More movie remakes

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:46 pm

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George Romero's Day of the Dead is following in the footsteps of
Dawn of the Dead, and being remade. There's no word on whether the
zombies will be of the ub3rrunningskillzwtf variety - here's what <a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/index. ... e=newsfull" target="_self">Bloody-Disgusting says</a>:
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Some of the boys behind the remakes of <a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/435">The Amityville Horror, </a><a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/405">Terror Train and </a><a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/699">The Wicker Man</a> are back again and remaking George Romero's classic zombie splatterfest <a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/803">Day of the Dead</a>,
according to the Hollywood Reporter. Working with Nu Image and
Millennium Films, Producers James Dudelson, Avi Lerner and Randall
Emmett are bringing Romero's third zombie flick back to the big screen
together. In the 1985 verison a small group of military officers and
scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun
by zombies. 
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The Dawn of the Dead remake was fun, if a lot shallower than the original version. This might turn out OK, I guess.

Post by **King of Creation** » Sat May 21, 2005 6:57 pm

Day of the Dead was easily the worst of the trilogy.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:03 pm

Day of the Dead is easily my favourite of the trilogy.

It's slower than the rest but it's pretty well written and works. Except Bub or whatever that zombie's name is sucks.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:04 pm

King of Creation wrote:Day of the Dead was easily the worst of the trilogy.

yah, but it does have one big advantage over the other two flick.
bub.

edit: fuck someone beat me to it

Post by **King of Creation** » Sat May 21, 2005 8:13 pm

I never said it was bad...just that it was the worst of the dead movies.

Jennifer · Post by **Jennifer** » Sat May 21, 2005 9:18 pm

that's a movie that really needs to be remade. had a lot of potential but it just went bugfuck somewhere along the way. maybe this time they can do it better.

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Sat May 21, 2005 10:54 pm

it really was the worst of the three.... too much drama

omg, evul military.
poor woman, evil unempathic men.
glah.

Matt_Helm · Post by **Matt_Helm** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:16 am

The original Day of the Dead had its budget slashed by half or there abouts, which lead to it looking like shit.

What surprises me is seeing one of my old favourites, The Wicker Man, listed in those credits. That is an obscure little British movie, not an American horror title.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:54 am

I don't see what they're hoping to achieve with the new version, that isn't already a part of the old version.
I liked watching the original for the whole "Post-Apoc Zombie Science" thing, and Bub was fun in the same way the talking monkey in Congo was annoying, but the zombies didn't feel like a big part of it, kind of like scenery, and everyone treated them like brainless kiddies.
"- Come on Jeff, dont be sour. The Doc's gonna cut you up, and then ya'll get a lollie! How's 'at sound?"

Hell, the only scare were the people in there, acting out, fucking up.
So they got the bunker, meaning; they're safe! And then some moron wants to show off, and - bang - they're in shit, nothing new here.
They don't need zombies to make a flick like that, just put anything outside of those walls; terrorists, killer bees, a swarm of rabid racoons.
So just upping the gore won't do, this calls for some changes, obviously, and then the whole remake thing seems pretty pointless.
Why not make something new?

Jennifer · Post by **Jennifer** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:02 am

dude, i would totally pay to see a movie about a bunch of people under siege in a bunker by a horde of rabid racoons. that would be the motion picture event of the century

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:11 am

Racoon October

Starring;
George Clooney,
Pierce Brosnan,
Bruce Willis,
Annabelle Davies
and Bruno Ganz as "Adolf Hitler"

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun May 22, 2005 7:07 pm

You forgot Pancho Villa as "himself".

hat_man99 · Post by **hat_man99** » Sun May 22, 2005 11:34 pm

And dont forget 'Nameless crowd of dumbasses' who run the wrong way and get slaughtered in the first 5 minutes of the film, which is a good laugh