I find this movie a lot more engaging than Dawn of the Dead, why isn't it as popular?
I find this movie a lot more engaging than Dawn of the Dead, why isn't it as popular?
I find this movie a lot more engaging than Dawn of the Dead, why isn't it as popular?
Probablu because it's fricking depressing to watch. Whereas Dawn has its ups and downs with more lighthearted tones being more prevalent, Day is pretty much dour right up until the end.
I wouldn't even call the end uplifting. They all just frick off to an island, their chances of survival are pretty slim too.
at least they're on a beach instead of in a shitty bunker system
>Bunker
>Beach
>Millions of zombies
Bunker wasn't that bad and they could have started bayonetting the zombies at the gates.
>Bunker wasn't that bad and they could have started bayonetting the zombies at the gates.
Okay, sounds great.
>kill zombies at the gate
>they slump down to the ground
>zombies now stand on top of the dead zombies to try and get at the gate
>eventually they pile up enough to climb zombie stairs over the gate
Even Sarah said to go shoot some of them because there were too many after returning from the opening search for life. Plus Florida weather and bugs would have the corpses rot to bone super fast.
The effects of bugs and weather seem to not exist in zombie movies and zombies are a threat forever.
I mean of the now dead zombie bodies they shot at the gate, which do decompose naturally.
Yup, exactly. Day of the Dead was truly 'all is lost' -- not only were the dead eating the living but the living were destroying themselves. I liked Day better too, mostly because the effects graduated beyond Savini's cadmium red paint blood and rubber entrails to far more realistic gore. Dawn = smurfs, Day=Zomi. Savini just didn't provide realistic gore and let's face it, gore was an integral aspect of the Zombie genre! Day actually filled me with a sense of loathing and anxiety whereas Dawn just made me laugh, mostly. It looks like the entire film crew for Dawn just went nuts having full run of a large mall all night long for however long the shoot was and spent a lot of time dreaming up fun shit to do in a mall. Day was more like being in an underground hell and conveyed that feeling admirably!
I'd say at this point it's as popular as Dawn. It's odd in retrospect that it was ever considered bad.
It's only popular because of availability (Day is still in print while Dawn is lost media at this points due to the rights owner holding the film hostage) and the rise of the "Rhodes did nothing wrong" fanboys who promote the film under the idea that Rhodes is the hero of the film and did nothing wrong.
>lost media
i just watched it on youtube my homie.
Here's your lost media, bro.
Wut ? Someone gifted me pic related last year and several versions of the movie are available on youtube with a decent quality.
>That feeling when Dawn was filmed in your hometown and used copies of the Ultimate edition on DVD were readily available even after they went out of print.
That’s what kind of kills night of the living dead at least the original. 1990 is better and improved
Day of the Dead has a great soundtrack
>Rhodes did nothing wrong
In the first half. Rhodes is completely psychotic by the second half of the movie.
The characters weren't wrong in their ideals but their actions prove the flaws in their logic. When pressed Rhodes turning tail proved his would-be plan was never an option. The same goes for all the others with perspectives.
i really like day simply cuz bunker kino
its actually creepy as shit at the end when everyones dead and the dead are just moaning in the halls
Nah I liked it but I massively prefer Dawn.
>My favorite movie is Dawn of the Dead
>Wife's favorite movie is Day of the Dead
>Both think Savini's Night of the Living Dead is better than the 1968 version
What does your wife's son think?
The Savini NOTLD remake is based and basically part of the George Romero movie lineup seeing as he wrote it and had his hand in it.
It's my favorite of the trilogy. Love the music and atmosphere and the opening scene is one of the best depictions of post-apocalyptic world in any movie, it's just so good.
My favorite part of the opening is the alligator just chilling in a doorway.
I remember like 10 years ago people constantly saying that the original script was better. Don't hear much of that anymore though. What was the difference between the final film and the script?
What I remember of the original script is it's what Frankenstein was doing, but more crazy and elaborate.
