Yeah, I hate to be all horror fanboy-y and stuff, but why oh why did they have to make this. I realize that it won’t destroy all existing copies of the original or anything, but I know know that non-horror buffs are going to be talking about what a bad movie Dawn of the Dead is and I’ll have to sit in a corner and cry.
kingpengvin is spot on when it comes to what makes the original work, particularly the transformation scenes with Roger (and to a lesser extent Stephen). What’s more, the phenomenal soundtrack for the movie and the atmosphere it helps to create will be entirely lost, and I don’t trust any of these people to come up with something as good or better.
If this movie opted for the depressing ending that Dawn didn’t use (and that I like better), I could maybe deal with it, but given the nature of this movie, I wouldn’t be suprised if it ended with someone coming up with a cure for zombie-ism and saving the world.
I am looking forward on seeing how this movie handles aspects of the original (the TV broadcasts they keep watching, the looting of the mall, the biker gang, the stagnation of life within the mall after a while) if they use them at all, so I’ll still see it. But I’m expecting suckage.