Review – Oh god I do not believe I am going to review this piece of crap, DAY OF THE DEAD (Not George Classic, the new version)
OK, I like zombie movies (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn, Day, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn Remake and so on), I like Zombie Games (Res Evil series, Dead Rising and so on). George.A.Romano series from the 60 and 70 to early 80’s. Dawn of the Dead is one of my favourite films because it take a look on the America ideas of life and twist them to the point of horror. The idea when you are dead you go back to the places you remember like the Mall is a horrible thought. I did like the remake of Dawn, it add some new ideas which I am not a great fan of like fast zombies (never be a fan of the fast Zombies but hey I can move with the time)
But after Dawn Remake make a lot of money and the director moved on to 300 and now the Watchmen movie. Some producer thought it would be a good idea to make a new Day of the Dead movie. I watch this bit of shit and I am calling it that not to shock but it a big piece of crap. I will give you my reasons.
It not a remake they just used the name Day of the Dead (I hope George got some money). A town in america has people coming down with flu like illness and the Army blocks off the road leading into the town. People start dying and guess what they rise from the dead. I can not be arsed to give names to the character because it a piece of shit.
So anyway, Girl from America Pie is a solider who used to live in shithole town and go into town to see her mom and brother with a driver, Bloke who married to Mariah Carrie is a arsehole solider at the blockage. Girl find mum to be ill and find out from brother and girlfriend that his friend is ill, they go to the house find dead bodies. At the same time you find out girl does not carry a loaded gun ( what the hell, she is a soilder) and the driver is unarmed as well.
They go to the hospital with the mum and the dead rise and attack the place, Ving Rhames who should know better get attack by zombies and the town become over run. The brother and girlfriend hole up in a radio station with fat English playing a America actor with two character who lose they son. Anyway plot go on and you find out what happen but by then you do not care about anything.
The film is so badly made and storyline and characters are stupid, why is a solider not carrying a loaded gun for cryout loud and one of the solider character get shock when they see a gun (carry on he a bloody solider, I could understand if he was a member of the public but he a solider here to protect). I mean I sit through crap horror movies in my time but some of them knew that and played on the fact that it was cheap and shit and so on. This movie does not it think it a good horror movie but it just so bad.
It not a remake so why call it Day of the Dead. If it was a remake it would be rubbish if it was the same team who made this but at least it using the same name as the orinal film. Dawn of the dead remake was good, I like it, and it fell like a well put together horror film with some good gags and good action. This day of the dead film should have just be called Dead Town or something like that because why use the fucking name to get bums on seats well it did not work, it went straight to DVD.
It just very hard to talk about this Day of the Dead movie without just swearing and not really reviewing it but it just bad. We just watched it because my mate had it at the time and thought it can not be that bad. That was a mistake.
Also the effects are crap as well, CG blood is rubbish and does not work. Some of the shots was just painted on it seem but it look like they try to spend money on it. It just a mess.
If you want the teenages watch horror movies make good one please producers not Saw V and stuff like that. Look back at the old school movies and look at why they are great and do not remake them. Write new ideas create new monsters or characters and see if the audience like them, do not just nick a title and create a crap film around it.
I am leaving my rants against remakes for other blog review of Robocop because I got a few things to say about remaking that movie.
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