During the opening credits of the remake, there’s a grainy, shot film clip of a helicopter landing in front of the capitol building(I said white house earlier), presumably to evacute someone important. Just before the clip ends, some heavily armed (marines?Seals? Army?) begin firing frantically at something behind the cameraman.
Well a (presumed) zombie runs out of the crowd and attacks the woman being escorted onto the helo. That’s when the soldiers start firing wildly into the crowd.
The opening credits sequence is masterfully done.
The only thing I don’t like about the remake is the sequence with the dog running supplies and the dumb girl going after her. Even the director and the screenwriter seemed to think it was dumb.
Originally there was to be a sequence with zombie dogs as well that cut from the script.
Andy owned a gun shop, which explains the weapons. I don’t think that he necessarily intended to hole up in his store in the event of a zombie apocalypse, which kind of caught everyone by surprise. On a similar topic, for those who wondered “Why didn’t he just shoot all the zombies if he had so many guns?”, the DVD special feature mentioned above has Andy doing a rough estimate of the math and coming to the conclusion that it just isn’t feasible.
And I third the comment about the perfect opening sequence with Johnny Cash.
Goddam, I gotta go rent this movie again.
Did it? I need to watch that again. That whole sequence just goes so fast, and you’re probably trying to pay attention to what she’s saying as well.
The misspelling therein is the epitome of Gaudere’s! 
The scene where the guy on the roof:
writes the “message” which turns out to be just smeared blood
made my flesh literally crawl. The rest of it could have sucked, and I still would have like the movie for that.
Well then, and this took a bit of thought, …
IF they manage to get to an island that is zombie free, think Gilligan, then they have a base to work from. I never saw Land Of The Dead but I may just got but it just because.
Again, if they have a base to work from, everything can be beaten in a … I want to say “timely” fashion, … but things can be done to where people might be able to live in peace for the moment. Of course, this will change as the human population grows in proportion to the zombie population and the norms have to go out and reclaim the world for themselves.
Uh… those letters must have been switched around when the mods put the spoiler tags in.
I had to pee. What ever happened to the kid on the skateboard?
Yes. Good scene.
It followed the rules set up in the first movies about zombies going through a routine - which is why so many spent the day wandering through the mall.
He was just doing what he had been doing.
Looks like you’re alone. Mind numbingly, terrifyingly alone. Betcha you didn’t think this was gonna turn into a Dawn of The Dead love-fest.
When I first got saw this I opened thread stating I liked it, with exactly the reverse effect; most everybody else in the thread hated it. Dopers just have to disagree with the OP I guess.
I’m surprised too. Normally saying that you prefer the new one to the old one is grounds for polite, Cafe Society style brawling. Oddness.
It isn’t utter crap but lord it isn’t a great movie either.
I enjoyed the first fifteen minutes, a good set up and interesting visuals. however when they changed the zombification to an infection only spread through bites they blew the entire opening.
How in hell can this spread over night, around the globe?
They created the one dimensional “villian type” They have characters switch gears for no reason (Such as the renta cop).
They have so many throwaway characters that it is impossible to care about any of them. I mean the only reason most people cared about the cop was because of the actor playing him and not his actual performance (which was not bad with what little he was given to do).
The sped up zombies and paper thin characterizations cater to the teen audience who seem to have been bested by even gnats when it comes to length of time they can concentrate on one thing.
You forgot to mention the few frames where Sarah Polley and Lindy Booth are kissing. No, really…it is there. My husband found it when he was going frame by frame trying to decipher all the flashes during the credits.
Count me in as another who thinks the original Dawn of the Dead was dated and boring, and the remake was pretty awesome.