected from 28 days later are fucking insane! They vomit blood on people trying to turn them for crying out loud! The only thing zombies have on infected is that the Infected can be killed by regular means, they just have superhuman strength, stamina, and speed (By regular means I mean starving, massive wounds, etc.) To kill a zombie it has to be extensive brain damage.


    Did you see 28 weeks later? It was pretty good. And they're supposed to be making a sequal to that also.
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    ill try to find the quote or article or whatever it was but he said something like that they didnt understand zombies at all. that the horror was that one zombie is nothing its slow, its stupid and just nothing to really worry about. but a swarm of zombies something. they took what made zombies scary, the numbers and made it meaningless.

    and what ive liked about romero's version is the zombies arent really the villians in a sense. they just want to eat and just be. and the humans at first are happy to be and just live but eventually the get all greedy and start to make games out of killing zombies. the zombies kill to survive, like animals. the humans killed cause it was fun.

    in the re-make you didnt really have this. the zombies were evil and scary and the humans were the good guys, except for the standard bad-guy, zombie fodder.
    not sure how to feel about all that. I think it's kinda pretentious to define a fictional character. A lot of people have given their own twists on vampires, werewolves, and various kinds of undead, some with great success...and some like C.H.U.D.....but I mean...they did put his title on the film, so....

    I don't think I've delved into the symbolism relayed in the zombie/survivor relationship so much....I think what I like so much is the disaster-flick aspect. constant, grave danger, isolated dread and doom.... That's there in the remake...I really liked the first half hour of it...it faded but still had it's moments IMO.

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