Twice the length
My favorite part of Dawn of the Dead is actually everything before they get to the mall. I love downfall of society apocalyptic kino and George Romero did it so well because he was a news/documentary/commercials director or some shit before he started doing movies, so his stuff has this layer of realism to it. The Crazies is also underrated and absolute kino for this very reason too. Day of the Dead doesn't have any of that stuff but I'd say the bulk of the movie is better than the mall stuff in Dawn, not that I dislike the rest of Dawn or anything but I think I prefer the misery porn that Day has to the pies in the faces of zombies that Dawn had.
I watched Martin for the first time the other day, it was good.
Day of the Dead is my favorite of the trilogy, and my favorite zombie movie. Love the soundtrack, how unhinged the bad guy general is, and how chill those two dudes were just chilling in the trailer underground. It has a surprisingly comfy vibe despite all the crazy monster make up.
Every zombie movie that uses the zombies as a boundary that restricts or streamlines the story is always going to be kino. It essentially forces the writers to come up with an interesting story between the human characters instead of just generic running and gunning down some shuffling morons.
In this case, you could easily replace the zombies with any other cataclysm and it would still make sense. Because it isn't about the undead, it's about a power struggle in an enclosed space.
Exactly. The zombies are just flavoring. They are not the substance nor the meat, they are an excuse to watch two factions with uneasy relations slowly vie for power and turn on each other. It's just cold war paranoia stuffed into a tight space, its great.
Spot on. That's also why I liked Land of the Dead. It's essentially a heist movie with various subplots surrounding the growing unrest between the haves and have-nots.
Meh, Land had so much potential, but Romero got too heavy handed with the social commentary and muh zombies are the real victims BS.
Diary was bad, and Survival was just horrible.
>Survival was just horrible
Romero's favourite before he died.
Maybe he had dementia
He was an idiot, who hated Dawn remake on principle for years even though it's clearly much better.
Arrogant douche, imo.
Who chances upon fame shilling a race-apologist bs story.
Survival was better than Diary. Diary is diarrhea.
I have an acquaintance who was very close to Romero. George basically stole the idea for Diary from him. He's not bitter about it just annoyed. I wonder if George gave hims points or producer cash under the table.
Land is probably most well made. Diary is pretty good and interesting with the found footage style. Survival was ok but again mostly everyone dies
Land has the smartest zombie. It’s weird though because it gets to be a little much when they can do real human things
I want to make a zombie movie.
>Guy is a survivor
>He has fortified an apartment complex
>all the stairwells are ripped out on the first floor
>has ladder systems connecting the other buildings
>zombies roam freely on the first floors
>story is just him scavenging and surviving in the ruins
>big showdown is a group of raiders
Sorry, I married a traditional woman that shares similar interests.
>Son's favorite is Dawn of the Dead
>Daughter's favorite is Return of the Living Dead
is just him scavenging and surviving in the ruins
This is all we want just one character or two max (but they don't talk much) wondering cities scavenging.
The Battery, right?
Too bad that director is such a good goy, White-shaming c**t.
That sounds an awful lot like the original novel version of I Am Legend. Don't let the blurb on the back of of the book fool you, the main character's nightly visitors act more like zombies than vampires.
Yeah, I remember that, they constantly banged on his door, the female vampires trying to seduce him and make him come out of the house.
Already done. See Negan and Whomstever Walking Dead New York.
its not a movie Id recommend to anyone other than a serious zombie obsessive, but then recommending Dawn of the Dead comes with saying many things to lower expectations.
the music is the best part of the movie.
>but then recommending Dawn of the Dead comes with saying many things to lower expectations
What kind of a homosexual are you? Dawn is a fricking fantastic movie, whether you're a horror buff or not. Even Siskel and Ebert gave it a glowing review when they usually detested anything horror and dismissed it as exploitation trash.
What kind of things do you say to lower peoples' expectations?
