But the zombie's where dumb! They didn├óÔé¼Ôäót have any personality, and no signifying futures! They didn├óÔé¼Ôäót die in hilarious and bizarre ways! Also the remake rushes from one scene to the next, trying to get as much in your face as fast as possible. If the director slowed down and cut the number of cast members down to 4 -8, then we might actually CARE about them when a zombie rip's out their jugular! Instead the remake has about.... 20 or so characters that died to fast for you even to remember their names! The only character in the entire film that was any good was the gun store clerk! He was handled very well, and was a very well done character...
Also the mall in the remake simply isn├óÔé¼Ôäót as totally awesome as the mall is in the original! It has no personality (and a building with personality is important for a horror film, like Overlook hotel or the
Nostromo) While the original shopping mall has it in spade's. hokey Musack pumps out of speakers as zombie's fumble around, trying to find out why they are irresistibly drawn to this place.
Also the remake didn├óÔé¼Ôäót have the really cool satire of the original. The original showed the excessive wave of consumerism that was sweeping the country, as well as violent mistrust of the government, the way society can implode easily and growing violence in the city's. I mean, the main character are getting supply├óÔé¼Ôäós from a store in the mall, and the zombie's are out there. But the main character say's "How are we going to get out, anyway?" and the other screams back "I don├óÔé¼Ôäót care! LET'S GO SHOPPING!"
The original is a classic, excellent movie that shovel├óÔé¼Ôäós lodes of satire and political observations, while sneaking in head explosions and disembowelments on the side's.
Also if your wondering about zombie's with personalities, im talking about the Machete zombie that gets chopped in the face with a machete, a dumb look of surprise frozen on his face. Or the screwdriver zombie that gets a screw driver shoved into his ear! The hari-crisna zombie and the helicopter zombie stand out as well, along with the Nun, and the nurse zombie.
Also the zombie baby was SO DUMB! ARRRRRRGH! THAT MADE ME SO MAD AND IM GOING TO RANT ABOUT IT NOWWWWWWW!!!
Zombie's are dead! How can a zombie, even with a 9 month pregnancy, even possibly have a baby. The muscles wouldn├óÔé¼Ôäót work, the chemicals and blood and fluids would all of congealed long! That whole scene was just put in there so that we can do one of those "horrify with goo and disturbing children!!". ARGH!
I REALLY HATE THAT STUIPID ZOMBIE BABY!!!! ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHH!!!
Machete zombie expresses his displeasure at the zombie baby!
As a closing statement, i really cannot list the numbers of way's that the remake got it wrong. They had too many characters, and they didn├óÔé¼Ôäót HAVE any character anyway! The ending failed to evoke any sympathy, what so ever and lacked the sudden shock of surprised and bittersweet joy that the original did. It lacked social commentary, it lacked good zombies, and the zombie ran!
Running zombie's are NOT scary. They are dumb! The thing about a zombie is that even though it is slow, it will inexorably shamble towards you, and kill you. Its that claustrophobic terror that gave me nightmares when i watched Night of the Living Dead for the first time. But its not just the scary ness of Romero zombie's that make's them unique. Its the fact that they inspire revulsion, pity, horror and guilty laughter all at the same time. When a zombie gets half its body blown off because it picks up a thrown grenade, and squints at it curiously, you laugh at its expression, and wince at its bizarre innocence.
The zombie's in the remake where just targets to be shot, and nothing more. All in all, the remake was a un-terrifying, stupid action movie. Okay when compared to other films, but a crap fest when compared to the movie that it is sullying.
But granted, the extra├óÔé¼Ôäós where awesome! In fact did you know that the guy who played the doctor in Babylon 5 was the news├óÔé¼Ôäós caster. And did you know that the guy who played the captain of Babylon 5 was the voice of the president! It was odd that the best actors in the entire DVD where in mini-movie├óÔé¼Ôäós rather then the full length one. Also the General who appears on the TV was played Rodger, from the original, and the Marine captain with the mustache was played by Tom Savini, the makeup artist for all the dead movies, except Night, who also played a biker in the original and dose a cameo in the up coming Land of the Dead. The priest on the TV played Peter, from the original.
Now on the REAL end note, Dawn of the Dead is a high point in Romero├óÔé¼Ôäós carrier, and it is a stunning achieving in horror and film├óÔé¼Ôäós in general. Now├óÔé¼┬ª that Zombie baby was soooooooooo dumb <Zoombie dissolves into a incoherent rant about the zombie baby>
