George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

[ILLCHILL]

Re: George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Haven't seen Diary yet.

I tend to wait for cable/in demand for horror film due to morons in the theatre acting like asshats. I don't know what it is about horror but patrons just get stupid round here yelling their own jokes out and chicks screaming when nothing has happened yet.

So where did Diary veer off course,( in the opinion of those who think it did) ?

It just felt like his primary goal was to comment on contemporary society, in this case how the media protrays things and how we are in a sense the media these days with YouTube and all that. Which I can respect, but he seemed to want to do that at the expense of making a good film.

I remember watching it thinking to myself at least 5 or 6 times "Damn did these guys actually watch the movie before putting it out there?" It just seemed like a lack of effort, completely horrendous acting, tremedously stupid decisions by the characters even by horror movie standards, and I never once felt even a little disturbed, let alone frightened.

[Donovan]

Re: George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

This is the epitome of a rental movie. I'd never part with cinema dollars on this. And I'm a massive zombie movie fan, but they just only have so much they can do with the genre.

[Herky]

Re: George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Even Night and Dawn had blatant messages in them.

All of his zombie movies had a message in them.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

All of his zombie movies had a message in them.

I know, that was my point with my message.

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Even Night and Dawn had blatant messages in them.

Oh, I agree, but they were good movies.

Day, Land, and Diary..not so much.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

For those interested, you can now watch this film on your Comcast Video on Demand, XBL, or PSN. I just d/l the HD version off of PSN, will watch it tomorrow. It comes in theaters 5/28, but again, a limited release.