Not him but I only watched the trilogy for the first time in recent years and had quite high expectations for Dawn only for it to turn out to be my least favourite of the trilogy. Not that I disliked it, but it was the least interesting to me. Also I agree with the guy above who said that the best part of the movie is the pre-mall stuff.
Last week I read John Russo's original Return of the Living Dead novel that was a sequel to Night, the one he couldn't find anyone to make into a movie until Tobe Hopper was going to do it until he got replaced by O'Bannon. I was surprised at how not total shit it was since all I ever heard about it was that it was dogshit and O'Bannon was right to scrap it entirely and only use the name. It had some interesting stuff like how it takes place 10 years after Night and things are (mostly) back to normal with no zombies, but there is a Christian sect going around driving railroad spikes into corpses' heads because they think the zombie shit will happen again, until it finally inexplicably does and then it's basically just a bigger and more bombastic version of NOTLD set in the same areas (with the same Sheriff) that the first movie was set in.
Lori Cardille sexo
Day of the Dead was a HORRIBLY compromised film that failed because of how it was hyped as being the climax of the Dead trilogy and "the Gone With the Wind" of zombie films up until it actually got released and fans were pissed that it was a low budget snoozefest with the only likable character being the villain (Rhodes).
Adding to this, Return of the Living Dead came out at the same time and was way cooler and more fun than Day of the Dead.
And given that Romero later used the original script for Day (the GWTW script he had to abandon when he refused to turn in an R-Rated film and had to rewrite the entire picture to fit in with the reduced budget he got stuck with in exchange for letting the film go out unrated), AND censored the script for an R-Rating anyway with Land of the Dead, he should have bit the bullet and put out Land in the 80s because by the time Romero got another chance to make a zombie film, no one gave a flying frick.
Land of the Dead with 1980's visuals and practical effects sounds like kino to me.
Day of the Dead is the best zombie movie and the best Romero movie.
Yeah, but not the same vibe because intelligent creatures.
Plus I would want it set in a more suburban environment than a city. Like 10 apartment buildings with the outside wooden stairwells. The main character would have completely broken the ground level stairs and have quick pull up ladders placed and the real threat would be humans.
>Main character would always have troubling sleeping hearing the zombies shuffle in and out of the bottom floor apartments.
this movie is genuinely gross and the zombie extras piss me off especially the random b***h in a football uniform
Imagine something like this, but you have thousands of zombies wandering in and out 24/7. It would still be loud and would be a good way to show the MC mental state breaking because of it.
>Zombies falling over pots and pans below him at 3am waking him up from a deep sleep and the sleep deprivation breaking him
>Decides to take sleeping pills and raiders attack
>Maybe they torch his main building and he has to move across to another building under fire while drugged.
Shame all of us in this thread could create such kino but we just get relationship drama set in a zombie world.
wrong picture
There is a zombie movie set in an apartment complex it is #Alive. I thought it was good
because it isn't as good.
Day has the best looking zombie make up and gore but the previous 2 beat in every other aspect
I find Night to be the weakest since Barbara is so docile and a lot of it is watching tv.
You know he's the type of homie that is only tuff around people who are physically weak. He is probably a pushover to anyone taller or stronger than him.
>I hate him so fricking much and love his scene in the car in Sicario.
The last script for another one George Romero worked on is getting made now. There was another about something similar to land of the dead where the rich have zombie races but now it’s different
What a fricking inhuman question.
They're both sort of shit
And ..
everyone here knows it deep in their hearts
At least Day had that one 7 minute monologue about Hell being filled up
Dawn would've been good had they stuck to the original script and kept to trippy and meta
I love all the dialogue in this movie. If I ever wrote my own movie script, it would be heavily influenced by Day of the Dead. Every character is perfectly written and the lines all have a punch to them. Romero never wrote anything near as good before or after.
is argento's cut of dawn worth watching if you aren't romero's fanboy that has seen the original movies 200 times already?
Watch it and find out, homosexual.