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Topic Started: Feb 10 2018, 06:19 AM (689 Views)
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so I'm in Best buy and they have a new direct to dvd Day of the Dead flick, advertising it as Romeros. They redid the movie a few years ago and it sucked but SO DID THE ORIGINAL. Now they are redo-ing it again and don't list any "stars" so its low budget as hell. I'm sure Wolfie has already bought this tripe, so we will wait for his review.
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Cbear
Feb 10 2018, 06:19 AM
so I'm in Best buy and they have a new direct to dvd Day of the Dead flick, advertising it as Romeros. They redid the movie a few years ago and it sucked but SO DID THE ORIGINAL. Now they are redo-ing it again and don't list any "stars" so its low budget as hell. I'm sure Wolfie has already bought this tripe, so we will wait for his review.
Never heard of it. The Romero original is a masterpiece, the remake was atrocious. I have little hope to for this one but I'll check it out.

I'm not sure what's so difficult about making a decent zombie flick. Romero did it in the 60s on a shoestring. The template is there.
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Amazon reviews say it sucks. According to one of them,"Richard P. Rubenstein, (George Romero's Producer) must be making a fortune off of using the titles of Romero's zombie movies (which as owner of the titles he has the right to do)."

If I can pick it up cheap I'll still give it a watch.
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Save your cash and pick up the new, Criterion Night of the Living Dead that drops Tuesday. ;)
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Shammy
Feb 11 2018, 04:06 AM
Save your cash and pick up the new, Criterion Night of the Living Dead that drops Tuesday. ;)
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Criteron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Jeez!!!!!!!!!!


Please Criterion do Dawn. And not that shitfest Day.


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Feb 11 2018, 03:50 AM
Amazon reviews say it sucks. According to one of them,"Richard P. Rubenstein, (George Romero's Producer) must be making a fortune off of using the titles of Romero's zombie movies (which as owner of the titles he has the right to do)."

If I can pick it up cheap I'll still give it a watch.
There is a triumvirate of Dead mythos: Romero, Russo, Rubenstein. Russo wrote, Romero directed, Rubenstein was the bidnessman. And 50 years of shitstorm has ensued since with who owns what.

Wolfie, did you know........

Russo wrote the NOTLD book and the sequel? They use spikes to take out the newly dead in the sequel. Its based immediately after Night as a continuation.

Romero co-wrote a book to coincide with Dawn of the Dead? I have the hard copy. Only $5,000 to you if you want it.

Rubenstein. Bah.

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Cbear
Feb 11 2018, 04:59 AM
Shammy
Feb 11 2018, 04:06 AM
Save your cash and pick up the new, Criterion Night of the Living Dead that drops Tuesday. ;)
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Criteron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Jeez!!!!!!!!!!


Please Criterion do Dawn. And not that shitfest Day.


A Criterion version of Romero's Day of the Dead would be the crown jewel of any sophisticated Zombie film connoisseur's collection.

Day > All The Rest.
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Cbear
Feb 11 2018, 05:04 AM
Wolfie
Feb 11 2018, 03:50 AM
Amazon reviews say it sucks. According to one of them,"Richard P. Rubenstein, (George Romero's Producer) must be making a fortune off of using the titles of Romero's zombie movies (which as owner of the titles he has the right to do)."

If I can pick it up cheap I'll still give it a watch.
There is a triumvirate of Dead mythos: Romero, Russo, Rubenstein. Russo wrote, Romero directed, Rubenstein was the bidnessman. And 50 years of shitstorm has ensued since with who owns what.

Wolfie, did you know........

Russo wrote the NOTLD book and the sequel? They use spikes to take out the newly dead in the sequel. Its based immediately after Night as a continuation.

Romero co-wrote a book to coincide with Dawn of the Dead? I have the hard copy. Only $5,000 to you if you want it.

Rubenstein. Bah.

Yeah, you mentioned the novels before and no I'm not paying you $5,000.00. :wink:

In 1988 William Hinzman, the first graveyard zombie in Night of the Living Dead, wrote, directed and starred in a low budget zombie movie called Flesh Eater.

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When I heard about it I tracked down a copy and it's pretty bad. :lol:

I've got high-end multi-disc DVD versions of Dawn and Day. I've seen Night soooo many times over the years but I'll probably end up picking up the Criterion version.
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Nothing wrong with the original so zero need for any remakes.

F*ck Richard Rubinstein! He still owns the rights for Dawn and Day and is holding them up for an obscene amounts of money and is the reason we still haven't got proper blu rays for them. Sure there's the old releases from 10 years ago but those are long out of print. Got the multi-disc Anchor Bay DVD's though.

Going to get that Criterion Night of the Living Dead for sure.
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The original is so campy.

The practical effects were amazing though.
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I picked it up on Bluray. As far as straight to video zombie movies go, I've seen worse. As a remake of the Romero masterpiece, it fails miserably. Taken on its own merits, it's worth a watch, I suppose. The effects are good and the movie has a promising start but quickly loses steam and eventually peters out to a happy ending. A happy ending?!?! WTF, Cbear?!?! WTF?!?!

The zombies are of the fast moving variety but are spazzy and run like Steven Seagal on Angel Dust which is strangely more effective than the usual undead sprinters familiar to most sub-par modern zombie movies.

Bub from the Romero classic in now Max. Max is a pervy stalker that has a major hard-on for the female lead doctor. Death does nothing to suppress Max's carnal desires for Dr. Dick Tease and he plays a central role in the plot, such as there is, because Max's blood is the key to finding a cure. Dr. Dick Tease's narrative voice is laughably bad, like a porn star narrating a zombie flick which is weird because she's not a terrible actress and doesn't have a particularly annoying voice when in her role but when she switches on her narrative voice, it all goes sideways.

