Dawn of the Dead (remake)

[Pedro]

i didn't see this thread originally....wow how i dread this.

[modage]

new trailer...
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/dawnofthedeadqt.html

[NEON MERCURY]

hahahahahah...that tagline is pure cheese.....


it reminnds me of  a title for a death metal album.....

[analogzombie]

the tagline is from the original

and the poster pillages the imagery of the original as well. What really burns me up about this (and I can't know for sure until it gets released) is that if the original tagline and imagery were good enough to reference then why not the original mythos? Easy answer, b/c the makers of this travesty do not respect/admire/understand the original film. It's like Roger Awary said in the Day of the Dead commentary "These guys just don't get it." They don't understand what makes the original good. It's not b/c its some campy 70's zombie flick, it's so much more than that. It is truly a masterpiece of cinema (I mean that).

and from the new trailer (unless that line was just not in the trailer, i hope its in the film) it looks like they left out the line that cements the anti-consurmerism thread. when Sarah polley/Gaylen Ross asks about the zombies coming to the mall "Why do they come here." Ving Rhaymes (Ken Foree's character in the re-make) answers with Flyboy's line of "Maybe they're after us." not the the Ken Foree line of "They come for the place. This was an important place in their lives. they don't know why they come, they just do."

So we have a re-make that gingerly takes from the original (tagline, poster imagery) when it suits it but feels no obligation to stick to the original definition of the Romero zombie (slow, lumbering, for the most part uncoordinated and dumb). I have heard that it is the fresh zombies that move fast in this re-make. That after a while they begin to get slow. That i can deal with. But i can't deal with what reviews of the script and the trailers seem to show: Zombies ambushing the heroes, leaping and jumping, and devising strategies to get their prey.

I think this will be a fun movie, and an enjoyable one for zombie fans. If they could have only called it: "no more room in hell", or 'dead on earth", anything but dawn of the Dead, b/c Dawn of the Dead it is not.

(turns and leaves room in disgust)

[MacGuffin]

new trailer...
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/dawnofthedeadqt.html

I guess that little 'glitch' at the end would look better in the theaters.

And you can tell the director comes from the music video/commercial world. The shots from behind the car looks like he's selling it. Although I will give him some points for directing Morrissey's "Tomorrow" video.

[pete]

just saw this trailer.  it reminds me of 8-legged freaks, but without the tongue in the cheek.

[MacGuffin]

[Find Your Magali]

That guy looks really mad. Maybe because someone stole his pupil.

[MacGuffin]

That guy looks really mad. Maybe because someone stole his pupil.

How can you tell he's a teacher?

[Find Your Magali]

That guy looks really mad. Maybe because someone stole his pupil.

How can you tell he's a teacher?

The bad haircut. Duh!

[Ghostboy]

I recently quit my projectionist job (hooray! now I'm broke but free to work on films 24/7), and my last act of cinematic terrorism was to take the film burning effect from the Dawn Of The Dead and splice it into the middle of Cheaper By The Dozen.

I for one love the trailer -- I think it's brilliantly put together. I haven't seen the original (waiting for the deluxe edition at the end of the year), so I don't have anything to compare it to. Granted, I though the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake trailer was great too, and the movie completely blew, but just as I did that film, I'll give this one the benefit of the doubt. Sarah Polley's presence gives me a little shred of hope, too.

[Alethia]

yeah i actually have high hopes for this one..

[analogzombie]

In a couple recent interviews Synder and Gunn allude to the fact that they never really wanted to remake Dawn of the Dead. They wanted to do their own zombie film but Universal insisted on the title. Hence the re-imaging/re-envisioning tagline.

[BrainSushi]

anybody know the name of the song or the artist in the Teaser? It sounds to me like Grandaddy, but I'm not sure.

[edison]

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