Remake of 'Dawn of the Dead'

[pritchke]

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">I loved watching many of the old zombie movies as a kid, while I now find them more funny tham scary they were scary when you were 10.</font>

For the love of zombies, they're remaking "Dawn of the Dead." Even though most of the cast and crew can't see a real good reason to revamp and update the creepy horror movie from 25 years ago, they've always wanted to do a zombie movie -- and this one is the best.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">Translation: Hollywood as run out of ideas.
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Fans of the original may smile about names such as Wooley's Diner and a clothing store called Gaylen Ross, used as tributes to the original movie: Wooley is the character played by Jim Baffico and Gaylen Ross is the actress who played Francine.

There are other nods to the original. Scott Reiniger, who played Roger DeMarco in the first, is now the General; Ken Foree, who starred as Peter Washington, is the televangelist; and the original's makeup artist Tom Savini plays the Sheriff.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">I always love when they bring back original actors to play different parts. It is a nice touch for fans who watched the originals.</font>

The zombies also get an update. Producer Newman says he believed people could easily get away from the slothful zombies of past pictures. These zombies can run and have superhuman strength. "They're the perfect villains because they're fearless, tireless and ubiquitous.

<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">Cool!!! I think. But I will miss the slow moving zombies with body parts falling off.</font>

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[Nerull]

Zombie movies still creep me out, but it was kind of funny how slow they were. It was more like, "oh look, some zombies coming up ahead. Let me just run right in between them and continue on my way." However, they are doing the same thing with the zombies in this movie that they did in 28 Days Later; they move as fast as people and are jacked up in strength. With 28 Days Later, it made more sense; they were not actually zombies, but people who were infected with a virus that turned them into mindless rage-filled killing machines. However, a corpse that has been sitting around for weeks rotting is not going to move as fast as a normal person. They should make it where the oldest ones move real slow, while the newer ones move just as fast as people.

Hollywood has run out of new ideas; they are remaking pretty much anything and everything that they can get their hands on, especially if it is a remake of a foreign film that people were unlikely to have seen in the U.S. (Vanilla Sky, The Ring, etc.) or is an old enough movie that there is likely not enough younger people who have seen the previous version (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, etc.). Like always, it's all about the money.

[Jerr Conner]

Well, technically since no idea is really original or new, Hollywood never had new or original ideas.

[Smoothie]

what is that some psychobabble? there are original scripts all the time.

[Timber Loftis]

Shakespeare's plots were all unoriginal as well. It didn't make his plays bad. Not that I'm defending this movie. I did see the "first 10 minutes" of it on TBS, and I must say the special effects (wide angle and overhead shots of the mayhem, the speed of the zombies) is pretty imprressive.

[Jerr Conner]

Originally posted by Smoothie: what is that some psychobabble? there are original scripts all the time.

When someone thinks of an idea, odds are that at least one other person has. Look at the show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's not the only vampire hunter out there. Therefore, it's not an original idea, because others have already had it and implemented it. The only originality is in how the idea is implemented.

Every idea draws from previous ideas.

[Nerull]

Of course, all ideas are based off of other ideas. It's one thing to take ideas here and there and "embellish" them. It's another to look out there and see movie after movie that is just a remake of another movie or TV show done before. Yes, I know they "tweaked" Dawn of the Dead to be different; they make their own "version" of each of the remakes. However, rather than come up with a new premise/idea, they are just taking the old idea and changing it to appeal to a newer audience's sensibilities. My attitude about it is to go rent the old movie, and introduce the younger people who never saw the original to the first movie/show.

[pcgiant]

The coolness of zombies WAS that they were slow. Unlike vampires or werewolves, you had a chance to get away, thus perpetuating the horror... but eventualyl the zombies would get you...

[Sir Degrader]

Regardless dawn of the dead was hilarious especially at the end w/ the chainsaw and with steve( he DOESN"T GET CHOPPED)...