Dawn of the Dead

American Tourister · Post by **American Tourister** » Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:26 pm

Just saw it yesterday, and me and my posslq liked it alot. The scene near the beginning when the nurse is driving around her subdivision is Just Too Cool. And the ambiguous ending is wonderful.
I do have a technical question though: How does this undead virus spread so fast if it is contagious by zombie bite only? Do the zombies stop chewing on a victim as soon as they die? I thought they would tear live victims apart and eat up the pieces. In fact, I seem to recall a zombie eating on a dead guy when the first five people in the mall were just starting to scout around.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Sun Mar 28, 2004 11:13 pm

i dont know why the didnt pull the "throw propane into the crowd of zombies then shoot it" before they even left the mall. plus when they went to get that chick back from andy's, the could of got just about any gun known to man because we all know american gun stores stock just about any weapon a person can hold.

anyways i liked it.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:27 am

Been dying to see this movie, is it any good compared to the uber-cool 28 Days Later?

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:45 am

I almost want to say better, but really its just different. 28 days later had WAY better character development, but Dawn had good action and a slightly more engaging story. In short, the movie is worth the money so go see it.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:04 am

They take two different approaches to presenting the story and it is difficult, at least for me, to compare the two, but either way, I'll definately say it's worth the money.

Mr Carrot · Post by **Mr Carrot** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:04 am

It was jolly good, not as good as 28 days or the original though.

It did however have a very very cool start (the drive included) the credit sequence i felt was brilliant as it showed rather more realisticaly then any other zombie film what a governments reaction to such an outbreak would be, riot police etc.

The zombies charging the government person on capital hill was the best little clip.

As for running zombies..... in 28 days (well the infected) they could run and jump but it was offset with them being far more vulnerable and getting tired/starving etc. it just stacks the cards so far against the survivors that it destroys some of the tension that the originals had (like your trapped in a room with 8 zombies canl he get out? now its like trapped in a room with 8 zombies how quickly will he die).

Shaun of the Dead owns all though.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:32 am

SOTD....Is that actually a real movie?

If so...Eh...When will it be released?

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:33 am

its already out in Britian I think. No idea if we'll see a domestic release though.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:12 am

its been out for a few weeks here, havent seen it yet, its just a cheap parody of all zombie films, supposed to be funny though

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:16 pm

I saw that flash trailer posted somewhere here on DAC and thought to myself "That's the only movie this year I actually wanna see."

Mr Carrot · Post by **Mr Carrot** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:48 am

Its been out for 4 days.

Its by NO means a cheap parody, its a comedy certainly, but isnt a spoof as the trailers make it out to be, theres some decent drama and peformances in it as well.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:32 am

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:32 am

I just wish I could see it. Guess I'll keep an eye out on IRC and do a little searching or something.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:58 am

Have you noticed you do a lot of double posts?

Reminds me of "Yeah, Yeah" from The Sandlot.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:00 am

Seems I do, I actually think it might be a glitch with the preview feature. Either that or its firefox freaking out and resending the entry when I click "back"

Either way I'll start checking what the topic looks like after I post so I can delete anything double.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:17 pm

I heard the generic was great, with the Johnny Cash song and people getting chopped. Haven't seen it yet.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts,
And I looked and behold, a pale horse!
And it's name on it was Death,
And Hell followed with him.

I love that song.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:20 pm

Mr Carrot wrote:Its been out for 4 days.

Its by NO means a cheap parody, its a comedy certainly, but isnt a spoof as the trailers make it out to be, theres some decent drama and peformances in it as well.

my mistake, 4 days. it cost less to make that Dawn of the dead, hence cheap, isnt a spoof? of course its a spoof, zombies arent real. though some Haitians may disagree. i havent seen the film so i'll spare you any other judgements i've made about it

Mr Carrot · Post by **Mr Carrot** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:36 pm

No its a horror comedy in the zombie genre.

A spoof is like Scary Movie 3. This is a homage, a cult film but not a spoof.

Bloodgeon11 · Post by **Bloodgeon11** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:44 pm

In regards to Dawn of the Dead, isn't one zombie movie mostly like any other...i admit, night of the living dead series was good, but the only thing that kept me watching the next one was the addition of new jokes! I even noticed some film reuse between a couple. Zombie movie---Bunch of people turn into living dead (little explaination, usually), a small group with guns runs from them, attepts to escape, and mostly ends up getting eaten...you'd have to be a zombie to watch too many of them...Brains! Brains!

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:57 pm

Wow. The whole point of seeing a zombie movie is to see zombies killing people and getting chopped.

Anyway, no they aren't all the same, go watch Braindead (Evil Dead).