#36 - Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Really running out of things to say here... "My gods, I'm tired" is just repetitive, and I don't want to be repetitive...
When this first came out I swore I wasn't going to see it. My elitist "unnecessary remake" complex kicking in. And anyway, Shaun of the Dead came out at the same time, and that was tons better.
Eventually I caved though, and got the DVD.
In this remake the basic plot is the same - zombies rise, eat people, survivors head for mall, but in this case the zombies appear almost overnight, making it much more of a standalone film than the original was (and that wasn't exactly linked too mach itself). My biggest problem with this film was the zombies themselves.
They weren't zombies. Zombies move slowly, growl - you can dodge past a few if you're sharp and daring enough. The zombies in this Dawn... remake were fast-moving little buggers though, more like the enRaged from 28 Days Later than your tradition shambling corpse and this, coupled with the fact that there were just so dammed many of them, kind of made it difficult to watch the film and have any real expectations that anyone was going to survive. The odds just seemed too stacked against the fleshies. And that's why, as pretty and theoretically sound as this movie is, I can't really get into it.
I do love the special feature of the news broadcasts with Richard Biggs (RIP) and Bruce Boxleightner though.
When this first came out I swore I wasn't going to see it. My elitist "unnecessary remake" complex kicking in. And anyway, Shaun of the Dead came out at the same time, and that was tons better.
Eventually I caved though, and got the DVD.
In this remake the basic plot is the same - zombies rise, eat people, survivors head for mall, but in this case the zombies appear almost overnight, making it much more of a standalone film than the original was (and that wasn't exactly linked too mach itself). My biggest problem with this film was the zombies themselves.
They weren't zombies. Zombies move slowly, growl - you can dodge past a few if you're sharp and daring enough. The zombies in this Dawn... remake were fast-moving little buggers though, more like the enRaged from 28 Days Later than your tradition shambling corpse and this, coupled with the fact that there were just so dammed many of them, kind of made it difficult to watch the film and have any real expectations that anyone was going to survive. The odds just seemed too stacked against the fleshies. And that's why, as pretty and theoretically sound as this movie is, I can't really get into it.
I do love the special feature of the news broadcasts with Richard Biggs (RIP) and Bruce Boxleightner though.