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So, we just saw the remake of Dawn of the Dead, specifically the unrated version. Not sure what scenes were added, but nothing felt particularly gratuitous. Everything seemed to fit neatly together. I must say, both ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tesstrosa and I thought it was one of the better zombie films we've seen.
First of all, nobody seemed patently stupid. Yeah, there were people who were selfish and people who briefly panicked, but nobody seemed like an absolute idiot. There were even some characters (like C.J., the lead security guard) who went from being total assholes to actually becoming heroic. You ended up feeling sorry for everyone (except for Steven; he got what he deserved). The one character I felt most sorry for only had, like, 3 spoken lines in the film -- Andy, the guy on the roof of the gun store. The extra "lost footage" of him on the DVD made him even more tragic.
Secondly, running zombies. I wasn't sure about running zombies at first, but once I actually saw them, and started thinking it over, it made sense. They're mobile, so the blood wouldn't pool the way it does in a inanimate corpse. Sure, there's no circulatory system, but even muscle movement would keep the blood from settling. Also, you've got no active pain receptors, and no need to breathe, so the zombies can just run full-out for much longer than a human could. Considering the zombies reanimate within a couple of minutes of death, it makes sense that they'd be fresh and ready to go. From a plot device standpoint, runners add an urgency that shamblers don't. You can outrun shamblers, just by keeping up a brisk pace. Runners, on the other hand, will catch up to you as you tire, and quickly. They also start flooding an area faster than you can deal with, unless you bottleneck them. Even then, they'll catch up to you. They add a true "oh, SHIT!" factor to the zombies that makes them significantly more terrifying to those facing them.
Finally, any movie that has a montage scene of activity in the mall, set to the Richard Cheese cover of Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" earns mucho cool points in my book. Any movie with Richard Cheese on the soundtrack is awesome, period.
I can see inside you, the sickness is rising.
It seems that all that was good has died.
Oh no, the world is a scary place
Now that you've woken the demon in me...
So appropriate, too! Let's swing it, Bobby! ^__^
tesstrosa and I thought it was one of the better zombie films we've seen. First of all, nobody seemed patently stupid. Yeah, there were people who were selfish and people who briefly panicked, but nobody seemed like an absolute idiot. There were even some characters (like C.J., the lead security guard) who went from being total assholes to actually becoming heroic. You ended up feeling sorry for everyone (except for Steven; he got what he deserved). The one character I felt most sorry for only had, like, 3 spoken lines in the film -- Andy, the guy on the roof of the gun store. The extra "lost footage" of him on the DVD made him even more tragic.
Secondly, running zombies. I wasn't sure about running zombies at first, but once I actually saw them, and started thinking it over, it made sense. They're mobile, so the blood wouldn't pool the way it does in a inanimate corpse. Sure, there's no circulatory system, but even muscle movement would keep the blood from settling. Also, you've got no active pain receptors, and no need to breathe, so the zombies can just run full-out for much longer than a human could. Considering the zombies reanimate within a couple of minutes of death, it makes sense that they'd be fresh and ready to go. From a plot device standpoint, runners add an urgency that shamblers don't. You can outrun shamblers, just by keeping up a brisk pace. Runners, on the other hand, will catch up to you as you tire, and quickly. They also start flooding an area faster than you can deal with, unless you bottleneck them. Even then, they'll catch up to you. They add a true "oh, SHIT!" factor to the zombies that makes them significantly more terrifying to those facing them.
Finally, any movie that has a montage scene of activity in the mall, set to the Richard Cheese cover of Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" earns mucho cool points in my book. Any movie with Richard Cheese on the soundtrack is awesome, period.
I can see inside you, the sickness is rising.
It seems that all that was good has died.
Oh no, the world is a scary place
Now that you've woken the demon in me...
So appropriate, too! Let's swing it, Bobby! ^__^