Cbear will hate this zombie movie, not because it sucks, but because Cbear hates all zombie movies not made in 1979.

Edited by Wolfie, Feb 20 2018, 09:14 PM.
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Feb 12 2018, 12:16 PM
The original is so campy.

The practical effects were amazing though.
The zomsall have redneck teeth! Horrible prosthetics!

The good: opening street scene (long rumored to be an AI) and hands theu wsll scene.

The bad: everything else.
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Feb 20 2018, 09:08 PM
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I picked it up on Bluray. As far as straight to video zombie movies go, I've seen worse. As a remake of the Romero masterpiece, it fails miserably. Taken on its own merits, it's worth a watch, I suppose. The effects are good and the movie has a promising start but quickly loses steam and eventually peters out to a happy ending. A happy ending?!?! WTF, Cbear?!?! WTF?!?!

The zombies are of the fast moving variety but are spazzy and run like Steven Seagal on Angel Dust which is strangely more effective than the usual undead sprinters familiar to most sub-par modern zombie movies.

Bub from the Romero classic in now Max. Max is a pervy stalker that has a major hard-on for the female lead doctor. Death does nothing to suppress Max's carnal desires for Dr. Dick Tease and he plays a central role in the plot, such as there is, because Max's blood is the key to finding a cure. Dr. Dick Tease's narrative voice is laughably bad, like a porn star narrating a zombie flick which is weird because she's not a terrible actress and doesn't have a particularly annoying voice when in her role but when she switches on her narrative voice, it all goes sideways.

Cbear will hate this zombie movie, not because it sucks, but because Cbear hates all zombie movies not made in 1979.

Why is it so hard for anyone to just make a creepy flick like Night? They always go goofy. Only Savini had the good sense to just copy the master and improve the little bits. Everyone else loses their minds.
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Feb 20 2018, 11:46 PM
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Feb 20 2018, 09:08 PM
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I picked it up on Bluray. As far as straight to video zombie movies go, I've seen worse. As a remake of the Romero masterpiece, it fails miserably. Taken on its own merits, it's worth a watch, I suppose. The effects are good and the movie has a promising start but quickly loses steam and eventually peters out to a happy ending. A happy ending?!?! WTF, Cbear?!?! WTF?!?!

The zombies are of the fast moving variety but are spazzy and run like Steven Seagal on Angel Dust which is strangely more effective than the usual undead sprinters familiar to most sub-par modern zombie movies.

Bub from the Romero classic in now Max. Max is a pervy stalker that has a major hard-on for the female lead doctor. Death does nothing to suppress Max's carnal desires for Dr. Dick Tease and he plays a central role in the plot, such as there is, because Max's blood is the key to finding a cure. Dr. Dick Tease's narrative voice is laughably bad, like a porn star narrating a zombie flick which is weird because she's not a terrible actress and doesn't have a particularly annoying voice when in her role but when she switches on her narrative voice, it all goes sideways.

Cbear will hate this zombie movie, not because it sucks, but because Cbear hates all zombie movies not made in 1979.

Why is it so hard for anyone to just make a creepy flick like Night? They always go goofy. Only Savini had the good sense to just copy the master and improve the little bits. Everyone else loses their minds.
I don't know. Savini did an excellent job with the NOLD remake and the Dawn of the Dead remake was also really good too.

My favorite zombie movies are still the original Romero trilogy and Reanimator.

Cemetery Man, Return of the Living Dead, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, The Beyond, Zombie and Dead & Buried are all worth a watch for anyone that digs (pun intended) the genre.

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Feb 21 2018, 01:07 AM
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Feb 20 2018, 11:46 PM
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Feb 20 2018, 09:08 PM
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I picked it up on Bluray. As far as straight to video zombie movies go, I've seen worse. As a remake of the Romero masterpiece, it fails miserably. Taken on its own merits, it's worth a watch, I suppose. The effects are good and the movie has a promising start but quickly loses steam and eventually peters out to a happy ending. A happy ending?!?! WTF, Cbear?!?! WTF?!?!

The zombies are of the fast moving variety but are spazzy and run like Steven Seagal on Angel Dust which is strangely more effective than the usual undead sprinters familiar to most sub-par modern zombie movies.

Bub from the Romero classic in now Max. Max is a pervy stalker that has a major hard-on for the female lead doctor. Death does nothing to suppress Max's carnal desires for Dr. Dick Tease and he plays a central role in the plot, such as there is, because Max's blood is the key to finding a cure. Dr. Dick Tease's narrative voice is laughably bad, like a porn star narrating a zombie flick which is weird because she's not a terrible actress and doesn't have a particularly annoying voice when in her role but when she switches on her narrative voice, it all goes sideways.

Cbear will hate this zombie movie, not because it sucks, but because Cbear hates all zombie movies not made in 1979.

Why is it so hard for anyone to just make a creepy flick like Night? They always go goofy. Only Savini had the good sense to just copy the master and improve the little bits. Everyone else loses their minds.
I don't know. Savini did an excellent job with the NOLD remake and the Dawn of the Dead remake was also really good too.

My favorite zombie movies are still the original Romero trilogy and Reanimator.

Cemetery Man, Return of the Living Dead, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, The Beyond, Zombie and Dead & Buried are all worth a watch for anyone that digs (pun intended) the genre.

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