Braaaains!*

[yendi]

Saw Dawn of the Dead. It was good. Damned good. A metric fuckton or two better than any zombie movie in 26 years or so. I'll need to process a bit to decide if it was better than the original. How good was it? It had two cast members from American Psycho 2, and I still liked it. Bigger review to follow tomorrow.

(and no, it's not perfect; there's yet to be a perfect zombie film)




* For those who don't realize it, none of the Romero Living Dead movies (or their remakes) actually had the zombies uttering "braaaaains." This was something from the Return of the Living Dead movies, which purport to be in the same universe, but aren't.

Comments

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

Tell me, did you like Resident Evil? I liked it, but I think that was more for the fact that I played all the games. There were definitely some squicky moments in there...(can we say cross cut lasers??)...but I liked it!

[yendi]

I loved RE, but it's a guilty pleasure flick, not a great zombie movie.

[demetria23.livejournal.com]

Wow, it was better than 28 Days Later?

Yeah...

[skylion.livejournal.com]

28 Days Later is by far one of my fav zombie films. And you say this is better? Bold words, sir. I shall take your enthusiatic short-review to heart and see the film. Like I bloody wouldn't already. I am Marshal Zombie, after all.
I love zombies.

Re: Yeah...

[yendi]

See, I liked 28DL, but only as a fun zombie tribute (which is what they were after). There were too many stupid actions by all the characters, and the end sequence was lifted from the much better British horror film Dog Soldiers. Plus, the Infected aren't zombies.

[yendi]

Yep. Hands down.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Actually, The Return of the Living Dead movies say that the Romero Dead Dead films are just that... FILMS.

Well at least the first one. The entire plot of Return of the Living Dead was that Night of the Living Dead was a movie, but it was based on real facts and that the zombies were housed in canisters in the basement of where Frank and Freddy work that Burt owns.

"It's not a bad question Burt."

[yendi]

Good point (yet another sloppy result of my posting while exhausted). But they still had the connection to the original series (and this was a series that was pretty blatently using Romero to make themselves some cash). I've got mixed feelings about the RotLD series, as I enjoyed aspects of the first one, thought the second was a good action flick in general, and thought the third was an interesting fetish movie, but none were great.

[pinballsorceror.livejournal.com]

Well, you've sold me. I'm a BIG fan of the original, and knowing that someone with decent taste likes it a lot tips my hat into the "must see" arena. Last time my hat fell in the "Maybe" Coliseum it was eaten by an indecisive lion.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Damn! I don't get to see it until tomorrow night!

I did, however, get the chance this evening to be frightened by Angelina Jolie's enormous mutant lips. Brrrr.

[yendi]

Weird. They must have things reversed on one coast or the other. I was standing next to David Lindsay (critic over at Stomp and Stammer -- http://www.stompandstammer.com/Caughtonfilm.htm), and he was mentioning how he had to see Angelina this morning. Personally, zombies should always be given preferential treatment over Angelina.

[lovingboth]

"if it was better than the remake"

If it weren't for the cast comment, I'd think you'd seen the original again..

[yendi]

D'oh! Fixed! Thanks!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see the IRC quotate about the person who signed on as...

VEGANZOMBIE: Graaaaaaaaaiiiiinssss
[logoff]

[yendi]

*snort* I love that one!

One of my friends...

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

is actually in the movie. I'm not sure if he's one of the Zombies or not. He is also "UncleCreepy" from Fangoria Magazine. Got to love it when you have people who work in all industries. by the way. "Welcome home!"

~Sw

Re: One of my friends...

[yendi]

Well, the IMDB doesn't list anyone by that name, but he might be listed under his real one.

by the way. "Welcome home!"

Thanks!

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Dawn of the Dead? Really? I've only seen, like, three zombie movies ever, but my raking would go something like:

1.) 28 Days Later
2.) Night of the Living Dead
and
3.) Dawn of the Dead

as a distant third. I kind of barely rember it. =:P

[yendi]

I was actually referring to the new one (made a typo). I enjoyed 28DL, but it was too flawed to rank as my favorite zombie movie (not even counting the fact that the Infected weren't really zombies).

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Really? The remake is better? That's a surprise. I'll have to check it out. =:)

[piratejenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do know that, of course. :-)But it's still fun to say.

I can't wait!!!! 3 days!!!!

[stronae.livejournal.com]

There was an American Psycho *2*?

[yendi]

Yep. Starring Gerraint Wyn-Davies, Mila whatserface from That '70s show, and Shatner.

[stronae.livejournal.com]

I'm disturbed that someone even thought that making a sequel was a good idea.... I'm more disturbed by some cast choices, but I can only process one level of dissonance at a time.

[seanhtaylor.livejournal.com]

I want to see it, but I wondered if it could be shocking in light of todays ratings systems. I mean, we already know the kinds of things we WON'T see in it, so it can be so brutal that it really impacts the viewer, can it?