I, like most zombie fans, was extremely dubious that a remake of the 1979 horror classic was warranted.The teaser that was on the Web a month or so ago was. . . interesting. But the brand new trailer is amazing! I SO want to see that movie right now!
I’m going to have to remind you, gobear, that the quality of a trailer is rarely a good barometer for the quality of the movie.
I agree with lissener. I can’t keep track of all the movies I’ve rushed to see where all the good parts are in the trailer.
Zombies do not run, nor do they jump.
I blame 28 days later for fucking up the genre, and those weren’t even really zombies in that one.
wow, medstar, we’re like SDMB twins. identical reg dates and nearly identical post counts. surreal.
That looks positively awful.
Yes, one can get fooled by trailers (look how great the Matrix sequel trailers were, alas) yet optimism continues to burn in my movie fan heart.
Yes, these zombies are a lot faster than the regular shufflin’ flesh-eater, but the zombies in Return of the Living Dead ran and jumped and that movie’s a minor classic.
The movie may well be a horrible travesty, but . . . it might be good.
You’re shitting me, right? That looks god-awful.
I can understand the zombies running but being more agile that humans is just stupid. Trust Hollywood to take a huge dump on the best zombie film ever made.
Also, the ROTLD zombies may have ran, but they didn’t have super speed and agility like they seem to in this film. The ROTLD zombies ran like living people, not like kid flash.
Ignore this stinky piece of trash. See the original film.
C’mon 5-HT, Lucio Fulci was fucking up the genre LONG before 28 Days Later came out. He had fucking teleporting zombies! Besides, fast zombies aren’t all that bad an idea, they’ve appeared in a few other places as well, and were the most horriffic addition to the upgraded Resident Evil game, which is still one of the best zombie storylines in my opinion. Hell, the zombies in Day of the Dead moved pretty quick when they got in close enough, so it’s really not a new idea.
Still, kung fu zombies are a load of shit! Anyone see House of the Dead? There were fast moving zombies there, too, and they were sooooo, not pulled off right. Should a zombie be able to run fast? If he’s a fresh enough kill, sure, why not? But should he be able to flip thirty feet? FUCK NO!
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get this new trailer to upload on my computer (grrrr…) but from what I remember in the other one watching the zombie girl flip up from a lying down dead to upright position, this movie looks like it’s taking the latter approach, which means I’m still insanely skeptical.
Neat trailer, although I’m reminded a lot of 28 Days Later (the music in the beginning of the trailer reminded me of it, although I might be totally off base on that, and the zombie shadows running along the brick wall).
One thing that sets off huge alarm bells for me is the apparent Zombie-baby thing. Ugh, really not looking forward to that.
Is ROTLD really considered a classic? I HATED that movie! It just wasn’t fair how. . . incredibly ** godamn ** invincible those zombies were!
ROTLD is a MAJOR classic!!!
Regarding this new ‘Dawn’, they better have made it very gory. I have the feeling they want more of a suspense type flick these days, and they might not have many or even any scenes of people being torn apart and eaten.
If that’s so, then this movie is a travesty.
Mmm… I’m not picky about gore. I can take it or leave it.
I dunno about running zombies.
What I want is the same kind of quality story and ideas that Romero had in his films. Each one of Romero’s zombie movies – including “Day Of The Dead,” easily the weakest in the series – had something to SAY, as opposed to the Italian zombie gutmunchers that just seemed to want to gross you out.
I’ll judge it when I see it.
A zombie flick without gore is like a Bond movie without a villian. Hopelessly broken.
I don’t think we’re going to get a “great” film–there is only one George Romero and he didn’t direct this. Moreover, this is the director’s first feature and the screenplay was written by James Gunn, who also wrote “Scooby-Doo,” so there is plenty of room for skepticism about this project. But DAY-YUM, that’s a good trailer, starting from peace and tranquility and ending in screaming bloody terror.
Yes, there does need to be gore, but this is 2004, not 1979, so we can’t expect to see intestines spilled onscreen. According to Universal, the movie is going to be rated a hard R, and the DVD is going to be unrated. Promising. From the sources I’ve read (creature-corner.com, bloody-disgusting.com, joblo.com), the screenplay is extremely gory and disgusting, so if even a fraction of that goes on the screen, fans should be happy.
As for running zombies–“House of the Dead” sucked because it was a bad movie, not because the zombies were fast. A film’s success is based on its direction, editing, acting, and the writing, not on the airspeed velocity of unladen European zombies. Fanboys tend to focus on trivia, and utterly miss the point, as in the powered armor controversy prior to the release of “Starship Troopers.”
Frankly, the 1990 remake of “Night of the Living Dead” pointed out the main flaw of slow zombies–on their own they’re too slow to be much of a menace. Faster zombies are more of a threat, but that’s just me. Besides, as I understand it, the film’s conceit is that A) people convert to being zombies in a matter of seconds after being bitten, b)fresh kills move fast, but older zombies are slow and rotting, and c) the only way to kill a zombie is still by destroying the brain.
One problem for me is that Richard Rubinstein, who used to be Romero’s business partner in Laurel until they had a bitter falling out, is using the “DotD” title but is losing every other detail of the prior film except for the main point of people, mall, zombies. He own the rights to the name, true, but I would rather he had used another title for the film. (Rubinstein is the reason Romero changed the name of his next zombie film from “Twilight of the Dead” to “Dead Reckoning.”
This which brings me to my next point–George is getting older, and if he is going to get the 4th Dead film made, he needs to do it soon, but he can’t get the financing to make the movie he wants. If we as fans bite the bullet and make the “Dawn” remake a box office champ, maybe the suits will unloosen the purse strings and we will finally get the long awaited ultimate Romero zombie epic. From what I’ve seen of the synopsis, it’s f*****g incredible!
“Mall of the Dead”? “Double Coupon Dead”? “When the Going Gets Tough, the Dead Go Shopping”?
Ah, I know: “The Gap in My Torso”. Or “Really, Really Old Navy”. Or “Radio Shamble”. God, I can’t stop.
While Dawn is my favorite Romero zombie film, I always thought it could use an update. I’ll probably see this one and judge it on it’s own merits. I wouldn’t compare those zombies to 28 Days Later. I mean, those people were still alive, just in a murderous Rage all the time. They had adrenalin pumping them up for their endurance and feats of strength. Didn’t they all die of starvation at the end? Uh, spoilers there I guess.
If I wanna see kung fu zombies or baby zombies I’ll watch Dead Alive again.
This cracks me up, everybody saying “fast movies are bullshit,” “kungfu zombies are bullshit”–
–Um, hello? ZOMBIES are bullshit! It’s fiction! How come you can accept that a filmmaker or screenwriter would populate his film with people who have died, risen from the grave, and become mindless cannibals, but a person who’s died, risen from the grave, and become a slightly faster cannibal is just too much to believe?
Just classic.
:rolleyes:
uh, should be “fast zombies are bullshit,”
Well, it causes the need for an extra suspension of disbelief, lissener.
Zombies rising from the dead and eating the living is a concept well established into our popular culture, and asking that suspension from an audience isn’t asking a lot anymore.
But asking for the additional suspension of disbelief that these damaged, rotting creatures are able to run like track stars, that suspension isn’t a “gimme” yet. Probably will be with time, though.
The less suspensions of disbelief in a concept, the better.