tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post3096133531789527976..comments2024-03-28T10:33:39.051-07:00Comments on Horror Movie A Day: October Extras #21 - Dawn of the Dead (2004)BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-12072762531319266322008-11-14T10:01:00.000-08:002008-11-14T10:01:00.000-08:00I love zombie flicks and this is a classic. I fin...I love zombie flicks and this is a classic. I find the fast zombies more terrifying, however. When the zombie apocalypse comes, if they are like these bastards, we are all fucked. You just might as well eat a bullet cuz there is no hope. Anyway, great flick, even with the downer ending.Newmexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12451198419755469578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-32595075004820904272007-11-01T19:21:00.000-07:002007-11-01T19:21:00.000-07:00Great review for a great film. I was surprised at ...Great review for a great film. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this remake.jmcgu1https://www.blogger.com/profile/04806065370652410792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-9616839253193596672007-10-28T14:26:00.000-07:002007-10-28T14:26:00.000-07:00The opening, until she crashes the car, is in my t...The opening, until she crashes the car, is in my top 5 of all time, of any type of movie. The neighborhood scene is how I have always imagined a real, zombie attack to be. I even got to see Richard Cheese do "The Sickness" live in Sacramento awhile back. I wish the rest of the movie was as good. It just wasn't very engaging. I never got the idea they were ever desperate. I wanted to like Ving Rhamses character too, but could never do it. The ending was a real downer, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-81677160273036653392007-10-24T08:59:00.000-07:002007-10-24T08:59:00.000-07:00You know, in my notes I wrote "Fulci" and yet skip...You know, in my notes I wrote "Fulci" and yet skipped over that anyway... I remember cheering in theaters. Even the music has a tribal, and thus VOODOO, feel to it all.BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-55310091507953981622007-10-24T07:26:00.000-07:002007-10-24T07:26:00.000-07:00You make such a good case for the movie that I fee...You make such a good case for the movie that I feel like I should like it...I just don't<BR/><BR/>It felt so slick and impersonal to me. Some of the action sequences were fun, but I thought the dog idea was silly and the ending was a groaner.<BR/><BR/>I've only seen the theatrical cut, maybe I should give it another shot on DVD.<BR/><BR/>Luckily, neither one of my children turned out to be zombies. If they did though, I would try to nurture them like Lionel did in Dead-Alive. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-55397861015614795992007-10-24T06:19:00.000-07:002007-10-24T06:19:00.000-07:00I would have liked this movie based on the first 1...I would have liked this movie based on the first 10 minutes alone. Has a later-era Johnny Cash song EVER been used more effectively in a movie? The answer is no, it's un-possible.<BR/><BR/>I did kinda think there were TOO many people in the mall, though. You never really got to know the chick who ended up banging one of the guys in the lingerie store, for instance, and other characters were pretty obvious zombie-snax. But all in all, yeah, a pretty good remake.<BR/><BR/>I also very much liked the nod to Fulci's <I>Zombi 2</I> with the ending...or at least that's how I took it.The Vicar of VHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832137990485130735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-5349133666214910012007-10-23T19:59:00.000-07:002007-10-23T19:59:00.000-07:00Jimmy-- I think there is something about the innoc...Jimmy-- I think there is something about the innocence of babies that make them so horrifying; maybe it's just me speaking as a mother, but when you take something like the pregnant character in DOTD, you just have such hope that the baby will be okay. No one wants anything bad to happen to a baby or child (which is what makes Argento's Trauma and The Omen and even Pumpkinhead so unnerving). <BR/><BR/>Then the baby is NOT okay and its just such a menacing thought; this little thing that is so helpless in reality is going to gnaw your fucking face off. Maybe it has something to do with how babies don't know any better in reality, so when one is born to kill in a movie, its just scary as shit. <BR/><BR/>I was terrified of my son when he was born and he hasn't killed anyone... yet, anyway.<BR/><BR/>Brian, I agree with you 100% on this one; this movie was flat out fun and good. Hurray!Kolleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738326294612142773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-23716277546966734142007-10-23T13:29:00.000-07:002007-10-23T13:29:00.000-07:00Hi BC,I, too, dug this remake. Great cast. Everyth...Hi BC,<BR/><BR/>I, too, dug this remake. Great cast. Everything was cool. <BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>AAlana Noel Vothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15678764751722565458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-80915623339530720532007-10-23T11:41:00.000-07:002007-10-23T11:41:00.000-07:00I really enjoyed it too and after seeing it in the...I really enjoyed it too and after seeing it in the theater my husband and I had to go back and watch all the originals again.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09429263099197981481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-39487143357615582682007-10-23T02:01:00.000-07:002007-10-23T02:01:00.000-07:00I thought this was a great remake as well. And the...I thought this was a great remake as well. And the DVD extras are awesome!pot head pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04043225264662244387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-69421040040721050862007-10-22T20:35:00.000-07:002007-10-22T20:35:00.000-07:00What is it about babies being so effective as devi...What is it about babies being so effective as devices for horror/fear? I'll never forget the baby in Trainspotting tormenting the Ewan McG character... or the green alien baby in the TV series 'V'.Jimmy Jangleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306646334904446706noreply@blogger.com